they talk about me

A famous french website about Working Holiday Visas around the world asked me to do an interview about my Canadian experience because they found it so cool. I t was cool to live it indeed.


Here  is the link about it : http://pvtistes.net/canada/interviews/clemence-cowgirl-a-meadow-lake-en-saskatchewan/

I will always miss some of the ranch life but things change and I have pretty nice plans comming this summer too. So Marilyn, Bruce, Kelly, Jane, Val, Maria, Leila and of course April will have to wait for now but I'll come back one day, for sure.

this is what you get from living on a ranch for a while

western intoxication.

Even happy and successfull at home, you need, at least I need, some of the down to earth ranch work. living around livestock and taking care of it, nature all around, keeping your eyes wide open everyday to enjoy the beauty of it and take one thing at a time to either enjoy or deal with it.

anyway, I got one step closer to my fare share of western life : my very first ranch saddle. It's old and not fancy but strong and in a good shape. 

here you go :

A year ago

A year ago I was flying off to Canada. It seems both so close and so long ago. So many things happened in a year, how much did I change... It is hard to believe, who I was just a year ago.

Working all the time, on night and day shifts. Both physicaly and emotionally exhausted by my work at the hospital. A complicated social life between my shifts, my overtiring family and a crappy relationship. No personal home, only a box in my sister's room but a big dream in front of me. I guess that is what kept me going because, today, I can't see how else I could live that life.

Then, it took some time but I healed and found myself back in a cowboy country, northern Saskatchewan, riding horses and sorting cows. It's amazing how true the "own less, live more" saying happened to be true for me.  Yes we had to share a bathroom between 10 people, corn and peas were considered veggies and high speed internet meant a 30min drive but the life was just at the right speed, slow enough to enjoy it and still with somewhat unpredictable in order to not getting bored.

Because I wanted to build something of my own by myself and that my home is in France I came back and started working on my 2 years project : have a house, a practice, (useless) animals and eventually a familly. That is what we call settling down!
Practice and family are on their way. As to the house and pets, I need to sort the first two first.in order to see what I'm standing at. So now I'm stuck in a big lonely flat but it's still way better thant the box in sister's room.

And I suppose my life and me will be a lot different in a year too. I hope not only to grow older but up still. If not, please remember Canada and Cologne. :-)

Home

I flew home last friday from Montreal where I stayed two weeks in city rehab.
The journey home was pretty tiring bus subway bus+traffic plane train and more traffic home. So I'm back with family and friends and that feels good. The city and pollution gooing with it not so much but that the way it is...