amiskwacîwâskahikan / ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ / Beaver Hill House / Edmonton

"...Toronto!?" "no" "hmm, Montreal!" "nope" "Vancouver?" "nah" "uh, Ottawa...?" "..." This, with all the laughing taken out, was part of a conversation I had with an American friend in a pub in southwest Donegal this summer. The end of another brilliant three months spent teaching Irish in my baile as baile, Gleann Cholm Cille, was fast…