The last five days were essentially our only "late summer" holidays (we were away at the beginning of July), and so necessary after the hecticity (is that a word?) of August. Since we arrived Thursday, we've started to figure out transit, toured both downtown & our current neighbourhood in Lachine, and made it to our new church (https://www.gospelvie.com/, if you're interested to see).
But today, the next new phase began. While I'm sitting at home, Val is in class at UQÀM and Jaedyn is out having job interviews. She had seven lined up before we even left BC! Tomorrow, I have class and we meet with our FIT4M program director. It has been an interesting transition to "carless" life. While we will be right downtown starting in October, we are currently out in Lachine (west island). It's a lovely little neighbourhood, but everything we're here to do is about an hour away by transit, which we are beholden to. It changes your pace. Rushing either speeds up (to get the bus connection after being on the métro) or doesn't, if you miss it. From this end, the bus stop is literally a 90 second walk, so that's convenient, as is the proximity of services like grocery stores etc. (different names, Maxi & Pharmaprix, but same services: Extra Foods & Shopper's). We've already invested in a little wheelie cart to transport our groceries, but it has thus far meant that we are shopping every day! New rhythms. I've added a couple of pictures, including Val's first day of school and the outside of our apartment building. It's for rent October 1st if you're looking for a place in Lachine!
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