Greetings everyone. I guess I should explain why I haven't been updating. I just haven't had anything to say, because the only thing happening right now is Michael Moore. But, now I have something to say. I went to Canada. Yes, our glorious milk-bagging neighbors to the north are actually a lot cooler than I thought. A whole lot cooler than their neighbors to the north. Yes, it was a 6-day trip with my french class. I will not bore you with things we did, like visit the citadel, drink milkshakes (vanilla) at Celine Dion's restaurant, go bowling, and watch street performers, but instead I'll tell you about some cool stuff that happened. My main experience of Canadian culture was talking to a very cool Canadian girl with the coolest name ever, Dayle (probably a cool middle name) McLeod. It's cooler when you say it aloud, (it's like "McCloud", and this past sentence rhymed), and when you do the obligatory hand motions. This was on this funny hour-long cruise thing with roughly 700 kids all from school groups. Apart from me royally fucking up the conversion from farenheit to celcius ("40 degrees celcius is the same as 40 degrees farenheit, right?") it went pretty well. I found out lots of cool things, like the fact that Canadians say "sorry" really funnily. Sooooooorry. I'd bet they play ping-poooong. I had always wondered if US geography was as confusing to Canadians as Canadian geography is to Americans, and the answer is: yes. When this kid Ian (who had an awesome hat) said he was from North Carolina and asked if this Canadian knew where it was, he (the Canadian) said, "Just north of South Carolina!" Just to fool with him, I said "Actually, South Carolina is north of North Carolina". He (and Dayle) believed me, until I said that I lied. Also, I happened to enjoy some moments of my friends being really stupid, such as the following conversation: "Ashton Kutcher is very good-looking and chiseled, but then he opens his mouth and becomes ugly." "What, you don't like his teeth?" I laughed incredibly hard after that. That was hilarious. End. We played laser tag, and my team won triumphantly, 486 to -25. How did that happen? I have no idea. At the same place, we bowled. I'm not used to the whole "no bumpers" thing, so I sucked early on, then did pretty well. Between frames 3-6, I had 5 total points, and between frames 7-10 I had 41 total points. Crazy, huh? I got a 62 overall, which is pretty bad, but it's practically my first time without bumpers. The exchange rate is awesome. I was able to find a dollar store, which is really like a 70 cent store, and I bought an awesome Dr Seuss hat and a glow-in-the-dark dinosaur. I also got, as a gift, a beaver mounty stuffed animal that paragons all other souvenirs. I bought two slushies over the trip, one was bright green and the other blue. Some ice cream brought the total pocketmoney expenses to $25.40 Canadian, or 73¢ American I know you all skip to the end of long entries, so go back and read it, skimmer. It's cool, really. You'll like it.