Category: travels
language barriers
| October 2, 2007 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, dreaming, freeform, on identity, travels, Uncategorized |
..Sunday evening, i went to a show where all the singing was in arabic. i didn’t understand one bit of the lyrics but sang along with some of the words, danced in my head to the traditional arabic dabke that would accompany parts of the show if space allowed..recalled my time spent attempting to kick…
new york, new york!..in four hours
| September 20, 2007 | Posted by caroline under humour, personal, storytelling, travels, Uncategorized |
i hadn’t been to New York since i was 12, so as soon as my dad said that there’s a health and beauty show he had to check out, i jumped at the offer to accompany him.. a–because i haven’t been there in sooo long and i was smitten by the city when i was…
lost city, Toronto vs. Montreal
| September 3, 2007 | Posted by caroline under myself, personal, travels, Uncategorized |
Toronto has this air my body has trouble digesting. I believe all places are deserving of time, some an acquired taste and others an immediate affinity. I was definitely in love with one, and it was with that city I spent four years in, Montreal. When I hear her name, I experience a pulling at…
airport hassles
| February 26, 2007 | Posted by caroline under humour, storytelling, travels, Uncategorized |
i officially hate airports. after 3hrs spent there today, i would rather stay in the same place and fester than ever enter one of those vacuous time traps again. first, they open the baggage check late. delayed flight. ugh second, i arrive and go through all their straight-faced customs shit….it’s like they don’t even know…
Ghost of Montreal
| January 31, 2007 | Posted by caroline under travels, Uncategorized |
i was looking to ghost hunt, once, in this here city. I came upon this blurb about a ghost: One well-documented gallow’s tale is that of Angelique, a black slave accused of setting fire to her furrier master’s home on rue Saint-Paul in 1734. The fire spread and burned down much of the colonial city.…
