I haven’t had a cup of coffee all day. The coffee machine in Thomas and my apartment is garbage. I think it holds six cups and the grounds spill into the pot like crazy. The coffee machine in the other apartment was great. Plus, they had VanGoute in there. A good heritage taste. But I don’t live there anymore.

We’ve started our lectures, beginning at The Beginning. Although it’s usually a good place to start, it brings up some issues that not all Christians agree with. This means that I’m starting off by disagreeing with a lot of what Pierre says. Kind of an awkward situation, but it’ll all role by soon.

I’ve started researching and praying about my volunteer work and internship, and I’ve got a few vague ideas. Mike the British guy talked to the whole YWAMontreal staff today about Vancouver (he’s the leader of YWAM Vancouver). He’s actually from Wales, sorry. He said something about working in the businesses of the cities, and how one of his staff works part time as a roadie. That sounded cool. Maybe I could do that here. I don’t know. Then there was an idea for volunteering for a suicide hot line, but I need to speak awesome French for that and I don’t know what kind of credentials I need. I don’t know about education, how I could get into that part of Montreal. It’s hard. Every thing’s still hovering.

I’ll keep track of “Heroes” while I’m here. I was semi-interested at home and Thomas loves it, so I think we’ll watch it. I’m still trying to find ways to connect myself to the people here, him included. I want to come out of this with good friendships.

After the lectures yesterday I went to this site and there it was, all shiny and new! It looks great, don’t you think? Man, you made me happy, Darrell. And the ichat with you and Adrienne just brought it over the edge. I was all smiles for the rest of the day.

I’m sort of working on pictures. Last time I tried my computer didn’t recognize the camera. I talked to Mom about it afterward, so I’ll try again. We thought it was the USB, because I had problems hooking a projector up to it the other day as well, but that problem was true with other computers as well. That projector doesn’t enjoy USB connection. It’s loss, I guess. I’ll figure it out soon enough. I don’t have that many pictures to share anyway.

I’m sitting in the cafe on rue St. Denis called Cafeo. A good room. It’s long, with a bar at the end by the cashier. The unwindowed wall has all these obviously not original paintings in fancy old frames. There’s free wifi here, so at least six people including myself have their eyes on their screens. It’s a surprisingly warm day in Montreal. Someone said earlier it could get up to 18 C today. I believe it.

Anyway, now I’m blabbering. Until next time.

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