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I was told to set-up an exchange blog before dipsetting from our 'Home & Native Land' (for those of you who haven't figured it out yet...that would be Canada BOOOOYA). Happy to report that a month later, 'I got 'er done son!'

Where to start- after a 7 hour flight sitting next to a PE homeboy (who I'm pretty will be on CNN for a Bernie Madoff scheme v2.0) we landed in Amsterdam. It was a pretty sweet feeling to walk around and finally feel my ass again-that was a beautiful moment...haha anyways, leaving Canada for an almost 12 hour journey across the world, it seemed practical at the time to wear comfy clothes (i.e uggs, leggings, and an oversized hoodie) WELL APPARENTLY people like to wear designer gear and the very word 'uggs' does not exist in fashion vocabulary.

But that's ok- why you ask? because I AM CANADIAN (thanks Molson...you did good)- moving along , once we landed in Strasbourg, this is what went through my brain: *ahem* What the &*%$ am i doing here???????

Fast Forward 1 week: All was good! the fml moment passed (almost all of it anyways)

A few things that are very different in Strasbourg from Toronto:

- everything opens later but closes hella early: Hours of Operation 10AM-7:30PM

- most shops close in the middle of the day for a few hours... that was super inconvenient, i got physically upset about it.. haha

- we walk EVERYWHERE, it's a beautiful thing...

- it's normal to eat a baguette a day (all that walking does not help the baguette-eating.. trust)

-you can go to a 'club' wearing the exact same clothes you wore during the day...one of the bigger HUH?! moments in my life

- after a late night of shenanigans, there's nowhere to go eat- serious BALLS...i miss street meat & burrito boys....*sigh* speaking of which, a friend of mine and I decided we should open up our own little cart or a Burritto Boys here in strasbourg ;)

- the city centre is really cute, it looks like the little town from Beauty & the Beast

- no skyscrapers...none, nada, zerroooo

ONTO THE ALPS!

Hands down last weekend was the freaking BOMBBBBBBBBB. Riding through fresh powder on a real freaking mountain! HELLO!!!!!!!! BUMP IT!!!!!! The 9 hour train ride was worth it, it' so hard to explain the feeling you get from getting smacked in the face with a picturesque view like that- actually, wait, it's kinda like going pee after holding it in for so long that you seriously think your bladder might explode, that kinda happy is the same kinda happy we experienced. FJA;DSJFA;LKSDJFA;LSFD so gooooooooood!

Élise's family friend lived on the resort up at Les Arcs and he was kind enough to take us around the mountain for a solid 5 hours- It was INCREDIBLE! Riding through unmarked terrains and landing in soft powder has changed snowboarding forever; It was actually fun to wipe out/to catch an edge because falling didn't hurt!! the only hard part was trying to butter through the knee-high powder on a flat trail... but whatevs! great ass/abs workout ;)

one of the hardest things about being here is not having Hockey Night in Canada...wait one second, may we please have a moment of silence for Brian burke:

Phaneuf, Giguere, Aulie, Sjostrom

(and i guess you could say + alisha cuthbert)

Goodbye white, toskala, blake, and the other guy but especially GOODBYE to Toskala.. it's about time. YE YE YEEEEEEEE

Speaking of hockey, a friend from school invited me along to watch a hockey game in the french league. damn son, they play the game quite differently! they're all very nice to each other and show huge amounts of respect: hardly any cross-checking, high-sticking, no sneaky deaky hooks, 0 fights. It was really interesting to watch hockey played for the game itself and not the entertainment value. To clarify, the NHL knows that fights and dirty tricks drive viewers to watch the sport, so players naturally play a bit more .. uhm... i dont know the word, but they play with more 'brute'ness rather then with their brain--more Domi's, McCabe's, Tucker's--Over here they play smarter, it's obvious they're thinking--...does that make sense?

It's pretty hard to blog about the past month in one post.. so ill try my best to make it not so condensed by being a frequent BLOGGAAA haha sorry i started getting boreD