Sunday, April 3, 2011

Oh Canada!

This last week I went to Montreal for a conference. Montreal was AMAZING and absoultely adorable, but I learned that Canada makes me literally dumber. Let me give you a few examples.
1.) Once upon a time I went to Montreal. Once upon a time I brought a camera. Once upon a time I turned on my camera to take a picture only to discover that I did not put a memory card in my camera. Awesome. I now have one picture of our hostel.
2.) When I got to the airport and went through customs they wanted where I was staying and my departure info. So being totally prepared I handed the nice customs man a piece of paper I had printed off my hostel website that said how to get to the hostel from the airport. I thought I was being so prepared, only for the nice man to tell me, "This tells me nothing. It does not have an address or the name of your hostel on it". Yep. That was awesome and really happened.
3.) Also at the airport I met up with a professor that I know that I kind of look up to. He did not stop to get money out of the ATM so I decided I was too scared to ask him to stop. I assumed everyone would take american money or credit cards. WRONG! The next day I had to frantically find an ATM or not eat and get kicked out of my hostel.
4.) Lastly, on my way home my flight got delayed and changed like a million times. I saved all my boarding passes incase I needed to argue with someone. Never threw any of them away. The next day when I went through security I got to the front and the nice TSA lady told me I had the boarding pass that was not used from the previous day. I searched EVERYTHING and it was no where to be found. What the fetch? I am not a flighty person for the most part. I went all the way back out, printed a new boarding pass, and went through security. Later I was going through my stuff only to discover that my correct boarding pass was stuck to the one I was trying to give to the lady. OH MY GOSH! WHY AM I SO DUMB? The answer is simple. Canada. Canada has literally made my dumber.

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