Montreal Road Trip, Vol. 2

Hello yet again to all you multiple, active readers! Time for another update on my escapades in the wonderful country known as Canada. It's been exactly one month since I left Finland and boy has time flown by soooo fast! One fourth of my exchange is done! Jeez, wow.

I'll post a more extensive look at our trip to Montreal in the coming days, once I get more photographic material from the other party-animals that went on the trip with me. Needless to say, the trip was a total bullseye, awesomeness ensued for two whole days! For now I'll leave you with a puzzling picture. The pic is of our car, which turned out to be a pretty sweet a** vehicle! I enjoyed driving this baby to Montreal and back. My Mitsubishi Pajero has met a worthy adversary! :p

See you in a tidbit!

Kolmannet Kuvatukset

Who says you never find something good after hours? That wasn't the case last night, we found a restaurant called "Mr. Dumpling". Want to order something from this restaurant someday. Not! The name in itself is already so apetizing and mouth-watering, I think I'll just have some of my own cookings instead!



It was a Pub Crawl night, with the dress code being "Canadian". I found me some nasty clothes. Here the hunter-hobo and the hunted moose share a drink.



Sean ordered some turkey and mashed potatoes. Plus he was decent enought to give me a some as well. That's why he got his picture up here. Seriously, it was so ridiculously delicious. Don't remember, when I last had mashed potatoes...



The Plad Man. Or the "hobo", as people referred to me. I'm all Canadian now!! Those had to be the most absurd pair of pants I've ever had on me. They only cost 3.99 CAD, so that considering, I won't whine about it no more! :)

Kingston's Homecoming

Well folks, homecoming is officially over. So now it's the time to write something about the past weekend. Due to last year's riots on Aberdeen (the main street of homecoming; houses only students), this year was waaaaay more organized as it was last year. That's what my new Canadian friends told me. I'll take their word for it, Kingston was swarming with police this Saturday. No public urinating, no public drinking, no public passing out, no public fights, no cars being flipped over, no beer bottles being thrown at the fire department officials. Everything that happened, occured in closed spaces, i.e. at house parties. All that didn't matter to me, Superman, who just had the most superb weekend in Kingston! The suit only cost me 7 Canadian dollars, but was my meal ticket to everyone's intrigue and excitement towards the not-so-sober superhero strolling down Aberdeen and representing the Finnish party spirit!

Due to the simple reason that I'm on exchange, I have no classes during Fridays. That basically meant that Thursday was a good night to catch up with a few other exchange students and head for a few pints. Friday was your basic day off in the middle of the week; nothing much happened during the day but we did have a few people at our house. Needless to say, that once Saturday morning came along, people at our internationally renowned household were were psyched about the entire Homecoming!

Saturday morning was started off by the traditional pancake keggers, that are organized by different households all around Kingston. Saturday is also the day that Homecoming is officially kicked off and most of the old alumni members arrive in Kingston. A notable fact about the alumni is that they have the reputation of being totally off the hook during the entire weekend. From a Finnish point of view this translates to the alumni being törkerösti känässä, kairaten vahvimmin hela veckorslutet.

After the pancake kegger, where I represented Finland to the utmost Baba specifications, everyone headed down to the Richardson Stadium, where the Golden Gaels played against a team i have no recollection of. The Gaels lost, but no one cared; during Homecoming the main thing is to get hammered. That's essentially what everyone was feeling, especially the international exchange students who've come to have a solid reputation of hanging out at bars quite often.

After the game people headed to our house where the party continued. Superman enjoyed a few beers and was the absolute iltatähti on Saturday. After heading towards Aberdeen I almost got fined for public drinking on a few occasions, but a superhero-like response saved me from getting a ticket. Some people at our house weren't that lucky... On Aberdeen everyone lost everybody, so new connections needed to be made. The night was a total success even though, found a few Canadian friends later on and we partied the night away. Kairausta, baby!

Now gotta go concentrate on other things not related to alcohol consumption. Honestly. It's the beginning of a school week, might as well try to act accordingly. Holla back.

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Montreal Road Trip

Our ride. Not bad, not bad at all!



The local Pentti @ 6261 Drolet.



Nousiainen, Kaisa and myself enjoying a great wine n' dine moment at a restaurant.



Just two individuals from Nöykkiö sightseeing the world.



Ile, Alex - the most brilliant Montrealian I've met so far, and Henna. Having a total riot at a local, exclusive roof party.



Words cannot express, how much fun I had. Then again, don't remember exactly, how much fun I had... People in this picture are able to shed some light to our Friday night at Montreal.



Dagen efter, Captain Morgan, a heart-breaking hang-over. This is where the worlds of men and women differ. Greatly. Kaisa is all set to order a full continental breakfast, Lorenzo just had the water. No joke.

Commerce BBQ

So we were at the Commerce BBQ thingie last week. Here are a few pictures of it, enjoyed myself totally. Why shouldn't I have? Beer n' burgers were served, what else is there to in life?! :p

This was the view, that hit me, once I came out to the backyard. Simply put, I was in awe. And I don't awe easily, I think! :) This was actually my first keg party as well. Did it go well? Sort of. Didn't break no Canadian drinking records, but then again it was *only* my first time so, give me time, I'll pick up the pace. The weirdest part of the keg culture that night was the way you had to drink the beer.

The way you drank was that you put both hands on a huge keg, two people hoisted you upwards by your legs and then you were given a highly sanitary hose to suck on. Sounds gay, I know, but fun as well. Then the beer came gushing out and you basically just drank as much as you could, while everyone was chanting your name! Sounds so North American, and believe me, it was!

After having way too many beers, we headed to Elixir, where I eventually lost everyone. Too much dancing, way too little mingling. That's the way you gotta roll.

Montreal, here we come!

Gonna head on over to Montreal today. Spend some quality time there with the other exchange students from our notoriously-wonderful school of HSE St. Michel, BScBA Program. More information concerning the successess and failures of our escapade to Montreal will most definitely ensue in the coming days. Meanwhile, have a great weekend, I'm most certain that I'll have a blast on my first Canadian road trip!

P.S. Had a blast at the commerce BBQ event on Wednesday! Pictures of the event will follow.

Frosh Week is on!!

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Had to put a Finnish twist to the correct answer...



Kalervo, Kyle, Aman and Max. And some beer.



Me and Max workin' it at the Ale House.



My house, my hood, my Collingwood

Hello everybody! Just bloggin between classes, today being the first day of many that involve the actual presence of studying... Been an awesome first nine days, seen a lot of new things (such as a hickie-toga -party, nasty stuff, I tell ya...) , got my own place and met tons of new, thrilling people! I've been out attending the Kingston night life preeeetty actively ever since I arrived here, so as a result, Finns are starting to get a reputation around these parts of Ontario. A good one, if I may add. I'm most often referred to the Finn, that can consume. No surprises there... :p

Later on today I'll meet my buddy at a commerce BBQ event. It's Frosh Week right now, Homecoming is next week, so the next two weeks will be pretty evenly consist of parties. Frosh Week here is the first week for the new students arriving to Queens. It contains different events throughout the week for everyone to attend. The Homecoming event is notoriously known throughout Canada, and heaps of people attend it yearly! It was a riot last year, cars being flipped over. Fun stuff. Will most definitely attend. I've already got an invite to Aberdeen (the street where the climatic Homecoming Week draws to an end) to a roof party next week. Gotta go to class right now, take care!