Nathan Ng

First Week: Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned from America (from a Canadian perspective, obviously):

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1) $1 McChickens own everything. If I were to create the supposed company that owns all companies, I’d name it “One Dollar McChicken”.

2) Nice cars are essential to awesome lifestyles. If you were ever a mayor of a city, and you needed something to boost city morale, increase tourism, and create (an illusion of) a higher standard of living, the answer is simple: buy your citizens nice cars.

3) Americans love blue WAY more than Canadians. The logic is as follows: Canadians don’t wave their flags around. The Canadian flag is red and white. The American flag is red, white, and BLUE. Americans wave their flag ALL OVER THE FRICKIN’ PLACE (they literally sell them in home depot!). By process of elimination, Americans love blue. This one really isn’t a lesson though.

4) Silicon chokes the world.  Torontonians (and probably most Canadians) are probably more environmentally conscious than Californians. From the media, I would have thought that Americans were dead-focused on being green and saving the environment. Heck, all the presidential campaigns are fighting for our sources of fuel. In Toronto, I’ve grown up with recycling and the 3Rs have been so ingrained in me, that throwing a glass or plastic bottle into the blue bin is natural. In California, I don’t have an actual recycling bin… anywhere. Now, most people who know me know that I’m not exactly the most environmentally conscious person in the world. But even I feel bad about throwing a glass bottle of pasta sauce, into the GARBAGE! This baffles me.

5) Clouds suck. In other words: ZERO CLOUDS ROCK. Sorry I take that back. I would actually really love a cloud right above my window *fans self*.

More lessons later.