Monday and Tuesday of last week were normal class and workshop days. My Monday workshop is conversation so we practiced tongue twisters and then talked about ourselves and traveling. Tuesday's workshop is an art class and we painted canvas bags. I attempted a chevron pattern on mine that looks a bit like someone gave a five year old an assortment of markers and told them to make squiggles. Monday night was another movie and this week was "La grande seduction" a hilarious movie about a small village that tries to convince a doctor to permanently live in their village (and become their doctor).
Wednesday afternoon one of my best friends, Meg, came to visit and brought three of her German coworkers along for the ride. They spent their day in Montreal and then came to Quebec City. It was so great to see a familiar face!! We went down to Old Quebec to find a spot to listen to Skrillex (listen hurr) who was performing on the main stage for the festival. We couldn't see anything because they block everything off pretty well but saw all of the lights and obviously heard everything as if we were actually in front of the stage. We had more room to dance/dubstep though which was ideal. By the way, for those of you that have not been able to see me dubstep, you are truly missing out.
Thursday we went to Montmorency Falls after I got out of class. They were very cool. I haven't been to Niagara Falls but these are about 70 feet taller than Niagara but not as wide.
Free fallin'
We walked up the side of the falls, hung out on the bridge above the falls and then walked back down. I loved it! Meg debated with Peter and I as to whether or not she could bungee jump off the bridge which was an entertaining conversation to say the least...
Groupies by the fallzz (me, Meg, Jooris, Germaine and Peter)
Thursday night we went to the other side of the main stage to listen to Aerosmith. That was another really good show but one that I would have preferred watching rather than just listening to. We left the concert a little early so that they could drop me off and head back to New Hampshire before they had to work on Friday morning. However, we must not have left early enough because we got caught in one of the worst traffic jams I have ever experienced. We were barely moving at times and as luck would have it, Meg's car was starting to run out of gas... yay. We found a gas station though and after I translated the pump screen, were back on our way to campus. Crisis averted!!
They were only here for a little over 30 hours but I was so happy they came to see me! Once my program ends, I'm flying in to Boston (then heading to New Hampshire) to stay with Meg for a few days before we begin our road trip back to Nebraska so I will see them again soon!
Another update coming soon!
Love that you're dubstepping! I wish I could dubstep in Canada with you!
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