Back to the streets were i began

It took me 14 days after landing in Montreal to get back to NYC!
(still too long if you ask me!)
And now i'm back in Canada after a 22 hours round trip,
4 nights in the city, 2 amazing diners in East Village,
a few crazy long walks, a trip to Brooklyn Bridge,
a full day of shopping, wayyyyy too many calories,
some long overdue conversations with amazing friends,
an evening at my fav place in the whole world,
a never to be forgotten encounter with a German stud
and i even managed to squeeze in a sailing trip!
CAN'T WAIT TO COME BACK

Installation over!

Okay! so it took me a while but it's finally done.
Here is my new room now furnished with lights and pillows
(thanks to a gruesome trip to Ikea!)
the pictures are up,
And i must say i'm pretty happy with the result
Hopefully this will be a happy place
right now it feels like a stand-bye place
pretty comfy though...;)

wishing you were here

It's officially been a week!
And to summarize i never expected this departure to be so hard: saying goodbye was the worst (as some may have noticed)
But i also never expected half of what i've already discovered here: it's good to be away from all the Parisian disappointments, pains & heartaches...I've seen architectures i never had before, met fascinating new people, enjoyed lunches in the sun, walked for miles to nowhere...Away from my sorrows, my spirits are slowly rising.

i just...WISH YOU WERE HERE

guess what i did this afternoon?

THE GAME....(well of the day at least)
thanks to JustinTV i've been able to follow live Racing-Montauban
can't really say it was the game of the season, at least not for the Racingmen
(but Jerome (cap today) was amazing as always ;) )
Ohh and because it was a little early for beer (well actually that's a bad excuse but the only one i got for u) i had cupcake instead! VERY different but a surprisingly nice combo

In tourist mode

first day without any apartment visits
So this morning I put on my best walking shoes and went to Old Montreal and back
(a roughly 3hours promenade).
The weather was amazing,(who ever said Montreal was cold this time of the year)
it was lovely to be walking around, lots to see...and the more I see the more I get the feeling Canadians don't take themselves too seriously (i.e this picture)
I got back around 2.30pm just in time for...

ahhh l'Amerique!

Friday i went on an other apartment hunt....
I can't say it was a total success but i did find THE 2 products i most missed when i was in France: Olay ultra moisturizer and delicious (fattening) Goldfishs
(90 cal for 20g...the pack is 200...and yes it's already empty!!!)
Apartment wise i might have found something but i won't know until tonight...
the roommates still have to decide if i'm right for them
I'm trying not to get to exited but i would really like to move in there...
you'll know more, when i do....
XoXo

first really weird experience

and this brings us to yesterday:
i had new rooms to visit, so i set out to do that...and around five i was supposed to be at a place, north of Montreal in a neighbourhood called Mile End. When i got to the door, nobody was home, so i waited and within 5 mins more than 10 (no kidding!) Jewish guys wearing long black coats and tall hats walked in or out of the surrounding houses!it was so bizarre...and they had tones of kids, all in uniform, walking quietly around...I didn't stick around long, not really the surrounding i was looking for to settle in...no bars, no shops, no nothing
And after that, i felt hungry, so i stopped at the weird little place by the subway called: la Maison du cheddar! (honestly the cheese tasted like old tire...i don't know what i was expecting....but the waitresses were really nice and the place had to be checked out)