What do you think of ditching summer vacations around the world and instead meet up after Christmas time in say Switzerland or something after this year? Maybe spend one more year in Montreal for new years and from then on have some sick vacations with no tourists.. Not only that but pretty much the only fun time when we can all be at the same place is summer and I know we'd all rather to spend summers at home..
Marianopolis is good, I really like my english class called beat generation and my philosophy class.. my teachers are so strange but smart guys.. my contemporary cinema teacher is such a weird pedophile it's scary (Rene Rozon)
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a) good idea. Let's go to sweiss next winter
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c) rozon was sooooo sketch hahaha
d) scooters?
I don't know, I might be quite tired of the Alps by then, seeing as I'm going on a ski trip in France with friends in February... yawn!!
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I agree with your plan baba. The thing is, mommy and daddy love their Florida house SO much. And of course, last time they went, mommy FINALLY went to the beach for the first time, and it's apparently like, world class...
Hey Alex, you know what's messed up? Nick and I are spending x-mas in Montreal (I am doing Swedish Christmas things the 24th and 25th ... and none of my family will be there and no one will be home and doudoune will spend Christmas alone :(
And then we're joining mommy and daddy in Florida like the 29th or so. But you're going back to Montreal then for Choge, right? Will we miss each other altogether?
Yes, I think X-mas in Florida just makes it too hard for everyone. Truth is though, I think particularly this year, they didn't want to deal with any more family things: Alexa and Dodo and Mamie drama. I understand that. But yes, let's not let this become the new 'normal'; our post-adulthood family christmas routine still definitely needs tweaking.
Finally, yes, the quality of the teaching at Marianopolis was amazing... It's harder to get those transcendantally good classroom experiences later on. I wish I could take your Beat class with you! Are you reading On the Road, I guess? (fun fact, Jack Kerouac was pure-laine Quebecois, and spoke to his mom in joual only). That reminds me, I discovered this little bookshop/coffee house here, independently run, and it's just... I walked in because I knew it was one of the only places open late in the evening, and it was like I had walked into someone's living room. In the front of the shop, this Italian grad student was laying out supper, someone was painting a sign, there was music playing, there were tea cups and mugs in a shelf ("just help yourself to any cup" - the hrungey-hippie girl with a rollie hanging out of her mouth told me as she brought my coffee in a little caffetiere). And people were just chatting, all kinds of odd characters, nice intello semi-weirdos.... It was actually really lovely. IT was like the show Cheers ("where everyboooody knows your naaame"), but Oxford beat poetry version!! Anyway, what made me think of you, the bookshop owner specializes in Beat poetry and literature, and he has a big section devoted to it. I'll take you there when you come visit me some day! (that goes for both of you beatches).
http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/the-albion-beatnik-bookstore/
Anyway, pouf!