Arianne et les bleuets

I’m here listening to Arianne Moffatt’s latest album. I’d wanted to buy it for a long time and always found something else to do instead of going to Archambault. Turns out my friend found a CD case in the street, the album was there, so he gave it to me… He he he! So yes, I’m here listening to her very cool music while there’s a beef stew simmering in the kitchen. My laundry is clean and dry and now I need to fold it and arrange it. The apartment is clean as well and I feel accomplished after a very busy week where I worked three 14-hours shifts from Wednesday to Friday. Life sure is busy for me and I have to do everything by myself, no one to help me, but I like it.

In the middle of all the work madness I managed to visit awesome places in the region. Last Tuesday we hit the road with a friend from Toronto and visited the Historical Village of Val-Jalbert. Amazing view of the Lac-Saint-Jean from the Chute Ouiatchouan, beautiful “sentiers” to go hiking, the Ghost Town looks like the one in the movie Big Fish. We ended the day on the Saint-Gedeon beach and ate tourtière and chocolate covered blueberries at a local resto. Very SagLac, let me tell you!

Today I went hiking on the mountains of the most beautiful place I’ve seen here so far: Sainte-Rose-du-Nord, a little village on the rocky shores of the Saguenay river, we then sat under the sun and picked a few wild blueberries (Yeah, lots of those here… Au Royaume des bleuets). It is so freaking beautiful I felt like crying, I know… Ridiculous. I didn’t want to leave and I certainly am going back as soon as I can. My friend managed to convince me to walk on the muddy shore in Saint-Fulgence and I came back with my feet all dirty.

When I feel all sad because I’m away from my family or when I start thinking about what has happened to me, I remind myself of all these good things, of my freedom, my independence, the fact that I feel liberated, the fact that I don’t have to live isolated with a person with no passion… This is good, all good. I love le Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. This is the place where I discovered all the things I’m capable of doing, this is the place where I became a stronger person. God bless this region.