Audrey is a young university student living in Montreal where she is completing a Master’s Degree in Geography.
But she hails from a rather unusual place. She was born and raised in New Caledonia . It’s an Island paradise in the South Pacific.
This “Overseas Territory of France” sits astride the Tropic of Capricorn west of Australia and north of New Zealand. It has a temperate tropical climate with temperatures seldom rising above +32C or falling much below +17C!
She is one of the first persons from New Caledonia to stay at our hostel in Toronto which is understandable when you consider the fact that there are fewer than 250,000 New Caledonians in the world! ( A past guest Simon Kelly was born, I think, in Rabaul, New Caledonia - see entry “A Maori From OZ“)
Audrey decided to study in Montreal as the University there offers one of the best courses in her field of study and classes are conducted in the French language – her mother tongue.
She is in her last year at University to on her way to earning her Master’s Degree. Then she plans to head back to the warm tropical beaches of the South Pacific. Go figure?
