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In a snowy governmental resort
So I only had a very brief stay in Montreal. And yes Quinn I did have poutine while I was there in a bar with real cheese curds. They were disappointing, so I guess I just don`t get it.
After an afternoon in Montreal which was freezing we quickly moved on to Orford where we are having a government training course. It`s really fun, but most of the people in the training course with me are francophone, so while it`s not hard to communicate with any of them one-on-one whenever they are in groups they quickly fall instinctively into French. There`s about 25 of us in all and most of them are from Montreal and have been training together for a couple months so it`s like falling into a really boisterous group of friends. The language barrier alone though makes socializing more difficult than I`d like, but on the other hand it`s probably easing me into what I should expect when I`m in Ethiopia*.
The bar at this centre was advertised to have reasonably priced drinks so I was a little disappointed to find $5 drinks, until upon further research I discovered that that was the universal price for any drink, this included the Cutty Sark, which I greatly appreciated. In addition to that the bartender poured everything as a double,* making her probably my favouritest bartender ever. I had three of these, which was more than enough to do me in. I ended up serenading my neighbours with the Magnetic Fields in a drunken slurred voice while putting off going to bed doing this for about a dozen songs. They haven`t complained about it yet, but I`m terribly embarassed that I may have kept someone up. The Magnetic Fields have rapidly become my soundtrack for this trip and at the moment I`m not really listening to much beyond that.
I`ve had my plans changed a few times as to where my placement will be which is driving me batty, but the absolute latest I will be going will be February 14th (Valentine`s Day on a plane). Currently I`ll be going to Ethiopia, which wasn`t my first choice, but I`m still really excited.
*Ethiopia still isn`t confirmed, but it`s that or nothing.
*Sometimes a triple.
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