Burlington, VT

I have arrived in Burlington! After many, many hours spent driving we got to Burlington on Tuesday... technically it was Wednesday morning, I suppose. Wednesday during the day, I tried to resolve some administrative issues and walked away having resolved none of them but with a shiny new student ID in hand. Kinda frustrating, but eh *shrug*.
Thursday Kyle and I ventured north to visit the French-Canadians of Montréal. I was under the mistaken impression that it was a bilingual place. Really, it's just French-speaking, but they know English. It was rather fun to dust off my French skills a bit. We were both wrong to expect that we would easily find crepes there. However, we did explore the namesake of the city, Mount Royal, per Andrea's recommendation, and had a fun time walking all over it.

Montéal has bike boulevards! Oh, jealousy!

On Mont Royal, they don't have signs showing what the landmarks visible from the viewpoint are. Instead they have labeled sights, like gun sights. It's BRILLIANT!

cityscape behind us

The most incredible lawn mowing technique ever devised!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today, Friday, I dropped Kyle off at the airport for his return to the homeland. I got sad, but I distracted myself by getting admin stuff done that I failed to do on Wednesday, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy (and productive) inside. I also met the prof that I will be TA'ing for... which is the new term I must learn to replace the GSI'ing term used by the (valiant) Wolverines. Both mean that I am helping with the prof's teaching load. I got a really good first impression of her, and she said she will teach me SAS! (I'm pretty sure this will only mean something to Dre. It's a stats thing, don't bother to google it, Mom.)

Downtown Burlington... eerily Boulder-esque, non?