Day two

I slept fitfully, fortunately the snoring in the room was pretty minimal, however a couple of guys were coughing intermittently. A few times through the night a person would get up to pee and two motion detection lights would turn on on the end of the room my bunk is on. Each light would stay on for about 60 seconds.

As I am staying in the chapel I need to use the communal washroom that is adjacent to the cafeteria, I awoke and exited my bed at 6h30 so as to brush my teeth with fewer people around, though still, others were up and about at that time. 

Then I hung out in the cafeteria, breakfast was brought out at 7h30 and left out for people who came later. I had a hard boiled egg and an English muffin with ham and egg and a dollop of mayo. Other options included bread to be toasted, yogurt and granola to be combined, and breakfast cereal and milk.

The Chapel was good to work in, there were just two other people here mostly, both of them deeply asleep the whole time. I could even take calls and talk to customers through my headset without bothering them, and no noises bothering me except for an occasional noise from the hallway the chapel is connected to.

Lunch was shrimp on a stick with rice. I don't like shrimp so fortunately they had an alternative, macaroni with carrots and peas mixed in and the same meat surrounding egg from the previous night. There was a bowl of salad and a slice of banana bread. I ate more than I needed to.

The afternoon was uneventful, I worked without any noise in the room. At around 14h15 I went to get my clothes that they had taken from me. We found the bag that has the bulk of my clothes, but the large plastic bag that had what I was wearing when I showered was nowhere to be found. This was disappointing as my INXS shirt and a favoured pair of pants were in the bag. I will try tomorrow to see if they can be found.

Even though supper is at 17h and I worked until 18h, they still had the meal there - pork chop, mashed potatoes and a salad. Between the end of work and eating, I had to do what we all have to do at 18h every day, do a check-in at reception, what they call a bed-check as the staff do another at 2am.

After supper I put my sweater on and went outside to take a few photos of the place. Then, I called R who lives at 4900 Cote St Luc as he had messaged me about becoming his roomie. I had met him in person Tuesday night and he got a good impression of me. He had a guest over and said he would call me back. 

When I responded to his message on the roomies.ca interface I said that 1150$ was too much for me. What I will propose is 1050$, which is still too much, but, I can swing it. A selling point is that I get my own bathroom, though, I will keep it very clean, so that if there are guests, they can use it. 

He accepted the offer at 1050$, and asked to meet again tomorrow. 

In the meantime I made it known that I wanted a haircut which they offer here, and even though it was evening shift, it looks like they are going to make it happen at 22h. It didn't happen at 22h, but the guy said it could happen at 7h the next morning.