La musique, un film, et la baleines

Ok. It's been a while. But there have been many adventures. SO, get ready.

First off, Styx and KISS. Wow. Two nights, two very different concerts. Styx was fantastic. Very musical, harmonizing, incredible. A lot of people. THEN, the following night, KISS. Hard rock and roll. Explosions. Fog. Fireworks shooting out of the ends of guitars. It was fantastic. And more people than I've ever seen in one place in my life. 90 000 people at the concert. Talk about claustrophobic. I managed to sneak my large camera into KISS. Check it out for some photos.

Thursday I played a rousing game of Ultimate Frisbee in French. People here are INTENSE. It was fun, despite the fact that the grass was wet, and we kept flying all over the place.

Friday night we headed out to Harry Potter in english! We managed to find a theatre with a showing en anglais, and went along with a gang of folks. The theatre had 3 showings in english and 15 in french that day. lol. Good thing we were looking for the minority. We got to skip most of the lines.

On the weekend we headed out to Tadoussac to go whale watching. NOW, we have not had a warm day in long time, and Saturday was no different. It was raining and cold, and we were freezing before we even got onto the boat. They gave us huge suits to wear, where the jacket included a life preserver. We looked like Thomas from a Robert Munsch book. The baleines seemed to know that it was cold outside, as they were not around to hang out with us. I have some photos here.

This afternoon some of us are going Kayaking on la rivière St. Charles. Apparently it's not quite as exciting as the Kan. (Read: We're taking Sea Kayaks for a relaxing paddle). BUT, I'm excited to finally get back into a boat.

Aside from that life is good. It's midterm week. We have an oral test tomorrow, written tests on Wednesday and Friday. I *might* kill some of the guys living in residence, as they are prone to play soccer in the hallway, blast music, and try to woo the women very loudly. All between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and 2 a.m.. If it doesn't stop soon I might be tempted to deal with it American History X style...or maybe I'll just call security.

Alas, that's it for now.

Salut!

Derek

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