Naked strike in Montreal,Quebec,Canada
This is a naked strike because people want the government to be more transparent, to stop corruption etc. Plus, it’s a strike against the high of the study fees.
Florence + the Machine - “Take Care” (Radio 1 Live Lounge Special)
Watch Florence perform her amazing cover of Drake’s “Take Care”, for Fearne Cotton and BBC Radio 1, as part of her Live Lounge Special.
Cambodia:) or the smiley country :)
U cant see really well but they can fit 4 on that moto bike! The little 4 yrs old on front :) !
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So I was on the metro the other day and I was looking at the map of the different lines and stations.
I do this quite a lot and it always gets me thinking
“I seriously have not been anywhere in this city.”
Cept when I was on the metro this time I was listening to Vampire Weekend and so I was feeling extra adventurous and creative (because doesn’t listening to Vampire Weekend make you feel like you’re in an indie movie?)
So I made my version of the map.
I call it
“A Jewish Girl’s Guide to the Montreal Metro System” (that is, if she even takes public transit….)
basically,
Plamondon/Snowdon= home. If I take Plamondon I catch the 161 which takes me down Van Horne aka Fleet (Van Horne has a secret Hampstead alias) right to the corner of my street. I then walk 5 blocks. Or, if I get off at Snowdon, which I usually do, I either walk 10ish blocks or I wait for the 55 or 166 and get delivered 3 short blocks away from mi casa.
Why am I telling you this? You don’t care….. There is a point to this though, I swear.
Lionel-Groulx= stop you get off at to transfer towards downtown. I will not lie, I have only ever walked directly across the platform. In other words, I have only gone from my house downtown of from downtown to my house. I’ve never had to walk up a floor to catch a train in another direction….. *shame*
Atwater= Dawson. aka school.
Guy-Concordia= A block away from Adrenaline aka my piercing place.
Peel/McGill= shopping downtown aka st-catherine
Cote-Vertu= Dollard. aka suburbs. aka mall. On the rare occasion where I would take public transit to ddo, you gotta get of in St-Laurent area and bus (it’s the 470 express or something, I believe) on the highway to the mall.
Parc Jean Drapeau= LaRonde (I NEVER go to LaRonde but if I do…) / Outdoor concert festivals
St-Laurent= behind Metropolis aka I meet bands there sometimes (*Please note- I am one of about 5 Jewish girls to ever do this. I’m 100% certain that no other Jew could locate this metro station.)
UQAM= close to underworld/metropolis/Club Soda. Never actually been inside. (Again, no Jew can even pronounce Berri-UQAM (Neither can I…) *sigh*)
*honorary mentions include: Villa-Maria, cote-des-neiges, universite-de-montreal, Parc, Cote-St-Catherine, Namur, Square Victoria, Bonaventure, etc. This is only because I know where these streets are.
And these are all I know.
I have never heard of PIE-IX (do NOT ask me how to pronounce that), Cremazie, Sauve, Charlevoic, Jolicoeur, Monk, Fabre, Beaubien, Langelier, Radisson, Viau, Assomption, Champ-de-mars etc etc etc.
Moral of the story:
I am pathetic. I have grown up in such an incredible bubble that has blinded me so badly. Even though I fought against it as hard as I could, I still have no idea what the heck D’iberville is. And fine, maybe some French kid from there has never been to Villa or something, I don’t know. But that doesn’t make it right. I know nothing about the city that I live in. In fact, I know so little that I don’t even know if someone from D’iberville would ever go to Villa.
Reality check, please.
love. a
ps: you now have all the info you would ever need to stalk me.
Shame shame shame!
You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
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