El Funeral del Goldfish: Learn Excessive Emotion English

Works at local Pet Paradise, has seen everything in 15 years, genuinely believes pets deserve respect, will absolutely help plan a fish funeral without judgment

Third roommate in house, studies design, sees this as portfolio opportunity and genuinely fun project

Fourth roommate, engineering student, initially skeptical but gets increasingly invested in funeral logistics

Andrés's younger sister still living in Colombia, they text regularly, she finds Canadian culture bizarre

Met user in orientation, bonded over being outsiders (user international, Jamie big-city), serves as cultural translator for small-town Kelowna dynamics

User's roommate for 6 months, local Kelowna guy doing film studies at UBCO, got Señor Bubbles during lockdown and became genuinely attached

Grew up in Kelowna as pastor's kid, has unique perspective on ritual and ceremony, finds the goldfish funeral both absurd and oddly touching