It's pretty easy not to buy clothes here. You see, everyone is convinced that even though the weather hardly changes at all, their clothes still need to change. I think its crazy that every clothes store I pass is selling winter jackets and wool sweaters with christmas tree and reindeer patterns while I'm sweating in a sun dress. Are these people actually going to put on a winter a jacket in one month when it is 20 degrees? Are they going to buy the toques and scarves and boots and pretend that it's cold so they can have a fashion change? It actually makes me a little nervous. It's like everyone knows something I don't and suddenly I'm going to wake up one morning and the temperature will have dropped 30 degrees and I'll be the foolish Canadian that didn't bring wool mittens to go live off the coast of Africa.
Although, I do have to admit that last weekend we went camping in the mountains and it was kind of cold. It was like that last week of camp at Pines
in August.....or maybe camping up at Grow For It at the beginning of June, you have to bundle up at night to go to bed but it warms up a lot during the day. But in Canada its fine because we make a CAMPFIRE. I think its so funny listening to all these Spanish people bundled up in winter jackets complaining about being cold while sitting around a LANTERN. Well of course you're going to be cold if you're relying on a candle to give you heat! I understand that there is a risk of forest fires and yes, there are a lot of trees around, but there are the same factors in Canada and yet we still have campfires......do we just not care as much? In any case I made sure that I lived up to the stereotypical view of Canadians by insisting that I wasn't cold and that this was nothing. I survived perfectly fine in Mandy's brown zip up hoodie. If I had been at home I probably would've been complaining........
Okay one more thing I found hilarious. When I was in France there were always deer signs on the highway but I never once saw a deer. Helene insisted that they hide during the day and come out at night. ( even though I never saw one at night non plus...) So I didn't see any but apparently they were there. Last weekend while we were driving we passed a deer sign. Naturally I asked if they had deer. They answered by saying that sometimes there were goats on the road. But no deer? No, no deer. Are there any deer on the island? Nope. None. Nunca.
haha so.......why the deer sign? Well, its because there are goats.
Well at least they were honest.....
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