Bonjour Tout Le Monde. Or is it Tous or Toutes or Toute. I guess that would depend on whether or not Monde is masculine or stinken feminine, or if Monde is considered to be a plural or singular entity. I, however, do not have time to look that up right now, so if I did it wrong - deal with it I guess.
Anyhow, and so goes life in Trois Pistoles. It continues to be an adventure, but more than anything, it's just settled into normal right now. There are much fewer moments of confusion or elation.
Last weekend was pretty grand. On Friday we didn`t have our atelier, so me and Kyla biked to the little waterfalls on the edge of town, except we didn't know where they were, so we first biked past them for about 20 minutes before we realized that we were just going up and down hills for nothing. Anyhow, a few other students also happened to be there, and it was a really chil afternoon just sitting and doing nothing on a rock in the sun by some water falls.
On Friday night was the Cabaret, and all the students with talent put on a show. So, in other words, all of the Aisian Canadians and all of the Russian over seas students threw together a little Chopin and Bach on whichever instrument they happened to play and it was ridiculously impressive. There was also a fiddling/tap dancing/guitar number that blew me away, and there's this guy here who reminds me of Darryl T. and he did a few special numbers and I laughed so hard I cried. Oh and a girl with a very wonderful deep throughty jazz voice sang "Besame Mucho" which is always a hit jazz number with me. It sounds extremely sexy in French
On Saturday Katie, Kyla, Brian and I went on the whale cruise. As a short aside - Brian reminds me of Alejandro Calderon from highschool and I laugh at him a lot. He wanted a self portrait of himself, so today he bought me a coffee at the Essential and I drew him before supper. The portrait needs tweaking still.
Anyhow... the whale cruise. It was pretty good. We saw fin back whales, Minkie whales, some seals, a few porpoises, and the best part was a Blue Whale that came pretty close to our boat. The Blue Whale is the biggest whale in all the world. Oh, and we saw a few schools of Belugas, but they were far away so it just looks like a bunch of resurfaccing white bumps. I think Belugas are the cutest whales EVER!
Saturday night Katie and Kyla and I went and hung out with Sherri, a girl who is doing the work program here and she's from Saskatoon and knows Jeremy. Then after a few hours of sitting at her kitchen table and eating her nutella, all of us went to the Essential for coffee. Then we bumped into Hannah and a few other people and talked to them for forever, then I went home because i had to climb a mountain the next day.
All day Sunday I was on a day trip with some of the students and we climbed Mount Xanibu in Parc Gaspie. We left Trois Pistoles at 6:30 am and it was a three hour ride there and three hours back again. It was extremely beautiful and it was a really hot day. My only gripe was that we had to wait forever on the top for the slow people and then we had to wait forever when we got down, and then on the way home we went to a really horrible and expensive Chinese buffet. And on top of that, there was a high precentage of very annoying 17 year olds on that trip being brats and having attitudes. I`'ve actually been fairly impressed by most of the younger kids I've met, but there was a bit of a brat pack on this trip. I got home at 11pm.
Today is already Wednesday. I was supposed to go kayaking on the river today, but I wasn't in the mood so I let Katie take my place plus it was another 30 bucks and I have now decided to go to Cirq Du Soliel on Friday night while we're in Quebec City. That's going to be 70 bucks so I decided to cut back on an activity. I've actually taken the last few days pretty slow. Monday and Tuesday reached 40 and over with the humidity index. It was seriously as bad as some of the worst days of Bolivian summers. So we were all pretty dead yesterday. Only the "mall" has airconditioning, so students were hanging out there a bit.
Other than that - good news - Jeremy got the job with the government, I got a phone call from Calgary for a job interview with the Christian school - but it's a bit late for that now. Last night was another required concert. This one wasn't as good. We went to the Greneir d'Albertine last night after the show for a drink and I hung out with Li. I found out he does modelling in Vancouver, so I bugged him about that for a while and I asked him a few Zoolanderesque type questions.(Because I`'m sure he never gets people making annoying comments like that) He visit China a lot so we've had fun talking about the glories of foot massages.
Yeah - so that's it!
Anyhow, and so goes life in Trois Pistoles. It continues to be an adventure, but more than anything, it's just settled into normal right now. There are much fewer moments of confusion or elation.
Last weekend was pretty grand. On Friday we didn`t have our atelier, so me and Kyla biked to the little waterfalls on the edge of town, except we didn't know where they were, so we first biked past them for about 20 minutes before we realized that we were just going up and down hills for nothing. Anyhow, a few other students also happened to be there, and it was a really chil afternoon just sitting and doing nothing on a rock in the sun by some water falls.
On Friday night was the Cabaret, and all the students with talent put on a show. So, in other words, all of the Aisian Canadians and all of the Russian over seas students threw together a little Chopin and Bach on whichever instrument they happened to play and it was ridiculously impressive. There was also a fiddling/tap dancing/guitar number that blew me away, and there's this guy here who reminds me of Darryl T. and he did a few special numbers and I laughed so hard I cried. Oh and a girl with a very wonderful deep throughty jazz voice sang "Besame Mucho" which is always a hit jazz number with me. It sounds extremely sexy in French
On Saturday Katie, Kyla, Brian and I went on the whale cruise. As a short aside - Brian reminds me of Alejandro Calderon from highschool and I laugh at him a lot. He wanted a self portrait of himself, so today he bought me a coffee at the Essential and I drew him before supper. The portrait needs tweaking still.
Anyhow... the whale cruise. It was pretty good. We saw fin back whales, Minkie whales, some seals, a few porpoises, and the best part was a Blue Whale that came pretty close to our boat. The Blue Whale is the biggest whale in all the world. Oh, and we saw a few schools of Belugas, but they were far away so it just looks like a bunch of resurfaccing white bumps. I think Belugas are the cutest whales EVER!
Saturday night Katie and Kyla and I went and hung out with Sherri, a girl who is doing the work program here and she's from Saskatoon and knows Jeremy. Then after a few hours of sitting at her kitchen table and eating her nutella, all of us went to the Essential for coffee. Then we bumped into Hannah and a few other people and talked to them for forever, then I went home because i had to climb a mountain the next day.
All day Sunday I was on a day trip with some of the students and we climbed Mount Xanibu in Parc Gaspie. We left Trois Pistoles at 6:30 am and it was a three hour ride there and three hours back again. It was extremely beautiful and it was a really hot day. My only gripe was that we had to wait forever on the top for the slow people and then we had to wait forever when we got down, and then on the way home we went to a really horrible and expensive Chinese buffet. And on top of that, there was a high precentage of very annoying 17 year olds on that trip being brats and having attitudes. I`'ve actually been fairly impressed by most of the younger kids I've met, but there was a bit of a brat pack on this trip. I got home at 11pm.
Today is already Wednesday. I was supposed to go kayaking on the river today, but I wasn't in the mood so I let Katie take my place plus it was another 30 bucks and I have now decided to go to Cirq Du Soliel on Friday night while we're in Quebec City. That's going to be 70 bucks so I decided to cut back on an activity. I've actually taken the last few days pretty slow. Monday and Tuesday reached 40 and over with the humidity index. It was seriously as bad as some of the worst days of Bolivian summers. So we were all pretty dead yesterday. Only the "mall" has airconditioning, so students were hanging out there a bit.
Other than that - good news - Jeremy got the job with the government, I got a phone call from Calgary for a job interview with the Christian school - but it's a bit late for that now. Last night was another required concert. This one wasn't as good. We went to the Greneir d'Albertine last night after the show for a drink and I hung out with Li. I found out he does modelling in Vancouver, so I bugged him about that for a while and I asked him a few Zoolanderesque type questions.(Because I`'m sure he never gets people making annoying comments like that) He visit China a lot so we've had fun talking about the glories of foot massages.
Yeah - so that's it!
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