Panoramique Hotel Ste. Anne

... faisait chaud et humide à mourir dans les champs les amis! Je me suis arrêté chez des inconnus qui jouaient dehors pour leur demander de remplir mes gourdes. Les gens des régions c'est dont bin serviable hein! Non mais imaginez à Montréal un clown qui débarque chez vous en cuissard avec son p'tit casque pis ses 2 gourdes! Faut être junkie pour faire ça à Montréal!

Bon j'ai toujours mal au genou et parfois le derrière et l'entre-jambe sont en feu mais je m'arrête à peu pr ...

... of preprepared questions - it was really great to take part and add my pennies worth and after three days with everyone I was certainly feeling very comfortable. Mum spent the morning packing and organising ready for our departure - as well as getting totally frustrated by not being able to tell what actual price something is, no worries with the amount it is just the having to add on up to three different taxes and then tips before the final total is found - tips I ...

... part, quite literally, was when Amanda and I got back to the main area, we went to the bathroom, and there were these signs, in french, of course, telling us about the local animals, etc... So we read this one and didn't really understand it. Until I figured out that the organism they were referring to was an eel. And I only knew that because of that giant eel I was so petrified of in the Museum of Civilization. So the poster ...

... We have basically explored centre-ville and the mall very thouroughly, but not much else, which is a little sad. Anyways, I will try to post more, but I kind of feel like its not worth it if I'm not telling an exciting or funny story. So I'm posting some random shots of the last few weeks to keep you all entertained. Bewarned, a few are in the campus pub....

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... C'est bon! Other than that, I've just kind of been settling in and getting to know my roomies. They are really cool people, which is good, because I was really worried about living with people I dont know. We are all the same age, and kind of all have similar outlooks and personalities. Haha .. .at least we do now! ;) Thats it for now, I'm sure I'll find more to say later! A bientot!

... d'impl*nter un b*r*ge hydro-électrique sur ces lieux. Puis, d'*utres industries nécessiteuses en énérgie sont venues s'impl*nter là, telles que de l* p*peterie, de l'*luminum et de l'industrie chimique qui ont f*it prospérer l* nouvelle ville *insi créee m*lgré les différentes périodes de crises qu'elle * rencontrées. En fin d'*prèm, on est retourné le long de l* rivière S*int-M*urice profiter du be*u temps revenu. Lundi m*tin, r ...

... tais aller reconduire "Val au Burkina Faso", mettons que le facteur "maudits Français" était fort ... Soyez donc rassurés, vous n'aurez pas à vous trainer pour un autre souper ou drink de départ! Je ne veux pas jinxer le voyage - même les horoscopes sont positifs aujourd'hui ;-) - mais ça semble être bien parti. J'me croise les doigts et les orteilles. J'vous aime gros & vous allez me manquer ! Edith

... whole embassy experience was weird, but he truly didn't have the papers, so my sincere apologies. So I won't be in the Sudan until June 24th because my Head of Mission (HoM) will be away until then. I'm hoping to get my hands on the visa by next Tuesday and then leave on Friday for Brussels, to hang out with Véro. The briefing should be in Paris on the 23rd and off to Khartoum, hopefully. And IF and only if all this holds, then I come back to Montreal on the 16th. If.

... amount of lists with no idea of how I'll check off every item! I think I spent an hour last night analysing the pros and cons of what shoes to bring, what bag to buy and pretty much every other item that's going with me for those 6-months in Khartoum. And did I mention that if my dear friend Audrey becomes my roommate, she will discover brand new sides to my obsessive nature when I leave her a detailed list of how every bloody thing works in the house ? She's going for her MBA ...

... apart from people being able to speak English, I didn't see or hear much English at all. I met Marie-Eve and we caught the subway and walked to her flat that she shares with her sister and a guy called Jean-Francois, or one of those silly French boys' names that sound like girls' names. It is really nice inside, with wooden floors and tastefully designed by Marie-Eve's sister, Ann. Marie-Eve's mother and aunt were staying also so I had a brief conversation with them. The aunt ...