Sunday, July 03, 2005
Québec
I am back in Trois-Rivières having just spent an awesome 2.5 days in Quebec City. I am super tired, which should be of no surprise after all the drinking that was done.
The entire school was corralled into a series of school buses at 8:30am Friday and taken to Québec City. Because the school doesn't feed us on weekends, we all ran into restaurants for brunch as soon as we got there. Mmmm, paninis! You might find it a little ironic (well, at least I did) that we went to the capital of Québec for CANADA Day. There wasn't anyone burning the Canadian Flag, but close! We saw a group of 30 or so separatists marching there way through Vieux-Québec shouting «Indépendence!!» and carrying several Canadian Flags defaced, torn and upside down. Crazy! It kinda made me mad because I'd like to keep Canada as Canada!!
It wasn't all like that, though. That night (after the crazy rainstorm), we checked out the open air concert that featured "The Tea Party" and enjoyed a grand display of fireworks - almost as good as the Symphony of Fire!
The following two days were pretty chill. For the most part I hung out with Y, enjoyed good food (the cafeteria food at school is crap), ate gelato, and had an excellent time shopping. Shopping - what more can a girl want? ;) Although that probably sounds a bit lame and boring, the relaxing time was just what I needed. That evening, we met up with C, M, J and R, and again drank to our hearts content, dansed it off at Dagoberts, and ended the night at a small bar with live acoustic music.
You know you were having a good time when you don't go to bed until 4am!!
The entire school was corralled into a series of school buses at 8:30am Friday and taken to Québec City. Because the school doesn't feed us on weekends, we all ran into restaurants for brunch as soon as we got there. Mmmm, paninis! You might find it a little ironic (well, at least I did) that we went to the capital of Québec for CANADA Day. There wasn't anyone burning the Canadian Flag, but close! We saw a group of 30 or so separatists marching there way through Vieux-Québec shouting «Indépendence!!» and carrying several Canadian Flags defaced, torn and upside down. Crazy! It kinda made me mad because I'd like to keep Canada as Canada!!
It wasn't all like that, though. That night (after the crazy rainstorm), we checked out the open air concert that featured "The Tea Party" and enjoyed a grand display of fireworks - almost as good as the Symphony of Fire!
The following two days were pretty chill. For the most part I hung out with Y, enjoyed good food (the cafeteria food at school is crap), ate gelato, and had an excellent time shopping. Shopping - what more can a girl want? ;) Although that probably sounds a bit lame and boring, the relaxing time was just what I needed. That evening, we met up with C, M, J and R, and again drank to our hearts content, dansed it off at Dagoberts, and ended the night at a small bar with live acoustic music.
You know you were having a good time when you don't go to bed until 4am!!
# posted by doris : 6:16 PM
