Friday me and Sarah cleaned the house spick and span and made pudding, trailmix, salad, salad dressing, bread, and banana chocolate chip muffins and then she left to go see her mom who was visiting and I went to Couche Tard to get change for the metros in Montreal. The only issue with this apparently was my french. I asked the guy in french could I want all change for the bus please, and he thought I was asking for a lotto ticket so after some slight confusion, I finally got my change and felt like a failure. Aahaha some days... I got home and then Steph drove Ryan to the airport to fly to toronto to visit his fam jam and then drove me and MA through 45 min of traffic to the train station. MA stayed on the train with me for the first two hours and got off near his home and I continued on to Montreal where my friend Jessica who I met two years ago at a conference came to pick me up.
The metro was pretty crazy, it was long and fast and intense and very city like. Right away I noticed how much more bilingual and multicultural Montreal was. When we arrived we got a brilliant meal of salad and yummy yummy soup,I met Jess's Cousin, and we watched a movie then crashed.
Sleeping in until 1 pm was a beautiful feeling I wil try to remember especially when waking up early tomorrow. They took me to the local market to show me where they do some of their grocery shopping. It was super cute and there were SOOO many fruit and veggies! And Cheese! And Bread!
They bought really great apple juice for super cheap whose only ingredients was apples, it was the real stuff!
They also took me to this great little place in the market to get gelato and I got spanish caramel flavour it was seriously tastey.
After the market we went back to the apartment and Jessica made the best asian cuisine I have tasted in my entire life. Noodles and veggies and tofu, it was seriously amazing. Afterwards we played board games into the wee hours of the night with Jess's boyfriend, cousin and friend from school. This morning we slept in again and went to the single most amazing breakfast place I've been in my entire life! It's called Cosmo and it's greek breakfast diner but it is seriously insane, and belongs in the movie or really good book somewhere. You walk in and it's this tiny tiny place, with exactly 11 seats, all along one counter. Behind the counter is one waitress, and two chefs and I tiny kitchen. All 11 chairs are almost always full, so when you come in you stand in line and they give you free coffee and take your order while you wait for people to finish eating and to vacate a seat. But it's so funny, if you want cream of sugar in your coffee the waitress will pass it to someone of the random 11 people eating who will pass it behind them to someone in the line. Everyone who eats there is super friendly and jokes around with everyone else and it feels like you're eating breakfast in a giant family! 3 seats were vacated for us but they weren't together so the waitress literally told everyone to move over one spot and they all did! Everyone just slid their breakfast's over, and they do it all the time! They give you copious amounts of food, I had a whole plate of delicious hashbrowns which didn't even require ketchup to taste good, and a veggie BLT with an egg in it. It was SO amazing, the waitress was SOO funny and snappy, and it only cost me $6 dollars. I know right, sounds like the coolest thing ever, because it was the coolest thing ever.
After we went to a small bakery and got chocolate croissants, and then headed to the mountain, which is really an amazing look out point that is of Montreals downtown. It was gorgeous and we got hot chocolate from a vending machine and sat there and ate our croissants and hot chocolate.
After they took me back to the train station and currently I am on a train on my way back to Quebec City.
Montreal was seriously soooo amazing. There was sooo much graffiti, but it looked so cool, and it had a serious big city feel. I really like it there and I intend on living there for some amount of time in the future, completely serious about that.
It was so nice being able to see Jess again and to see such an interesting city. Having a break away from the house and the group was really nice, and quiet and peaceful. Although the idea of taking a train from Quebec and going to Montreal where I have never been before was slightly intimidating it was even more rewarding and I am so grateful I went through with it! THANK YOU SO MUCH JESS and BRYCE!!
I am slightly dreading the idea of getting up early for work tomorrow and returning to my volunteer placement as I have not had to work for the past 3 weeks, but I work for a week and then house manage again with Ryan and then it's billeting.
I'm excited to see my Katima family again and sleep and a shower will be great upon my return. Ahaha, thanks for reading, and stay updated!!! xooxoxoxoxxoxox.
Your blog makes me so hungry! Hope your week back to work was great.
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