What a place to live, work and study

I wanted to show you some more pix from my university mountain as weather was and still is fabulous. :-) Plus during this semester I have a second office, what progress... lol Well, I share it with my teaching colleagues. Teaching is fun and demanding, too. I guess one day I will chat along in German and my poor students will only understand "Bahnhof". No, you really have to be careful not to mix the languages.

Apart from that I went ice skating yesterday after years and years. It went quite well and people said I had talent. Maybe they were just being nice. ;-) Well, in Canada you should have some connection to the ice. Maybe I'll make skating a habit and I will check out for another hockey game soon.

Here we go:

wintery campus on a Sunday


views from there




today the views were even better


which dragged me and a friend to our nearby Burnaby Mountain Park, a lovely place...

but before that there was work to do ;-)


my ta office


proof


back in the open

our pond, frozen





what a weather! :-D


I waited for the drop. ;-) BTW Val and me were wondering in Québec how they are called in English, still don't know... I can look it up or someone let me know ;-)


okay, the Mountain Park, on the way



Wenn das nichts ist! ;-)


Downtown and Stanley Park in a distance



Vancouver Island in a distance, even Tofino was sunny today


Grouse Montain behind Totem Poles



and then we were walking in the sun- and moonlight


playing with the colour schemes ;-)


it's getting dark


good, I wasn't alone ;-)


Girls and guys, good night!

PS: Conny, ja mühe dich mal einen Kommentar zu hinterlassen. (Alle anderen auch...) ;-) Danke für den Brief!

Bulle

Oh, I forgot about Bulle, un très joli chat québécois. Look at him posing here. ;-)

Reservation camp

I still want to show you the remaining pics I took in and near Montréal. By now I am already well in the new semester studying and teaching German, which is fun. It is quite demanding to explain everything in English but the students are really motivated and as you know I like to teach anyway. :-)

Last weekend we had a nice townhouse party with lots of great food and wine. Val had her late birthday party and people were speaking in at least 4 languages, some also able to speak some German next to French, Spanish and of course English as the safe habour. lol How international we were again. ;-) Well, my neighbour from the US is able to speak Arabic.

Okay on with the pix:

the name of the area


The church there, they are Catholic by the way.


Don't ask me what that means at the door of the church. lol


We know what that means, though.


Normally it's Arrêt throughout Québec. As far as I remember it is Stop in France as well, but I might be wrong. I should go and check some time soon. ;-) Or someone can let me know. Anyway, in Québec it is Arrêt on the Stop signs, which led Val's father to the statement that they are even more French there than in France. lol Well, I don't know about that... ;-)

They don't have any street names or house numbers in the reservation camp to prevent taxation. But they have their own police.


The peace keepers



And they can sell cigarettes without taxes, which is interesting for some Québécois and leads to this:


There is no French writing or flag from Québec. It's a federal area and very different from all the other parts I have seen. I hope you found the pics somehow interesting, I found the detour there very interesting. As well as I enjoyed the whole stay in Québec very much. :-D

Montréal

Over the following days we did a lot of stuff in and near Montréal. The Québécois are proud to show their area. :-)

snow storm in the city


the results





amazing, right?


well, they can handle it


okay, apart from the snow... ;-)

the big cathedral


lit a candle


a school

I like that shop. :-)


view from Mont Royal


nice food, in that case mexican



great coffee and cake :-)


nearby mountain area




Notre Dame de Montréal


inside


freezing there as well



modern part of Montréal


hôtel de ville


lol, I especially liked the hockey one's, makes them more Canadian. Can you spot them at all? I got a Québecois, but still believe they are Prussian. ;-)


Can you believe it? Glühwein, vin chaud, hot wine like back home



to be continued, some pix from a reservation area near Montréal