Instead of ____ it’s ___:

elevator – lift
cookie – biscuit
flashlight – torch (really unsure as to why people kept telling me to bring a torch on holiday to africa – isn’t that dangerous?)
gas – petrol
legal or letter sized paper – A3 or A4
pop – soda

As for being green? HAHAHAHA. Dubai has the largest ecological footprint on earth. I don’t even try anymore, sadly…and we drive an SUV. Everyone does. Canadian do-gooder that I am, I was mortified – until a huge truck rammed us and realised I would have been dead in a small car. The traffic here is beyond dangerous – people don’t know how to drive, drive huge vehicles (i.e. hummers) and the highway carnage is unbelievable.

Butter Tarts are uniquely Canadian, and are divine!

Blueberry Grunt is a Nova Scotian dessert, but it’s special.

Try the word “Chesterfield” on an American and they’ll think you’re talking about a coat or a cigarette. To us it’s a couch or sofa.