*does sign of the cross* "Madonna, Britney, Lady Gaga, Gay Men."

One thing that in which there is a striking difference between Montréal and the rest of Canada, other than the lack of maple leafs or Canadian paraphernalia everywhere, is that for pedestrians, red lights do not always mean stop, and green does not always mean go. This makes crossing the street a bit of a challenge to the non-québecquer. A green light will frequently be accompanied by a flashing hand or do not walk sign, and a red light is always with a walk sign. wtf? Haven't gotten run over yet though. Speaking of differences, there is their 3 1/2, 4 1/2, 5 1/2, etc. way of classing apartment and house sizes. Why do they insist on complicating things? However, you can buy and drink alcohol pretty much anywhere...so I guess it evens out.


I've learned a lot of interesting things strolling through Montréal today so far, such as the gay sign of the cross and how to properly frolic through the park (have a pretty good video of this as well). I also got the best haircut (and most amazing shampoo) of my life today by, *gets staunchy french accent* "Sylvain", at Inpure Coiffure. He was the Master Hair Stylist at the Salon. Yes they are ranked, and yes it was double what I paid in Saskatoon. But it was worth it..

Also, as I was sitting in the sunlight on the balcony on a Friday morning checking my email, it officially hit me today that I am unemployed. I've always been in school and/or had 1-3 jobs going on at the same time. I've taken vacations, but this is the first time that I have 3 full months to just relax, and do as little or as much as I want, on my own time! Very excited.. Although I'm sure that by the time my tour ends and I'm in Brussels the novelty will have worn off.

Apparently we're not even going to start heading out to the bar/club thing tonight until midnight-1am-ish. The cool kids don't go out until then, and hit up the after hours bars at 3am to keep going to 7am. So, should be a long night.