Wednesday 4 February 2009

Montreal to Ottawa

What are Black Canadians called? Or there's no such a thing.
Anyhow,i have decided to name them African Canadians, so an Afro Canadian suggests that we use or wait for a bus. Unfortunately we cannot find the stand of the bus. Montreal is suffering from what i now know is the winterstorm. Snow is falling in torrential ammounts, the wind is blowing and imagine there's rain too. We have tickets for a train and the time is fast approaching, our bags cannot fit into a normal cab and an Arab guy decides for us to rent his limousine, charge 50 dollars. There's no worry about being charged the wrong price, we board the bus to Montreal/.

That is about the only glitch i have so far from the change of Africa to the west. My only problem of the winter so far also.
Since then it has been a smooth ride. At the train station in Ottawa we were recieved by Prof Allan Thompson with his cute little black dog called, George i think and he drops us at what is known as the Rwandan embassy in Ottawa where COLLIN, Arthur and Ignatius stay. We were received with good tasting Canadian beer. The beer here is cheap, but only if drunk from home, in the bars its a complete rip off.
For all its features, Canadian culture promotes interaction among persons, for example a glass or bottle of beer would cost 6.5 Canadian dollars in a bar while 10 dollars will get you a 12 bottle pack to take home.
Today i made my debut at the TCN i don't have an assignment yet but yesterday i attended a news conference organized by the SLUNA, they are a Sri Lankan group that supports the governmment in its fight against the Tamil Tigers, so now from listening to the BBC about Tamil i now have some experience about that conflict too.

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