Walking On Thin Ice.

Since people are probably more interested in pictures than words I will just say this

I got an apartment.

Yeah! I will post pictures when I can but get happy!! for me!

Look For Me (I'll Be Around)

I am finally in Montreal! Instead of the day and a half that it was meant to take I was actually on the bus for three days. I can tell you that three days on a bus feels fairly limiting. In fact it feels like I think gaol (jail to you Yankee types) might be like - noisy, smelly people around you, limited personal space and cabin fever certainly starts to kick in. Only now am I starting move around a little freely. Thanks Greyhound! I really am contemplating a complaint letter. Why not?

I have made inroads with jobs and apartments. I am going to have a look at an apartment tomorrow or Sunday. That is making me feel very much grown up which is becoming somewhat of a rarity. I would really like to find myself a bar tending job. If I could pursue something the beverage industry as a job OR even a career that would be fantastic. Yeah, that's the dream!

It is becoming apparent though that I will need to know at least some French and at least in a functional sense. Knowing little bits and pieces of French will not work in my favour and could indeed hinder me. I imagine that sometime during my stay I will sign up for some French courses so at least I can serve customers. If they see I'm struggling I've been told that most French speakers are able to speak some English. Handy! A good question is why did England not try harder to ditch the French out of Quebec? Please send me your ideas why!

Whilst I'm in this neck of the woods I would love, Love, LOVE, LOVE to head out toward the Maritimes. From what I can gather it is like Ireland in an American setting. Plus they some pretty cool accents and that is the locale for English style bitter. Oh my. Disadvantages include the weather and the Americans but I am sure I can deal with both of these quite well!

Something on my mind (but definitely not a priority!) is a camera. There is certainly two groups of thought on this. One is to remember what I've done and where I've been. The other is to show the parents and friends back home how good the rest of the world is! But like most other things in my life this can wait!

Speaking of waiting I do NOT want to wait for Chelsea (check her blog out!) to get back. I love that girl so very much and I have to admit it has been difficult to separate myself from this love. I know I have done this before and you would think that doing just once more would be easy. It isn't. She's in Poland doing God's work and that's just awesome for me.

Hopefully my next update will be in the 'very positive' category. Job and apartment would be great but either one or the other I am happy with!

Edit: Here is the place that I'm looking at. A nice enough place for a lad like me, I think!

There She Goes

I'm off today! Apprehensive and biting at the nails. I'll be ok!

See you soon, Montreal.

Pictures of Me

To make up for all the fun times I had at camp and have no photographic evidence I have now gathered up most of what I can find of me and put them on flickr!

It's mainly to prove that

a) I was in Canada
b) I was at Camp Muskoka in Canada

So I hope you enjoy these. I certainly had a very good time being in them.

Hopefully SOMEONE reads this!

See You Soon

Howdy again (so soon!?)

Not sure if everyone's aware but once I've got this up and running properly - you know with actual updates and photos - you can receive e-mail notices if you're a follower. That's a silly word so I think I've renamed it 'You Still Believe In Me'. All of my post titles are song names and even the blog title is from an album by Paul McCartney. I just thought follower sounded too pushy.

Anyway if you've got a twitter account or use Gmail you can follow me by signing in with those accounts. If you don't then it's a fairly easy sign up process!

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Cheers.

All Of My Friends Were There

Hello there, young internet viewers!

I can't recall if I have posted these or not! Tragically I am far too busy (gathering dust) to check! I'm sure there's at least one person reading this who will enjoy my pictures.

My first couple of days in Toronto were not without trouble. Apart from the culture shock I was experiencing there was a protest against two former U.S Presidents. Bill Clinton and George Bush were arranged to do some public speaking and this didn't sit too well with the Canadians. Oh no, Hell hath no fury like an angry Canadian, let me tell you. If you live near the U.S/Canada border you can actually hear them sharpening their ice skates. 

Enraged at this public speaking engagement this rowdy mob intended to throw their shoes at Bush and/or Clinton in a re-enactment of the shoeing incident that Bush had experienced in Baghdad. I'm not sure whether or not they ended up achieving their goal. I'm guessing they didn't as there was nothing on the news or in any sort of print. 

Strictly for your enjoyment only.

Toronto Protest

Home in Heaven

Well chaps it's time to put an end to this American journey. It's been plenty of fun. I've not travelled as much this time but it's of no real consequence. After slogging my guts out over summer it's nice just to laze around. Sure my belts are getting tighter and shirts fit a little snugger than before but that's what exercise is all about. I'm sure there's a definition in the dictionary I can follow.

I'll be heading back to Canada on the 1st of February. I leave Nashville at 6:05PM and I'll get back to Canada on the 2nd. Some time in the morning. It'll be a long trip but I don't think I've got too many long stop overs. That's fortunate! Then when I'm back in Toronto scratching my head I'll find a place to get some nosh and at 11:45AM I'll be on a bus heading to Montreal. Yep, I'm travelling across the country to Quebec. 

Tragically I don't know too much about Quebec. French people and that's about it. I'm hoping this bleak Australian view of such a beautiful province can be shattered. Sure they're French and sure my knowledge of French amounts to telling people I am a train station. Not really practical in this situation, I'm afraid.

Learning French will be something I'd like to do while I'm there. I'd also love to get back in to shape. At least a different shape. Round just isn't cutting it for me. I'm probably going to write a list of activities and sights I'd like to see. Be active. Y'know - like normal people are? A laughable concept but just you wait, netpeople!

However I have wasted enough of your time! Precious time from important people! Hopefully I'll be updating this a little more often and considering I'll be back in Canada full time that seems like a very reasonable demand.