If you have frequented my blog over the past year, you probably picked up on my love for traveling and visiting new places. However, there are a few places that never get old, no matter how many times I travel to them. One of those places in Montreal - it's a fairly quick drive (less than 2 hours from campus) and seems like another world, despite the fact that it is easy to get to and very accessible. It reminds me a lot of France, but it also has the familiarity of the US - it's a great city.
As I had mentioned in a previous blog, my best friend from home Kristin and I got tickets for Kanye West's Glow In The Dark Tour, which was in Montreal at the Bell Centre last night. I took the day off from work (it's not that busy in Admissions yet) and we left a little after noon. We shopped all afternoon on St. Catherine's Street, had dinner at Peel Pub (so good!) and then went to the show. It was a good show - Kanye had three openers (Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D. and Rihanna) who were all good, especially Rihanna. I'm not a huge fan of her music, but I know a good number of her songs from the radio, so it was cool to see her perform so many songs that I know. After a long setup for Kanye (he didn't come on until almost 11:00!), he played a great set of both newer and older stuff. He's a very different performer than others that I have seen - he was pretty serious the whole time and is a very individual performer so it was only him up on the huge stage for the WHOLE time (his band/back up singers were all set down below the stage wearing black so that you could hardly see them)- I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to rap for far over an hour straight with no one else up there with you. The show had kind of a strange theme, but all in all, his music is amazing and despite our horrible seats, we had a good time. We managed to stay awake for the ride home after the concert by playing Backstreet Boys songs and working on our singing voices - needless to say, it was a great trip.
Kristin and I enjoying the concert!
The community at St. Mike's has become a second family to me, but even though Kristin and I don't share our college experiences, we still can pick up right where we left off and have an amazing time together. She will be gone for most of the summer doing research at SUNY-Potsdam, but for the time that we have together, we are making the most of it! If you have a chance to do a few roadtrips or go to any concerts at all, take advantage of them - those will be the times that you remember and I guarantee that you will be so thankful that you did them!
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Posted by: the apparently famous kristin | May 28, 2008 at 08:48 PM