Posts Tagged ‘Canadian’

I am so looking forward to our next visit to the US in May. Not only because I definitely need a vacation or because I will be visiting our new home. But because I am in desperate need of some foreign people that just treat me nice for the sake of it! I may be some kind of alien, because I am one of the few not-american persons who likes the american niceness. But I actually miss it from the bottom of my heart.

We paid our tattoo artist a short visit yesterday. He is american and had a canadian guy over for a couple of days. When the canadian guy first saw us he came over, introduced himself to both of us and told us that it was nice to meet us. Yes, I know he perhaps didn’t mean that. But it was nice and it kind of made me smile. And this is what matters! When I came home from our Florida trip last year, I felt kind of depressed! I hate it how people here in Germany, especial in grocery stores, treat you like you are the most annoying thing ever! I know that this may be exactly what american shop clerks think about their costumers, too, but those guys would never treat you that way! For me germans are one of the most cold and uncommunicative people ever! No one over here would ask, if he could help when seeing you on the street holding a map and looking quizzed. No one would over here help, if you can’t carry your heavy bags or if you are having trouble dealing with your little niece’s buggy.

I know that it can also be annoying when foreign people always see the need to help you or communicate with you. But the american shallowness actually is the last thing that would ever drive me away from the US. It really gives me a good feeling and sometimes even gets me out of my bad moods. For me living in California will not only be living in the golden state, but also living together with sunshine people! And this is something I am looking forward to the most!

I am not even living in America, but I managed to piss off a canadian guy with an very american statement yet. But let’s begin this story with the basic infos you need to understand. It was about two weeks ago and my hubby and me were still waiting for our passports and the temporary visa inside to arrive. I was kind of depressed at that time and wasn’t really in the mood for anything. A friend for whoms magazine I sometimes write managed to get me an interview with Dallas Green, who is one of my favorite musicians, to do me a favor. Even that couldn’t get me in a better mood, but I told myself to get it together and tried to see the interview as another lesson to practice my spoken english skills.

Dallas, who is Canadian and plays in a band called Alexisonfire, actually was pretty cool and easy to talk with. The interview was kind of fun til I asked him which musician he would love to once play with. His answer was Neill Young. I have to say that we watched How I met your mother about three days before this interview. For all of you who don’t know the series, it is about some friends living in New York and one of them is Canadian and everyone always makes fun of her, because she loves hockey, guns and Neill Young. My hubby was with me in the interview to take pictures and we just looked at each other when Dallas gave Neill Young as an answer and immediately had to laugh. I told him about the How I met your mother episode we had just seen and asked him what it is with Canadians and Neill Young. I shouldn’t have done this, because he was kind of pissed and told us that Neill Young is just gorgeous and Canadian and that’s it.

The rest of the evening we couldn’t stop to make fun about the Neill Young thing. I guess his music is just not my thing and I am not Canadian, so I don’t get it. But perhaps this is is my first step to be a good American one day!