I left Calgary back in early September for my Canada World Youth adventure. It's hard to believe, but three months have now passed in Hamilton, ON, and now I'm off to New Delhi, India tomorrow! I admit, my initial reaction to living in Hamilton was mainly disappointment. Everything I had heard about this city was that it is very dirty, rough, blue collared, polluted and poor. I guess I would still have to agree with a lot of these things, but perhaps it's not to the same extent that I had been told, and there definitely is a lot more to this city than these negatives. For example, there is the Niagara Escarpment that runs right behind the home that I was staying, so there were some nice 'hiking' trails. I would also have to say
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