6.8.04

Trois-Pistoles Highlights and Memories

Salut!

  • la brume/fog (romantique as élégante Mme. Santerre describes)
  • ma petite chambre chez Mme. Santerre http://www.aux1000souvenirs.ca
  • 3 meals/day chez Linda, Dave, their 3 children - Alex, Karolyn and bébé Megan - and 6-8 other femmes
  • dessert for lunch and dinner (impossible to refuse)
  • white bread, bologne and processed cheese sandwiches (impolite to refuse)
  • yoga en français (inspiration... expiration... ah, bon!)
  • hiking 20 km on the Sentier National
  • Le Jardin de Metis http://www.refordgardens.com
  • la parade de mode - modeling, on stage, the latest fashion for a Superhero Cowboy - chaps, vest, and whip made of green plastic garbage bags (can anybody beat that for fun?)
  • conversing/group work (yes, more group work) with 17 year old girls
  • school pictures - and just like in elementary, as the smallest person, I am still positioned on the front bench, at the end
  • little earthquakes in my bed... when the train rumbled thru town
  • viscious Québecois mosquitos!
  • beaucoup de café et conversation au Café L'Essential
  • live musique - traditionnelle sur la rue, jazz dans l'auditorium, classique à l'église
  • driving the Gaspésie route and seeing Roche Percé
  • traversing the Saint Lawrence (1.5 hrs/way by ferry) - unfortunately no baleines/whales were sighted, but I think I saw a couple phoques/seals
  • seakayaking at sunset
  • the fantastic satisfaction found in communicating in another language

All that and more, in just 5 weeks. C'est une bonne expérience.

À bientôt.


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