Quatre Jours

It's been a few days since I updated. I'm just gonna breeze through with a (hopefully) brief list of what I've done:

Monday

Went to see Yellowcard play at Festival d'Ete with Katie and Elisa. So much fun, even though none of us really are big fans of the band. After, the three of us met up with a few others at a place called Sacrilege. It's a bar, but those places are the best to practice French, believe it or not. Ne me jugez pas. That means "don't judge me," but you see what I mean?

Tuesday

After class, Katie, Amanda and I went to the mall. We got rained on a bit, but that's okay. We got there and the darn place was closed! The bus ride and walk there were good, though, because we familiarized ourselves with the route and everything. I did get to get laundry detergent and some Spray N' Wash, though, which were needed because I was running out of clean clothes (also, I had a HUGE mud spot on my shirt and shorts from when I landed in that muddy water while crowd surfing at the Festival d'Ete before). Then we got back to the hotel and sat on the balcony to watch The Image Mill (or la lumiere spectaculaires), which is basically a huge light show on these mills very close to our hotel. It shows the history of Quebec and is really gorgeous. It's difficult to describe, but it's great. Look it up.

Wednesday

On Wednesday I ate entirely too much junk food. I had poutine, Tex-Mex (which was AMAZING, by the way) and McDonalds all in one day. Goodness. Also, I did laundry and my homework while waiting for the clothes. I later went to the Coheed and Cambria concert with Andrew, which was great! I only have a few of their songs, but they were fun to watch. After that, I met up with some people at Sacrilege again. It was packed this time, but we found a place to sit. Conversing with native Quebecois people is fun, but kind of scary at times. Ha. They generally will try to speak in English to me and I don't have the guts to ask for them to speak just in French. Oh well. I'm trying!

Thursday

I had a very difficult time getting to sleep on Wednesday night, so today was awful. I got some sleep, but I still woke up at like 6. I couldn't fall back asleep, so I showered and studied for the quiz we had. My stomach was killing me. I figured it was from all of that junk food I'd been eating. Not sure, though. Anyway. Amanda gave me some Tums and those kind of helped, but it took many hours for the pain to pass. Later, Max, Elisa and I went with Katie to study for our test tomorrow while she did laundry. That was fun, in its own way.  After that, we got back to the hotel and I skyped with Claire and Shaw for a bit. Man, I needed that. They both have a way of making me feel better, in general. I hope to skype with them more often. After that, it was Max's, Allie's and my turn to go to dinner with our instructor, Drew. (Drew is taking a four groups of three students out to eat at a really nice restaurant throughout the trip. he said it'd be better for our French if there's a small group each time.) We had a dress up. I must say, even though I got ready in like seven minutes, I was looking snazzy. We went to La Basse-Ville (the lower part of the city) and went to a really great restaurant. It's called Restaurant L'Echaudé, which kind of means "scalding" or something to that effect. Put simply, it was AMAZING. Our meal was free since it was planned ahead of time and the fee was included in the total fee. I can't fully describe what I ate with full details of all of the ingredients, but I know I ordered escargot, lamb confit and crème brulée. All of it was SO GOOD. I was stuffed. We left around 6:10 and got back past 9:15. We were out for a while. The restaurant is more like a French restaurant because it's laid back. And now here I am. I'm about to study a bit more and then hang out with Drew on the balcony, as everyone else is out and about. Some people are at the Avenged Sevenfold concert, others are at the midnight premiere of Harry Potter (OMG) and others are at a place called La Drague. Yeah, it's a gay bar/drag show. I don't think it's as scary as that sounds. Ha.


Anyway. Blog complete for now! Tomorrow, as far as I know, I'll take the test and then we'll go on a ferry ride across the river to get a good view of the city.


A bientôt!