Just kidding. It happened to some friends of mine.... And me, cause I was there.
Okay, here we go.
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 5:30ish-pm Ontario time.
Patricia asked me if I wanted to go with her and Emanuel to Laval, Québec (across the river from Montréal) for youth group. Now, it's an hour and a bit drive, and in Québec, so that meant that everyone would most likely be only speaking French. I had mixed feelings about going, but decided to swallow whatever reason there was not to go, and said yes.
Friday, March 11, 2011. 6:00pm Ontario time.
I was on Facebook, and I noticed Emanuel was online, so I asked him if we were still going to Laval, and he said, "Yes, we're supposed to be leaving Hawkesbury by 6:15, but Pat isn't here yet." So I logged off Facebook, put my coat on, grabbed my mittens, put on my boots, and walked the 5 minutes to Emy's house. I figured it was easier to wait at his house, seeing as that's where Pat was going to first. When I got there, it was 6:10, and Emy explained that Pat had just called, and she was JUST leaving her house, which is a half an hour drive away.
When Pat arrived, she said that Roxanne had called her, and wanted to come too. So we left. We picked Roxy up, and started the drive to Laval.
About half an hour to Laval, Pat's car's transmission or motor decided that it REALLY didn't want to go to Laval, so it fell asleep or something. Pat pulled over to the side of the road, where (praise God), a tow-truck was hooking up another car. He came over and asked what was going on. He eventually called us a taxi which drove us to the Home Depot parking lot in a random town that had a big stripmall. The tow-truck brought the car there, and then left. We went into Home Depot, and Roxy called Jeremie who lives in Montréal to see if there was anywhere he knew of that we could stay for the night. Jeremie called his friend Daniel, and Dan came and picked us up from McDonald's (to which we had migrated because we were hungry).
Dan drove us to a Metro Station (the train- not the band :P ) in Laval, where we met up with Jeremie. Dan left, and Roxy, J, Emy, Pat, and I walked across the bridge into Montréal. We went to another station, and got bus tickets. We took the bus for about 25 mintutes and then got off to go to another bus station. Across the street from the bus stop was a car parked on the side of the road, stuck in some snow (that could have passed for a snowbank), so we ran across the road and pushed them out. Then we went back and waited. It was at this time, that I realized that J reminds me A LOT of my friend Richard Twiddy, which was pretty rad. For those who know Richard, I'll give you the similarities I noticed between him and J. Loud- they're both just loud guy. :P Tall- Which isn't really important, but I noticed it... 'cause I'm short. Their laugh- is the same. Sense of humor- same. I could go on and on, but I'm not going to.
We took the bus and got off it eventually. We then walked to J's house and he got us some blankets and pajamas for the night. THEN we walked to his church (which was Chinese Buffet at one point. :P )
We pushed two couches together, which is where Pat and I slept. Roxy made a bed out of chairs. as we were getting ready for bed, we looked to the front of the church and realized just how big the windows were- if anybody wanted in, all they had to do it raise a chair and smash the windows. We ended up pushing the couches and chair-bed as far from the window as we could, so no one outside would see us. Emy and J went to J's house to sleep because of logical reasons. At one point, we looked out the windows, and saw a man standing across the street leaning up against Subway, smoking a cigarette. We couldn't tell if he could see us or not, but we decided to go to bed so it wouldn't be obvious that we were there. :P
Saturday, March 12, 2011. 8:00am Ontario (& Québec) time.
We woke up in the morning, got ready, and put everything back to the way it was before we got there. We were going to take the bus to the Metro Station to get downtown, but J actually found us a ride which was God who provided for us. :) We got in the hippie van (which, by the way, is the COOLEST mode of transportation I've ever ridden in... I want a hippie van. Greg (the driver) drove us to his house which was close to the Metro Station that would take us to the mall where J works. We walked to the Metro and took it downtown. The mall, called Centre Eaton (or The Eaton Centre) reminds me a lot of a mall in downtown Calgary called TD Square. It's three or four buildings put together to make a mall... it's kind of hard to explain. Anywho, J put his coat and stuff away in the back room of the store he works in, West Coast, and took us down to the food court to get breakfast, which we hadn't eaten.
After breakfast, J told us that his break would be at 1, so we could go and spend lunch with him. So from 10:30 (which is when he started work) to 12, we walked around the mall. At 12, I remembered that J had told us about a room that had 8 Mac computers that had free internet for whoever wanted to use it. So from 12 to 1, we were on Facebook talking (to each other, cause we're just that cool) and other people who were wondering where we were, reassuring everyone that, "Yes, we are alive," and, "No, we don't know how or when we're getting back." My mom was freaking out and she doesn't even live in Eastern Canada. xD
Saturday, March 12, 2011. 1:00pm, ON & QC time.
As we were walking aroung the mall, an alarm started going off. This alarm was to signify what the Québecois were having a Strike outside. This Strike was HUGE.... I don't know exactly what it was about, but I don know that it had something to do with the Québec education. Anywho, Emy and Roxy wanted to go see it, so we went outside. I honestly was so afraid we were going to get shot or arrested or something. But yeah, we were outside for about a half an hour, when they (as in not I) decided to walk down Rue Sainte-Catherine Street, we walked and walked and walked for like, 45 minutes. When we were walking down Rue Sainte-Catherine Street, we went into an Anglican church (the churches here are BEAUTIFUL). As we walked in, Roxy started singing Amazing Grace. We reached the alter, and behind it was another room. The Priest/ Pastor guy came out of his office and said, "You know, the acoustics are better in the back room because we just got it plastered..." So we went into the back room and sang various worship songs for about half an hour or so. We decided to leave, and as we were leaving, the Priest guy said, "If you come back tomorrow, our choir'll be here singing, you can hear it if you'd like." We told him that we're from Ontario, and that we were only there for the day. Also that we had our own church to go to. :PWe left the Anglican church, walked a couple blocks and went into a United church where the choir was practicing. We sat two rows behind the last lady, and Roxanne sang along with them. The lady turned around and asked her if she wanted to go and sit with her so she could read the words, and Roxy jumped up. We sat there for about half an hour, and then decided to leave. It was fun, :)
We got to a Tim Horton's, I got a hot chocolate, and then we decided to walk back. The four of us split up, so Roxy and I kept walking while Pat and Emy stayed behind to look at a store. They eventually caught up with us and we made it back to the mall. J got off work at 6, so we met up with him, too.
Eventually, we met up with Emy's brother Ady and sister Dya, (Adrian and Adriana) and we went to McDonald's for dinner. (Which we actually walked ALL the way back down Rue Sainte-Catharine Street)
Saturday, March 12, 2011. 7:00pm,ON & QC time.
McDonald's. We'd made it. We went inside, ordered, and sat down. J prayed (kind of loudly :P) and we started eating.
Suddenly, a homeless man came in shouting at people. We ignored him. He started yelling at us... we ignored him.
He bought a burger, sat behind us and was yelling from his seat. At one point, J whispered something to Roxy, and the man yelled a response that fit well with what J had said... I was sitting across from them with my back towards the man, meaning that I was closer to him than them, and closer to them than he was. I COULDN'T HEAR WHAT J SAID TO ROXY, and yet the man could. We started to think that maybe this man was possessed.
He came over to our table often- many times asking Dya if she could read the nutritional facts for him. Eventually he went away and started yelling at other people. Then he went outside. J followed him. He talked to him for a couple minutes, and then came back in. J left to go home, and we stayed around for another half-hour or so. Then we walked ALLLLLL the way back to Ady's car.
It's really funny- all three of the other girls are tall and skinny. I'm short (I'm skinny too, but I have bigger hips and thighs than they do). BECAUSE of that (because I'm the "fattest", I got the front seat so their was more room for the 4 of them in the back.
Hahaha. Being not-super-skinny has its advantages. :D
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