Two Minutes in Canada

Before I start out, I should mention that my room did, in fact, warm up.  A couple days after I posted about how cold it was, my roommate and I found the towel that was previously attempting to cover our window to keep the cold air out folded nicely on our chair.  We're assuming that the maintenance guy came and fixed whatever was wrong while we were in class, because the gust of freezing air that was coming in from the closed window was no longer.  After a day or two, our room was back to normal.  So this is my shout-out and giant thank you to the maintenance guy in our building!

Anyway, I just wanted to give you all a little bit of insight into what my new classes are like.  First of all, I think it's pretty awesome that my C&C (C&C is my school's fancy way of saying Composition 2) professor has told us that she'll be texting us as a regular way of communicating, because she realizes that that's a more reliable way of getting in touch with 19-year-olds than emailing them.  Needless to say, she seems like a cool cat, I'm really looking forward to her class.

Now, if you already read the titile of this post, I bet you're wondering how I'm going to tie Canada into this.  Fear not!  I have a story for you, my beloved readers.  :)
So today in my American History class, my professor decided that it would be a good time to tell us how Canada is not nearly as advanced as the United States in [insert random area here] and [insert another random area here].  Fifteen minutes or so later, a guy in my class admitted to her that he moved here from Canada a couple years ago.  (Take a moment to just imagine the outburst of laughter from the entire class, as well as the glowing shade of red that my professor's face turned.  It was absolutely priceless.)
After apologizing for all the insults she had just thrown at my classmate's homeland, she made us all take two minutes out of our day and shout out all the great things we could think of about Canada.  She literally set her timer and made us keep the compliments coming.
So, since I probably owe you all a bullet-pointed list by now anyway, let me share with you some of the lovely things we discussed that come from our northern neighbor:

• Wheat
• Hockey
• The 2010 Winter Olympics
• My contact solution!
• Cold...

We really couldn't come up with much more than that.  As you can imagine, it was a very long two minutes.  But I thought it was pretty adorable when, at the end of the two minutes, my professor shouted out, "We love Canada!!!"
And those two hilarious minutes were a major highlight of my day.

With that, I'll leave you until next time!  Cheers.  :)