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Montreal is a city about 2 hours from Ottawa, or 9 hours from Port Elgin. Montreal is in Quebec, the French speaking part of Canada. It was really cool how the signs in Tim Hortons changed from English to French hahah! We went to Montreal on the Friday afternoon and left on the Sunday.
 
Montreal is well known for it's colours during fall.
 
Me gusta.
 
Street art in Montreal.
 
A famous chocolate shop in Montreal. The best chocolate I've ever had.
 
I really loved Montreal. It was so pretty and much more lively and friendly than Ottawa. But I still like Ottawa a lot too :)
 
We stayed in a nice hotel.
 
We went sight-seeing.
 
In case you didn't know this, the sun in Canada is the same as the one in Sweden.
 
We walked up a million steps just to be able to take these pictures.
 
I think it was worth it though.
 
You can see some of the Vermont mountains (in the US) in the background. 
 
Montreal then and now!
 
In this picture you can see the hockey arena to the left, Vermont to the right and one of the famous bridges also to the right.
 
China town was sadly closed for construction or something.
 
There was a zombie walk going on in Montreal when we were there!
 
Now we are walking to the hockey game.
 
Montreal Canadians vs. NY Rangers. It was crazy busy, 23 000 people or something!
 
I don't know who to cheer for, the Canadians or NY and Henrik Lundqvist!!
 
Canadians in red, Rangers in white.
 
The arena, before the game even started.
 
They has a pretty cool presentation of the players.
 
Yup, they speak French here. I almost forgot.
 
The guy beside me was wearing this.
 
Canadians won by 3-1 and are still at the top of the NHL. The following day we went sightseeing in Old Montreal.
 
Ponypowerrrr.
 
Treepowerrrrrr.
 
Am I ruining the pretty pictures with my text?
 
Sorry about that.
 
But I don't really care. This is my blog. Yolo.
 
Not sure what's going on here...
 
In the summer and spring there is water and boats here.
 
The pretty Quebec colours again!
 
Walking on the pier.
 
I forgot what this house was, but it's important and very famous.
 
This picture makes me miss sailing.
 
Montreal is basically just a bunch of islands with bridges between them.
 
Here's on of them.
 
Same bridge, same angle, different picture.
 
Old Montreal is so pretty. I want to move here.
 
I can live in this house.
 
On the way home we stopped at a famous bagel-bakery. I don't really like bagels. But we bought like 60 bagels anyway.
 

MONTREAL

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This Thursday I went with my hostparents to Ottawa and Montreal. I'll write a separate blog about Montreal later. Ottawa is the capital of Canada, though not the biggest city or the city with the most inhabitants. The drive took about 7-8 hours from Port Elgin and on the way there we stopped at IKEA in Toronto to buy some Swedish stuff!! KANELBULLARRR OCH COCOSBOLLARRR GUBBS!!
 
The Parliament building
 
IKEA IN TORONTO!!
 
A soldier was shot by a terrorist on Parliament Hill just 2 days before we went there so it was crazy busy with police, crime-scene investiagors, news vans and mourning people. R.I.P Nathan Cirillo. 
 
People but flowers at the National War Memorial in memory of Nathan.
 
And here's a picture of some of the cameras for different news stations.
 
I FOUND A SWEDISH FLAG IN OTTAWA!!!
 
A museum maybe?
 
They speak English AND French in Ottawa. Therefore the bilingual signs.
 
Pretty.
 
Cool.
 
This bridge goes from Ontario to Quebec. So I can say that I walked ALL the way to Quebec.
 
I took pictures of Ontario....
 
....and Quebec from the bridge!
 
I went to a museum of National history (I think).
 
The roof was sooo cool!
 
If you ever go to Ottawa, go to this museum, it was really good!
 
At the museum you can also watch IMAX movies. It's like a 3D movie, but ALOT cooler.
 
The roof was even cooler at night.
 
As someone who really likes museums I can say that this is the best museum I have ever been to! Go there if you can!
 
Dear diary... today I took pictures of dino poop.
 
And of real dino fossils!
 
I broke the law and touched of them.
 
In Canada the polarbears walk free.
 
And raindeers can be found in your backyard.
 
Okay I'm kidding. I'm still at the museum.
 
Since I started going to geography class I've been really fascinated by rocks and by how they were formed.
 
So now I have 500 pictures of rocks on my phone.
 
This one looks like a hedgehog.
 

OTTAWA

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This Wednesday I first went to a crosscountry race and after that I had a basketball game. It was a really good day considering that we won our first game and my team won the senior girls crosscountry!
 
I came on 10th place of 31 during the 5 km race. To see which team won they added the first four people from each school together to see which school had the best places in the race. Jessie came 2nd, Brie 6th, Bronwyn 7th and I was 10th. Other senior girls from my school were in the race too, but they came a bit later. If I should compare the two races I've been in I have to say I liked this one more. First reason is that we were 31 people in this one and a few hundred in the last one. The other reason is that I'd much rather run in the forrest than on fields. Also I met Annalena (the exchange student from Switzerland) who lives in Walkerton. She was in the race too haha! The only thing I didn't like about this race was the fact that there were more slopes and hills than flat ground so it was waaaayyy harder than the last one. But I did learn from my mistakes from last race. I took it easy in the beginning so that in the end I still had a lot of energy and I could pass everyone!
 
We played against Sacred Hearts, who we lost against three weeks ago by 14 points. Today we won by one point so it was a big deal for us! We have to win two games in order to make it to the playoffs. 
 
Team photo!
 
I won this! :)
 
 
 

First win!

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This weekend was Thanksgiving so there was a lot of turkey and a lot of pumpkin pie. And the most exciting part of this weekend was when Kate, Ashley and I went to Canada's Wonderland for the Halloween Haunt!
 
Canada's Wonderland is one of the largest amusement parks in North America and Liseberg is nothing compared to it. During the weekends in October they have something called the Halloween Haunt which basically means that the whole park becomes halloween themed. From 7-12 pm you can go there (if you're over 13 years) and the place will be filled with people dressed as scary things. These people will scare you, run at you, follow you, ruin your pictures and scare you. It was so much fun! 
 
There was smoke all over, scary music and there was 11 different haunted houses to go through. These had different themes as well, like asylum, clowns, zombies, a club and other stuff. It was so scary and the best one was probably the new one. In the other 10 you walked through a building, but in this one you sat on a roller coaster. You got a pair of 3D glasses and a laser gun and then you were ready to go. The coaster first took you outside, then you went in the mountain (there's a mountain at Wonderland) and in the mountain there would be these zombies running at you and you had to shoot them. It was really frightening actually! I won't tell you the best part since I don't want to spoil it if you go there sometime, but it was great!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

WONDERLAND!!

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 So we went to a 50's restaurant and to a garage filled with old stuff to do a photoshoot for the Grease play. It was really fun and I have some pictures for you.
 
Yesterday I went to my first ever cross country race. It was crazy how many people were in it! 4000 people from not only Canada, but the US as well! There were 600 people competing in the Senior Girls race. I came 282nd I think. Since it was my first race I learned a lot. Next time instead of running the fastest I can the first kilometer and trying to not die the next 4 kilometres I'll take it easy trough the whole race so that I'm not super-mega-dying-crying-puking tired in the end. Wednesday is my next race so we'll see how good that is going to go.
 
It's the Thanksgiving weekend now which means no school until Tuesday! And tomorrow I might be going to Canada's Wonderland! (it's like Liseberg but much bigger).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pictures for Grease a...

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Every year Port Elgin has something called Pumpkin fest. You go there and look at big vegetables and buy different foods and homemade stuff. It's bigger on the Saturady, but I was in Niagara Falls then so I went on the Sunday. Apparently it gets smaller each year, but it was still fun to see!
 
Candy apples!
 
This is a Beaver's tail.
 
I think more people would have come if the weather was better.
 
Okay I admit it, my pictures are terrible. I'm sorry. It was a lot better than my camera makes it look. There were a lot more trailers and even indoor stands selling stuff. There were actually a lot of people there at noon!
 

Pumpkin fest

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Friday right after my second period I biked home to have lunch and then I was picked up and drove with Kate and Annalena (from Switzerland) to Stratford which is about 2 hours from Port Elgin. In Stratford we met with the other 16 exchange students in our district and we spent two great days together!
 
On Friday we first met at a park where I met Connor, a Canadian exchange student who went to Sweden for a year. He lived close to Stockholm and came back to Canada three months ago. His Swedish is still really good!
 
After the park we all were separated in different households for the night. Annalena and I stayed with an older couple. But before we went to bed we went to a play in apparently one of Canada's best theatres. We even had to dress up! I was wearing a dress!!!!
 
The next morning, early, we left Stratford to go to Niagara. There about half of us decided to go on the boat and the other half decided to go behind the falls. Kate and I didn't decide. We went to the bathroom and then we saw that everyone had left so we ran around looking for the others and found one of the groups and went with them. It was really fun anyways :)
 
After the falls we went to Clifton Hill which basically is a tourist area with haunted houses, arcades, fast-food, souvenirs and other stuff. We walked around there for a few hours looking around, taking pictures and we also went to one of the haunted houses. Gasten is more scary haha.
 
After that we went to Skylon tower to eat dinner 160 meters over the ground. It was an impressive sight and the food was pretty good. A successful day!
 
Then we begun the long, but fun ride back. And the next day was Pumpkin fest in Port Elgin hahah :)
 
Wow. Just wow.
 
All eighteen of us (plus one rebound)
 
Man de la mancha.
 
Living on the edge.
 
Some of us went on this thing.
 
The horseshoe.
 
Ticket for the boat.
 
We got soaked in our fabulous half-waterproof pink plastic sheets.
 
 
Ermegerd pink.
 
Preeeeety.
 
Here's a picture of the American (less impressive) side of Niagara falls.
 
Soo cool.
 
People for scale.
 
I feel like a dip in the water.
 
Here's a picture when I'm falling off a mummy's lap.
 
Clifton hill was also really cool.
 
I mean, just look at this!
 
We had dinner up there.
 
View from Skylon tower.
 
America to the right, Canada to the left.
 
This is where I bought my first Roots sweater.
 
Annalena and I.
 
Born this way.
 
If you havn't figured it out yet, we took a school bus to and from Niagara.
 
Our next meeting in in a month in London (no silly, not in London, England but in London, Ontario hahah)
 

Niagara falls!!!

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Today during lunch and geography all the student in geo had to bike to the beach to observe stuff like sand dunes and beach grass. At least it was better than sitting doing actual work. I bike to school every day, with the exception of today. Of course I decided to walk to school on the one day I needed my bike! I borrowed a friends bike instead.
 
After school there was basketball. And now I'm doing homework while packing for this weekend. This will be the second gathering of all the exchange students in this district and we're going to Niagara Falls. I'll be leaving school tomorrow at lunch and will be back either very late on Saturday or very early on Sunday. Therefore no blog for a couple of days.
 
I never knew seagulls hung out around fresh water lakes. 
 
You might suspect that the phone is held upside-down, but actually we are taking a picuture in the middle of a backflip. And yeah, we always look this fabulous.
 

Beachin'

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I'm sorry, again, for not updating the blog for a while. I just seem to be busy all the time. I have cross country every Monday and Wednesday at 7:30. Every Monday and Wednesday I have also got basketball games. On Mondays we go to a different school to play and on Wednesdays we play at home. All the games are after school. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have got basketball practice. And apparently even sometimes on Fridays!
 
After the games on Wednesdays I go to Interact and on Friday night I go to Youth Group. All of which is very fun! Interact is a Rotary club for high school students where we basically fundraise and make money to send to one global project and one local. Youth Group is just kind of hanging out with others I guess.
 
It's pretty cool that I got number 31 (almost like 13) without asking for it.
 
Basketball is just so cool.
 
Other news; I switched lockers to a lot bigger one closer to all my classes and to my friends. Sadly the number 1560 does not have such a big significance in value to my as 1513. But I mean, now I fit my bag! Also since I do basketball and cross country I was allowed to get a locker in the changing room for my sports stuff. I'm sharing it with a teammate and hopefully my ordinary locker will stop smelling like sweat, basketball shoes and grass.
 
The lockers in the change room.
 
 
I am very busy at school for the moment. I'm starting to regret the fact that I'm doing three science courses. I have homework every night, tests all the time and it's a lot harder than what I'm used to. Even musical theatre has homework!!!
 
Anyways, time to get back to my homework again.
 
 

Busyyyyyyyy