I enjoyed every part of my trip, from seeing family to seeing places, everyone has been so kind and have really looked after me well. It has also been brilliant to get a little insight into North American culture, albeit through the eyes of the minority for the most part. I think that the American and even Canadian mindset is very different in some ways from that of Europe, I find that in Europe after centuries of war and empire people tend to be a little less enthusiastic about foreign conquests and flags and nationhood and wars.
But the people there are genuine and beautiful and kind just the same as people all over the world, America is not full of malicious people trying to take over the world, just as the empires of times gone by were not spread by people who were devoid of humanity, maybe misguided or unthinking but not fully evil. Every person has a connection with humanity, a sense of justice that no matter how much we try to deaden and dirty it can never be put to death.