Friday, August 19, 2005

Chicago, y despues Montréal

We had our big, all-USAS-all-the-time combination Regional Organizer Training, International Intern debrief and three-day National Summer Retreat. I basically got to see the inside of the UNITE-HERE building and lots of students for a week, on about 4 hours' sleep a night. Yipes! Whew, it's over. Now the semester begins.

After a leisurely week at the office (we get three days off after the confernece, I took the first two m-t) I got on a plane this morning headed for Montreal. I'm meeting with my (hopefully) future top surgeon, Dr. Brassard, today at 1:30pm. Since it was too expensive (and too much!) to flly back the same day, I get to bum around Montréal for a day.

The biggest problem is that what little French is left in my brain was replaced steadily by Spanish, so i keep wanting to respond to people with "gracias", etc. and it's taking me longer than usual to orient myself to maps. But I do remember a lot. I always seem to understand more of languages than I feel comfortable speaking, I'll have to get over that eventually.

I'll post pictures when I take them!

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