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So, what happened since my last blog entry …

On Wednesday evening I went to a pub with Stephanie (my host in Ottawa) and her friend Claire (very nice girl ) to celebrate my birthday. We went to the Chateau Lafayette where John Carroll, a blues musician, performed live. We had a couple of beers there and had a good time. Stephanie went home earlier cause she had a mid-term exam the next day while I and Claire stayed until the pub closed (3 a.m. or so). We then also went back to Stephanie’s place, where we kissed good-bye .

The next day I went to see a little bit of Ottawa and I walked around the city to the house of parliament (where I also watched the politicians for a couple of minutes) and the museum of civilization. I then made a tour at the Hi Jail hostel which was a jail/goal until 1972. The cells were so small you couldn’t even fit a bed properly inside. In the evening we wanted to go ice-skating on Rideau channel, but couldn’t as the weather got to warm and authorities closed the channel for the public. So I just relaxed for the evening inside. On Friday I got up late as well and just took a short walk through the city again as the weather was really bad.

I spent the evening with staying inside again watching some TV and waiting for Stephanie, so that we could go to the bar where Claire worked (as I didn’t know where it was). Unfortunately she came not back that evening and so I couldn’t go to visit Claire at her workplace .

Next morning I left around 9-ish from Ottawa and headed for Montréal. I came to Gabrielle’s place around noon and met her and her roommates (Laurent & Kevin) there. I then went downtown to have lunch and meet with Sebastian (roommate of Gabrielle) and his friend Katerine to go for dinner and to a metal concert afterwards at Café Chaos (the place he works). You definitely have to go there if you like metal and go to Montréal . After the concert we went out for the Montréal “All-nighter”, which is an annual festival of arts & music.

We first went folk-dancing at the city-hall, which was a lot of fun. Afterwards we explored “Art Souterrain”, which was a bit “too modern” for my taste At 4 a.m. we went to the Redpath museum at the university and did a nightly tour of the museum equipped with torches – or cell-phones  – to explore the museum in the dark. When we left from the museum around 5 a.m. we decided not to hike up Mont Royal for the sunrise, but to go back home for some sleep. When we finally arrived back home the new day already started, but we just went straight to bed.

On Sunday I got up very late (I think 3 p.m. or so) and then went to do my laundry in the afternoon. In the evening Kevin made some pizza for all and I got to know another friend of them, Gabrielle. We had some beer and talked quite a while and we also watched “the lion king”  the last of us went to bed around 3.15 a.m. On Monday I got up earlier, 11 a.m.  and headed downtown. I first went to Ile Sainte Helene which is situated in the middle of St. Lawrence stream to go to the Biosphére, a museum with an exhibition about the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence stream area.

After that I went for lunch in Old Montréal and I also had some afternoon coffee there. I visited the Basilique Notre Dame de Montréal which is really beautiful. Especially the chapel Sacre Coeur, cause the entire interior is made of wood. Afterwards I hiked up Mont Royal which is the “mountain” in the middle of Montréal to enjoy the view from up there. There’s also a huge illuminated cross on top as well as the Chateau Mont Royal, which looks like it’s used for balls and dancing events. Then I went back to Gabrielle’s place for the last night in the French part of Canada.

Tomorrow I’ll leave to the States again and go to Boston, where I’ll spend 3 days. Wow, it’s really the last 2 1/2 weeks now

I’m so f***ing looking forward to see you all again at home

greez & be blessed,
Gergi