Emilia Laetitia

The last week, again, was kind of crazy. I arrived in Kelowna at night after 8 hours of Greyhound. The Samesun was bright yellow and welcoming as always. Only one thing was missing.. the people! I figured they were probably out and about as always so I installed myself first. Dorm room 208 this time. Definitely the tinniest room I've ever slept in. It was maybe about 2 by 6 meters and there were three bunk beds and lockers in there. If you imagine luggage of six people on top of that, you can imagine how little walking space the room had. In the end, it doesn't really matter. You never spend any time in your room, downstairs is so much place to relax. Plus, sometimes your roommates are sleeping and you can't turn the lights ... read more

Oh yeah.. I have made it into the Rockies!! What a trip it has been. I had found a rideshare from Burnaby to Kelowna for 15 bucks. It took about 4 hrs and I was driving! Loved it. I stayed at the Samesun hostel for almost three weeks. The first week flew by because the hostel was filled with awesome people and the weather was finally sunny and hot. The second week I bought a longboard (long skateboard) and broke my thumb at two places. A few days afterwards I got to go to surgery, this was on Monday the 27th of June. The third week started off like a blur because of the painkillers. The night after my surgery the icing started to fade out slowly and I was in for a treat. I thought, ... read more

I am currently enjoying the wonderful sun on the balcony in Vancouver. Somehow I have ended up in an amazing house with some of the nicest people I’ve met. The last few weeks flew by and I really have to start writing about it. Otherwise I’ll have a book left to write at the end (There is a small time delay in my entry cause this was already two weeks ago, there is another one coming after this one). I will tell you more about my time in Seattle. You know that I had ‘planned’ to stay there for a weekend. Well, I left Seattle on Sunday night so that means that I have been there for about two and a half weeks. Which is absurd, it went by so quickly! Really strange if I think ... read more

Wow, it was such an amazing day today (Saturday)! We went to the biggest maple syrup festival in the world, in the small town of Elmira. First we were brought to Elmira with the usual yellow school bus. They use those busses for a lot of trips and this was already the third time I went on one. There isn’t a lot of room for your legs but that would be expected from a little children’s bus. When we arrived at Elmira we had to walk down a street to get to the main festival street. In that street were a yard sale and a horse and carriage coming down the street. The houses all had a front porch and big trees in front of them. Oh and of course most of them had the Canadian ... read more

I am currently sitting in the car heading to Montreal together with four crazy British lads. Google maps told me we are going to drive 644 km and it will take about 7h20. We rented the car this morning, a Dodge Viper which soaks up fuel like a leaking sponge. But hey, we are finally roadtripping and I am stoked! The plan is to go to Montreal today (Saturday the 19th) and stay until Monday. Then we go on to Mont-Tremblant to do some snowboarding for three days. As the lift pass is ridiculously pricy I am glad we are spending some time in Montreal as well. Will still be an expensive trip, but definitely not as expensive as it would have been if I had gone through with my original plan. I wanted to go ... read more