Today was our tenth and last News and Feature writing lecture. While I walked down the street towards the metro station, I catched up on the street with 3 other students. As I greeted them, one asked if I would join the team to have a drink, and I heard myself answering "why not ?". I hardly knew them since this course was the only one I attended this semester and since the atmosphere didn't much help meeting. So there we met, after our last class, an irish woman established in Montreal for the past 6 years, a girl with yugoslavian roots, a pure English guy from the city and myself. As we were walking together and they were talking, I began regretting being part of the team., I then said to myself that the only way to get out of this soon was to consume rapidly, once arrived in the bar, and pretend having an appointment to leave after a large 30 minutes.
But then, we sat, ordered our meals, and talked... And, in fact, it was fun to meet this people I had just crossed quickly during almost 2 months. Fun to go beyond my English speaking shyness too. Fun to get to learn about this people, why they attended such a course, what they were doing etc.
It finally ended nicely and lightly this heavy cloudy day. Ruth, the irish woman dropped me to a metro station and when I got back to the surface, it was dramatically raining. Precocious as I became, I fortunatly got my umbrella, but still had the wrong shoes : my sandals suffered once more as they sunk in puddles.