A new beginning … yet again

More or less two and a half years ago, I made the big decision of leaving my home country, Finland, with family and friends along with my company and came to the French Canada, also know as Quebec. People seem to need a reason for decisions like this, so here it is; I once upon a time came to Quebec as an exchange student and wanted to come back and study here. However 15 years went by in Finland and 2012 was finally the year I made it back. This version of the story never seem to be quite good enough, people need more. A man needs to be involved, right? I try to offer them Leonard Cohen. I'm a huge fan, so maybe crazy enough to move for my ever so lovely poetic hero? Well maybe so or maybe there was a boy back in my year as an exchange student, that I got in touch with again and decided to try to work out the impossible, a relationship. Mission impossible is in the past, now is the present and everything is very much possible, especially when you live in Montreal … alone… with the shared custody of a dog.
It's not for fun people keep on saying that life is full of surprises, they do it because it really is. 

I left a tiny village where I was living with this boy and our dog and decided to try out Montreal for the summer. See if I would like it. See if I could make it all alone. I loved it and realized I was making it far better on my own.

So here I am completely and utterly in love with my new city. 

Our love story has only just begun. It is more than just a summer romance, that much I realize as autumn is here but what lies ahead, life only knows and as they say… it is full of surprises.