Oh Halifax, and Canada

Oh Halifax,
Things I don’t expect to ever see elsewhere and hope to remember.

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• Accordion buskers
• Rubber boots with pink bows
• Man with guitar on shoulder buying groceries
• Plaid rubber boots
• Two normal people walking quickly on busy street, barefoot. Maybe not normal… earthy.
• Pink polka dot rubber boots.
• Oxford Theatre, an artsy old single movie house, with balcony.
• One armed guitar busker
• A homeless dude who yelled at me for spitting in a garbage can.
• Beer branded double decker tour buses.
• Homeless dudes who open the door to tim hortons for you.
• A public park with Michael Jackson dance-offs, carnivals, video game contests, and paul mccartney.
• Good bagpipe buskers
• A waterfront with very ordinary boats that somehow become a big attraction.
• A snowboard competition with trucked-in snow in a tiny downtown one block park. and hundreds of people standing around trying to stay warm enough to watch it.
• Bald drumming busker monks
• Ancient victorian houses with modern businesses inside
• Fun hurricanes.

And oh Canada…

• Andreanne Sasseville’s music minute before a movie, why do i pick her out? She’s just an advertising talking robot, but I still like her. French Canadian pleasantry goes a long way. She was the first to mention Lights to me, so props to her.
• George Strombo nobody interviews like him with legitimate edge, and legitimate mainstreamity.
• Racial acceptance. It just seemed like it never came up negatively, just like the cool cultural parts of people’s background. Haters were the weird ones (or the foreign ones). Plus, there were more asians , even in halifax… sadface. To all asians, if you move to phoenix, i’ll buy you some of those pretzel sticks that don’t taste very good. Or maybe some fishy snacks that are awful.
• Snow. Note that Ice Rain is definitely not on this list.
• Leaving your door unlocked and not freaking out about it.
• Second Cup.
• Hockey. (duh.)
• A government bureaucracy that seems like they put in effort to be helpful.
• Decent public school system.
• Colored money. – I don’t miss coins though. It is nice to never carry change.
• Cultural food. More than one Thai restaurant in the whole city, and actual sushi…. sigh. A real mediterranean restaurant would be nice.
• Political pleasantry.
• Cora’s. A breakfast place that won’t cause heart disease.
• Cheap, entertaining football.
• Winter Heart. Watching a football game while in parkas and multiple blankets, or even a sleeping bag for warmth, that’s Canadian heart.