Stranger Canada

After the series Stranger things, let me introduce you Stranger Canada.

I will try to show you all the strange things that we have seen in the Canada so far.

My first strange was in bathroom or washroom. Each door had a specific way to close : sometimes it’s with a small button on the top, sometimes, you have to turn the handle the other way around and sometimes you must to raise the handle but then, when you try to see if it’s correctly closed, you open the door so you are never sure that your door is well closed…

Another stranger thing in the washroom is the height of the door, I don’t know if I’m too tall or the Canadian are very small but as you can see there is a problem. And it’s the same for Eli ! Also, there’s usually a big gap between the door and the wall, so if you want to, you can spy on people while sitting on the toilet.

Last but not least, in the washroom in bars, usually in Europe, you have some beers advertising or other advertising, here they advertise weed !!

Once on the bar’s menu we saw this, in the non alcoholic beer … I’m not sure but 4% means there’s alcohol, crazy Canadian.

I speak about beer so I have to say that Canadian have a “problem” with beer or alcohol in general. At each public gathering, they have a park for the drinker and you can’t drink alcohol in any other place, only within the fences !

For the car, the thing is, as long as it rolls, it’s good. So you can drive very old car with a lot of rust and it’s totally fine.

On the other hand, they put security warning on bucket because a child could drown but it’s normal to cross and walk along the highway. Go figure…

Also, we saw for the first time a church being built… In Europe, churches are old and nobody needs new ones. But here, they’re everywhere and people are building so many more !

And of course, it seems like you can buy guns and riffles everywhere and so easily around here… It’s quite disturbing.

Waiting for the bus in Belgium, everyone just fights for the available seats. Here, people respectfully wait in line at the bus stop, step in one by one at the front door, let the elderly or families first and quietly respect the order of arrival. And in every bus, there’s a mechanic ramp for strollers or wheelchairs to roll in, and there’s a system for the bikes at the front of the bus.

Another recurrent detail from Canada : the ‘eh’! It’s typical from the English speakers around here, and it could be translated as ‘doesn’t it’ or ‘don’t you think’… A few examples : ‘It’s cold outside eh’ – ‘Harvesting potatoes is hard eh’ –

‘Crazy Canada eh !’