Louis+(from+Canada)

Hello, my name is Louis and this is my story. I was born is Shawinigan thirty-two years ago. Shawinigan is a little town, two hours by car from Montreal in the province of Quebec, Canada. Quebec is the only province in Canada where the official language is French and of course, my first language is French, the others provinces speak English. I lived in Shawinigan until I went to University in Montreal. I studied electric engineering for 4 years and after I got a job for the power utility of Quebec called Hydro-Quebec. Hydro-Quebec is a part of the government; it's the only electricity company of the province. The reason why I'm in Australia, it's because my girlfriend Nathalie had a chance to follow training in medicine at an hospital here in Perth for one year and why not, it’s a good opportunity to travel and to live in another country. First, I arrived in Sydney after long flights, two days later due by the jet lag, I travelled around thirty hours flying in planes and waiting in airports. I spent one week holiday in Sydney, it was wonderful. After the week, I flew five more hours to Perth. Perth is practically the furthest city from Montreal. I arrived in Perth in the 9th of January, the holiday was finish and I started to search an apartment where I’ll live for a year. One week later, I found a very nice apartment in Nedlands where I live now. The week after, Nathalie started her fellowship and a few weeks later, I bought an old car, seventeen years old car. It’s amazing, because an old car like this in Montreal could have plenty of rust and probably doesn’t work, but not here. I remember the weather was very hot, especially on the Australian day with forty degrees Celsius. After a month, everything was set up. What do I do during the year? I’m improving my English. I’m come back to school. Last semester, I took an English course here at TAFE Challenger in Fremantle and I took two management courses by correspondence from a University in Montreal. Like I said before, I have a really good job in Montreal and good working conditions too. I’m taking a year off of my job and when I’ll come back to Montreal, I’ll get my job back too. This is great and this is why I don’t want to work during the year. I prefer doing some activities: cycling, surfing and travelling. In my next stories, I’ll talk about my activities.

Louis click here to read about my Holiday in the North West of WA lewis_decespedes@hotmail.com