Monday, September 27, 2010

Five Things I learned in Alaska/Canada

1. Not every Canadian says Eh' or has seen a moose or knows a Mountie, or any of those fun Canadian stereotypes however, do not ask them about Hockey or else you are in for it!  I got in the longest conversation with a bartended, when I asked him he was a hockey fan, it pretty much consisted of me getting yelled at about how Americans dont know anything about Hockey.  I know a thing or two about Hockey, I did grow up on the Mighty Ducks movies after all! :) (I joke, I joke)
2. Pretty much everyone who actually was from Alaska asked me if I was from California, and I would ask them How they knew, they said it was because I was blonde. So apparently if you are blonde you are a Californian!
3. Alaska is insanely pretty! Now I get why people would suck it up and a live there, even thoughs, its stinking cold!

4. There are not very many young people that go to Alaska on vacation, its more a place older people tend to go, which makes it great to go to because people are really nice to you if your the only young one, I got a few free drinks, and there are pretty hikes, and things you maybe cant do later on. So go if you ever get the chance, it was beautiful!
5. Even though its cold in Alaska there are not polar bears or penguins! The amount of times, I heard people ask that, shocked me! There are multiple other species of bears though and puffins!

Five Things I learned by being a complete Spaz!


1. Every time a girl trips in a movie there is a cute boy there to catch her. This is purely fiction. There has never once been a cute guy waiting when I trip it has always been a ground full of asphalt waiting for me, or a nice big mud puddle, when I am on my way to an important meeting.
2. You will never spill/break/drop/etc. anything when you have the time to clean it up, it will always be when you are really late somewhere, or in my case you spill the coffee grounds the day your neighbor borrows your broom and then is not home to get it back, and you are ten minutes late to work.
3.You honestly can trip over air, trust me I've done it!!!
4. If you are trying really hard not to do anything stupid, you will do something stupid. Example, waving to the cute guys in the car that waved to you is good in theory unless you are on a moving bicycle and you did not notice the huge pile of leaves in front of you, and oh yeah that parked car. and to top it off, the cute boys in the car, got stopped at a red light, so they saw the whole thing.
5. If you are going to fall you might as well play it off well. Fell down a flight of stairs recently and told the couple that saw me that I was practicing a new dance move, for a second they believed me, then they helped me up and told me that I might want to take the elevator from now on! :)