I am back from my petite voyage to the lovely province of Quebec. Those were fun times and it was a bit sour to return to Guelph, even though I should be considering it my home sweet home now. I almost burnt down the home sweet home by making toast with our medieval toaster. I was in my room when I heard the fire alarm going off, the whole kitchen and living room where covered in smoke :) Luckily there was no fire and the toaster still works.
Right after my last entry in Montreal, Nikolai came to pick me up from the café where I was in and we climbed Mont Royal, the mountain/hill of Montreal. Laila and I were very lazy and Nikolai had to kick our asses various times in order to make us go up to the highest point, but I am still deeply thankful to him that he did, because the view was amazing. We had no real plans for the night, so after we climbed down the mountain again we decided it would be fun to crash the Executive Board meeting of AIESEC Concordia. Courtney, our host for the last two days is LCP there, so we knew where and when to find it. Unfortunately the meeting extended over three hours, since it was their recruitment planning meeting and we were there, hungry and eventually also getting bored. Still it was very very useful to me, because I can consider everything I heard there in my own planning. Since we were all exhausted after the meeting and it was already midnight we just went home, discussed some global issues and fellow AIESECers and went to sleep.
On Saturday, Nikolai went to visit the Olympic Stadium and the Biodome but I had enough of the touristy stuff and decided to enjoy myself in the shops downtown. I got myself some nice new black shoes and some other small things I really needed. I think I was just overwhelmed with the variety and quantity of stuff there is to buy, that's why I couldn't just shop randomly. Too many things. A long street, full of stores, which already amazed me, but when I took a closer look, there appeared to be a several malls behind this front row of stores. So after three hours of gazin at stuff I gave up, also because shops in Montreal close at 5pm on saturdays. WTF!
So I went home, cooked a nice dinner for me and the guys and we started to get ready for Montreal nightlife. A crazy metro ride (chasing each other through the different wagons of the metro) lead us to the village, the gay part of Montreal where we went to Sky (that's what I think it was called, I have trouble remembering :P), a gay bar, but according to Courtney it's half gay half straight people there. I believe I haven't seen many straight people, but never mind. We had a lot of fun. For details, please skype, e-mail or facebook me.
Unfortunately I could only get two hours of sleep and was kind of messed up when I got up to go to the airport, it was also later then I planned. My flight was okay, I didn't feel too well. Still, Canada looks amazing from an airplane, because there is a lot of fascinating landscape, tons of lakes and forests. Since I was flying with Porter Airlines, I didn't arrive at Pearson, but at the downtown airport of Toronto, which is located on an island. Landing I had an amazing view of Toronto. I took the metro and then the Greyhound back to Guelph, where I went to bed, dressed as I was. So much for my Montreal adventures. I love the city and the people there and I think I'll pay it another visit before I leave Canada.
Being back in Guelph was a bit boring in the beginning, but I have watched a lot of Sabrina and got everything prepared for recruitment which will start tomorrow. I am very very exciting and hope we will find a lot of people to join AIESEC. I think I am the best proof of how much fun it is. Tomorrow I'll also have my first meeting with the Executive Board here. Exciting!!!!
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