007- Je suis Bond, James Bond

Day 32 - (le 31 juillet) End of Explore Banquet

So like any other day I went to class and then had lunch, after lunch I took a nap and got up around 6 and changed for the 007 themed gala. The gala was basically I time for us to receive our certificates and also to have fun with everyone. There were a number of group acts that really summed up our time in Moncton. It was an overall fun night, the gala ended at about 10pm so there was really no time for dinner. What I did eat after the gala was an apple and I had a package of instant chicken noodle soup.

Here is a map of where every one is from!

There were also some students from Brazil and the United States

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MAN VS MICROWAVE

For Lunch: BBQ Pulled pork burger with potatoes and corn, Acadian chicken soup, salad, cookie, chocolate milk, ONIONS and a coca cola for later :)

For Dinner:
So I didn't take a picture of my dinner since apple and chicken noodle soup is pretty self explanatory.

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Day 33 -(le premier août) Take home exam and Food babies

Thursday, guess what? It was pretty different from all the other Thursdays! We went to class but had to take our placement exams again because they wanted to see if the program worked. I finished my test and did the oral portion and still had almost an hour until lunch. When it came time for lunch, we all went to lunch and then went back to my room to work on my take home exam (my prof is awesome so he gave us a take home exam to do on Wednesday and we had to hand it in on Friday during our 10 minute oral exam). At about 5 we went out for dinner. We went to a restaurant on Main street called Tide & Boar. (The name is a play on words because Moncton is famous for the tidal bore that happens twice a day in the petitcodiac river also known as the chocolate river) Apparently it was recommended on some sort of food channel and is very well known in the Moncton area.

Let me tell you the food was awesome! It was definitely a gourmet meal and was definitely worth the hour walk there and hour walk back :) STAY TUNED FOR PICTURES!

After dinner, I continued my take home exam until it was time for bed :)

Now time for some dorm/campus room pictures! :p

Champlain library

Lafrance my dorm building, its 11 floors high

my messy room, I was packing :D

the bug inside my room (between the netting in the window and the window)

The sun set! :)

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MAN VS MICROWAVE

For Lunch:  Deep fried pork chop, seafood chowder, salad, fruit salad, potatoes, peas, chocolate cake, coca cola for later and ONIONS!

Mocha made with chocolate milk and coffee :) So delicious

For Dinner: ARE YOU READY?????????

Home made lemonade

One of the girls had a 2 oysters

 A few girls had the Parm Haddock with the Tide & Bore salad, they said it was really good!

 I had the Boar Poutine :) SOOOOOOO GOOOOD!!!!!!! The red sauce on top of the boar is something that tasted like ketchup but wasn't really. We think it is their house made ketchup :)

For Dessert:

A friend and I shared the beeramisu, let me tell you it was sooooooo goood!!!!!!

Beeramisu

The other girls shared a dessert that had a lot of caramel and a chocolate crème brûlée

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Day 34 - (le 2 août) Bittersweet goodbyes

August 2nd was the last day we were all going to be together. On this last day, I got to sleep in until 9 because my oral exam was at 9:40am! :) After getting up and doing some last minute packing I went to do my oral exam. My prof said that I improved a lot in my placement exam!! :) After a casual conversation with my prof, I returned back to my dorm to finish packing and give some of my extra food to my friend. We all hung out for a bit and then at 11am we had to leave our rooms to turn in our keys. After that we all hung out in the lounge area until one of the girls had to leave. She left the school at 11:45am to catch her flight. We waited until she left in order to go to lunch. After lunch we returned to the lounge and began watching Footloose, we also weighed all of our luggage and thank goodness none of it was over weight! We watched the movie until 1:45pm when I had to board my taxi with a few others to check in for our flight. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 4:00pm (it ended up being delayed until 4:10pm )we arrived 2 hours early and passed through security in less than 5 minutes. So we had 2 hours to kill in the Canadian departures wing (is that the only wing?) of the Greater Moncton International Airport. The area that we were in housed 4 gates and was quite small. After a while more participants of Explore showed up in the terminals so we all sat together and chatted until it was time for a few of us to board our flight to Ottawa.

Please enjoy by attempted pictures at the terminal and in the air :) Most of it is clouds, if you look really close you'll see land!!! :)

After about an hour and 30 minutes in the air, we had arrived in Ottawa! :) 

This is the waterfall that greeted us in Ottawa :)

This is where the 3 of us who were on the Moncton to Ottawa flight had to part ways. There were three of us on the flight, 2 of us were travelling back to home on the same flight and the third person was going to Regina. We waited  around until about 5:35pm to go to Tim Horton's because we were hungry, but at this point I had realized that we weren't sitting anywhere near our gate and our flight was scheduled to leave at 6:10pm. We quickly ran to our gate and heard them calling for passengers to board, so we didn't get Tim Horton's and left our friend to wait for her flight to Regina :(

We boarded the plane with empty stomachs and only the snacks I had in my backpack (6 maple cookies, 2 packages of M&Ms, a pack of smarties and a pack of Scooby snacks....) We were quite hungry halfway through the approximately 6 hour flight, so we ate my maple cookies and the M&Ms.

I watched an episode of new girl, listened to some music and watched Skyfall.

But before and after I did all of that I checked the map to see where we were. After watching New Girl and chatting with my friend who was sitting next to me (We were able to get seats next to each other for the long flight!), we saw that we were near Thunder Bay

excuse the bad photographs guys! :)

After hearing that we were preparing for landing we checked the map again and we were still just near Thunder bay..... The map was soooo trippy!

Anyways, after a long flight we were excited to be home. The things we were all most excited about was seeing our friends and family, sleeping in our own beds, having eggs for breakfast and cooking food without using the microwave! 

This was an awesome experience and I would recommend it to everyone who is interested, it doesn't matter how much french you know because I GUARANTEE you will get better! :) 

On a side note:

One thing that I definitely picked up during this experience is how to use a Canadian French keyboard, it is so hard to switch from the US keyboard to the Canadian French keyboard but it made life so much easier when I was doing homework to have the Canadian French keyboard

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#YOMO #ratchet #ghettomoncton 

After coming home, I realize how much I miss Moncton and how much I miss the friends that I made in Moncton. I had a blast and hopefully we'll all meet up to hang out soon! :)