Do You Speak English?

Eng­lish wasn’t pop­u­lar. French don’t like Eng­lish much (“they put vine­gar on chips and eat meat with mint sauce !”), and the rela­tion­ship with the USA has always been a bit rocky (“these warmongers/ burgers-eaters !”), so there were basi­cally no incen­tive to learn.

Funny, How ?

We were three friends sit at a small wob­bly wooden table, set half on the side­walk, half on the curb side of the dusty road. We just came back from a bar where my roommate’s Chi­nese boyfriend was per­form­ing and we were starv­ing, crav­ing for a plat­ter of jiaozi. It was a hot and humid night in Nan­jing, China.

I Am A Passenger... And I Ride And I Ride

I have an ongo­ing love & hate rela­tion­ship with cars. I like cars. They hate me.

It all started when I was 17. After I com­pleted the com­pul­sory 50 hours dri­ving ed, I reg­is­tered for the test.

List of Weird Things I've Tasted

I love test­ing new food when I travel. Some­times you get lucky, some­times you don’t… but you end up with some pretty cool sto­ries to brag about !

Here is my top five of the weird­est things I ate.

Des deux côtés de l'Atlantique

Il y a presque 5 ans, je débar­quais pour la pre­mière fois de ma vie en Amérique du Nord. En ce mois de jan­vier 2007 le plus chaud que nous ayons connu jusque là (jan­vier sans neige à Ottawa, c’est plus rare qu’une dent dans la bouche d’un joueur pro­fes­sion­nel de hockey !), voici un petit point cul­turel sur les dif­férences entre les deux côtés de l’Atlantique.

Only in Canada...;

Only in Canada list!

Different, you said ?

After all, I had sur­vived China, most Latin Amer­ica coun­tries, Aus­tralia, New Zealand… Why wouldn’t I blend in in Canada ?