Today, I really took it easy. I didn't want anything else to go wrong, so I stayed with my O-town peeps all day. We woke up around 10:30 and Jan-Mark had his bike so he went down to Simon's to exchange his belt that he bought last time. I had no food with me, so LP's roommates offered me some of their leftover crepes and JM gave me half a pear. ...

Ohhhhhh my god, I woke up as usual, with a horrible sore throat, and Alana, also woke up with a horrible sore knee. She decided to try and get some treatment at the hospital emergency room after breakfast and I decided to just sleep all day on her couch, until it was time to meet up with Abdul for the trip home. So we walked (slowly) past Leonar...

Having explored Old Montreal the night before, I headed towards the train station. Walking along Rue Saint-Jacques, I traced the line of the old city wall until I reached Square Victoria. That's when I saw train tracks sloping up a bridge from the river. They ran into Place Bonaventure. I entered the building off Rue University and wandered up s...

salut je suis toujours a Québec mais je me pratique

I am back from the JET interview. I can only describe it as average. From what I could see, the overall score they gave me was average (about 7/10), my answers were average. I was pretty nervous, I remember twitching a little in the waiting room. The other people were conversing on their various experiences. I was apparently the only person who ...

It was my highschool graduating year and that summer, my parents paid for my trip back to Italy that allowed for some "me" time - exploring and taking in from the experience as much as I could.... and making some much-anticipated stop-overs to relatives and friends scattered around central/southern Italy...

On the morning our group left Quebec, Nichola got the call he was dreading. His work wanted him back on the Gaspe Peninsula to observe on a fishing boat within twenty-four hours. Poor Nichola. He was going to have to high-tail it just to see his family on this short-lived vacation, a vacation he'd spent entirely with us. "Total strangers," said ...