I WANT A BUNNY + A PIGLET NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snow

We had a great snowstorm here on Friday. The kind that makes me wonder about nature. The kind that also makes me miss home.

I miss wind stinging my cheeks.

I miss huge snowflakes landing on my tongue.

I miss walking in the mountain/forest, hearing nothing else than the crunching of snow under my boots. The absolute calm invading my soul when I walk in the middle of a blizzard.

I miss the smell, the taste of fresh snow. The intuitive feeling I used to get, as a child, in the morning, when it had snowed during the night, I just knew.

I'm losing my instinct.

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Back to normal life

Well, 2007 has started pretty well for me. I'm inching back into normal life, and have started a new job after many difficulties with my last employer. All has resolved itself in the best manner possible for me. My new job is to assist a french teacher at the technical university in Berlin. I am helping in planning language trips to France and eventually Canada. I will get to give my own french class at the language insitute in April. It's really weird to see my name on the teacher's list. Some of the students will be older than me. I'm a bit afraid, but terribly excited!
The teacher with whom I work is really a great guy. He has 25 years experience in the field and just knows so much about it.

Much positive vibes in Berlin. New projects, new ideas, new moods - a new beginning.

Back in Berlin

Nope, I'm not dead yet!

I went home for the holidays, and it was great, stressful fun and hectic!

I thought I would be relieved to come back "home to Berlin, but I find myself REALLY missing Montreal, a lot more than I thought I would...

It was absolutely fantastic seeing my friends and family, even if I did only have a very short period of time to visit with each person.

At the same time, I know I was home "on vacation" so life seems a lot better without uni- or work related problems.

Nevertheless, I feel this hole in my heart whenever I think of Montreal. It just feels like home, my home.

I wish I could have dinner with my parents regularly.
I wish I could just call up my best friend and go out for a beer.
I wish I could meet on the street someone I hadn't seen in 10 years.

Sorry for the pity fest, it's just that this is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

On the other hand, I did settle a lot of emotional business while there and did realize that on certain aspects, I am very happy to have the chance to step back from certain issues and take a deep breath. What can I say, some relationships are just better with some distance.

I guess life'll just put me where I should be when I should be, but in the meantime I miss my "family": the genetical one and the spiritual one.


This is my best friend's daughter and she is the cutest little girl in the entire world. I want one JUST like her when I have kids. I must say it was really hard on the last night, after story time she did not want to go to sleep and started crying saying she didn't want us to go (another friend and I). I must say this little almost three year old has stolen my heart and after that I had to sneak in the kitchen and cry myself.





This is Elvisse, my beloved doggie. I have had her since I was 11 or 12 and she now lives with my mom. It probably was the last time that I saw her and I must say it was also hard to say goodbye.

Why does a flight from Berlin to Montreal cost so much money???