Are you planning to watch the winter Olympics in Vancouver this year?  It starts tomorrow people!  This year, Canada may have a chance of winning Olympic gold, for the very first time on their own soil.  It didn’t happen in Calgary, and it didn’t happen in Montreal.  This year, all my colleagues and Canadian friends have assured me — it will happen.  The land of snow will win a gold medal for doing sports in snow.  It all just makes so much sense.

The spirit is in the air, with people wearing Olympic scarves, gloves and hats to support their country.  I am also rooting for Canada, hoping this country will get some recognition that prevent international journals from making comments like this:

“Theirs is a vast country that in many ways is run like a small town, with small-town values, and it has a highly developed culture of modesty, if not a collective inferiority complex. The athletic record in general is a little underwhelming, and some Canadians think that is because their countrymen prefer that, considering a good effort just as valuable as a trunkload of trophies, maybe better.”

courtesy of the New York Times (even if is true, it reeks with smugness)

Sigh…ask me a year ago, and I could have written a testament on how Canada is an inferior country, the 51st American state, the distant cousin you were embarrassed to talk about because they mispronounced every word, ay?  And now I am crossing my fingers and toes that the Canadian national team will win the Olympic Gold in hockey, cause that is where they wear their pride.

Sigh…after 7 months living here, I am on the Canada bandwagon.  Who am I?