A dream about being back in Vancouver, and Poohbearhoney's Surrey Poem

[Jrin]

This is Thursday night. I was taking a nap and a woke up a little while ago. It was a Thursday when I left Canada last month and I've so many dreams about being back there since that but this was one of the best one. One interesting thing the dreams have in common is it feels like I never left in the dream and I'm still there finishing where I left off because I really didn't want to leave.

In the dream, I was back at the hostel in Vancouver where I had stayed and I asked the girl in the lobby what day of the week it was. She told me it was Thursday. I told her I had trouble keeping track of what day it was because so much had happened when I was there and it felt like I had been there much longer.
"It feels like I live here now.", I told her.
I went outside and walked down the street saying, "I live here now. I'm not going back no matter what."
In the dream I knew I was running out of money and had only about $20 left (this really did run out of money when I was there in real life because I liked it so much I just stayed till the money ran out) so I was walking around looking for places that might hire me even though the government doesn't want me to get a job.

I kept walking down the street and I remembered about Poohbearhoney's Surrey Poem and how Thursday meant that after 2 more days I'd be there illegally. I just kept walking faster, feeling optomistic that I would still find some way to stay. I walked all the way down to the water and said, "You people don't have the the guts to drag me out of here so I'm not leaving!"

After that I woke up. It was one of those dream that felt so real and when you wake up you wish you were still there.

That Surrey Poem talks about people with "Ford trucks and turbans." I guess that's referring to East Indians? I'm half Indian and I think maybe that's part of the reason the immigation people at the border in Surrey would only let me stay in Canada for a week even though I'm a US citizen. To me it seems like they were just biggots with the same kind of thinking as in that Surrey Poem.

I know most people who say and write these things really don't have the guts to try and actually push me out of the country. And if you do, I dare you to try it because I'm not scared of you. I've dealt with people ten times as dangerous who have wanted me dead. So take some time to learn about the reasons some people have for wanting to live in Canada before you start assuming things. Nothing with stop people from living where they want.

I remember that line from the poem, "So I stay, who cares I illegal."
When I was there, lots of people were incouraging me to just stay and work under the table and these were all white Canadians offering helpful advice on how to stay. So who really does care except for a few of those Surrey Poem biggots at CIC and Customs.

Many people go to Canada seeking a better life, not just to get on welfare. I wanted to stay there because I like the way it feels free and many other things about Canada. I'm not going there to trash it. There lots of other Americans who will be coming in the future for the same reasons. Don't hate people who love Canada and want to live there. I'll get back there some time and when I do, I want leave no matter what.

This is just something on my mind I though some of you should think about and I'm not writing it to bash the author of the Surrey Poem.