Coast to coast

"The bus is there!"

That's probably the last sentence you want to hear when you're doing Katimavik. Tuesday, 11:00 PM, we left Castlegar. It feels really weird to leave the house you lived in during 3 months. It's also weird to take a last look on the town when you're leaving in the bus. You just remember so many things about that town. I'll miss Castlegar and Twin Rivers school very much!

ALL the thank you cards I received in Castlegar were in my luggage. I'll never get rid of them.

Now that Castlegar was behind us, we started a wonderful travel. 27 hours long! I had three flights. Kelowna-Vancouver, Vancouver-Toronto and then, Toronto-Québec City. If you know a little bit about geography in BC, you probably noticed that the first flight was kind of a detour!

Anyway, it's our only rotation, and it's the only time I had the chance to travel with some people of my group. We slept a lot but we also had some fun!

Something really cool happened: I saw my parents at the airport in Québec City. They drove two and a half hours and slept in a hotel to see me on wednesday night. It's so nice from them and it was so good to see them again.

From Québec city, we had to drive another 5 hours on a bus. Around 5:00 AM (that's on thursday morning, by the way), it started to smell like fish and we arrived in Matane!

The transition is a little bit hard for me and for the group: new town, new official language, new house (so much smaller!!), new Project Leader and we all start a new job next wednesday. It's hard, but it's part of Katimavik. You have to learn how to adapt. By the way, Matane seems really nice. I cann't wait to discover that town!

It will take me more than 27 hours to realize that I'm halfway in my Katimavik experience. Time passes so fast. I already feel like Castlegar was just a dream. Yeah ... but such a nice dream!

It's not by working in Matane that my English will keep improving. For sure, I'll keep talking in English with my group but I also decided that my blog will now be in English. Sorry if there's some mistake, I switched to my second language...