Home Again

Back in sunny Canada. Vacation was much fun, the heat was difficult, but want to go back again. Locals were big into getting your money and hassled us a bit to buy this or that, either by being aggressive or trying to invoke our pity at their poverty. It really got annoying. The ocean was beautiful, probably what i'll miss the most, and the jungle. And suntanning. And not having to work--although surprisingly i missed all my coworkers. You get used to talking to a couple people every day for 7 straight hours about everything under the stars and when they're not around its like something's missing.

I have to start writing letters and stuff to government people. While we were away, we often saw police or army people in big trucks with their FX-05 Xiuhcoatl's. Now, maybe it's a northern North American thing, but that is really freakin scary. When I was in Paris there were army men walking around with AK's under the Eiffel Tower. What?! There is no reason to be carrying around guns that big off base. People were telling us stories too, in Mexico, about the regular police and how corrupt they are. And we don't really have that here either. Of course there;s always corrupt officers but it's not standard, and it's not accepted. I guess the thing is that since everything looks so peaceful on the surface here, we don't really bother protesting things or voicing our opinions. Everyone is completely apathetic about new laws and political changes. At least in the USA the republicans try and make everyone do things through fear, of terrorism, of losing their rights, of injustice, of war. But even still, no one even votes anymore. Does our army have to start carrying AK's around before we wake up a little? Does the fear tactic that's spreading north of our border mean we'll wake up, or just fall in the trap too? Really, we don't even need to write letters these days, just emails. It takes 3 seconds. So from now on, whenever something happens in the government that I think infringes on my rights or freedoms or general good sense, I will send a line off to my MP or whoever else might read it, so that at least I'm being heard. Because we have it really good here, but that doesn't mean it's good enough.