The DeCanadianization of Peter

Today I am officially an American. I tried to fight it, but it's done. I've been assimilated. Resistance was futile. The last vestiges of my Canadianness are gone, and it goes back to being a hidden little secret. I guess I can finally stop spelling words with extra 'u's. It's not like I'm ashamed of it or anything, in fact I tried to recreate the Canadian flag on my knife kit. I guess observant people will be able to still tell whether it be from my pronunciation of 'out', my references to Degrassi, or my acceptance of people from other cultures, all of which definitely label me an non-American.

So why did this happen? No I didn't buy a gun...although that would have been my first guess too. Today I finally switched over to California plates. I guess this means my car is American as well.

So shall we try this again?

OK so it's been a year since I last posted, have you missed me? Is anyone still even there? Doesn't matter.

I figure that with all the life changes that have been going on, it might be fun to document everything again, especially since what I'm now doing is directly related to the title of this blog, so why pass it up. I always planned to move back to Toronto, Lenox was really just a detour, and never really was supposed to be for the long haul. A year later it was time to go. I gave Chez Nous Bistro the news, but I couldn't figure out what to do next. Move back to Toronto, or something else? Well that something else turned out to be Culinary School.

So now I'm in Napa...about as far away from Toronto as you can get, attending the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. I started in January, and am currently in skills one, which means that I chop a butt load of vegetables. Apparently learning to cut carrots into perfect 1/8" cubes is important. It is fun though.

Anyway I do plan on addign updates pretty regularly from now on, which I'm hoping will cut down on my email updates, and will hopefully help to put everything in perspective a bit. Plus you just know one of the posts in going to involve me chopping off a finger, it is me after all. I'm also hoping to figure out if I can do video blogs with my fancy new Macbook.