DAY NINE

working today, and by work i mean making crafts and coloring with markers...in a castle.

DAY EIGHT

i like that i wrote 'gold night' at the end of the last post. ha.

I leave for AZE today! catching a train in 2 hours. excited. gonna read so much.
Said goodbye to Sarah, David and David this morn, hopefully i will be able it meet up with them in VENICE (?). They are off to the south as well to begin thier bike ride. Ended up not going to breakfast cuz i needed to organize myself.

Now im gonna go to the market and get some snackies for the road/tracks. apparently its not a highspeed train...wah wah..but the scenery will be nice.
This hostel was so nice. soooo glad i didnt go to the other.
I better go...people waiting for this slow shitty computer.
Love you! talk to you once i arrive in american villageeeeee. omg i cant believe im going back. omg.

Its the next day but I will update this day.
Got to AZE after a tireing train trip. ITS A FUCKING CASTLE!!!!! A REAL CASTLE, i am in a castle!!
we started with a tour of the amazing grounds GIGANTIC and there are gardens and ponds and bridges and trees, and caves, and sculptures. its amazing:
this french keyboqrd sucks:::::
we then hqd an amazing dinner, zine cheese wine cheese.. the food will be good here, but we cook it our selves on the weekends because the kitchen staff arent here:
then we had a counselor boom that i wont go into details about..
O AND I HAVE MY OWN ROOM WITH A SHOWER that looks out to the garden!!! pics to come maybe
Qnd the people are cool: polar bear, griffin, bosh, cheeta, yoshi, hank the tank, karma and queen.

DAY SEVEN

Is it really only day seven? I am on my I touch right nOe so this will not be very eloquent or long . Today was good. Hung out with the Russian girl from my room and we walked along the river then she wantEd to come to the Pompidou with me. I warned her that I wanted to be ther all day and she still ended up paying the twelve euros to come in and only spent forty mis. W/e that happened to me last time when I bright someone with me. I ended up spending FOUR hours there. They have and amazing video library that I got lost in.
I then went back to the hostel and luckily foun David, Part two of the ausie bike pair. We then met Sarah and her friend David who had been biking all day. We had an Asian inspired dinner and then went back to the hostel forma bottle of wine. And then we went to a magazine launch that their friend was a part of. Mag launch equals major hipster party. It was interesting and it didn't tame long for us to leave to go to a bakery. Now I'm in bed. Miami girl below and German tO my right: goIng to breaky in the morn with the ausies. GOld night!!!

DAY SIX

oo la

All the stress from yesterday is gone...wait...did i even tell about it? NO not yet, sooooooooo, that nice place called Friends hostel that I booked turned out to be a BAD IDEA. Liane was curious so about 3 hours before my flight we were looking at the reviews and I quote, "Dont go here! its in a bad area full of prostitutes, gangs and pimps!" there were some really extreme ones about getting mugged and stuff too. No wonder the fucking place was only 17 euros a night. DAMN. I got super scared and booked 2 nights at a hostel I have been before in the the perfect neighborhood and perfect everything, but it was more than double the price. My logic was, I would rather pay a lil more than get robbed of all my things and my dignity. Im hoping I was able to cancel the other, but Im still unsure. Thats what my stupid butt gets. ALORS
Here i am in FRANCE! I got to the hostel when planned and they were playing Madonna Like a Prayer when I walked in. *Meant to Be***
When I was walking here I saw an adorable pair on bikes and they looked just as lost as I, low and behold they were going where I was going. We started talking and they are from Australia and they are gonna be biking from the south of France to Venice for the Venice Biennale!!! SO cool! turns out they are both artists and they go to the Biennale every 2 year (duh)s! They pretty much convinced me to go too...I just have to get there. I knew it was happening this year, but for some reason I didn't think it was plausable, but they convinced me it is...so we will see about that.
We werent allowed to check into our rooms for another 5 hours or something so I went with them and thier bikes to Sacre Couer with a bottle of wine. So nice, just like old times. It is hot here. The hill was PACKED with people, interesting people.
My clock is fucked up. I didnt sleep on the plane at all and then it was 6 hours later here, still not sure what time it is.
p.s. Air France kicks asssssss, we got wine and salmon and pasta and cake and bread and cheese and coffee for dinner and then 2 hours later we got breakfast. HA. and I got a free blanket outa the deal....
p.p.s. The tattoo face guy from the Lady Gaga Born This Way video was sitting RIGHT behind me on the flight. He is very tiny in person. I wanted to say something but his skull face was intimidating.

I just woke from a nap, don't know how long it was, the german girls in my room are nice. Im gonna go to the eiffel tower tonight, keep the tradition alive. I think im hungover already. :/

DAY FIVE

You know you are in Canada when you see a man riding his bike with a hockey stick in his hand, or a man hitting an apple back and forth with a hockey stick on a street corner.

11:38

O we sleep so late. Very very needed. Montreal has become my place of repose, post leaving MN loco-timez and pre American Village crazy-town. I needed sleep and I know Im gonna need sleep. So it has worked out pretty well that Liane works till 7 30 in the morn and sleeps till afternoon. I don't even feel like I am being cheated of a Canadian experience, 5 days is plenty and I have done so much already.

I leave for La Belle Pays today!! I will arrive in Paris in the morn. I secured my hostel yesterday, its called Friends, sounds good to me.

We were gonna go to a yoga class this morn, but Liane should sleep. This afternoon we are having brunch with Brown Sugar and then we are gonna go to the tip top of the mountain and have a look.

Its gonna be a toasty 17 degrees c today! All the Canadians get your tans on already!

DAY FOUR

Good Morning Montreal!

Today Liane has class so I will go to the MUSEUM the contemporary art museum. Should be good. The art scene is hard to find here. They have a booming music scene and a pretty big film scene but contemporary art seems to be kinda under the radar. Im gonna find it.

Later tonight we are gonna see a some 'so bad its good' movie and then have a dinner party at Liane's. !

G2G

7:34pm

This day turned out to be amazing! I walked Liane to school and went to the art galleries at the school, they were pretty impressive.

THEN I went to the Musee des arts contemporaine. Unfortunately only one of the exhibitions was open because they are installing the new show. (a little bit poorly run but w/e).

BUT the institution was redeemed when I found the MEDIATEQUE! The museum library! It was chalk full of amazing beautiful books. I spent 2 blissful hours in those stacks. And I walked away with some photocopies of some articles as well. A worth while experience. A well needed experience.

3 hours and beaucoup de reading after, I met Liane after her class and we had dinner of Montreal bagels and lox.

I then walked back to her place and stumbled into a kooky shop, the kookiest shop I have ever been in. There were piles and piles of things and manequines galore! It was my dream land! I bought my lovely mother a dress. There was this giant pile that was about 6 feet high of clothes that were a dollar each. Be it only day 4 I resisted. The old man that runs the place was amazing. He gave made me a free shot of espresso. I love him. I love espresso. I love Montreal.

DAY THREE

^This is Poutine^

Hi Bonjour (thats the test people give to see what language you respond to here)

Today was nice. Liane worked alllll night long so while she was sleeping I went on a nice little/long walk by myself. I ended up at a neat little coffee shop and sat on the back deck and soaked in the sun for hours. AND I FINISHED A BOOK, not a long book but i finished it, (thanks Grace Keaton) it felt so good to finish something (lolz). The goal was to sort out my thoughts and get some creative think time, mission 2/3 accomplished, I'm just plain ol' tired. I then met with Zig and we walked and ate and drank, very nice day. Now Liane is back at the movie set and I am gonna power nap for our make-shift-counselor-boom we are having tonight with Brown Sugar. We will probably end up getting poutine again.

Good night for now.

So, we tried to go to this bar where you can tell them adjectives for the drink you want and they will create something that fits. For example: "I would like something suspiciously whimsical" or "I would like something bro-mantic" Those were the ones I was gonna pull. BUT it was closed, wah wah. So we just ate some (a lot) of poutine at the famous La Banquese. I nearly keeled over and died.

DAY TWO

TIME 1pm

We slept long, and Liane's mom made us crepes.

Now we are gonna go to THE MOUNTAIN and toss a frisbeeee.

See ya.

11:00pm

So we tossed a frisbee. Liane had to volunteer at a movie set thing so it was just her friends Larry and JP and I. A very nice day.

Moved a couch, ate vegan food, baked a cake, now some early sleep. (but not for Liane, that crazy bitch had to go back to the movie set at 10pm and then she has to work from 12-7am!!!! she tests video games. yea.)

Good night.

DAY ONE

TIME: 4:12 am

Good morning. Ugggahh. Its pretty early for today and late for last night. I depart for Canada in 3 hours, and its a 3 hour international flight, gotta be there early early early.

I had a grrrreaattt long long last American day yesterday. Scooter ride, daiquiris, pedicures, suburban bike rides through the woods to DQ, friends, phone calls, bridges. Very nice.

My throat kinda hurts. (**HAnn@!!)

Tonight Dwight aka Liane is picking me up from the airport and we are gonna see B Sugar and Zig Zag. Can't wait!

Talk to you later fellow Americans.

Its the next day.

Yesterday was a tired fun walk. I got to Montreal at about 2pm and Zig and Dwight were there to pick me up. We went straight to Dwight's ((I should call her Liane, its prettier), and her fam was there from Toronto to do some renovations on her SUPER NICE apt. (her parents are cleaning around me right now as I type away on my super important blog.) Liane had to stay and help the rents so Zig and I took a walk to the old port...and everywhere. Bi-lingual cities are so interesting! We watched a street performer and he would say each sentence in french then in english. The french population is very proud of their frenchness. I wasn't sure if I should be ordering things in english or french and often times people do it in both languages. The street signs are all in french. There are a lot of anarchist punks here, its funny. Zig and I ate amazing Lebanese food for dinner and then I fell asleep in a book store. We were pooped. We then walked back to Liane's around 9 and her and her rents went to dinner while I "napped" so I would have enough energy to party. I woke up at 12 30 to Liane hovering above me saying "wanna sleep more?" I was so confused and scared until i realized where I was and that it was time to wake up and go out, yes, at 1am. So we went to her bf Antoine's place down the street and then to a bar. Her bf and his roomies are precious. They made a recording studio in their house, very nice, yes.

THEN we walked home at 5am and got POUTINE!! yes, the soggy fries with gravy and cheese curds on them. We ate them in bed and then went to sleep.

Good day.