whOA - K

A few interesting facts about france:

1. chi chi = churro A.K.A deep fried sticks of goodness covered in sugar and don't come as a singular churro like in edmonton, no, you get like 9 at once!

2. dog poo + shoe = an uncomfortable picnic experience

3. it is perfectly acceptable to portray naked woman on the side of rides at the carnival... especially if the ride has anything do with with America

let's see....

I had a wonderful dinner with some fellow canadians (+ Malika who is an honorary canadian haha) on Saturday night. We went to Ian's apartment, a guy from Montreal who we met at Vimy. The coolest part was this cafe we went to post-dinner that was in Old Lille, hence it was an old building. They put tealights in all the holes in the brick walls...there was also live trombone music and peanuts. Also, there was a giant hole in the floor covered by blue plate glass, it lookes down into some kind of cellar. I think I am officially turning french because I ordered one of their impossibly small coffees and was actually satisfied, drinking it in more than 15 seconds!

Sunday was picnic day. Ian, Julie, Katie, Jake (her bf), Raelene and Malika and myself all stopped at the market for some goodies and went for a little picnic. As we sat, the smell of poo kept wafting by, hindering the enjoyment of my black pepper goat cheese and fig semolina bread. Well, at least I wasn't crazy - there was a nice little pile smushed into my shoe! Sigh... after that little emergency, we carried on successfully! Next to our spot was an exhibit housed in a greenhouse that compiled all the floats left over from Lille's India parade in January... there was an elephant like 20 metres high! We also checked out the Fine Arts museum because it was free... but not so fine as I had imagined! The layout was difficult and distracting, and the "artifacts" area hadn't been renovated in a while... So on to the carnival... it is something to see! There are true carneys there and all the rides have naked women on them? Great influence for the kiddies...We shared some deep-fried-sugar-goodness at the park next door for dinner. (SHH I KNOW)

And... it has rained non stop since then!