Great things about being a Canadian in a US school

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>For those of you who have been there or who are there now, let's share with those who are heading down to the US for school a fun list of reasons why it is great to be a Canadian in a US school :</p>

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<li>having cute girls/guys ask you to help them with their French homework</li>
<li>getting together with other campus Canadians for real Thanksgiving</li>
<li>being able to just sit out politics for four years (hey, it's not our country!), including a presidential election</li>
<li>importing real beer for your roommates</li>
<li>proving to Americans that we can pronounce 'out and about' correctly</li>
<li>showing off our coloured bills (Monopoly money, as my friends called it)</li>
<li>bragging that we have real university football championship</li>
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<p>What say you?</p>

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<p>It’s a great way to pick up chicks LOL. Most of the ones I’ve met really dig the whole Canadian thing.</p>

<p>But Canadian Thanksgiving isn’t the “real Thanksgiving” as you put it. It was established in 1957.</p>

<p>And there’s no way in hell that football programs in Canadian schools can rival the NCAA…I really hope you were joking…</p>

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<p>Re football: I was referring to the fact that we actually have a playoff system with a championship game (Vanier Cup) and not some computer/poll system (BCS) to determine which school is the best in a given year.</p>

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<p>I thought I said ‘out and about’ correctly. Apparently I don’t :(</p>

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<p>Oh haha, okay. What school do you go to, by the way?</p>

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<p>-telling them that you live in an igloo back in Canada
-telling them that your regular diet consists of whale blubber
-telling them that you ride polar bears to school
-telling them that you know Jim and Sally from Canada</p>

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<li><p>convincing them your prom had to be inside because of snow warnings</p></li>
<li><p>But, like actually, becoming friends with Americans and learning about them (the non ignorant dumb ass ones, anyways). Americans and Canadians are so similar yet so different, and learning from them as they learn from you is amazing. As well, some Canadians are just as closed minded about the ways of America as Americans are about the ways of Canada… I never thought Id say this, but going to school in America has actually opened my mind, if only to new experiences in a (slightly) different culture.</p></li>
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<li>getting to go to Internation student study breaks (free food!) when you actually live closer to campus than most domestic students</li>
<li>the puzzled look you get when ordering an all-dressed pizza</li>
<li>getting to celebrate your reaching legal drinking age a second time (Woohoo!)</li>
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