Intro to Joce's world!

For years I’ve been writing. For years people have told me to publish my work. For years I’ve fought my family, friends, teachers, even random strangers, telling them “someday” I’ll publish my work. My procrastination is finally over. Here I am. A simple Acadian Island girl, who finds beauty in what most consider being normal and mundane. I’ve traveled far to find my stories and somehow the story I always keep closest to my heart is the one that I grew up in a small French town on beautiful Prince Edward Island. I was teased by my family and friends growing up but teased in a good way. The people that laugh with you and not at you are the people you should always keep around. They would say “To make a short story long ask Jocelyn Ann Gallant à le raconter”.  I was an exaggerator as a child and it’s that imagination that has carried me throughout this entire world. The funny part is that I no longer have to stretch the truth to tell an amazing story. Don’t get me wrong, if we’re all seated around a fire and someone tells me to tell them a story I can’t help but call on my imagination. If I write it down though, it’s the truth. Keep in mind that the future is still not here so anything found in the future folder can and very well will, change. If I’m planning a trip and I tell someone about it, the people who know me will casually ask, is the ticket bought? My current ticket is a Greyhound Discovery Pass. It’s good for 30 days of travel within Canada and the States. (Although I’m pretty sure it’s being discontinued, which is a story all in itself.) My goal is to make it to Beautiful British Colombia in time for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Along the way, I’m meeting up with long lost friends and family members whom I’m realizing were never really lost at all. They were always here waiting for my visit and I for theirs. Except my homes have been scattered a bit everywhere, la Région Évagéline, Charlottetown, Banff, Guelph, Summerside, Victoria, Waterloo, Korea, Toronto, or somewhere between here and there. This is my cross Canada trip of a lifetime. I hope you enjoy it along with me!