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[phallelujah]

Some friends were requesting updates on my adventures out East with respect to both la belle province and school so I'll try to summarize my life as of late.

Montreal

We got our first snowfall not too long ago (I think about 4 days?). zemus had some pretty awesome pictures on the montreal community:

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[nailbunny2000]

I LOVE freezing rain.

So neat. Each little blade of grass in it's own ice cocoon.

[phallelujah]

For sure. I don't think I took enough time to appreciate it last time. I should have stared a bit more, let the grass crunch under my feet, knocked off some icicles and the like.

[lilitaly]

Whoa, why do you have to read Derrida, Foucault and Baudrillard? Does the seminar relate to music in any way?

[phallelujah]

The seminar is titled "Crossover." It deals with how "music changes over time, with a focus on the role of social identities and musical styles in crossovers between the large categories of Westn music (popular, classical jazz, folk, non-Western), as well as within these categories" (Quoted from course outline

[phallelujah]

yep...that's pretty much it. 'Cept I just finished some shake n' bake chicken instead. Hooray for variety! I've added shake n' bake to my repertoire so I'm moving on up.

Now I'm off to the chess café!

I hope you come visit soon

[marvelon]

your menu building reminds me of the sims 2. (they learn how to make new dishes and think about getting to eat them)

[genocide242]

Tu devrais arrêter de stresser! Tu vas devenir super bon, tu le sais bien... :)

Mais c'est une bonne idée de rencontrer quelqu'un qui va avoir les mêmes craintes que toi. Bonne chance avec la dame de 17h30. --> Ca, c'est comment on écrit l'heure ici... ;)

[phallelujah]

Je pense que le système du Québec est le meilleur des deux. Après tout, un jour a 24h.

Quand est-ce que on va se rencontrer? Je voudrais parler avec toi bientôt; j'ai complété la plupart des mes devoirs. :)

Il y a un problème quand j'essaye parler en français: personne ne me comprends ma prononciation :(

Aussi, je dois regarder mon dictionnaire ou les autres choses comme http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa061000.htm pour tout :p

J'apprends mais trop lentement! Peut-être je vais regarder mes DVDs avec les sous-titres en français.

[marvelon]

make good use of "comment dit on _______ en anglais?" (how do you say _____ in english

[phallelujah]

I'm trying to figure out some good ways to say "My French ain't very good" (Southern accent optional). So far, I'm thinking:

"Je parle un petit peu de français mais pas très bien." I don't think that's correct but perhaps my mistakes will get the point across better haha

...or perhaps "Désolé. Me français est mauvais."

I'm not sure about the correctness of either of them :\

I think there might be more practicing French groups but I just haven't gotten out enough to really figure out what's out there. I've just kind of cocooned myself and I think I need to go for some serious exploring adventures.

Oh and regarding the humidity, it's much more humid than Alberta here. I'm not sure about comparing it to Vancouver but I hear that the humidity here just makes the cold seep through your coat and chill you to the bone. One of the student planners had a list of things to do in Montreal before graduation - one of those was "cry from the cold."

[talonclaw]

haha... awesome, this is what i grew up with. [pictured above]

s'funny, everytime... seeing bc deal with snow. =)

[phallelujah]

I grew up with that too (Edmonton). I remember looking over at my friend and seeing his eyelashes all white and frozen together even though both of us were dressed like mummies with no skin exposed.

Right now we have pretty nice weather actually - hoodie weather (about 4 degrees on average). The pic above is from Wikipedia warning people about Montreal's weather.

Oh and I watched some of the Vancouver news casts when you guys were getting crazy snow...fucking hilarious! The one newscaster was saying, "With the windchill, it's about 20 below. If I take my gloves off for just a few moments...well, you can really feel it!"

hahahaha breaking news: "You can really feel it"