Freezing Friday

I think we have wonderful seasons in Abitibi. Hot hot Hot in summer and cold cold cold in winter yes, but there is a quality to the air and the temperature that I have yet to find in other places. What I mean here is for example, a typical fall-like day. The morning is freezing and depending on the heating habits of the place you stay at, the air in your bedroom might be crispy cold.

That my friends is the key part: the air is cold and fresh, and the blankets warm and cozy. Laying in bed is so perfect then!

After morning passes, Abitibi's sky are most of the time bright and sunny sky, and warm up the day just enough to enjoy being outside in a warm coat. It gets you pink cheeks which I find particularly beautiful.

When night comes, the sky stays clear, which helps the temperature to drop in the little hours of the morning, bit allows you to watch the moon and the thousands of stars.

Because we are lucky enough to see stars from downtown as well!! Well obviously the town's light makes it harder to see stars than from further in the countryside but then, we see some anyways and they are really pretty!

Today was such a Fall day

Sun coming down warming the day at 10 a.m. on my way to work

How do we call the duck on the back of a one CA dollar? Anyways it's that bird.

The same lake Osisko, on my way back, with the shining moon (bad picture render)

Fall has come again... let us freeze to death...

** Sorry I had to repost this, I deleted the previous one by mistake. My bad **

 It went under zero yesterday night and it was rainy shitty and many other y ending words. The way back from work on foot and from school was really a pain! However, I recieved my Cath Kidston bags~~~! So the day is happy, warm and beautiful! 

-> here comes the materialistic girl in me

Yes, I HAD to shoot the sheep as well. I had to.

I've already used this one for school and it's just perfect. Bags are best when they stay straight.

I cannot however deny that fall has come and I decided to take all my summer dresses away to wash them for the cold season to come. I'll get my fall and winter clothes out this weekend because, well. I certainly do not want to freeze to death with the lack of good heating - my parents being a little bit too "let's protect the Earth" to heat properly in the house - as I, afterall, still have my new bags to use (~_~;)  

I realized something today. As I never had any trouble getting in McGill, and pretty much aced most of my classes - except English and a weird Aztec architecture class I took by mistake - I never really took it seriously, or for a real compliment when people were impressed I got in such a 'prestigious university". I never believed myself to be so intelligent or anything anyways - now I don't know whether that is underestimating myself or being realistic. However, today I realized that, maybe McGill is indeed more on the kick-ass university side, that asks much more from its students than other schools. I just had the presentation of my final paper for one of my classes today: a 7 pages paper in an interview of a teen between 12 and 17 years old. wow. At McGill I would have a paper like this every two weeks or so and the final of those classes would be minimum 10 pages long. And mind you, English papers are far more demanding than French ones, where you can afford to make sentences pretty by rephrasing things endlessly and repeating things on and on. English papers need to be clear, consise: straightforward. Otherwise it's crap. So even filling 5 pages in an English paper is at least the equivalent of content of a 8 page paper in French. Don't expect anything more than a C if you write an English paper the way you write one in French. That is the sad truth of life.  

I never believed McGill was so demanding nevertheless. Now I know. 

 Can I feel a bit proud? 

 Finally, I'll end this post on what will probably be the last flower of my garden this year, as it is getting quite cold for new flowers to bloom. I remember planting these ones with my mother sometimes like 10 years ago. I think they are called Chinese Lanterns; pretty self-explanatory term if I may suggest. I love this plant. They only appear in Fall, as they are hidden by the other flowers during late summer. When all the others around wither however, the Chinese Lantern seems to emerge from the background and is very pretty to look at. 

One more Day!

Today I had a great time at work, I worked with my brother and we had more clients than since the beginning of the week. We had like 30 or something. I had a sweet lunch right after and here I'll post a picture. I was not really hungry so I just had one starter of zucchinis and the fondant chocolate with a capuccino. A little bit of awesomeness.

Today I had my first belly dancing lesson with my mother, my sister (my brother's wife <3) and her mother; the four of us had loads of fun ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ While I can say I positively suck, I think it is awesome and I can't wait for next week's class. I'm happy I ended up subscribing~~

My happy tingling belt. I love it, it's so noisy and pink <3

Happy cookies!

I just had my mothers homemade cookies!! These babies are so good! Coming back from university right after working thus morning, and all that without a proper meal I had a bit of hypoglycemia and I got back home with my hands shaking.

Know the feeling?

Well as I got home my mother had just finished baking chocolate chip cookies. I jumped on the pile <3 god exists ha ha ha that was my first thought.

At the restaurant where I work they just acquired a special oven to make smoked meat and fishes. They are going to make home made jerky and smoked salmon and the likes. This is going to be so good!! You people should come and try it! They were making tests today with salmon.

Weekdays in Rouyn

Today was busy.
I worked until 3 and then walked up to the SAAQ to get my driving license, woot woot!

Then I went home and slept, chilled with guri, knit a bit.

A pretty boring day to talk about, but a happy one. I had been having problems sleeping lately and for the last 2 days I sleep better...

September Summer Day

Today is such a nice day! I went for ice cream with Guri and the daughter of her AFS advisor. By the way, the organism through which Guri has come visit Canada is called AFS (American Field Service) and it is an organisation that started in one of the World War and came from the idea of two firefighter - american and french - that talked about culture differences and wanted to believe that the key to avoid other wars was to understand the difference in every culture and embrace them. They thus started organizing student exchanges between europe and the States at first, and then expanded to other countries to what it is today. Is it with AFS that I first went to Japan for my 11 months student exchange in 2005. 

The day was warm and icecream was soothing. We should have a Yeh! here thought. That would be so good. I miss Montreal's Yeh! and its Rolopan. Today it was 27 degrees! After the cold week we have had this weather was more than welcome, though I had put on tights and a warm acrylic sweater to go out so I was a bit overheated TT__TT Anyways! The day was really humid and a few minutes ago the sky gor very dark: I suppose there is going to be heavy rain that lowers down the temperature very soon. I took nice pictures while I was outside however, and the light came out really nicely.

I love the red of the small canoe mixed with the green of my backyard,
it's a small heaven that I really miss when I am away from my parent's <3

Are you sick of seeing the same flowers over and over again? I am not. So better get used to it. 

We planted strawberries a couple of years ago my mother and I, but never ended up getting results. This year, however we do have a couple of cute strawberries that appear now and then. Today there were two of them that were ready, and maybe 4 or 5 that were still half, or all white. I can't wait to eat them later <3

Strawberries and Chocolate <3

Small Strawberries  

Oh, as you can see, I also tried my new nail paint pens and made cute strawberry patterns. I wanted to tone down the yellow a bit so I put a light shiny transparent green color on top of it, but I regretted: I should have put it before making the strawberries, now they are a bit too unclear and lack detail. I will try to do better next time.

Garden Flowers and Iphone Apps

Yuki having Iphone Pudding Camera fun

Remember the white and pink flower that I liked from the garden? In a week or so, almost all the white flowers turned into a bright pink! It's so pretty!  Here are some picture I took with my new toy~~

 I took those pictures with the Pudding Camera App effect

Guys should be like this flower: they'd make you fall in love, and then, fall in love again.

We had tons of veggies ready in the Garden today~~ woot woot! I picked up the first red pepper (I don't know how you call this when it is not a spicy one but anyways...). It's so cute and so brightly red!!! We have one mini-zucchini as well~~ It sucks though we only realized today that they were 'mini' zucchinis. We lost 2 of them already, thinking they were going to get bigger and ending up letting them rot away. Poor babies.