Thursday, May 15, 2008
Le singe n'est pas dans le chambre
Vacation planning! A summery week of galloping about the Francophone north, hurrah! It'll be interesting to see how well someone whose knowledge of French is drawn mainly from Eddie Izzard routines will negotiate Quebec City and the associated transit network. I anticipate many moments of amusement, bewilderment, and mutual incomprehension, as was the case in Argentina (where I knew the language but not the cultural subtext). Still, if someone's grandmother catches fire while I'm there, I'll be ready.
Between now and then lie the traditional weeks of preemptive worriting, scrambling for equipage, interwebular researching, and packing. Excitement nonetheless. Je vais au Canada!
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You will have a blast -- the Canadians are the nicest people on our planet. If all the rest of us were wiped out and only Canadians remained, the extraterrestrials visiting would infer we are the kindest and cutest species in the galaxy. Eh?
I will have a nice six-hour stretch on the bus to get to know them, too. Turns out that Canada actually IS really big.
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