Montreal Winter.

After Sorel-Tracy, I worked in Boucherville for a month or so. Now I'm working in Montreal Downtown, in a tower located in the financial district, and I LOVE it. I take the metro everyday to get to work. And because I usually wait less then a minute for the train in rush hours, It takes me less then 30 min to get to my work.

As we're in December, the outside breeze is getting dramatically colder and the freezing winter of the great white north is knocking on the door. Fortunately for me, I live in Montreal, 20s from a Metro station, and I easily have access from my workplace to the underground city.

Usually in my lunch time, I go there. It takes me about 15 min to get to the Eaton Centre, where I buy something to eat from one of the many multicultural fast-food restaurants.
Christmas decorations in the underground city's malls are marvelous. I'm not a big fan of this holiday, but theses huge trees and little moving trains are surely one of the most attractive decoration I saw.

Working in Sorel-Tracy

June 29th, 2010 was the last day at work in Sorel-Tracy, and I'm glad it was. I spent two and a half week working in a temporary job in this city. I've been waking up everyday really early to get to work in time. I hated Sorel, it's an industrial and ugly town with almost no cultural activities :(

Moving to Montreal

June 1st 2010, I finished college in Sherbrooke and I moved to my new appartement in Montreal. I dreamed of this moment since I came to Canada, I really liked this city from the first impression. I also kinda like the place I'm renting, it's not expensive and it's near a metro station. My roommate is a traveler too, I traveled with him across Canada last summer and we're planning some exiting traveling plans for next year. For now, we're doing some renovation in the apartment, freshening up the paint and doing minor reparation. I'm also looking for a job. Hopefully, I'm gonna find a good one soon :)

Bored.....

It's been a few month since my last trip, and I'm starting to get really bored :( This is sad sad sad....

Once again in Toronto

Tuesday, November 3rd 2009. I went to Toronto again, this time I took the 1$ megabus, and returned to Montréal by train after a failed attempt to do it by hitchhiking.

This trip was really different from the first one, and far more fun too. I went with a Friend and it was quiet interesting. The thing that was different from the other trips is that we tried couchsurfing for the first time, and this is what made it amazing. We stayed at the SHAH (not the Shah you know as a persian king, but the Super Happy Awesome House). It's a big house, where we were couchsurfing for 3 nights, we met there many travelers, most of them were French. we hang out all night long, they showed us some awesome places I like to call it the cultural side of Toronto which is really different from the Toronto downtown where there's nothing interesting but tall buildings, and Tim hortons' in every bloc. Among those tall buildings and skyscrapers there's the CN tower. I went up to the skypod, which is the highest observation spot in the world, cost me around $30 but it was worth it.
We were planning to go visit niagara falls, our 1$ bus was leaving at 8pm and we were too lazy to wake up at 7am. No need to rush in holydays! We decided to go the next day, but again, we woke up really late and we didn't have time to hitchhike our way to Niagara.

Saturday, I was feeling a bit sick, so we started hitchiking back to Montréal, everything went well til we got to Cobourg, ON. It was like a black hole, we were stuck there and the village sucked hard. I was feeling worst and worst.... I was sweating and coughing all night long. I spent the night there, and sort of slept for a few hours, my friend woke me up at 3 or 4 am to "visit the village" which I couldn't do because of my sickness. The next morning I took the first train, it was the only option I had to go to Montréal because hitching wasn't working, and there was no bus in town.

Sunday noon, I was in Montréal. First thing i did, I went to a medical to center. They told me I had the swine flu(h1n1), which is ironic cause we were making so many jokes about it in Toronto. In the afternoon, I took the first bus home in Sherbrooke. I sent an email to my college telling them I'm not gonna be able to go back to school for another week.

Toronto view form the skypod in the CN tower

What in the world am I doing here?

I went to Regina, SK and Saskatoon, SK, and I realized that people actually live there. Most of them are conservative rednecks (I knew it cause the all had the "we support our troops" tag in their huge trucks). So next time, I'm gonna make sure I'm not gonna pass through this place, cause It was boring as F*ck.

The desert in the Great White North

Okanagan Desert, BC, Canada! Just admit it, it's weird when you see for the first time the word desert then followed by Canada! I'm still wondering how could it happen, I mean why is there a desert where temperature often exceed 40C in probably the coldest country in the world? I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it with my own eyes. :s