Howdy All!
I hadn’t checked my email for 4 days while I was away and there were only 5 comments. I was a bit sad until I checked my email and found a message from mum saying that people were having trouble with putting comments up, so that is ok.
I went to Ottawa this weekend. It was AWESOME! Ottawa is where the government is and is the Canadian equivalent of Canberra. I was a little concerned that it would match the boringness of Canberra but it was a really cool city. We drove up on Friday and spent the night at Jane Anns sisters house. They live on a Cattle farm and Jane Anns nieces showed me round and introduced me to all of the cows, cats and bunnies. The house they live in is 180 years old and the town has a population of 1000 people. It was pretty awesome.
On Saturday morning we drove up to Ottawa which is only an hour away from Athens. It was a BEAUTIFUL day. It was the nicest day since I have arrived in Canada. It was sunny and I spent the whole of the day outside without a jacket. The drive up was really nice. We went through some nice country. When we got to Ottawa we found the hostel. We stayed in the same prison hostel that Kylie did. The prison hostel was it the Wacky Travel book that Tim, Simon and Mel got for me. It was really empty so me and Jane Ann got the cell to ourselves.
On Saturday we spent most of the day walking around the city. We went to the Byward market which is an outdoor market that sells lots of fruit, vegetables, jewelry and all of the other stuff that would be expected at a market. Because it was such a nice day all of the streets were packed with people. We walked around the city and saw very many funky shops and nice old buildings.
On Sunday we WALKED across the border into Quebec and went to the Museum of Civilisation. That was really good. The museum went through the history of settlement in Canada and had really awesome displays. In some parts they made the ceiling look like the sky and had shops and other stuff from whatever time period you could go in to look at. You could tell you were in Quebec and not Ontario because there was beer for sale in the food court with all of the other drinks.
Then we went to the National Art Gallery. This was really interesting. There were a lot of famous painters paintings in there. I saw Reubens, Rembrant, Matisse, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Klimpt, Warhol, Chagall, Dali, Klee and Pollock. There were probably many other artists that were quite well known but I didn’t know who they were. There were some famous Canadian paintings that Jane Ann knew but I did not.
There was also a garden in the middle that you could sit in that was art for all senses. It had music and plants and stuff you could play with to change the shapes.
On Monday we had a tour of the Parliament building. It was very pretty. The walls were made of limestone that had millions of fossils in them. That was cool. We went to the peace tower at the top to look out over Ottawa. That was pretty cool but it was foggy so you couldn’t see a whole heap. After this we did some shopping and then went home. The trip back took us through a place called Perth. That was funny. Perth here is VERY old.
I also got a new job. Just doing some tutoring. I think I start tomorrow. I am just trying to get curriculum information from here. I think it’ll be good. It is much better pay and is very flexible. I’ll put some pictures up of Ottawa so be sure to check them out. Crazy to hear about Bert Newton and Larry Emdur. Good news about Halloween. Hope everyone is well.