This morning whilst showering in our tiny shower, I started thinking about the things I'm starting to miss (of course besides the obvious - family, David, friends, my bedroom)...
- a bathtub and bathing. It's so nice to come home from a long day with sore feet and just soak in a tube. I won't get to do that for 6 months!
- good deli meat and cheese. It's hard to find here and I finally found a deli whose quality is reasonable, but it's so expensive!
- being in the front row in class and giggling with Steph and Diana
- oddly enough, having more than 2 hours of class per day... I haven’t figured out why, but more contact and less reliance on self-learning would be so much better!
- an oven! we only have a microwave that serves as a grill/convention oven... but it's not he same and it's disgusting!
- a dollar store. I love going other dollar store and picking up ridiculously cheap stuff - the variety and discount stores here just aren't the same
So that's about it for now... I'll supplement it later with things I love.
And other thing that Canadian may not realize... and that is how much of an influence the
Anyway, just small little things that make Canada interesting... and as I read in a travel book - we have the aboriginal culture, the French speaking Canadians, we were colonized by Britain, but so heavily influenced by the US and to top it off, have a large number of immigrants. Just think about all the different influences and how it all just adds to our multi-culturism and unique fabric of
Well enough introspectiveness... I'm going out tonight with a huge group of American kids and I need to get ready... should be fun!
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Some thing I miss...
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2 comments:
Great blog. Enjoy the differences... you will miss them immensely when you leave.
great post L. there are many more differences too, you will learn more as you go along!!
D
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