The Magic of Montreal
Hey Friends,
Rumour has it that I trecked across Canada to Montreal during my reading break from Saturday Feb 17-Wed Feb 21 and it's all true! I can now speak in a certified french accent! I don't really know any more french than I started out with but I am that much closer to really understanding how the french mind works;)
Me and my friends (Susie, Christine, Nicole and Vespa) went to Montreal to visit Tim and see the IVCF internship that Tim is doing at the moment. It was a fantastic time of frolicking in snow, going to Loblaws, and eating smoked meat sandwhiches.
I got to check out the IVCF internship, visit friends (including Dan from RMP) and check out Concordia's masters program in art therapy that i might do after UVic. We'll see...
It's funny how when you travel you eat about ten times more than usual... Food we experienced:
Saturday (First Day): We ate soup and fresh baked montreal bagels, supposedly the best in the world. The "Friendly House" where the interns stay have IVCF university students over for dinner every saturday night and it was awesome meeting super lovely people. I even met Jen, Gillian's sister and Lynne, Gillian's cousin. Apparently half her family is in Montreal and I got to meet them!
Sunday (Second Day): We got to go to church and the pastor spoke on Naaman's healing found in 2 Kings 5:1-14 (really good... maybe i'll talk about this later). We ate Turkey Dinner: Tim decided to make us turkey dinner and we all chipped in. Even went to Loblaws (a crazy big grocery store) where we through bags of chocolate chips around and they spontaneously combusted. You never think this would happen, but somehow it did. I cut onions and cried a lot, but then I opted for washing dishes. The dinner turned out delicious.
Monday (Third Day): We went to Concordia and visited the IVCF office Tim hangs out at during the week. Read and prayed through Acts 1-2 and I drank an extremely sweet white hot chocolate (just in case you care:). For lunch we ate Smoked Meat Sandwhiches: We waited in line outside in -20 weather to experience Swartz's sandwhiches which are buns stuffed full of extraneous pieces of smoked roastbeast. I felt like I ate a whole cow in one sitting! We also had greasy fries and really humongous pickles.
Monday night we went to Toastmasters which is what the Interns do weekly to practice their public speaking and leadership skills. Tim was in charge of hosting the dinner table questions and asked certain people to come up and answer his questions for one minute. He had people stranded on a desert island and asked them what kind of tool, book, person, etc. they'd bring. He asked me what art supply i'd bring. I brought glue! I'm totally not good at this pressure thing. Though I did want to kick Tim after perhaps to relieve the pressure. Ah well... it all worked out:) (do not worry--tim was not injured in the process).
Oh and did I mention that Tim made brownies! Becuase he did and I prayed that he would. Yes, God knows how I love brownies:) And Dan came over too and chatted with us all. I must confess I was pretty horrible and unorganized about the whole thing, but Dan's a sport and totally trecked in the snow to visit.
Tuesday (Fourth Day): We sat in on an IVCF montreal staff meeting and each staff member shared why and how they got to be staff with Intervarsity. It was really awesome to hear. Us students also shared about our experiences with IVCF and it was really cool. We also ate a lot of the chocolates that Susie brought with her on the plane. The box was about as tall as someone's leg.
Tuesday afternoon I talked to the art therapist lady at Concordia and learned more about the program. I learned how only 14 students are accepted and that each student is encouraged to have a counsellor or therapist before and during the program. It was really interesting to hear that because while talking about the IVCF internship a main focus had been dealing with the junk and struggles of your own life and working through those before helping others also work through those. That's a cool thought that we can and need to work through our struggles so we can better help others do so. There's a point to them!
Tuesday night we ate chinese dinner with the montreal crew who are also going with us to China in May. So exciting!
Wednesday (Fifth Day): We had internal struggle sharing times and prayer which was extremely teary but lovely. Oh good times of sharing and dealing with stuff. Me and Christine went to the dollar store, which we thought would be superb with everything in french, but it's the same as here in BC so that was a bit disapointing, but that's okay. Then for lunch we ate Poutine: a french dish of greasy fries layered with mozza cheese and gushing with gravy or in our case a sort of red sauce with italian sausage. It was about the size of a large bowling ball.
We traveled to the airport and had to wait an hour for another plane as the first didn't have the intercom working. But the second plane was even nicer so that was lovely! Yah for watching 2 movies in a row: Driving Lessons and Flushed Away.
Well now that I've had random fun all of reading break I don't want to go back to school monday. I also had a lovely time thursday with my two Amanda friends and today had a wedding shower for my friend, Jenny, because apparently everyone is getting married on the face of the planet.
Well perhaps I'll post soon about internal struggles but until then ta ta!
Rumour has it that I trecked across Canada to Montreal during my reading break from Saturday Feb 17-Wed Feb 21 and it's all true! I can now speak in a certified french accent! I don't really know any more french than I started out with but I am that much closer to really understanding how the french mind works;)
Me and my friends (Susie, Christine, Nicole and Vespa) went to Montreal to visit Tim and see the IVCF internship that Tim is doing at the moment. It was a fantastic time of frolicking in snow, going to Loblaws, and eating smoked meat sandwhiches.
I got to check out the IVCF internship, visit friends (including Dan from RMP) and check out Concordia's masters program in art therapy that i might do after UVic. We'll see...
It's funny how when you travel you eat about ten times more than usual... Food we experienced:
Saturday (First Day): We ate soup and fresh baked montreal bagels, supposedly the best in the world. The "Friendly House" where the interns stay have IVCF university students over for dinner every saturday night and it was awesome meeting super lovely people. I even met Jen, Gillian's sister and Lynne, Gillian's cousin. Apparently half her family is in Montreal and I got to meet them!
Sunday (Second Day): We got to go to church and the pastor spoke on Naaman's healing found in 2 Kings 5:1-14 (really good... maybe i'll talk about this later). We ate Turkey Dinner: Tim decided to make us turkey dinner and we all chipped in. Even went to Loblaws (a crazy big grocery store) where we through bags of chocolate chips around and they spontaneously combusted. You never think this would happen, but somehow it did. I cut onions and cried a lot, but then I opted for washing dishes. The dinner turned out delicious.
Monday (Third Day): We went to Concordia and visited the IVCF office Tim hangs out at during the week. Read and prayed through Acts 1-2 and I drank an extremely sweet white hot chocolate (just in case you care:). For lunch we ate Smoked Meat Sandwhiches: We waited in line outside in -20 weather to experience Swartz's sandwhiches which are buns stuffed full of extraneous pieces of smoked roastbeast. I felt like I ate a whole cow in one sitting! We also had greasy fries and really humongous pickles.
Monday night we went to Toastmasters which is what the Interns do weekly to practice their public speaking and leadership skills. Tim was in charge of hosting the dinner table questions and asked certain people to come up and answer his questions for one minute. He had people stranded on a desert island and asked them what kind of tool, book, person, etc. they'd bring. He asked me what art supply i'd bring. I brought glue! I'm totally not good at this pressure thing. Though I did want to kick Tim after perhaps to relieve the pressure. Ah well... it all worked out:) (do not worry--tim was not injured in the process).
Oh and did I mention that Tim made brownies! Becuase he did and I prayed that he would. Yes, God knows how I love brownies:) And Dan came over too and chatted with us all. I must confess I was pretty horrible and unorganized about the whole thing, but Dan's a sport and totally trecked in the snow to visit.
Tuesday (Fourth Day): We sat in on an IVCF montreal staff meeting and each staff member shared why and how they got to be staff with Intervarsity. It was really awesome to hear. Us students also shared about our experiences with IVCF and it was really cool. We also ate a lot of the chocolates that Susie brought with her on the plane. The box was about as tall as someone's leg.
Tuesday afternoon I talked to the art therapist lady at Concordia and learned more about the program. I learned how only 14 students are accepted and that each student is encouraged to have a counsellor or therapist before and during the program. It was really interesting to hear that because while talking about the IVCF internship a main focus had been dealing with the junk and struggles of your own life and working through those before helping others also work through those. That's a cool thought that we can and need to work through our struggles so we can better help others do so. There's a point to them!
Tuesday night we ate chinese dinner with the montreal crew who are also going with us to China in May. So exciting!
Wednesday (Fifth Day): We had internal struggle sharing times and prayer which was extremely teary but lovely. Oh good times of sharing and dealing with stuff. Me and Christine went to the dollar store, which we thought would be superb with everything in french, but it's the same as here in BC so that was a bit disapointing, but that's okay. Then for lunch we ate Poutine: a french dish of greasy fries layered with mozza cheese and gushing with gravy or in our case a sort of red sauce with italian sausage. It was about the size of a large bowling ball.
We traveled to the airport and had to wait an hour for another plane as the first didn't have the intercom working. But the second plane was even nicer so that was lovely! Yah for watching 2 movies in a row: Driving Lessons and Flushed Away.
Well now that I've had random fun all of reading break I don't want to go back to school monday. I also had a lovely time thursday with my two Amanda friends and today had a wedding shower for my friend, Jenny, because apparently everyone is getting married on the face of the planet.
Well perhaps I'll post soon about internal struggles but until then ta ta!
Labels: reading break extravaganza
posted by Following His Lead at 5:54 PM
5 Comments:
I'm not getting married...
I'm glad you had a good time in Mtl!! Yay for Schwartz's, and I'll have you know that Montreal bagels are not "supposedly" the best in the world, they are the best in the world. I can't wait to hear your French accent. :)
hey man i'm not getting married. if anythin you have better prospects than me right now seeing as you knwo so many enfj's ;)
great job with that detailed montreal account. it's super more detailed than mine. great job using your non-dominant s skills.
Thanks for the update - it was good.
hey, it was good meeting up with you - i don't regret coming out in the snow...that place has special memories with another friend. How is being back in U of Vic?
My soul mate! Or at least my MB personality typing mate! Too bad there's that whole gender conflict.
Love your food stories! They make me rumbly in my tumbly...guess I'd better go and raid the fridge!
See you tonight at Ring Out! :)
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