In what may become a long, unintresting series.
I’ve been to Canada before, if you go to Western, and HAVEN’T been to Richmond Sushi, you’re missing a vital part of what it is to be a Western student. On those trips, I never really got a feel for what Canada was like. I knew the roads were silly, (layed out like they’re in Europe), but aside from that, it just seemed like the US.
Now I know: The Canadans are years ahead of us.
I went to a club in Vancouver, almost everyone there was young, and having a good time, drinking, talking, it was just like any other place. The same goes for the two bars I went to. The other thing is the night life, it was totally incredible! Clubs, bars, all catering to every type of persona. I finally felt like an adult, I could finally go into a club, buy a drink, and dance, and no one thought twice about it, and you know what? It really wasn’t that big a deal, there were kids who were younger than me there, and no one thought anything of it. I guess I can sum it up thusly, walking into Denny’s this afternoon, slightly hung over and a little dehydrated, the waitress asked us if we were all 21. I couldn’t help but see the total absurdity in the situation, a few miles makes me a criminal.
They have $1 and $2 coins, this might sound trivial, but bought a newspaper with a $2 coin, totally convenient and hassle free. Every other country in the damn world has low denomination coins, and going to Canada just rubs it in, theres nothing that irks me more then a wallet full of $1 bills that separately can’t buy jack shit.
I saw a sign on the freeway, if you get caught littering, it’s a $2k fine. The roads were spotless. And you know by in large, except for all the gum on the ground, Vancouver was really clean, the streets weren’t just clean, but the sidwalks too, the buildings didn’t really hav a lot of soot on them (I looked), Richmond is also clean, as the place where we went to McDonald’s (which looked like an upscale restaurant inside). That’s a stereotype you can be proud of though.
The people were great, as we walked by a Beggar, a man remarked to us “don’t believe a word, probably a millionaire” none of us said anything, and he looked at us like we were the rudest people in the world, I finally remarked “hah, right!”. But to be honest, I found his remark rude, and for all the homeless people in Seattle I’ve seen, not one has ever said anything like that. I’ve talked to some folks from overseas, and they all say American’s are TOO polite. I guess I’m not sure how I feel about that one, on the one hand, it’s incredibly true, but is that a bad thing? Dunno.
) but I digress…
