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By generalkernel
May 21st 2008

Drunk Gen Takes Control

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Our Money
Enough to throw a party?

I woke up around 11am, groggy from 5 hours of sleep. Things flooded back to me. Dice…Mexican girls…$60…bikes…roulette…black 6…. Shit. I slammed my head back into my pillow. This is worse than a hangover. Combined, D-German and I had zero dollars. Zero. I guess technically, I had $2.45 residing in my bank account and D-German had some other trivial single digit amount, but we were flat broke. And hosting a goddamn party tonight. I rolled underneath my covers, trying to go back to sleep to escape the reality. But reality won ov [View Full Entry]

By generalkernel
May 19th 2008

Getting to Tokyo with $60

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D-German
After a night of doing ____...6:30am

This week has been a blur. Last Friday me and D-German hosted a party at our apartment where we gave hamburgers to everyone and they brought beer, we got a little drunk with a select group of people, met our ginger haired Minnesota neighbor with a black grandfather, then when we were cleaning up the mess, we decided to do _______, we were up until 7am, collapsed asleep, then that same evening made dinner for Yuriko (Shortstop) and her roommate, a few days of school blurred past with a few trips to the gym, a few trips to various neighborhoods, a [View Full Entry]

By Simon Austin
May 19th 2008

If Philly was soggy, this is wet

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hello again, it is chucking it down with rain so I thought I would take the opportunity to do a little blog! i got up early yesterday and walked up to the top of Mont-Royal -it isnt acutally a mountain but people from montreal like to think it is apparently! So, i scaled the hill and got some really cool views, there is a chalet at the top where you can sit and look out across the whole of montreal which was good, if only to have a rest! once i had 'abseiled' down the mountain - well, followed the path, [View Full Entry]

By Simon Austin
May 17th 2008

'O Canada'...

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal » Old Montréal

Hello all! I hope you are impressed with the speed between my last blog and this one! I got to Montreal after a rather long train journey; it should have only been 10 hours but some tourists hadn't booked return tickets from Canada and didn't have insurance or something so we were delayed for a couple of hours. Luckily I had some books to read so it wasn't too bad. The weather today was great, which always helps so I wandered around a fair bit. I had a look at the old town and the Notre Dame of Montreal. Then I [View Full Entry]

By generalkernel
May 16th 2008

Classical Music Lubricates The Date

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$Math Class$
Math Class
Trini-Boy and Yours Truly in class

We set a time and place over the next few emails: Milton Gates, 1:30pm, right after my class. Because I was all nervous and jittery, I shot out of bed as soon as my alarm beeped at 10am, instead of hitting snooze ten times and racing off to math class at 11:00. Faced with so much time, I took a shower, ate breakfast and spent two minutes choosing my clothes, instead of the usual 2 seconds. I glanced at the clock. 10:20. 40 minutes until class. D-German had left for work at 8am, so I had nothing to do. I went [View Full Entry]

$Math Class$

By generalkernel
May 10th 2008

The Ball Travels Further in the Heat

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Montreal Summer
You wish you were here

It’s SUMMER!! Everyone’s favorite season: the weather is awesome, no school, everyone’s relaxed and guys have an excuse to rock sunglasses to (safely) check out girls flaunting their bodies. This summer is a little different from my previous two. I won’t be going apeshit in Tokyo for 3 months. I won’t be tearing shit up with Teddy. I won’t be involved in a ménage-a-cinq in an Osaka capsule hotel. That’s not to say I won’t be going to Japan (I might, depending on financial constraints) but that’s stuff far, far in the future (lat [View Full Entry]

So I tried peacocking to get her attention...

By Tim and Tom
May 9th 2008

Really good day

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal » South Shore

Tim: Today has been a good day. We took a metro down to the Biodome and went over to the Giles Villneave circuit, the home of Canadian Formula 1. Later in the day we have bonded a little bit more with the people in the hostel and we are outside with them playing a French drinking game called DIXIT. Now whilst writing this blog I should account for any gramatical or spelling errors by pointing out that I am DIXIT or "on it" because I rolled a three at the start of the game and every time a three is rolled [View Full Entry]

By Tim and Tom
May 8th 2008

Mount Royal

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Montreal view

Tom: Overlooking Montreal there is a large 3 "peaked" hill called Mount Royal, which the clever people in wiki-land inform us gave the city it's name. So having been promised a postcard view we headed for the hills. Much sweat and even more grunts later we'd climbed to 2 of the 3 "summits" and the views were amazing, with panoramic views across Montreal and the surrounding countryside. After a pause at the top to enjoy the view we decided to visit the cross on another of the hills peaks that can be seen illuminated at night from all around Montreal, however [View Full Entry]

By MCJewel
May 7th 2008

Montréal (7 mai)

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MC sur mon ordi
Voici MC qui attends que je pacte mes affaires dans ma chambre

Nous voici dans les derniers préparatifs. Ça fait une semaine qu'on prépare toute sorte de trucs, mais j'aimerais bien avoir une journée ou deux de plus. Le grand départ, c'est ce soir! Nous partons à 23h00 ce soir avec Zoom Airlines, arrivée à Londres à 10h30 jeudi matin heure locale, avec un décalage horaire de 6 heures. Aujourd'hui, il y a les bagages à faire, quelques petites affaires à acheter... On a déjà les passeport, les visas, des livres sterling, des passes de train pour la fin du voyage (BritRail). Ça nous fait trop de choses à penser et à faire [View Full Entry]

By mandy ca
May 6th 2008

Montreal Teil 1

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Montreal, meine neue Stadt. Am 29.April sollte es eigentlich losgehen, dachte ich zumindestens. War mal wieder total im Packstress und obwohl ich nur einen Monat bei meinen Mexikanern gewohnt habe, hatte ich schon wieder zuvielen Krimskrams angsammelt! Na ja bin trotzdem puenktlich los und habe mich mit meinem Gepaeck durch Downtown durchgeschlagen. Habe denn einen oder anderen sanft zur Seite gestossen und selbstverstaendlich alle Blicke auf mich gerichtet. Die Busfahrt war auch die reinste Freude mitten im Berufsverkehr. Wie auf den Strassen Vancouvers war ich auch im Bus die einzige [View Full Entry]

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