Hello everybody Today we celebrate our first month on the New Continent! Here is our first review:
- We stayed in 2 hostels and 2 "houses".
- We now have address here: 5 Millar Street, Gatineau, QC J8Y 3N4 CANADA.
- Nicolas found a little job and waits for an interview for a position as a personal trainer in a gym (but do not put the cart before the horse or the cart before the caribou, we'll talk when it's done! !)
- Gaëlle found two small child care (not permanent) and it just passed today an interview for a French teacher for English adults. (Not very conclusive because it says "you're young and you have no experience, but if your resume is selected I call you Monday!")
- We made several friend (s) French (es) , Quebecois (es) and Colombia.
- We took 463 photos
- We certainly gained a few pounds! (But chuuuut!)
- We have a Canadian phone number: 819-208-8477
- We finally have a bus pass allowing us to go everywhere!! But we still have a little trouble with the bus stops with no name!
- We survived the freezing temperatures, not without difficulty!
- Nicolas arrives to cope quite well in English, Gaëlle's another story!
- And finally we made lots of new discoveries such as the size is absolutely huge Coke bottles (report in supermarket to come, a little patience), hunts for sidewalk snow, poutine, maple taffy, beaver tails, -30 ° C with a radiant sun, the dry cloths (Gaëlle finally!) and especially especially .... Taxes and gratuities not included! (A horror for us because we often forget to add them and do not think we pay too much ..... when in fact!)
Well then yes, it's true that our English was not much improved, we have no English friends, that our jobs are not at fixed times and we do not have an apartment just for us.
Believe us these are things that we wanted to change or have the beginning, but life is not always made of what was planned.
Here often, when people order in English and benchmark our focus is trying to talk French.
The friends we made are like us, PVTistes is our common point. We have not yet found common ground with the English and although the urge to jump on them in the street or in a bar, asking them to be our friends, we have crossed my mind and what n is not how it works!
We have not stopped looking for work on the internet asking ads, respond to offers but here as elsewhere there is not always what we want as quickly as expected and often experience is required (even for washing dishes or cleaning!)
The apartment also offers we have caused trouble, too expensive, too far, not furnished , does not accept couples, does not so for 5 months. While we share a house! All is not ours and we're not just with each other but it was not this also the purpose of the trip? Open to others, discover, do things that we will never be in France? So here, living in a big house with people from around the world, it is probably not the remake ever!
Ah! A last thing! It was also fortunate to have wonderful families and friends, remained in France but who support us and are with us despite the distance and that's a beautiful thing, we thank you.
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