tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post7789827964280650617..comments2010-05-02T15:29:56.681-07:00Violet Dearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807873917327445130noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-46512154935427161152010-05-02T12:59:09.429-07:002010-05-02T12:59:09.429-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.POUSSIERE D'ORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00676871213136685935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-75303097919460551502009-08-04T12:15:31.389-07:002009-08-04T12:15:31.389-07:00Great post! I know what you mean about the differences between even the cities and regions in Canada. I live in Northern BC and I attend university in the Okanagan. I actually have Southern BCers asking me if we live in igloos or if we drive snow mobiles to get around town (no joke)! And no, we drive regular old vehicles like everyone else in BC even though we have snow 8 months out of 12. :)I am Samantha Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11538818426694403635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-74586127835879819572009-08-04T04:03:50.799-07:002009-08-04T04:03:50.799-07:00incredible journeys, photographs!<br /><br />peace~<br />ChuckChuck Dilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943387105378540037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-28382986084614954962009-08-04T02:29:33.054-07:002009-08-04T02:29:33.054-07:00I&#39;ve only been asked my country of origin twice.<br /><br />Once I said France and once I said Russia and each time I did a rather convincing accent. <br /><br />I&#39;m not from France or Russia. <br /><br />I&#39;m American, but I find it&#39;s more fun to play a part seeing as how <br />I&#39;ll never see these people again.<br /><br />I&#39;m jealous that you travel the way you do.Michael Reardonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054278787174623545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-46990238731307996002009-08-03T21:31:17.718-07:002009-08-03T21:31:17.718-07:00Great writing! I am new to this site, but I must say that your blog is the most well-written, and interesting I have come across. As an aside, I would give several of my toes to travel to Asia. The literature that comes out of that continent is amazing. As a history buff myself (have a useless degree in said area), I think it is useful to know a bit about a people before I offend them.morefutilityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01450486639558118872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-58666705087843014072009-08-03T20:50:01.518-07:002009-08-03T20:50:01.518-07:00Good post your blog..congrtimexwatchhttp://www.timexwatch-es.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-63748584987015776542009-08-03T13:51:44.453-07:002009-08-03T13:51:44.453-07:00hey, thanks for followind me! i had to change my name from princess superstar, so my new url is http://btigress.blogspot.com/Bengal Tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963444916756852850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-48036372830130135772009-08-03T01:27:05.603-07:002009-08-03T01:27:05.603-07:00You&#39;re a Canadian tried and true. The things that you complain about are the same things that Haligonians, Torontonians etc... complain about. There was a huge electorial upheaval in Nova Scotia and they voted in the NDP a few months ago. That is a big deal out there. They were really pissed.<br /><br />Left-wing commies that we supposedly are out here, we continually vote in the Liberals. As much as I love Seattle and its&#39; culture (more now than ever before), Vancouver has more in common (mentally) with Ontario than Oregon or Washinton. We can try to differentiate as much as we want but we&#39;re still-down-to-the-bone Canadians. We wait for other countries (US) to innovate and take hold of their manifest destiny while we wait 5 years to see if it works out. Then maybe we&#39;ll try it out. Or simply just complain about it.<br /><br />That said, if you have the skill to communicate with any human being on their respective level and I know you do you&#39;ll do well anywhere on the planet.Jayhttp://www.optimumwound.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-35662440936002506252009-08-03T01:06:10.862-07:002009-08-03T01:06:10.862-07:00Generally I also answer easily that &quot;I&#39;m Russian&quot;. I was born and lived all my live in Moscow. This city is like a small country inside huge one. Moscovites are different to any other &quot;animals&quot; living in Russia. Moscowites have their accent, history, culture even mentality is different to people who lives in, let&#39;s say, Toula (about 200KM from Moscow). Even more, inside Moscow, it is possible to distinguish 2 main populations which significantly differs: natives and newcomers. (By the way newcomers are usually trying to underline that they are Moscowites, and this is how they can be identified). The thing is that by saying &quot;I&#39;m from Russia.&quot;, I&#39;m also feeling like I&#39;m saying nothing. There are so many things which should be added... <br /><br />However I think that in smaller countries situation is slightly different. During 4 last years I was living and working in Cyprus. An island in Mediterranean sea with native population less than 1 million. You need only 5 hours to cross this island. Life here reminds a life of a big village. A lot of people here are interconnected with far or near relationship. They are like a big family. And it seems to me when somebody says that his surname is XYZ he is native Cypriot, he really says a lot about himself!<br /> <br /><br />Another funny remark:<br />Russians are generating not less than 30% of Cyprus tourism income. However you may easily confuse typical Cypriot by saying that you are from any city (even with population more than million) apart from Moscow or St.Petersbourg. It seems to me that average cypriot knows not more than one or two Russian cities - Moscow and St.Petersburg.Tixeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11955432713255449836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-31402033418651476262009-08-02T21:22:12.024-07:002009-08-02T21:22:12.024-07:00Haha...cracked up over the Canada-Kannada one, as I sorta saw that one coming.<br /><br />Also, I peeked into some of the India archives, and found them quite entertaining, so not only am I going to be keeping abreast of current posts, I guess I&#39;ll be going through the archives as well. Yay, new reading material.<br /><br />And here&#39;s to your newfound exoticness. :-)Kaotichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00745798338301715684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-18659624290919792152009-08-02T17:23:30.060-07:002009-08-02T17:23:30.060-07:00Well, hopefully when you&#39;re back here sometime this year or early next it&#39;s not -40 again and we can actually show you around some. It&#39;s not quite half bad here in Winnipeg in summer. Except we haven&#39;t had summer yet. You bastard Vancouverites stole it from us, it&#39;s been 15-25 (max) and rainy here for all of July.Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03001782694127226918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-5049477404155606462009-08-02T16:26:05.645-07:002009-08-02T16:26:05.645-07:00O my gosh!!! you are hilarious!!! I wish I was that interesting. And now you have 985 followers<br />(Including me)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-47319303757987798592009-08-02T13:47:59.448-07:002009-08-02T13:47:59.448-07:00hey, thanks for the message on twitter, but i couldn&#39;t reply cuz you&#39;re not following me, so i looked you up here. love your latest blog - boy, can i relate, right down to where you&#39;re from! ;) here is my blog, i just started, so i hope you enjoy my ramblings! http://princesssstar.blogspot.com/Princess Superstarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963444916756852850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-15703804507847066482009-08-02T10:33:41.643-07:002009-08-02T10:33:41.643-07:00I just visited “Vancouver – in Canada” for the first time. It was beautiful and I wish I&#39;d had more than 2 nights there, especially since one was spent sick in bed with food poison. But really really a beautiful city from the small bit I saw.the real miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13695480188459161271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-44310793797711780202009-08-02T07:57:07.586-07:002009-08-02T07:57:07.586-07:00I love your blog. I also liked the fact you wanted to be European... but you didn&#39;t mention the English! Now, I know that a huge proportion of Brits don&#39;t like to think they&#39;re European, but the geography is unavoidable!<br />On a different note, when I went to the US, people thought I was Irish/ Australian. I guess it&#39;s easy to get confused as so many Irish/ Australians live in England. I like the diversity. It&#39;s always nice to hear how wonderful their country is when they live in yours. ;-)<br />Happy Travels!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-51904896164368697542009-08-02T07:18:52.260-07:002009-08-02T07:18:52.260-07:00very nice blog and stories :) i hope to live these crazy adventures. we&#39;re waiting for your visit to our health blog. <br /><br />http://healtime.blogspot.com<br />please visit and donate :)Alperunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06339632013154306652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-73132413914814448412009-08-02T06:51:33.186-07:002009-08-02T06:51:33.186-07:00ha, ha, ha. As a fellow Canuck I can relate to pretty much everything in your post.<br /><br />I&#39;m an Ottawa girl myself but have had the luxury of living in B.C. (on a barge anchored off Princess Royal Island, working for the Prince Rupert Fisherman&#39;s Co-op), Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.<br />I&#39;ve traveled to every province and to the NWT. Yukon and Nunavut are on my list, but lordie the prices to get to the far north are incredible! You could practically do a round-the-world-tour for the cost of a couple of weeks in Nunavut.<br /><br />I guess the thing that strikes me about the understanding (or lack thereof) that people in other parts of world have about Canada is their inability to understand the incredible scope of our geography. And why should they? Most Canadians barely have come to grips with it.<br /><br />I personally love not only our traditional diversity of landscape and culture, but our newer immigrant cultural diversity. When I travel overseas I am always amazed to discover how much more geographically and culturally homogenous most countries are.<br /><br />I could go on and on, but this is a comment not a blog post! Thanks for showing the world how we can be ambiguous about our country and still love her! And you&#39;ll do just fine in Toronto. I personally know a few friendly folk there!! :)<br /><br />By the way, that &#39;hole in the ground&#39; your great grandparents lived in was called &#39;a soddie&#39;. I can&#39;t imagine surviving a prairie winter in one, but clearly they not only survived it but thrived.<br /><br />When I am in Europe and, like you, being impressed by how cultured everyone seems to be, I remind myself that there are definite advantages to being a hick. Clear, open skies, highways that stretch forever, lakes &amp; rivers like no place else, and bears, deer, moose &amp; elk wandering through countless cities, towns &amp; villages.Gwen McCauleyhttp://www.gwenmccauley.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-8228387099726704792009-08-02T04:07:06.800-07:002009-08-02T04:07:06.800-07:00Ok, as I said on Twitter-loved this. I&#39;m Irish, living in London, married to an American. We&#39;ve lived in the States (Wisconson and Illinois),lived in Spain and travelled a lot of Europe. We also plan to move to Thailand early next year. <br />Why am I telling you all this? Well, because this blog made me laugh soo much. It just hits the nail on the head with every word.<br />Being from Ireland and living in England, you would imagine it&#39;s not that difficult for people to comprehend where I come from, but you&#39;d be wrong.<br />I live and work in a community in East End London which is majority Bangladeshi (Bengali-as they say). Every time I say I&#39;m Irish they say &quot;it snows a lot there&quot;-referring to Scotland Highlands in the depths of winter. They also comment &quot;so you&#39;re English then&quot;, which means I end up giving a short history of why I&#39;m not(it helps if I compare this to Bangladesh becoming independent-always a smart move to get them on side).<br />However, worst of all are the English themselves who have no excuse for thinking so, but still regard (The Republic of)Ireland as part of their &quot;empire&quot; and so on almost all Official forms on which I have to fill in White Irish (yes, they still think all Irish are white?!), the paperwork will later state British-Aargh!!!!!<br />Just as well my obviously very brilliant Irish wit gets me out of any politically heated situations-right? Afterall, being Irish means being super friendly, witty, a great storyteller and surely drunk 90% of the time. In actual fact, we&#39;re sometimes all of those because we&#39;re trying to live up to the sterotypes we created for ourselves back when we needed the tourism. <br />So you see, Canadian, American, Irish... we all have to smile our way through the stereotypes and the mysteries that our countries conjure up around the world-would we really have it any other way?<br />Thanks again for the great blog.<br />You can check out my blog at http://aonceathairtri.blogspot.com/Reginahttp://twitter.com/aonceathairtrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-37546291997966503232009-08-02T03:55:10.839-07:002009-08-02T03:55:10.839-07:00fasinating exploration on nation heritage views. I&#39;ve have some similer feelings myself on my own even though I&#39;ve lived just in different parts of america all my life.Leonard Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01403995543683405639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-18577638799398576482009-08-02T03:09:46.301-07:002009-08-02T03:09:46.301-07:00Dear Miss,<br />My name is Christ Kowandi<br />you are sure have unique ways to express your self in this blog. I like it. Keep the good work.<br />I have followed your blog with nickname Reviewer.<br />Regards<br />Christ KowandiReviewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09554685483136858131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-72190731432521667752009-08-02T02:58:04.208-07:002009-08-02T02:58:04.208-07:00Another brilliant article! I absolutely love your style. Your stories are fascinating and insightful. Well done!<br /><br />Cheers,<br />KeithKeith Jenkinshttp://velvetescape.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-52650493224602041112009-08-01T21:04:36.238-07:002009-08-01T21:04:36.238-07:00Oh, P.S. I&#39;m from Michigan, but live in Illinois. Maybe my new found fascination w/Canada has something to do with my love for the Upper Peninsula or my curiosity about Alaska...Anyway...Safe travels!J.Me.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05799098087149949374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-59224381716220734852009-08-01T21:03:31.583-07:002009-08-01T21:03:31.583-07:00I loved this post, you made me laugh out loud. Personally, as an American, I am intrigued by Canada and I want to go explore all of her treasures! It&#39;s my latest infatuation, since I&#39;ve done the Europe thing. Haha. Toronto will be quite a change! Were you offered a job there?J.Me.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05799098087149949374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-30498532627945376252009-08-01T19:25:21.627-07:002009-08-01T19:25:21.627-07:00For some reason I always say I&#39;m from North Carolina, even though I&#39;ve lived in Ohio for 12 years &amp; will most likely be here for many more (my husband got a teaching job at a university here). I want to acknowledge where I&#39;m FROM, not just where I live now.The Bughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07509037206264761261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580690295857485095.post-13919931931781502282009-08-01T17:44:46.735-07:002009-08-01T17:44:46.735-07:00I loved this post! I&#39;m American and want to travel in Europe, but it makes me nervous to know that most Europeans don&#39;t like Americans! =/Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16576457479448760954noreply@blogger.com