La Croisière!

Bonjour bonjour!

Here is the second batch of pictures which, hopefully to make up for the lack of postings for  awhile there.

On Sunday, we were taken on what is known here as "La croisière", basically cruise around the St. Laurent on a boat for two hours and have a giant outdoor dance party...but on a boat! And yes they played the song 'I'm on a boat'. Everyone got all dressed up and was looking oh so spiffy so it was nice to see everyone at their finest.

This is Emily, Lauren, and Ellen (left to right), some of the fabulous girls who live on my floor. Both Emily and Ellen are going to be nurses, fantastic ones at that, and it seems I will never escape the presence of a nurse:)

The boat itself! I don't remember what it was called but it was nice, more like a ferry than anything. 

Et voilà Natalie, looking all movie star and like.

These are just shots of what we seen pulling out of the harbour. 

I do have to admit, it was wonderful being bale to see the city as the sun went down. We passed right by Vieux Québec and I took a tonne of pictures. 

Just kicking off the indoor dance-off!

My good ol' grammar buddy Kevin!

Some more grammar buddies! From bottom up we have Caroline (a fellow U of C student woot woot!), Eve, Humda, Caroline and Carrie. 

This is l'Île d'Orléans, the island directly facing Québec city.

It got to be so hot inside that the front deck of the boat, (I am so sorry Kalina I don't know any of the boat terminology) became the outdoor dance floor.

The night pictures became a little iffy but I tried my best!

Renou and Lauren shaking it down!

Now this is a great story! On the left is Samuel with Lauren. Samuel is an "animateur". An animateur is an authority figure. Lauren does not recognize authority. Neither does Sam. Need I say more?

All in all, I am glad I went because it was great to be able to spend the time on the boat and see everyone. There were some very beautiful sights of downtown at night but I sadly was not able to capture any of them for you:(

As of today I have one grammar class left, one oral exam, a culture exam and my grammar final. Then home! Everything has gone by so fast!! I will probably have pictures for Thursday nights talent show and probably our last night together on Friday night. They may or may not appear before I leave depending on how much studying time I alott my self ha!

À la prochaine!

French Night with François and Ottawa!

Ah! Je m'excuse!!

I have most definetely fallen behind on the blogging updates so I have a whole swack of pics to put up.

In our first week here, some friends and I were stopped by a francophone laval student to and he asked if we could help him with his english homework. Since then, we have seen him around residence, especially the kitchen, a tonne and became friends. He is a superb cook and promised to cook us a lobster dinner one night. So finally one night, some time in our third week (I think), he cooked!! Absolument fantastique!!

Just some sautéd garlic shrimp, onion and pepper basamatti chicken flavored rice...no big deal.

The feast!

Natalie's oh so delicious lobster!

François is the gent on the left.

Voilà the chef!

Kk, this may not look incredibly appetizing, as my brother oh so elequently chose to share, but it was absolutely delicious. Lauren made homemade Indian food for us. I am actually glad I don't have more pictures because we are doing a huge feast of it tonight, so more to follow...

Now for Ottawa!! I left on the 27th to go and see Ally and spent the weekend with her and getting to see her lovely new life! This is the statue that she so thoughtfully brought back form Senegal for me:)

The church next to Parliment.

This is a really cool boat launch right downtown. They were just beggining to move the boats at the top of the dock all the way down to the river (?, don't know my geography at all!!).

PARLIMENT!!!

I want to say an embassy of sorts, maybe the US?

THis is of course, the eternal flame righ tin front of parliment.

The end of the tulip festival:(

It was a very busy, fantastic, and amazing and short visit with Ally. I am so happy that I went even if it was only two days. I have another set of pictures to post so...

À la prochaine, très prochaine!