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The end

Yes! A blog that ends, it must be the first time that someone actually does this officially. Usually blogs just get given up or abandoned, this is not happening to Montana Clem! No sir, I'm ending that blog, it's terminated. Why? Simply because I've moved back to France so this blog has no reason to be "opened".

It's probably high time to do some kind of a summary or a conclusion. So I went to Montana for pretty much one reason. I had a cute girl friend there (Sarah) and well I wanted to give a chance to our couple. Some thought I was nuts (I guess they were partly right but that's love) to fly away from the fatherland, all my friends and family to get lost in the ass of the world: Bozeman Montana.

I was tempted to do a chronological story but I thought it would be boring and maybe it would lead me into talking about things that didn't really matter after all. After a year in and out of Montana, all that really matters is that I had a lot of good times, I have learned a lot about myself and the others, made some great friends, visited beautiful places, worked with a buch of truely nice people, bought the coolest guitar and managed I don't know how to stay good friends with Sarah.

It's been a rich experience, I felt happy, I felt sad, but in the end I think I'll mostly remember the good moments, because why bother remembering the bad ones? I lived and learned in Montana, I definitely made some mistakes, from which I've learned, so I can keep this experience and use it for the best :)

I would like to thank all of my readers, it's been a pleasure to write for you guys, I hope it was fun or interesting or amazing (yeah!) to read. There has been the blog about Finland, the blog about Montana, I guess it's time I open a blog about France! So pretty soon I'll give you a link to a new blog about my tremendous adventures in Paris (well France in general) this time it will be written in French. I know it's quite unfair for my dear internationnal readers. Well if there is enough demand for a change of language I'll do it. The readers are kings!

Thanks a lot!

-Clément

Concert

Tonight I went to a concert of the Blue Man Group at the Basket ball stadium of MSU. Ernie's wife Abby gave me a ticket that her brother wasn't going to use and that was really cool! I had an awesome time, these blue guys definitely have the sense of rhythm! It was a pretty show too with plenty of visuals and some pretty funny jokes. That's quite different from my usual metal concerts but that was refreshing. If you guys have the opportunity to go to one of their shows I would definitely recommend it, good times!

Thanks for reading Montana Clem.

-Clément

brrrrrrrr

As I'm writing this post, I just came back from outside, this crazy horrendous place and it's -3°F which is approximately -20°C. Do you know how I realized that we reached that kind of temperatures? Well I just suddenly experienced something I didn't feel since Finland, two years ago (Already !!! Damn this is going way too freaking fast, seriously) and this feeling is: the humidity in my nose freezing. I tell you, that is a good indicator for -20. At -40 there is another level, when your eyelids freeze together when you close your eyes and that's a troubling experience.

So what's new with me? Well since the beginning of this year I've been pretty busy. Busy with work, writing my internship report (a god forgotten task that ruins your hopes and crushes you like you're a nothing until you start hallucinating great ancient life forms dominating parallel universes and coming in your dreams to force you to worship it wearing a hello kitty hat. That is pretty disturbing. I tell you) and traveling around. Yep traveling! So I've been to Glacier with Sarah, we rented a cottage there. It was a lot of fun, we've been x-country skiing under some kind of snow storm that covered our tracks so we could have a greater chance to get lost and die frozen in a middle of one of the prettiest US state parks. Also that would keep us in a good state of conservation so that the human things that will crawl over the surface of the planet in 120 000 years could fin us and expose our bodies in a freak-show-2nd-millennium museum.
By chance (thanks to my tremendous orientation skills) we made it safe back to the car and brought back some lovely skiing pictures.
Last week end I went to visit my good old pal Hunter in Fredericksburg Virginia! And man I had a blast!! Since Hunter studied history in College he was able to describe me the civil war battles and how the south was fighting a pretty unfair war (the odds were for the north who had the majority of the population). I say, that's bravery. But anyway, I love history and such, I always find it fascinating and instructing. I believe our leaders often make the mistake to look down on history thus making over and over the same stupid mistakes. We visited Williamsburg which had a pretty neat college. Jamestown, the fist British settlement. Yorktown, where the French and Americans battled together to kick the ass of Brits, unfortunately they surrendered before the battle started. Good for us, that one battle we didn't have to surrender. Vive la France!
Finally we went to Washington DC, which look very different form what I remember back in 1998. Now it's some kind of business/administration bunker with military fences, patrols and alien motherships.

Well, as you can read, I'm trying to have the best of the time I have left in the US. Putting behind the old stories, building some good new fresh memories.

With this I tell you thanks for reading Montana Clem. Giving news from the cold front.

-Clément.

EDIT: This morning the temperatures are -20F which is ... -28°C

Happy new year !

Happy new year everyone! I wish you all a very successful 2008 with loads of fun. Last night we went to one of Bozeman's pubs the 317 (st patrick's day) had a beer, blew some whistles and shouted at midnight. That was fun! We walked from my apartment to main street which took a good 35 minutes so we didn't use the car. That wouldn't be fun to start the year with a DUI... Rochelle and Zack her boyfriend joined the party just on time, like 15 minutes to midnight. We had a good time, goofing with the Party hat and the whistles. Then Zack drove us back to my flat.
That's about it :)

Happy new year !