Proud To Be Canadian, EH

To My Glorious Homeland.

I would just like to say thank you, first of all. Thank you for being as amazing and beautiful as you are. For producing such an awesome people and their great accents. Thank you for all the wild life you allow to live on top of you, eating your grass hairs and drinking from your sweaty spots. All those giant pimples along your west coast are just so gorgeous. I love the snow, rain, hail, storm, sun, hot, wet, cold, dry, and everything else that you produce.

You are the second biggest country in the world (props man!) and you hold such a wide variety of activities and adventures to be had. From coast to coast, through British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec (ew), Newfoundland & Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and P.E.I. through the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut your power reigns.

You sheltered me for 14 years and for that I am eternally grateful. Sadly 4 ½ years ago I had to leave your shores to go on to a new country. But you will remain forever in my heart, mind and soul as the Motherland. The land where I took my first steps. Saw my first bear. Ate all that Maple Syrup. Grew up from 0 to 14. All my family lives. A land that made me love Hockey. Made me talk the way I do. Made me proud to wear red and white. Made me enjoy jumping up and down on a couch when Canada won against the USA in the winter Olympics. Made me say, “Eh”.

Dear, sweet, glorious, wondrous, fabulous, gobsmacking, flabbergasting, fantastical Canada. I love you and I miss you.  

Soo I bet you are all wondering, 'WHAT DID MACKENZIE DO FOR CANADA DAY IN AUSTRIA!??!!' and if you aren't wondering, you should be wondering. So at the moment in Tauernhof, there is only the staff here. And amongst the staff there is only one other Canadian named Ben. So yesterday I say, "Hey Ben, we need to do something really fantastic and mind blowing for Canada Day tomorrow. We have to show up all the 5 Americans that are here that Canadians know how to be proud too!" So we continued to conspire.. many ideas running through our fantastic Canadian minds, like we should paint everything red. We should wake everyone up by singing the national anthem in a megafone. We should buy some firecrackers. We should run around town saying GO CANADA WOOOOO!! I know. These were all such amazing ideas. But then we realised, that a lot of people don't know that July 1st is Canada Day everyone just knows about July 4th. (but really, what a dumb day eh) So we decided to play it a bit simple.

Later on when a couple of us were picking cherries and having a competition to see how many could fit in our mouths without dying (I got 20.. :D) I thought... Woah! So one of the girls who just left, left a bunch of clothes right? And in those clothes were 2 white t-shirts. One bigger than the other.. Cherries... Red... White t-shirt... We could totally stain the t-shirts red with cherries!! And I also found some black paint in the lost and found so we could use that too!! So we proceed to attempt to do so.. The cherries at first look so cool! It turns out purple instead of red but oh well! Cherry tye dye man! But then it started going brown.. and chunks of cherry started staining.. I sorta just chucked mine one and continued on to paint an amazingly well done maple leaf, a moose and 'OH CANADA'. Meanwhile, Susan (one of the kitchen girls) decides to try and make a maple leaf out of cherry juice on Ben's shirt.. it ends up looking like either a chicken, a space ship, or... like something died on it. But what do we care! Its Canada Day!! So we wore our AWESOME shirts all day (even when we went into town at night.. Well I did). Had a very mini photoshoot. Sang the anthem amongst the camp at the top of our lungs. I listened to a little Hedley while I cleaned. Fought with an American about how Canada is better. You know, the usual :D Thus concludes my Canada Day. I hope it was as epic for you as it was for me.