The First Steps

Every journey begins with the first steps, the first impressions that  are the jumping off point for the rest of  one's experiences. My journey begun with a very short plane trip, one that was over before i really thought it had begun. I was told I had to grab my bags and take the 747 bus to the station. I was a little lost to where to find sucha bus, but I looked for signs, and dragged my bags on to the bus. I awkwardly sat near my bags. About halfway through my trip I was furiously texting the famous maw sisters to find out if  I was indeed lost. The man beside me  said "Je ne comprende pas anglais". I got off at  the last stop to meet Kelly, a  petite pensyvanian and leader of my Urband Cultures DTS. My first steps took me from the bus to the metro, or subway of Montreal. Where me and Kelly took my bags and traveled to my apartment., and a beatiful one at that. It is old looking, but very beautiful.  It is a ground floor apartment, and my room, which I share with my roomate from BC, Amy, has a beautiful big window that provides us with a view of our garden and the street. We have very squeaky french doors. Our apartment has four rooms and five girls, as well as one bathroom, a kitchen/dining room/ parlour.
The other girls are very nice. I am sitting with one as I write this in a Starbucks by the YWAM Montreal office.
Her name is Alyce and is fron North Carolina. The other girls come from BC, Quebec and Switzerland.
Yesterday we did a photo scavenger hunt to start our dTS, we were pared up with some of th boys, who hail from The Netherlands and  France respectively. I was paired up with Jeremy from France and we were the only two that did not speak the same language. We did however talk "un petit peu" and made our way up to the top of Mont Royal, where we met with two other groups on the bus and we made on big group.
We did the round trip of Montreal, as my feet can attest, and then met the leaders at a surprising good and not sketchy restaurant named burritoville.

The picture above is acutually a peice of the berlin wall in a Mall in downtown |Montreal.
This morning i went with Alyce and Jesca (of quebec) to the Jean Talon market, where I will  be doing all my shopping for chirstmas. So much freash fruit amazing cheese and the most beautiful choclate I have ever seen...I'm looking at you mom. You will be seeing that at Christmas!

You should know I'm having a great time and can't wait for the rest of the adventure. Soon we will be getting internet at the apartment so you can continue to hear about my adventures.

On the Next Blog of Hannah Foulger and a life adventured:
Next week classes begin. We will be getting our orientation and a class by Pierre Lebel, the man in charge at the Montreal YWAM base at a church...somewhere in montreal.
And we continue to develop the roomie relationships. you may even see a picture of all my roomates.
See you then, my darrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlings.

Hannah