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]

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Okay, after spending more than 4 months in Canada now, I think it's time to write down a bit, and create my first blog ever. As said above, I am currently staying in Québec, Canada, where my girlfriend lives. I am a Dutch citizen myself, I like to travel the world, and I think that although I have traveled my share for a 21-years old, I haven't seen anything yet. Since I've been here for quite a while now, I got the chance to experience a Canadian winter here, and I have to tell you all that it's nothing like I'd [View Full Entry]

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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 (late August), and I’d rather dwell in the [View Full Entry]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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 mit Uebergepaeck. Ich hatte zwar einen Platz ergattert, nur leider war [View Full Entry]

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Mein erster Tag begann gegen Mittag und sollte sich als unerwartete Stadterkundung hervorheben d.h. viel laufen. Ichsollte naemlich meine Miete zu unserem vermieter bringen, der hat sein Buero nur leider nicht bei uns um die Ecke, wie ich dachte sondern am aussersten gegenueberliegenden Ende von Downtown. Mein erster Weg fuehrte mich somit zur mir am naechsten liegenden Bank of Montreal, da ich ja bis dahin noch dachte das Buero waere nicht mehr als fuenf Bloecke von meinem Apartment entfernt. Leider habe ich so im Endeffekt ein ziemlich grossen Umweg gemacht. Danach habe ich mich dann auf die richtige Hauptstrasse nach Downtown [View Full Entry]

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Tim: Fully rested, washed and recovered from the beer last night we set out to discover some of what Montreal has to offer. Montreal has a lovely old town which could put you in the middle of a small quaint French town, that was worth the walk. Coming out from the old town we mooched on down to the river side to have a look around. Nice place but alot of construction work is taking place at the moment and a big event is being set up in the port. This might mean that there will be some yaughties in town [View Full Entry]

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Tim: We are now in Montreal. We took the train from Toronto to Montreal, it took us 5 hours on the train. It is all French here! We might as well be in France! Found the hostel really easily and it is very nice. You know it is going to be good when the first things someone says to you is "Hi we are going off to find a bar would you like to come?" - Facilities are really great here and the people relaxed and friendly. Tom and I set off with a small group to find a bar and [View Full Entry]

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