City Blood, Country Heart

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I feel very lucky to have made my way to Winnipeg. It's a big city with a small town feel. I don't feel lost or out of place and most people I've met have been phenomenally nice and generous. Winter aside, I think that I'm going to really enjoy myself here in the next 4 years.

I've chosen this song, City Blood, Country Heart by Patrick Brealey & the Knives for two reasons. The first being, it reminds me of the people in Winnipeg.

And secondly, it reminds me of a story my mom tells me every once in a while to deflate my ego. I was born in the city and lived downtown Toronto for the first two years of my life. My parents decided to make the move to rural Shelburne when I was five. We had no sooner arrived and unpacked when my mother rushed outside to the squealing cries of a five year old and found me in a tree, hanging on for dear life, three feet above the ground.

"And that's when I knew that you were a city boy," she says.

P.S.

I vaguely remember this event as well. When my mom came to rescue me, she made fun of me.