Wow. That pretty much sums it all up. Wow.

So, I guess an apology is in order, seeing as I haven't really been here for like over a month, so I'm sorry. At least let me tell you why :p

Well, a month ago, I left Canada to go on vacation with the family. We rented a house in the south of France, at St-Cyr sur mer, east of Marseilles. The weather was gorgeous, the house was beautiful, we had a pool and a beach, it was like a dream. Als, the rumors are true, yes, some ladies go topless to the beach. Not a lot, but still enough to be noticeable.

After that, we had a week-long bike trip, going from Avignon to Arles passing by Les Baux de Provence. Les Baux was on top of a mountain, btw. Was not easy, especially since the rented bikes weren't designed to be able to go uphill , and the fact we left around noon to be caught on the mountain at 2PM ish, when it was 38°C outside. Hot! But it was worth it, there was an actual medieval castle with scaled down replicas of catapults and a real honest to god Trebuchet, which I helped to fire!

Then it was to St-Maries de la mer, a beautiful little village smack dab in the center of a huge swamp, home to the famous Camargue white horses (I went horseriding on the beach! :D) and from there to St-Gilles.

From St-Gilles, we went to Nïmes. It was a big and beautiful city, and there was a roman arena at the heart of the city. Sadly, the gladiatoral combats started the next day, and we had to leave, but the sight of the small coliseum was very impressive.

After that, we arrived at Remoulins, a cute little medieval village. From there we visited the Pont du Gard. It is simply amazing. It's a huge bridge made entirely out of stone. No mortar, no wood, no nails, no nothing. Just stones and gravity. The romans built it around 50 AD, and it's been standing since. It was part of a long aqueduc system going from Nïmes, where there was a spring of excelent water, over 30 kms long, to Arles, where they made hot baths. And the best part is, this system was built 2000 years ago, with zero advancd technlogy, only stone, hammers and chisels. And yet the aqueduc carried water 35 kms away with a difference in elevation only of something like 10 metres! Over gullies and ridges, around mountains, the romans carried water with an incredily amazing and advanced system! And then the empire crumbled, the Church took over, and the "barbarians" destroyed most of the aqueduc. But whatever.

After Remoulins, we went back to Avignon, where we visited the famous bridge of Avignon.

My father had to return to Canada, so we ewnt back to Marseilles, where he and his mom (yes, we took my grandma on the voyage) returned home while my mom, my sister and me flew to Brussels, and then to Holland to visit family!

We visited the family, tasted a Stroopwaffel McFlurry, ate fresh stroopwaffels, visited more family, all in all had a great time, even though it was mildly cold and rainy.

Also, I took a train from Arnhem to Eindhoven, where I went to the famous Technische Universiteit Eindhoven! My parents thought it was an official visit to see a symposium on cardiac diseases, but in reality, I met up with our very own dutch werefox,  Pierrot90!!! Would you believe that? I had a blast! We visited the university a bit, then we went around town, took a beer (well, I took a coke, but I should have taken the same thing as him. Next time I come, Pierrot, make sure I take a Brugse Zot, ok? ) visited a comic book shop (my god, I was in heaven!) and even visited a coffee shop! You know, those coffee shops in Holland where they don't sell coffee? Very popular in Amsterdam? Hint hint?

And in the middle of it all,  Pierrot90 took me to the mail outlet to open his package from Sofawolf press! I go to Holland to meet my first furry, who also goes to take a batch of furry litterature! Awesome! Pierrot got the Nordguard comic book, along with a patch which he'll sew on a jacket or something (You'll have to take pictures and show off your tail too! ) and the first book of the New Tibet furry series, Common and Precious. Is that eveything? Well, we'll be waiting for your reviews Pierrot, so you had better read those books and enjoy them!

And then Pierrot showed me the traditionnal student supper, costing approximately 5 euros per erson to make a huge load of spaghetti. It was delicious! And I still can't get over the fact you can buy a teeny weeny can of tomato paste, so small it fits in our hand, for 2 eurocents. I mean it's so small and cheap! OMG!!! :p

We talked about furry, I read a bit from his Werewolf's Guide to Life: A Manual for the Newly Bitten, Pierrot was kind enough to give me a beer :p Which incidentally tastes MUCH better than in North America, as in not so-disgusting-it-will-make-you-spit-it-out bad. He showed me World of Tanks, which looks like a really awesome game, we watched a show of Big Bang Theory (Bazinga! ) but sadly all good things come to an end.

My visit in Eindhoven was the highlight of my stay in Holland (well, maybe apart from the time I locked myself out of the house for an hour and a half. Why do Dutch people have no door handles on the outside?) but soon I had to return. We visited family in Harlem, where I went clothes shopping for the FIRST TIME to buy me stylish clothes! In Canada, there's mostly skater, snowboarder or rapper styles, and that's pretty much it. In Holland, there was so much more! I got myself classy clothes I actually liked! One's a secretly furry T-shirt, says "I like to live life on the wold side" with people who'se heads are replaced with the heads of great felines

I also bought myself a necklace with a gecko sign on it, part of the furry part of my vacation in Europe, and coming back I sorta told my mom I liked furries. I guess it was kinda obvious since I have the whole Anima+ manga and "Furries! The Best of Anthropomorphic Fiction" anthology, but still, that might mean I could openly go on FA now!

So, then we went back to Canada, there was a funny accident at the Brussels airport (now we know why europeans joke about the Belgians so much! :p), there were like 8 kids under 6 in the airplane, one of which just wouldn' shut the hell up! Kept screaming like a fraking jaguar with a broken paw all the 8 hours from Europe to Canada.

So we arrive, and I must hurry up to catch up with my volunteering in a lab, and my martial arts club is preparing for my friend's senior black belt testing (I'm still junior, but I'll be senior before the end of the year), which means I must come in 3 times a week at minimum to catch up myself, and after that university starts again!

So bleh, here you go, a big fat unedited journal to say all of what I've been up to. Also, the rewrite of Ch.1 is going along nicely, I have it all figured out (mostly :p) I just need to sit down and WRITE dammit!

So yeah, Imma back! Gonna try to go through the 150 messages now. Talk to y'all soon!