It wasn’t a surprise to see friends socializing outdoors on a spring afternoon in Calgary. What was surprising to see was the method — one friend on the bank of a creek in Confederation Park, the other perched on the tree’s bough on the other side of the creek. “This just seemed like a good way to meet,” Grace Van Bakel, a student at Central Memorial, said. “We’re both self-isolating — Kerri because she just got back from Halifax and me because my mom comes into contact with a lot of people at work, so we decided to take that extra step and be safe.” “And there’s no better way to do that than in the Victorian style of meet across a creek,” Kerri Lawrence, a student returning from University of King’s College, told Global News.