Campus du Fort St-Jean

Aug 16, 2008
The batch of 2008 were taken out on a trip to Campus du Fort St-Jean. This was a Drink-play-party-and-know-each-other party before we begin the course.

The event started at 11 in the morning with 130 split into 4 groups getting into the bus to start our journey to the military base where we, as a group, had to spend the night knowing our batch mates. I was excited about this event, but the event exceeded what ever I thought it would be!

Campus du Fort St-Jean is about an hour drive from school. This place is now used for certain military education facilities and for University de Montreal's local programmes. It is an awesome place! Look it up.

Lunch was arranged. Being a vegetarian, I did not enjoy the food as much as the others did. Nonetheless, it was good. Since I was late for lunch, I had to stand with the cadets. Spoke to them about their course, their commitments and the physical training. Always inspiring to know that the people in the army are so committed (I know it is too much of generalizing.I wanted to get into the Indian Army, but never got a call!).

After lunch, we had a whole lot of games arranged, volleyball, kinball (it a stupid game where you have a huge ball and you should not let it fall on the ground), ice hockey (the Canadians were really pissed off about this. They called this broom ball) and a brain teasing quiz (I got all the questions related to India and subcontinent, but realized that I know nothing about Africa, Latin America and Europe. We lost and were ashamed of ourselves. But, it was fun.). It was super fun.

The fun part of all this is to know so many people from so many countries, and everyone is keen to know and learn about each other. There was no one standing in a corner, feeling out of place and wondering where he has landed up. Got to know a lot about the Latin American food (And, God! The girls are hot. ), the Chinese and the French cultures.

Booze began at 7, went on till 3. My friend shot a video with his handy cam with no CD inserted. He was totally drunk passed out some time in the night. He got up at 9:30 am and told me he did not remember what happened after 2 :) He is now famous in school. :)

I shall post the pictures once I get them. I did not take them, but I am sure some one did and will send it to the whole class.

And, I won an IPod nano 8 GB in a luck draw. Was really lucky!!

Ready to begin the simulation tomorrow. Have a lot to study tonight.