CANADA DAY!!

With Canada Day approching, we had the time to reflect on what we have learnt whilst being in the UK. This is why Canadians are awesome...

1. British people appoligize profusly when we they guess were from the States and we inform them were from Canada.

2. No body over here can say they have met a Canadian they dont love or think is friendly.

3. British have the most ridiculous tax sceme I've ever heard off...20% tax if you get toasted bread instead of non-toasted bread, more tax on pastry items, tax on the amount of windows in your home, or my personal favorite.....TV license. If you own a TV, even if you dont have cable...you need a license for this. There is even a division of TV police that will charge you....To be honest...at first I thought it was a joke....unfortunatly...its true.

4. Why do Canadians have thanksgiving? Actually I dont have the slightest clue when people ask me about that.

5. Unlike Britian, we have a day...the birth of our country...an excuse to party and sing our national anthem as many times as we like.



Canada is amazing. You apperciate it even more when your away from home. So this year...being so far away...we knew we had to make it count. We decided on a BBQ on the beach, lots of beer and food and of course...a raging bonfire. Again, unlike back home...you aint going to burn down a forest when all that surronds you is rocks and sea.



For weeks, we picked up firewood (usually old scraps that were about to be thrown away) and discount beer. On July 1st, we were ready. Fortnatly we had an extra Canadian, Jessie was in town. So with us roomies, stefs boyfriend Jake (a brit) and Jessies boyfriend Mike (an american...dont worry he is very proud of Canada and lets us take a piss out of him) we had enough hands to set up on the beach for our big day!





When we got down there we had a lovely BBQ of hot dogs, coleslaw, chips and beer. The weather wasnt great...but nothing compared to what we have been recently experiencing in the Uk ( a down pour of rain....summer aint looking like its going to happen here). So we were thankful.




We set up our Canada flag proud along the wall for everyone to see! Its Canada day, and everytime we sang O Canada...everyone knew about our special day. All dressed in red and white we were ready for a good time.



It was amazing, but we had a couple unexpected vistors, a Swedish homeless guys whom we had to send away, a couple from Lithunia and a history teacher from Montana. Scary how little this history teacher knew about Canada...have no fear! I gave him our entire history from start to finish!








Later in the night we had some friends join us. Co-workers of ours, friends and my boyfriend James. I made James wear the Canadian tuxedo (double denim) and my Dad's Canada hat. If he doesn't speak....you would have thought he was Canadian.








The wood we had been collecting as well as the beer...lasted us well into the night. A quick early morning breakfast at Buddies and it was a night well done. It was nice to be able to speak about our favorite Canadian stories, how much we missed home, how proud we were to be Canadian and just being surronded by our foreign friends around the fire. We are incredible blessed to be here....but also incredible proud to be from the best country in the world. I just pray we continue to protray ourselves well....because were Canadian....and people should know how awesome we are!