Last Sunday, EC Montreal participated in a full day trip in the Laurentian mountains.  It was the perfect day!  – sunny and 27 degrees.  We are experiencing Indian Summer in Quebec! It is a magical time of year when the leaves are changing colours and a view from Quebec’s tallest peak, Mt-Tremblant, is the best place to see mother nature’s artwork! The students visited several towns in the Laurentian mountains including St-Sauver, a ski resort town, and Mt-Tremblant, a village surrounded by ski hills, which has become a favourite resort among tourists and celebrities. The students picked maple leaves and snapped hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the gorgeous scenery. We are so  happy our students had a chance to experience this wonderful time of year with EC!

What is a tutorial? Free tutorials are part of the benefits of being an Academic Year student.  They represent regular meetings every 4 to 6 weeks with an Academic Year tutor or mentor.  The goal of these one-to-one meetings is to achieve the following: – to identify the students’ needs and learning objectives – to plan the students’ academic journey – to provide academic support during the students’ stay at EC – to help the students’ prepare a personalized study plan – to monitor the students’ progress from their very first day at EC to their last – to help the students set achievable and challenging goals There are many benefits to being an Academic Year student at EC Montreal!  The personalized approach and regular meetings with the Academic Year tutors, together with our students’ hard work, will ensure success in achieving our students’ goals!

One of Montreal’s most famous and beloved breweries, McAuslan Brewery, maker of St-Ambroise beer, is turning 25, and to celebrate the infamous apricot beer makers are throwing a huge party. Get to Saint-Henri this weekend for two days of outdoor drinking for McAuslan’s gigantic 25th anniversary party. A free event open to the entire public, the quarter century celebration will begin on Friday at 4pm and continue onto Saturday, where another full day of festivities will take place at Terrasse St-Ambroise, right behind the brewery. With this weekend’s sunny weather, this may be the last time you’ll be able to enjoy beer and sun ’til next summer. The Annexe St-Ambroise Pub will also be open, for those who want to drink up indoors. Live music performances will also be held all weekend long, which fills out the perfect party trinity of free, music, and beer-filled. Who is joining EC Montreal for this anniversary extravaganza party this weekend?!

Monique Barros is a student from Brazil participating in EC Montreal’s Academic Year Bilingual programme which consists of 30 Lessons of instruction per week.  Here is what she would like to share about her EC experience: I chose Montreal because here I can practice and use my English and my French at the same time and everybody will understand me. My experience at EC Montreal is very good, I love my French class, in only 4 weeks I could see how I learnt and how I could improve my French. I love EC Montreal’s Wednesday activities. I love my classes with my teacher Katie, with her I really could improve my English. I will recommend EC Montreal for my friends in Brazil when I go back. Now, I’m having the bests moments in my life!

Josias Barbosa is a Brazilian student in EC Montreal’s Bilingual Intensive Programme.  Here is what Josias has to say about EC: I chose Montreal because it’s a bilingual city, and I wanted to improve my English and French in a good school like EC Montreal. After 2 weeks I decided to study only French because in Brazil is hard to stay in contact with this language and here in Montreal you can speak in French easily on the streets. I loved my EC homestay mother. She is very agreeable and she takes carry of me as her own son. She speaks French so I can practice with her. Here at EC Montreal I could improve my English and French and I could make new friends and some of them will be my friends for all my life.

Marcela Francis is a Brazilian student participating in our Intensive Bilingual programme at EC Montreal.  Here is what she would like to share about her EC experience: I chose Montreal because I think it’s a perfect idea to learn English and French at the same time. I’ve been here since August and in my opinion, I already learned a lot of new words, I have a better vocabulary and I think that I’m speaking much better and fluently now. I love the activities at the EC Montreal’s lounge, the EC’s Welcome Party and the Friday’s parties with a lot of EC students. What I like must is the opportunity to make friends of different countries, it is amazing can share experience with new cultures! It has being the most excited and important experience of my life. I’m blessed to be here at EC Montreal! Thanks a lot!