It's why I turned so blue

Greetings devoted readers! I'm officially finished with my first semester. Yippy!

As soon as I finished I started cooking and baking. Sarah and I made a delicious spaghetti squash casserole and a butternut squash soup; this ambitious endeavor was taken on due to countless musings by myself on how one cooks a squash while enjoying the soups and dishes at People's Potato - turns out it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Plus, now I've got a stock of food to keep me until I leave and to keep on the freeze until needed.

I've been doing shopping trips to find things to send to people back home, making Christmas cards, reading, and making little goodies to give out. I attempted to make fudge but it didn't set so it's more like really sweet, semi too-thick pudding. But the choco covered pretzels and sugar cookies turned out fine.

It is -15 Celsius right now (5 in Fahrenheit). Holy crap, I'm so cold and the snow has only been around for a while. I don't know what I'd do with out my ginormous snow man suit. It's getting to the point where you're going to have to really coax me to leave the house. I'll be better once I get some wool to cover my feet and legs.

Today my friend Anna and I spent time in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Anna is leaving this week so it was really good to spend some quality time with her; plus, she's an awesome art museum companion because she is an art major and has been studying Canadian art - I learned quite a bit. The pièce de résistance was most definitely the James Waterhouse exhibit; the museum is the first to showcase all his works in one place at the same time and I really like his mythical subject matter. My favorite is Circe Invidiosa.

On Saturday morning Emilia and I will be entering the states! First trip is to see my friend Maeve who attends Boston College. I'm thrilled to spend time with a friend from back home on the other side of the states.

Neige!

neige=snow.

So the Monday after American Thanksgiving I woke up to snow covered trees and streets. It was beautiful. Then it sort of stopped. Then it started again. And now it's supposed to be 15-25 centimeters tomorrow!

Here's a picture of the first snow:

(You'll be happy to know, Grandpa) I bought a coat. It's something I think about doing a lot so I'm glad I finally did it. I look like a marshmallow in my big, puffy, warm, white jacket.

Anyway update on the week. Went with Joanna and Inga to my friend Marcel's for his going away shindig. It was fun but very sad to me because a good chunk of my buddies will be leaving for home in the coming weeks.

Sarah and Cameron had a joint birthday party. The next day I went with some friends to the Christmas craft fair down the street.

When I came back home Nikolaus had visited our house! The 6th of December is a Holiday when St. Nick and a dubious character, Knecht Ruprecht. If you're good you get gifts, if you're bad you get beat. There were three little chocolate santas and a card written in German waiting to be let in.

Cardy and I just went out and purchased a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. It's pretty darling. Thought you would get a kick out of the tree Grandma.
Friday and I'm done. Woot. Then it's just saying goodbye to friends, getting some Christmas celebration done, and I'm off on my east coast adventure with Emilia.