Screaming Bean |
Friday, March 18, 2005
Yes, I have made it back from Spring Break. I wasn't arrested, detained, or even questioned heavily. That's right, we went to Canada. Heck, didn't even have to show ID to get back into the country. We could have brought anything back with us, they wouldn't have charged us duties. We even declared we had a near full case of wine in the car and got waved on through. We played 20 Questions going into Canada, and the Americans could have cared less. This isn't the first time this has happened either. I loved Canada though, with the exception of the money. Here I am a 3L, weeks from getting a penultimate degree, and I was struck dumb by Canadian currency. Between not knowing how GST is calculated and an unfamiliarity with loonies and twonies, people could have told me to pay three times what I should have and I would have just stared at my handful of coins scornfully. Yup, just call me a dumb American. I certainly felt like one.
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