i miss montreal. i am looking forward to london and further; it's a new challenge, a new step for mine and adam's relationship, but goddamn i miss canada. i know it wouldn't be the same if i was going back to mcgill in a week or so - most of my good friends have graduated, frosh looks younger and younger every year and with the first paper due, i would be moaning and writhing in agony - but i’ve only been gone for three months and i have been so nostalgic for montreal and mcgill.
i just graduated in may, and i miss the people most of all. i was in a small concentration, and the community of students and professors was really fantastic.
i miss bike-riding up to jean-talon to buy veggies and following the rachel bike path out to pie-ix to go thrifting! i miss montreal's bakeries - i used to take walks up up up parc and buy butter cookies from the jewish bakeries, where you’d go inside and everyone would be speaking in hebrew …
i miss bantering with mr. boustan on crescent with the aoiis and adam's st. laurent loft - where’d we drink whatever beer/wine that was on sale at the 4 freres and watch the sunrise over the mountain and the cross. i loved exploring the different neighborhoods - either taking the metro to some random spot and walking home or going for a three hour bike ride to see where i’d wind up.
i miss going to the gym with sarah and vanessa, and all-you-eat-sushi at osaka with the sisters and frolicking to l'avenue with kate . . .
of course, if you had asked me this question in january, i would have spat that i hated montreal and all it stood for, while desperately trying to salvage my favorite boots from the incessant salt attack …
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