Anyway, this time tomorrow I’ll be winging my way to “still recovering from Noel” La Republica Dominicana. Just to give you an idea of how cool the Canadian anthem is, here’s a portion of a really really bad translation of the national anthem of the DR.
- Compatriots, let us proudly
- Show our face, from today prouder than ever;
- Quisqueya may be destroyed
- But a slave again, never!
- Please note Quisqueya is what the native peoples called Hispaniola. That’s one of the closing verses. The version that is on Wikipedia is so bad I suspect Haitians put it on Wikipedia just to poke the Quisqueyanos in the eye.
- I’m packed. Do I want to take my mandolin, that’s the question that’s bugging me.
- I heart Hugh Laurie. Omar Epps isn’t exactly Mr. Uggly either.