Traveled to Vancouver, it was scary going to the big city, being from a small town of a 110 thousand, I had finally got the courage to leave my friends said you'll be back! And sure enough I did a year and half later, but the repercussions were scary to find myself while I was there. My journey started by Greyhound, at the time the wild fires were out of control and half the mountains were on fire traveling through, I remember instinctively thinking what did I get myself into...I had met a strange looking fellow during my trip, he had a cannibal corpse Tshirt on same as me, we sparked uo a conversation about the bands we liked and inspired by, and told him I was going to Vancouver to be a rock star, little did I know the journey ahead of me was going to be out of control. So we had arrived in Vancouver 37 hrs later, I had $65 left in my pocket and had met up with a friend who was homeless at the time, but from the same town as I, we met up and he showed me how to hustle a buck, when I had arrived I only had my guitar, and a PA speaker and one piece of luggage on wheels, my friend said how the hell are we going to haul all that with us, me thinking I had a place to stay, now realizing I was now to homeless and in one of the biggest cities in Canada, I just thought to myself, whoop, whoop this couldn't get any worse, so we walked down to the beach I believe it was called beach 2, and set up a place to sleep there, me with my things I felt like I was going to get robbed, that night me aND my friend Shawn, were approached by someone looking for a lighter, so I pulled out my pack of smokes and gave them a lighter, they pulled out a glass pipe and began to light the bottom of the pipe, me being as niave as I was, I had asked the person for a puff or two of what ever it was, the person probably figured I had known what the substance was already, being that it was Vancouver, I took one blast, and felt like I was ontop of the moon and had some much energy to talk nonstop and all these ideas running through my head, I had looked at the person who gave me a hit, from the pipe and said what was that, the random stranger with this glossed over look in their eyes said you had just smoked crystal meth, at the time I had heard nothing but bad about it, reminiscing all the meth commercials I had seen on TV and YouTube. I looked over at my friend Shawn as he laughed and said never take drugs from random strangers, it was safe to say I didn't sleep much that night or all day for that matter. So 6am rolled around as the run hit my eyes I was astonished that I was still wide awake and thought to myself crystal meth isnt that bad haha, we had walked for 4 hrs that day to look for free storage for my things and places to eat for free, me and Shawn had split ways for a day or two, while I looked for apartments and work for myself, I remember being down to my last dollar and thinking I'm fucking screwed, might as well call my family and admit to my friends back hole that I had failed my rock star living in the big city mission, while I was at the library messaging everyone, clearly lieing about my situation making it sound glorious so they would be nothing but envious of my endeavours, I had seen the same dude wearing the cannibal corpse Tshirt on the grey hound, walking past casually, I remember thinking he looks like he's happy and got his shit together, unlike my buddy Shawn whom was happy eating at free places and using the system, I ran out desperately to call out for the weird looking fellow I had previously met on the bus, I ran up to him and said hey! Do you remember me I'm the dude with the same shirt on the bus about a week ago! He laughs of course man how are you doing, I told him my perdicument, he said I might be able to help you I currently got hired on as a caretaker for this building, he says come with me I'll show you a spare room we have in the building, while we walked there I had explained that I was down to now $35 and was looking for work, while applying for assistance to help me till I had found work...he said no problem I'll let you stay in the room but you have to get the money before the month ends, I think it was already 3 weeks into the month. We had arrived at rhe building I remember thinking from the outside it looked very Gothic, and thought to myself cool! As he opened the door I had seen a cockroach running across the wall and thinking what a dump, still relieved that I had at least found something, we walked down this musky hallway a few strange looking people had walked past me in the hallway and thinking these people are strange looking, finally I had got to the door of the room I would be staying in...he looked at me and grinned and said home sweet home, opened the door abbrassivly as I entered the room, looking at the walls and thinking hmmm at least there's no bugs.