Blogger Procrastination

Ha! I have been a terrible blogger. So pretty much we're on our halfway mark! YAYAYYAYAY. On our first week we went camping! And afterwards zip lining. We thought it would just be some quick course but it was legit a spy course.

This week we went to La Ronde on saturday, it's like a amusement park. It's part of the six flags family. It was soo fun! We rode on one ride the monster at least 5 times in a row even sitting up at the front, one of the first rides where my eyes were actually open. I'm so proud. I also ate my first poutine from Mcdonalds that day .. and I'm going to say. Try it just so you can say that you've eaten pouting at mcdonalds before. It's not good though. Not to mention that there was also fireworks. That night it was Australia. All I've got to say was that it was like an orgasm in the air .. hahahaha!

Then on Sunday we went shopping at Ste. Catherine street! There was this HUGE, and I mean HUGE sidewalk sale! I only ended up buying one thing though. After being told that Guess shoes were 60% off I wanted to get myself a pair. Only problem was that they didn't have my size. I searched everywhere but nope. I pretty much wasted my time D: I just got a nice bag from Zara. Valeria and I asked our host parents if it would be okay to go back and they said it was fine, yeeey!

Afterwards we watched Cirque du Soleil. OH.MY.GOODNESS. It was amazing! We had wonderful seats also!! I got to take a picture of the place before they told us that we weren't allowed to take pictures in the place.


That's pretty much all! au revoir!

July 5, 2011 - The world of Kids and Wolf

So today was a lot better than yesterday. Work was really fun and I'm quickly picking up french faster than expected. I do have pictures! I'll post them later though :D

Work isn't very alien to me anymore. I'm actually getting the hang of it. It's tiring because it deals with kids but I mean, it's a pretty easy job. Its mangeable. It's the same thing everyday. I come in to work and see the kids already outside playing. They'll be there until maybe .. 8:45am? then they'll come in for collection (snack) and after snack I'll put the créme on them (sun lotion) and they'll wear their swimsuits. Then we bring them outside to play in the water ou pool. After, we bring them inside at around .. 11:45? for lunch and after lunch we let them play around for about 10 - 20 minutes then we set up their beds and we rub their tummy/ help them fall asleep. I take my break at 1pm to 2pm c'est une hour. When I come back they are usually still asleep but as they wake up we do a quiet activity and then it's time for collection again. After collection it's just sun lotion again and going outside until I'm done my shift at 4:30pm. Its not so bad.

After work we had an activity with our coordinator at 6:30pm. I dont remember the name of the park but it was nice and quiet. It was beside the St. Lawrence sea way. We played a game that's a lot like murder but it dealt with wolves. At our last game Audrey's sister and boyfriend were there. I got to be a wolf at the end and everyone was dead and there were 2 humans left - well one dead but they were a hunter so they had one last chance to pick. The choice was me or Audrey's sister. The hunter was Audrey's sister's boyfriend. Luckly he picked her because she seemed suspicious and well, I won it for the wolves. Yey me!

Au revoir

First Day of work and Mount Royale

So, this is techincally my first blog from Quebec. Not many of you know it but I'm actually in Quebec right now doing a program called "Student summer work exchange". It's through YMCA. We left Winnipeg on June 30 at 11:30pm despite all our seating problems before hand.

And now I'm in the land of poutine. Or well, I haven't even tasted poutine yet. Lots of cheese though but not poutine. Ha hopefully soon! Well, I'm staying with a host family. I live in Repentigny it's like a little suburban town away from Montreal. It's only really like .. 20minutes away driving. Very close to the city. Surprisingly I am staying at my host family's home with Valeria, our coordinator didn't even know that we knew each other!!

So lets get down to the meat. We left on June 30 @ 11:30 as stated before, and it was a "3 day" train ride. Which I'd like to say was more like a .. a day and a half. Technically, it just spanned over 3 days. We had a bbq on Sunday and we had an egg activity and well .. my family's egg was the first one to break. HA HA. Then we went swimming! it seems like tout la monde dans Quebec has a pool! Mine doesn't though, we live in a newer area. Which, I don't know how that makes sense ....

Today was my first day of work. It was fun! I work at a daycare along with one other person from my original city et one from Alberta. The kids were better than I though. I am scared of kids but perhaps this experience may just change my mind. The best part about today was that a little boy, just before he left came up to me (he's only known me for a couple of hours) and he kisses my head and hugs me goodbye. Ugh, my heart was going to melt. He was ADORABLE!!

Then after work we quickly ate dinner (I finish work at 4:30) and we all went to Mount Royal, it's not really a mountain .. but it's the closest thing they have here. The view was amazing! We saw all of Montreal, it was just beautiful. We even walked to see le croix de Mount Royal. C'est tres beau! Needless to say Valeria and I took plenty of pictures. I know for one .. the theme of my pictures from this trip is going to be "pinching everything I see" .. you'll understand if I post pictures. Next time! haha

Au revoir!