Back from hiatus!

In order to document all the exciting happenings of my summer, and to make sure that I keep doing exciting things worthy of documentation, I'm back to the blog after a 3 year hiatus.

This summer James, Jeter, and I are living in Montreal, Quebec, the "City of Festivals" for two months. We arrived three days ago and have enjoyed every minute so far!

The apartment we are subletting is in a quiet area off of a major street...and yes, I used Craigslist for the third summer in the row and so far have no scars to show for it. It is pretty spacious for a city apartment, with a good sized living room, 2 offices, a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, a piano (!), and washer/dryer. We also don't have to pay for parking, and the gym we signed James up at is only a block and a half away.

Our most frequent activities have been taking Jeter to the dog park, WALKING, and grocery shopping. We have yet to find what one would deem "affordable" groceries after scoping out a few different stores of different sizes and profiles, so we've pretty much come to terms with the fact that food will break our bank these two months. Jeter loves the dog park and the dogs and people of Montreal love him. Everyone says, "What is he?" and I wish we knew! He's also a very good conversation starter, so James gets some human interaction while I'm at work during the week.

Which brings me to our next topic: work! I'm interning (read: not getting paid) at the Arion Baroque Orchestra like a real grown-up, working 9 to 5. There are only 2 other women who work with me, and they are in their mid-20s as well, so we get along really well. So far I've done lots of mundane tasks that they have obviously been putting off doing for months, and some French to English translation for them. The good news is that two of the three women are actually from France, so they are very easy to understand compared to the Canadian French accent--wowzers!

Favorite phrases of the day:
C'est malade! It's sick/awesome/wicked cool!
C'est fou dans la tete! It's unbelievable!
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