Me and My Friends

This section is dedicated to all my friends. Even if they are not mentioned on this page, they know who they are =) Here you'll find pictures, stories, my acts of blatant stupididty and some other stuff. Enjoy!

Pictures

Well, now that I have easy access to a scanner, I've been able to get some pictures online. Before you take a closer look at these, I should warn you that I normally picture very badly. Click on each picture to see a larger version of it. All the names under the pictures go from left to right. Some of these pictures are rather old since I rarely have a camera handy. The one of David, Joseph, Joanna and me is like 6 years old or something.

Tribute To The Coffee Shop

Down the hill from Marianopolis, there is a Second Cup. This Second Cup is a very important place. During my stay in CEGEP, my college friends and I practically lived in this coffee shop. The atmosphere there is beautiful with comfortable couches to relax on in front of a working fireplace. We went to this Second Cup literally every chance we got. Since we often had 2 to 4 hour breaks between classes, you could always count on us sitting on those couches relaxing during our breaks. In the middle of a Montreal Winter, it is remarkably hard to get up from those comfortable couches to make the long trek uphill to your next class, but we did it all the time. The people there always knew our orders by heart and our Second Cup punch cards became something we couldn't live without. It is no longer referred to as "A Coffee Shop". It is now "THE coffee shop". The conversations that took place there will not be forgotten by anyone in the group. Every time we are there, we always have fun and end up laughing 'till we cry. This coffee shop will forever remain The Coffee Shop, and is still used as our standard meeting place. Thanks to Rosie and Robyn for finding the place, thanks to The Coffee Shop for providing a place where we could all relax and have the time of our lives, and thanks to all my college friends for being there to provide some incredible memories of CEGEP.

Stories

There is a strip mall not far from my house, which some of us refer to affectionately as The Bermuda Triangle. Many different stores and restaurants have come and gone there, but very few have managed to survive. For quite a long time, there was a great little video store there called MT Video. Another store in that stip mall, is Super Bagel. Super Bagel is stictly a bagel place and doesn't make anything else. The entire front of Super Bagel is a large glass window, with a glass door in the middle. My friends David, Joseph, Eitan and I had gone to MT Video to get a movie. We were on our way home and passing Super Bagel when David got an urge for a bagel. David immediately turned to order a bagel and (of course) walked full force into the glass window. David stumbles back a few steps while the rest of us can't help laughing. The guy behind the counter in Super Bagel quickly came out of the store and approached David with what appeared like a concerned look on his face before angrily shouting "What the hell are you trying to do?! Break my window?!" We all stopped laughing just long enough to apologize before laughing our way home. There is now a big neon sign in the window at the exact spot that David walked into.

If you're a fan of Buffalo Wings and you are in Montreal, then you should go to Buffalo Bills. They have some of the best wings I've ever had. They have 6 sauses of varying intensity: honey BBQ, medium, hot, suicide, 4-alarm and 911. I'm a big fan of Buffalo Wings, but not really a huge fan of spicy foods, so I've never really been able to get past suicide. For those people who don't like soft drinks, there are free pitchers of water which you are allowed to take from the counter, but you do need to ask for a cup. A while back, I was having lunch there with my friends Noah, John and Nick (who was in town visiting from the University of Toronto). Nick, John and I each got a meal of 7 wings and fries but Noah wasn't hungry and he doesn't like spicy foods either. Now, at Buffalo Bills, they put the wings on top of the french fries, so that the fries absorb most of the sause. I got Suicide sause but Nick and John both got 911. As soon as we sat down to eat, Noah was hungry (typical Noah). He quickly grabbed some fries off of Nick's plate and shoved them in his mouth. As soon as he closes his mouth, he immediately realized how hot 911 sause is. He put his hand in front of his mouth and (quite literally) fell off of his chair backwards. He got up ran to the pichers of water as fast as he could but didn't have a glass. Thinking quickly, he grabbed as many of those tiny cups you use for ketchup as he could and started filling them with water and drinking them. I don't think he's ever gone back.

Until quite recently, I didn't even realize that Monreal had a planetarium. Only when my friends Rosie and Robyn suggested that we go did I ask "does Montreal even HAVE a planetarium?" Apparently, it does. The day we went was an interesting one to say the least. We knew approximately where it was, but not how to get there. We decided to take the metro (subway to all you non-Montrealers) over to the area and wander around 'till we found it. When we came out of the metro, we found that it had started hailing. We, of course, weren't about to let some hail stop us, so we wandered around for like half an hour in the hail until we found the place. The show that night was about meteorites. We were practically the only people in the entire place. I think there were maybe two other people there. Anyways, about halfway through the show, they mentioned some astronomer who lived in the 18th century. They showed his picture and a voice over kicked in which was suppose to be his thoughts. The voice over was just so ridiculously stupid sounding that I started to laugh. Not one of those loud laughs, but one of those silent chuckling laughs. Now, the more this guy talked, the more I laughed. I tried to compose myself, but couldn't. I was just sitting there shaking with laughter. Rosie and Robyn looked at me as if I were insane (especially since it's usually Robyn who gets hit with laughing fits). Eventually, I got my laughing under control... barely. The second I did though, Rosie started laughing, and I'm gone again. Robyn is never one to go very long without laughing either, so she started laughing also. As we left the planetarium, Rosie and Robyn thought I had gone completely insane. I just couldn't explain why I found it so funny. On our way home, we were at a metro station and had to go up one floor. We were approaching an escalator which wasn't working and I turned to Robyn and said "be careful, when you step on an escalator that isn't moving, you get thrown slightly off balance because you're expecting it to move". Robyn looked at me and said "I'll be fine". As if on cue, the second she stepped on the escalator, she fell face forward. I caught her before she hit the ground, but we are all started laughing again. The one thing I learned from this story? Montreal does have a planetarium.

My Acts of Blatant Stupidity

While studying for a Child Psychology test in my last semester of CEGEP, I noticed some errors in the teacher's study plan. The study plan mentioned what topics to concentrate on for the test and what pages they were on in the textbook. I had studied for about an hour and had a good page of notes written when I realized that the pages in the textbook didn't match the pages on the study plan. As I looked more carefully, I realized that most of the teacher's study plan didn't match the textbook at all. Just to be sure, I checked to see if I was studying the right textbook. It had "Psychology" as the title. I was now more confused than ever, so I called Rosie and told her my problem. Rosie looked over the study plan and said "I don't know what you're talking about Eric, the plan does match the textbook. I'm looking at it right now". Then, I suddenly realized something and turned to look at my bookcase. Sure enough, sitting on my bookcase, was a textbook called "Child Development". I had been studying out of my second semester's psychology textbook. Feeling rather stupid, I threw out my notes, and started studying from the right book. That explained why I was learning about sleep patterns in a child psych course.

I was in David's kitchen with him and his sister Rebecca one day. I was hungry so I opened the fridge and looked inside for something to eat. Rebecca wanted to take something from freezer. David's fridge and freezer are set up so that the freezer is on top of the fridge. Rebecca opened the freezer and said "Eric, don't lift you're head up, the freezer door is open". I responded with a "What?" and lifted my head very quickly, smashing it into the freezer door. David and Rebecca immediately started laughing, and when I came to, so did I .

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