My Neighborhood

Cote De Neige, Montreal, is where we're currently living.

Every night, the woman in the apartment above us starts stomping 

around 1am. We like to call her, Stompy :)

One night, a few weeks ago, the temperature dropped really low! 

My sister, Georgia and I were under tons of blankets, shivering!

So my mom calls up the owner of the building, complaining, and 

demanding he turn the heat on. After lots and lots and phone 

calls, he finally turned on the heat. But he turned it on to like 90 

freaking degrees! So we were really hot instead of really cold, 

because that's sooo much better, right Anyway, when Stompy 

isn't paces back and forth way too loudly, someone in an 

apartment below us is smoking way too much pot! You know 

it's legal here to smoke pot? It's legal to smoke it, but you can't 

buy it or sell it. It's like, where do you think they get it from, huh? 

The magic weed fairy?! And get this, not only are the police here

too lazy to arrest people for smoking pot, so that's legal, but 

prostitution is legal here too! Apparently, you can do it all you 

want, but it can't be your only "source of payment"! As long as you 

say you have another job, it's fine! What's up with that, right? 

Seriously, people only become prostitutes because they have no 

other means of getting paid! No college education, and no source

of money! That's why they do it! I swear, I thought the police in 

Vermont were bad, the police here are just plane LAZY.

Here's a description of our neighborhood:

We live across the street from this huge pharmacy, where the 

make up is $70 for a tube of lipstick! Oh, and next to our 

apartment is an "all night massage parlor" that only opens 

around 9pm and I guess it's open all night for creepy old men to 

get a "massage". Ew.

But there are a couple good things in our neighborhood :)

Around the corner from us, is this HUGE and AWESOME 

German pharmacy with an unpronounceable name. (Yah, I'm 

kinda wondering why a German Pharmacy is in the middle of 

montreal too...) The food there is great! And they have these 

cookies with little chocolate school boys on them. Yah, it may be 

wrong to eat little boys, but dude, they taste awesome! :) Also, 

near the German pharmacy is a really fancy bakery. The deserts 

are really good, but way expensive! Have you ever paid 15 

dollars for a slice of pie? I haven't and I'm not about to start either! 

Plus, next to us there's this HUGE church from like 500 years ago! 

It's REALLY beautiful! Oh, did I mention it's HUGE?? Our dogs 

love this park near us, but you have to walk up the biggest 

(but only) mountain in Montreal, which my overly-energetic mom 

calls "a hill" to get there. It's covered by a neighborhood called 

"Place Royal" and trust me, it's even snootier then it sounds! 

The houses there are as big as the freaking white house! No joke! 

And they have these high security systems out side, like they 

actually think they're going to get robbed in a place were absolutely

no one needs money! In fact, everyone there is so filthy rich 'pocket

change' is a hundred dollar bill! Outsiders might try to steal from 

them, if they didn't all have 1 million dollar iron gates outside! I tell 

you, it's unfair that people get to live like that, while I'm gaging from 

the smell of over-powering pot in an apartment that had to get 

fumigated for bed bugs just last week!

Well, I have to work on my math now, so I'll see you next time, bye!