Contrary to Popular Belief Halloween Does Exist In Canada

Today is only Tuesday and I'm already exhausted. I woke up this morning and lamented the fact that I had forgot to turn my alarm off for the weekend. Then I realized it was not, in fact, the weekend. Bummer. Thankfully though, school was quite fun today. We learn demonstrative adjectives and talked about our emotions, what could be better? Rien. Now I'm resting and doing chores, bidding my time until I go meet my friends from school for a movie (Tuesdays are discount days at the theaters!).


As for this weekend, we had quite a bit of fun. Unlike in boring America, in Montreal there are three nights of Halloween and thus three costumes. Our main costume was that of the Mountie. There were five in total (plus our trusty steed Duke). Claire had come up with the idea and it seemed both realistic and creative but certainly not brilliant. To our surprise though, everyone was blown away. We got intense reactions from people yelling at us to laughter to pretty much any reaction you can think of. It was hilarious to see how shocked everyone was. It was also funny how many people (Americans) asked us if we were cowgirls. Hahaha. Our second costume was much less creative (mostly because we put them together in under an hour). Liz has these cups with animal faces on them so when you drink it looks like you have a snout, beak, etc. I wore different green articles of clothing, all with different patterns, and I was a chameleon. It was great to have such a fun weekend but now we are all exhausted. Thankfully though this is a mostly quite week until Thursday when Claire and I will hop on a bus down to Boston for the weekend. Yaay!
Claire was a shark.
Liz was a toucan.



Oh! The other reason why I'm exhausted is that yesterday I took a bunch of photographs for a "previously-loved" clothing website called MyExCloset.com. The premise is that you send them your old clothes, set the price, and then they put them online and other people buy them You spilt the profits 50/50 with MyExCloset. Claire is working as an intern for the Montreal branch and so when Claire heard that the usual photographer was unavailible, she volunteered me. I was a little aprehensive at first since I've never done anything like that, but it ended up being so much fun! It took three hours and we took nearly 600 photos. It was especially fun because one of the models didn't show so Claire ended up modeling. Thus for three hours I got to take pictures of pretty things and my best friend. That's the life, eh?