All entries for Friday 28 July 2006

beer/weed/firework etc

The family went for the Italy night of 'Vancouver Celebration of Light' yesterday. We arrived at the English Bay at around 7 pm and the beach was already quite crowded. We sat behind a group of high school kids. In colorful bathing suits, the girls look gorgeous and tanned; the boys are tall and handsome as well. They made a quite nice scenery on the beach, and we enjoyed watching them playing guitar, singing and screaming.
At some point, the policemen came and checked their bags, and found BEER! It is illegal to consume alcohol in any open public places in Vancouver, and the kids were really frightened by the police. Luckily the police just required them to pour out all the beer and did not really make a big fuss over it. I guess it is becasue they are 'kids',and I knew there are people actually get into much more serious trouble because of the same thing.
The sun set down at around ten, and the enthusiastic radio started playing very loud music with very provocative questions like ' Vancouver, are you ready?!' The young kids in front of us got really high and start smoking. Winny told me that they were smoking weed. I never smelled weed, and it does not have a pleasant smell at all. The funniest part is that five minutes after they started smoking, Edward fell into sleep. I guess it must because of the weed effect, because he was very active only a few minutes ago and almost suddenly he fell down and slept. There was no way to wake him up, and then the firework started.
I felt a bit annoyed at first. I spend 4 hours on the beach to let Edward see the firework, and he fell asleep only 3 minutes before it started! It was fine afterwards, because Edward waked up on our way back home and actually enjoyed the steet lights along the road.
The family had a ?heated? discussion on the ?weed? bunch. Some believe that they are a just corrupted generation beyond any remedy. I disagree. Yes, beer on the beach, or weed in public might be wrong, at least illegal. But corrupted kids? No. Every kid will have to go through this 'rebellious' period, and the 'saying no' thing will have to come out in one way or the other.
I don?t know what I might react in ten years time if I caught Edward smoking weed. I might just tell him the story about this night, which I remembered not because of the firework, but because of the beer, the weed and the kids whom I believe are good kids.

Xiu Wang : 28 Jul 2006 09:24 |  Tags: Thoughts |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem