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JA 11:24 am on July 23, 2003 | 0 | # |

Glande a max. In English, this means that I sat around and did absolutely zilch. Well, It’s been a week that I have been in Montreal and I don’t see where else I should be. I have not gone outside of the house yet for several reasons:

First, it’s a rainy day. There’s this annoying rain that is similar to the one in Kenya. It has been falling since last night and it’s still pouring.

Secondly, I need to take care of business. Although I am in a middle of a move/holiday, I still need to make cash in order to survive in this world and be able to do what I want to. So today, I logged on into my various web ventures and did some work. It’s amazing to see that although I have not done anything in the last week, I still made some decent money. But now the goal is to work my butt off to move into the next tax class.

The Third reason, I did not go out is cos I am out of fresh clothes to wear and I am not keen to walk around in smelly clothes :o)

I did watch some TV and saw that the 2 sons of Saddam were killed. People left right and centre were celebrating which is rather weird… After all these guys were humans too even if they made the wrong choices…

I am still shopping for a digital camera. There are so many things to know about that I need to do some decent research if I don’t want to buy some dodgy product.

I need to find turntables and start recording demos to spread around…

Spend a good 6 hours or so catching up with past email correspondence. Thank goodness Ousmane has cable access as it makes my life easier
JA 12:56 am on July 22, 2003 | 0 | # |

Today, I had my first haircut of 2003! Thanks Aaron! For a couple of weeks, no more combing my hair until I cry of pain. Goodbye wicked afro!
JA 12:52 am on July 22, 2003 | 0 | # |

Friday

On the road to Ottawa, I fall asleep, what else did you expect? The person I ride with gets me there in an hour and three quarters which is pretty fast.

Meet up with Sam. He’s well. Takes me to the new appart. It’s nice but far from the city which is one of those things which
has advantages and bummers.

We do a little bit of shopping for the house. Today, for the first time, I did not go to the gym and I feel weird.

Since I have not sleept a lot in the last couple of days, at 8 pm I just fall on my newly purchased bed and don’t move an inch until 8 am the following day. It’s the first time in years, I have gone to sleep before midnight expect when I am sick.

Samedi

Sleep all morning, all day. Read. Buy food. Eat. Read. Sleep. I need to catch up on my sleep for the past week but also to make provision for the week to come. My brother shares an upsetting piece of news about a girl that shall remain nameless. But like everything that comes my way, I tell Jesus about it and just chill and forget.

Dimanche

Visit Ottawa. Great city. beautiful, lots to see. Will have to dedicate a full week to discover it fully. We bump into an old school mate in Nairobi. Man, Canada is full of us… or the world really is a small place.

Check out Hull. Nothing impressive. Nothing worthy of talking about…. yet

Spend the evening with one girl who’s was my neighbour 7 years ago in Kenya and we watch Bad Boys 2 which is great despite the violence and the disgusting scenes. Rhea, my friend, was rather unimpressed but her rather cute friend digged the movie. This friend of hers works at CTV one of the biggest Canadian TV stations and she’s a reporter. Needless to say, I give her a piece of my mind of what I think of journalists in general. She has a great sense of humour so she laughs with me. I end up spending the night at Rhea’s and for all you perverts out there, we slept in separates rooms and bed :o)

Monday

Drove around Ottawa and Hull, hoped back into a car back to Montreal. I am writing this as I prepare to go to bed and get ready for tomorrow. I’ll definetly purchase a digital camera and add some colours to this blog.

That’s all for now. I missed gym again and am so mad…. grr… I better go to bed now…

I will keep u posted with more news…

Peace
JA 12:33 am on July 22, 2003 | 0 | # |

So after a week without posting, I am back.

I have been busy… So busy as a matter of fact. So much has happened in my life the past week than all the combined months I moved to Canada. I am going to attempt to give you a low down, from what I remember…

Tuesday

Leave home. My dad takes me to the airport and gives me the talk that of course includes women. I guess that he too knows that the women in Montreal are fine 🙂

Get to the airport, check-in, say cheers to my dad and hop onto the plane. Destination? Calgary. Saskatoon is so small that they don’t have a direct flight to Montreal. So I have to go millions of kilometres in the west before I can go the west…. grrr what a waste of time!

Fall asleep all the way to Calgary. Why? I did not sleep much the prevous night because smartass that I am, I decided to pack my suitcase about midnight when my plane was meant to fly 7 hours later. I paid the price by not getting much sleep at all. A lady who sat next to me tried to engage some conversation but anyone who’s seen me when I am trying to sleep, when I wake up or when I am trying to sleep knows how unfriendly I can be :o)

Get to Calgary. Sit on my butt for an hour waiting for the connecting flight. Due the new airport regulations, I cannot leave my luggage and just bugger off for that hour looking around Calgary because it was just after the week-end of the world’s famous Stampede. So, to kill time, I just stare at people in the Airport and have fun making eye contact with people to see who’s gonna look away first. Of course, I win all the duals except with a 5 year old who just stares at me for about ten minutes until I gave up.

We at last hop onto a plane for Montreal. I can already hear people around me speaking French

Long, boring flight to Montreal. I take a very nice long nap, wake up, refuse the food offered to me. I then do some reading that I get tired of after a few minutes then decide to pray and dedicate this new era of my life into the hands of the Almighty.

After 4 hours, we land in Montreal. It reminds me of Nairobi because of the humidity. I like humidity so I don’t mind at all…
Hop into a taxi and give the driver Ousmane’s addy.

Get to Ousmane’s. We hug, diss each other about the fact that I am still skinny and that he’s still the same “imbecile hereux” who laughs at anything anytime ;o)

We chill, share news, discuss who’s dead, pregnant, in Montreal and so on…

Wednesday

Nothing much happens. I went to a gym that I found here and I took a walk around Ousmane’s Neighbourhood’s. Wow! What a mixture of cultural groups! Just the way I like it. Of course, I give a very thorough look at ladies and ain’t dissapointed. As a matter of fact, if a guy cannot find any girl to date in this city because he says that they aren’t beautiful ought to be shot. In the evening, hang out at Ousmane’s bud and go to bed slightly early because of the mini-jetlag effect.

Thursday

We went to city centre of Montreal where I really fell in love with the city and the joie de vivre of its inhabitants. I get a sore neck lookig around and thanking the Lord for creating so many beatiful women. And, they are friendly too :o)

At night, we go clubbing. I convinced all my friends to meet at a house club for a kind of reunion. It’s also a way to discover the big players in the montreal clubbing scene.

I meet Steph who still looks the bomb after these many years! We exchange news and she tells me how she’s become such a house music avid follower and I tell her how I decided to spin the music. I also meet a friend of hers, Jenny a French girl who’s into cinematography. Nice girl but too shy ;o) We dance the night away and I cannot believe it when at about 4 AM when when we decide to go home, the streets sont remplis a craquer (filled with many people)!

We catch a taxi home and we get dropped of a few blocks near the crib because my friends are el cheapo and don’t want to pay 5 bucks for the extra zone.

I decide not to go to bed because in two hours, I have to catch a lift to go to Ottawa, Ontario to meet with Sam, my brother who’s found an appartment in a nearby city called Hull.
JA 2:42 am on July 15, 2003 | 0 | # |

Want me to father your child? Looking to inherit all my money? Want to talk about great electronic jazz? Just want to say “Hello!”?

You can drop me a line at Jean@250879.com and you’ll hear from me as soon as I check my emails.
JA 2:26 am on July 15, 2003 | 0 | # |

So here I am doing things at the last minute as I always do. I just discovered that I have more stuff than I thought I had. I can’t get a bigger bag for a good reason that I don’t have one and there isn’t any luggage store open at this time of the night :o(

I guess that I’ll have to dump a few clothing items in favour of my Hi-Fi.

If you have no idea what the whole fuss is all about, I’ll let you in: I am moving to bigger and not necessarily greener pastures. Just hope that I have a blast in Montréal though!

What the hell am I doing? I should be back to packing…
JA 12:13 pm on July 8, 2003 | 0 | # |

Ma parole, nous viellissons de jour en jour. Je te souhaite une belle journée pleine de cadeaux. Mais pour l’ instant, va faire la fête pour célébrer. Ah, que j’ ai hâte d’ atterir à Montréal!
JA 11:19 pm on July 2, 2003 | 0 | # |

Well, Congrats to Vancouver for winning the 2010 Winter Olympic Bid. Now, let’s get down to work. Looking fwd to those 2.3 millions attendees… Um, How can I capitalize on ’em?
JA 12:07 am on July 2, 2003 | 0 | # |

Man, Canada is hot… the weather is meaner than I ever thought. But, I don’t miss winter. As a matter of fact, I don’t even look forward to it :o)
JA 12:31 pm on July 1, 2003 | 0 | # |

So here I am. I set up this blog as a way to document my life. If you know me and want to see what is happening with me, this is the ideal place to find out

I do receive lots of mail so this is a way to better answer everyone’s questions all at once :).

Spread the word. Tell your friends to tell their friends so we can be friends :o).

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