1st day in Montreal

Yes, I'm actually pretty happy to be back in Montreal. But in reality, it doesn't actually seem like I've been gone for 7 months. Everything is still the same or almost the same. My parents are the same, my sister's the same, the house, the streets, are the same and the cat recognizes me. The only thing that's different is the apartment building that's being built on Nun's Island that is now where the driving range used to be. That's about it.

Last week I was in 6 countries! Isn't that crazy??

There are still little things that I'm not used to yet. For example, I'm always catching myself walking on the left side of the sidewalk. In excalators too, I stop on the left side, but that's the "fast lane". I walk in zig zags pretty much ;)

Now that I'm back in Montreal I feel the need to talk more in french. I never really felt the need to because I'm more anglophone and my french sucks. But now I know I need to practice it if I want to get better at it! Being in Australia, where noone speaks french, you take every opportunity to read/speak french. It made me different, but I need to be good at it, and I'm not. I know Sam's gotten good from watching french movies so I def should watch more french movies. And I need to read more in french too, but it'll have to wait because i'm reading a book now (actually about France!) and the next one is Harry Potter :) Also, when we were in Thailand, there were heaps of French travelers. Everytime we'd hear french, I got excited that hey, I know that language. We talked a few times with some French that were traveling in the same area we were at. I was especially excited to hear Quebecois !! It was so much fun to meet so many travelers from Montreal (in Phi Phi islands)!!! And it was an opportunity to speak Quebecois!! haha Even here, when I got back, I hear some ridiculously funny Quebecois expressions and it really makes me giddy for some reason. I just really missed it I guess. It's such a unique language, makes you proud, actually, to know it. It seems some people from France are really intrigued by Quebecois as well, on how different of a language it can be. I guess it's like Canadian's are intrigued by the Aussie accent and vice versa! haha!! It's expressions that we use like "se pogner le beigne",and "peser sur le piton", that make me giggle! lol hilarious!