What a beautiful city! We arrived in Sherbrooke, Quebec one week ago, and we are slowly settling in. The staff at Parole de Vie arranged a fabulous apartment for us just off campus with a playground in the backyard! The kids are already getting to know the neighborhood kids (as best they can while none of the neighbor kids speak English and our kids have no French yet). Steve & Ann Hennings blessed us with help driving up from Wisconsin, keeping us sane on the roads, helping us unload and begin to set up, and exploring our new city with us! Now that they are gone we feel the jolt of being in a new place and working to make it home for now!
Ann and Jenny at Louies 
- Bed Assembly time
Moving to Canada should be no sweat, right? It’s not that different, is it? Wouldn’t the only big difference be that everything is in French? Well, that is what we prepared ourselves for, but we were in for a big surprise!
Take your typical Roundy family breakfast for example: old-fashioned oats with raisins & milk. The first three grocery stores we visited didn’t even sell old-fashioned oats—only quick oats or quick-er oats! And the milk! Not only does the milk come in a bag, it is at least $5.50 for roughly a gallon (4 liters).
A few other differences that caught us off guard:
Fries are served either plain or with gravy & cheese curds!
People bike or walk all over town.
And cars get plugged-in in the winter!
Please continue to pray for us as we encounter more differences and continue to settle in! As you can see we are still unpacking boxes!
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