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If you're Canadian, you should watch this! CTV Olympics - Video by Stephen Brunt I saw it at work yesterday while bartending and I had to fight a few tears of pride! Although these kind of things always get me gushy, it runs in the family. Especially the scene with the older man with tears running down his cheek, and the family walking down the street all clad in Canada gear, and the truth to how Canadians seem to spontaneously break out into singing the national anthem. We DO do that a lot! My mom with the Torch in Abbotsford, BC I know a lot of people have negative things to say about the whole Olympics idea and I hear your valid points. However, I can't help but feel moved by this well-put-together and beautiful video by Stephen Brunt at CTV. It's about Canada's growing (modest) patriotism brought on by sports enthusiasm and a sense of national community through the Olympics. This is one of the non-monetary/economic positive results of the Olympics, and I'm excit...

So technically I still live in the same country, Canada. I may have moved to a different province 4,000 kilometers away from Vancouver, but it's not much different here, really.  It's funny to me that places like Europe and South Asia have so many countries in the same close proximity as we have provinces in Canada, and the difference in culture is HUGE across those borders. Within the same 4,000 km distance, there are dozens of different languages and cultural differences, whereas we have basically a uni-culture across the whole country except for Quebec and some minor pockets of more minor differences. Or DO we? First of all, apparently I have an 'accent'. Dani's husband was the first person to point this out. Now a couple of people at work have mentioned the same thing and even using the same words as Jamie used to point out my accent! The main problem here is my use of the 'A' vowel! Apparently I say 'Vancouver' more like "Vohn-couver"...

Well... since I last wrote I was still wallowing in the loss of poor Frank. He and I parted ways and I now own a bigger, better bottle of tantalizing deliciousness. In my fridge in Toronto that is! Just a brief update because I have to go to work... On October 23, 2009, Lindsay and I piled into Bo-Deese the Big Bad Blue (my VW Golf) at 4:30am and DROVE to Toronto! We stayed in Calgary, Prince Albert, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie along the way, and arrived safe and sound (and could probably handle another 6 days of driving if we really wanted to) in Toronto on October 28, 2009! Check out the video if you want: And I'm still here! I love it so far. It's been just over 3 months, and I'm living in a great area of Toronto, just about on the border of Etobicoke. I'm a couple blocks north of the Lake, just west of High Park, in the Bloor West Village area. I really could not live in a better area. It's close to everything, it's not too city-ish. It's ...