The Polar Express

Part 2 of my stay in canada is a little later than the travel itself but nevertheless its part of the original script. Here it goes....

Sounds of prayers from the nearby temple were humming in my ears..It was kind of soothing to my ears considering the fact that it was a saturday morning and you could actually keep aside all those application, software, network jargons in your suitcase and lock them up for the time being. I could feel the warmth of the tropics as I was trying to open my eyes very hard to wake up finally. Sweet music of the birds humming around, the clanking of the milk mans cans and what not....What!!!!!!!!!!! I jump out of my bed only to realize that the whole thing was just a dream. I could not sleep back with the kind of things I just saw. Why do u dream if you cannot make them true immediately...now that is not an eternal pessimist talking for sure. Just that I am missing home so much. Finally got up, washed my face, made a tea for myself even as my room mates were asleep. Wondered If I would have been home, Mom would have brought that piping hot tea to my bed itself :-)..hmm things change, they change for the good too. Its not too far getting those things back too.

Took the tea and thought I would have a look at the wonderful Montreal morning outside.
Shock!!!!!!! Where am I, Have they shifted the whole city somewhere up in the clouds. Just the kind of view that I had got travelling in that shocking British Airways Flight some time back. I am in a white world! I dont see roads, I don't see grass nor mud, where have they gone. Ok, I know I am going a little overboard with my explanation of the fact that it was snowing here ;-)..but then how do u explain it when you are only seeing for the first time in your life?


It felt as if there has been a shift in the thermal equilibrium in the world. We in India get into homes to find respite from the scorching hot temperature outside, here they get home to find respite from the scorching cold ( a newly devised term, sorry if that is wrong). Looked as if the fridge and weather have switched roles for the time being. I imagined myself becoming tiny and walking inside the freezer of a fridge, hmm sounds interesting. The powers of my imagination has increased over time as you can see. I could see in the horizon, sun trying its best to show its face to the world. I must say that the sun here is just acting as a tubelight which comes once in a while to tell that he is still alive and one day it will get back with a bang.


Although I had known that it is going to snow here in a while, it was still a shock to me to see what I saw. With all these things running in mind, we decided to have a walk in snow to see how that feels and probably click some pictures in the snow to show to friends back home the kind of wonderful experiences I have been going through here ha ha ha...Of course we also had to make that first snow ball to hit someone. Althought I must add that I personally don't like being hit but then this being one of its kind, I actually thought, why not.


There are a lot of first happenning since the time I started from home. So it was time for me to take my first steps on snow. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Now what does this mean in the current context. I don't know, I just used it because I am blogging and there are people like you who would like to read the same. I mean I was trying to impress you with my usage of words and sentences. Hows that?? You don't need to know all the answers. No one is smart enough to ask you all the questions. Am I moving away from the original script here? I think so. This is just to re-iterate the kind of feelings and thought process that I went through to take that first step on snow.

I must tell you that it was an experience of real pleasure. The first few steps were like those of a little kid who is walking for the first time seeing his/her mom calling her from a distance. The snow looked pretty slippery to start with. We had to hold ourselves so that we don't slip and fall somewhere. We took the opportunity to click a lot of pictures on the snow. Pictures that will stay with me for a long time and will be testimony to the already impressive list of first time activities that I have done in the short stay at montreal.

But in the end I must say that it was a very impressive experience with snow. Something that I will cherish for a long time to come. Although the thought of staying at a place where the temperature dips to -40 degrees is something that is sending the next shock wave through my spine.