Summer Break!!

My summer session at Laval University was officially complete last Friday afternoon. The session went well and I can tell that my French has already improved. The five week session was so intense (15 weeks of learning crammed in 5!!) that there was no option to not improve.

Friday night, my cousins - Russell and Heather - surprised me with a visit! They are on a quick tour through Québec. It was nice to visit with family, and I have not seen them for quite a while. We went for supper at Le Cochon Dingue (from last post).

Roughly translated, it means The Crazy Pig. There is a story about the pig running all over around outside lost and crazy-like. The food here is amazing!!!! And I managed to pull off a bilingual evening as the waitress spoke in English for my cousins and I talked with her in French! We then explored through Old City Québec until about 10:00 at night. It is beautiful in the evening as well. We heard someone practicing bagpipes in a stoned courtyard. They were playing the star wars theme - odd choice for a bagpipe eh?

This week I am in Gaspé for a little holiday - next week I start conversation classes at another school. This area is beautiful - and I will figure out the photo thing for this area too. In the meantime, one photo of my travel up . . .

This is still the St. Lawrence River. It is still quite a ways before we round the Peninsula and I can see the sea. Though, at this area, the locals say the River and the Sea are the same. If you look at a map, you can tell why. I was in: Sainte-Anne des-Monts.