Oh Canada
As many of you know, I had the opportunity to travel to Canada recently. Cool – a country that’s exactly like ours. Ha - not so much. Okay, let me give you a little primer on our cousin to the north. You may think we share a language. Not exactly. They truly are a bilingual country. Road signs, ads, radio stations, even products are all in English and French. And then if you wander into an area where there’s a large population of First Nation people, you may find their language thrown into the mix as well. Oh, and if you’re thinking English is English – nope, try again. Centre, cheque, colour, whisky, and on and on. Then there the whole metric system -hope you’ve brushed up on your math skills. Try buying a kilo of grapes or a litre of gas or figuring out how fast you’re driving in kilometers. Can’t forget about food, you need to eat, right? Walk into just about any fast food restaurant and they’ll put gravy on your french fries. You can buy potato chips with ketchup flavoring. In ...