There wasn't a great deal to write about yesterday as we didn't get up to much. Today, I got a little emotional; I think home sickness has started to kick in. I don't think it helped that I'd had a headache every day since Monday, I hadn't slept very well for the past 3 or 4 nights, and I banged my head really hard getting up from the cupboard under the strairs! :( We left the HI-Ottawa Jail Hostel just before 1pm and caught the 1.15pm Greyhound to Montreal, wh...

There wasn't a great deal to write about yesterday as we didn't get up to much. Today, I got a little emotional; I think home sickness has started to kick in. I don't think it helped that I'd had a headache every day since Monday, I hadn't slept very well for the past 3 or 4 nights, and I banged my head really hard getting up from the cupboard under the strairs! :( We left the HI-Ottawa Jail Hostel just before 1pm and caught the 1.15pm Greyhound to Montreal, wh...

This morning we headed over to the war memorial statue for the rememberance day service. The amount of people there was quite overwhelming- we couldn't see a thing, luckily they'd put large screens up to watch the service on. There were guys on top of at least two buildings dressed in black with their binoculars and guns keeping watch- it was like something out of a film! The service was incredibly moving- especially the 21 gun salute by canons and the planes t...

We went to the Ottawa School of Art today to check out an exhibition by visiting artist Sophie Jodoin. The works were a series of black and white drawings called 'Small Dramas and Little Nothings', are part of a larger body of work called 'War Series'. The drawings were in the style of sketches/graffiti/'comic style silhouettes', and included war imagery. They are the 'Juxtaposition of war and childhood trauma'. There were roughly 40 drawings all done on the sa...

We didn't do much today. We only ventured out to Tim Hortons to grab cream cheese filled bagels for lunch! :) We had a chill out day today- we'd both had awful night's sleep and couldn't really be bothered to do much. I did surprise my boyfriend with a phone call this afternoon! We hadn't heard each other's voices for over seven weeks so it was so lovely speaking to him again today.