Eight & Half Days To Learn "Canadian."

Fuuuuuuccckkk...

I realized mid-afternoon today that I have just over a week to become acquainted with how they "roll" in Canada. We U.S. Americans take for granted that Canada is an English-speaking country. But what we do not realize is that it's the fucking Queen's English. (Freddy Mercury & crew or Elizabeth - take your pick as to which queen I am referring to.) They speak it with "North American" accents, but the spellings are the same as that place across the Atlantic.

In addition to seeing and using different spellings, I also have to get used to the following ideas before I move:

1. The metric system.(As The Husband pointed out, "You just move the decimal point.)
   
2. Celsius instead Fahrenheit.
3. Paying 50% in taxes. (Believe it or not, I actually don't have a problem with this one.)
4. Using $1 and $2 coins, instead of bills. (Though, America hasn't had a $2 bill in a very long time. Tommy J. represent!!!)
5. Using (or rather, not using) Canadian Tire money.
6. How nice people are to you right off the bat. I will have to tear down a little of my wall of cynicism I have built up in the past six years.
7. The close proximity of Taco Bell to where I will be living.
   

Okay... So that last one isn't a difficult one to get used to. I will only be a two minute walk from the closest Taco Bell. So that is a good thing. But I am just not used to being that close to one. So the idea needs some time to sink in here.

Maybe "learning Canadian" won't be so overwhelming?