Montreal

I just got back from Montreal last night for the ICA conference. When I went to Florence I seemed to have a ton of time to just wander around the city. I walked around for 2-3 hours a day and made it to all sorts of areas. But I hardly saw Montreal at all, which was disappointing. I only saw Old Montreal at night and didn't even make it to the water. But it seems cool and I should go back. I knew they spoke French there but I didn't realize everything was in French and then subtitled in English. Greetings always started in French ("Bonjour, hi"), and if signs only had one language it was always French. Oh, the picture to the right is of the view I had from my 17th floor hotel room! Pretty great right?

So I didn't get to wander around much because I somehow was always back at the conference, but it was a good conference. Met many important people, received a great compliment on our research by a leader in the field, and saw some interesting new work.

In 2010 this conference is in Singapore! So hopefully I'll be there. And my advisor (who is Indian) said that sure we could just go up to India then too and he'd show me his old town. He better not have been joking because I would love, love, love to go to India.

Over the next few days I will continue to add my photos HERE.