Blogs from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 3

alright so I bought my ticket today. I am leaving the hamilton airport Sunday Feburary 7th at 6:45pm and arriving in Edmonton at 8:47 their time (4.7 hr flight) . I will hang out with dallas for a couple days which will be really nice, I do miss him. I will leave Edmonton the 10th at 6am and head on down to San Fransico (3.20 hr) and a 5 hour stop over which should be hell of baggage and passenger checks with these recent terroist attacks over christmas. Next a quick stop in Seol to pick-up/drop-off people (after a13 hr flight) then to Singapore (6.30 hr) where I will enjoy a 8hr stop over which I hope is eventful or unconscious. Fianly I will be leaving at 930 am and arriving in Perth at 235pm after ... read more

Thought it was time I told my side of the story!!!!! The time here has just flown, its good to have the odd day like today just to catch up on stuff. I have baked bread for my celiacs and made healthy food for my diabetic! Going to get Tori to dye my hair tonight, going a bit grey from spending so much time with my husband!! Just done grocery shopping (again), and i've decided that I will have to start going by myself or our grocery budget will be blown before we get half way through our trip! We went for milk and cheese and came $70 poorer. Bit of a mission finding gluten free food, we have a much better variety of stuff at home. We have an oven and microwave so we have ... read more

Can't sleep right now. too excited about the trip. I'm trying to load a video onto my PSP so i can watch it on the plane or something. they proly have movies playing but they're proly old or sucks. Hope I can keep myself occupied for 18 hours. it's a direct flight from TO to HK. i guess i should sleep on the plane. I hope I don't get jet lag. i actually never gotten jet lag before, even on past trips to asia. What I'm concerned (slightly) is being quarantined. That won't be fun at all since it'll waste our vacation time. Even if we are healthy but just so happen to be on the same flight as a sick person, the whole plane will get quarantined upon landing. If they're gona do that, wait ... read more

My plans to go to a friend’s for thanksgiving unfortunately fell through and so spent the weekend on campus. Luckily enough however, my friend Anna also stayed here and so one crisp, autumn, Sunday afternoon we went for a walk into Coots Paradise, the nature reserve adjacent to the campus. We followed a path behind one of the residences into the woods and down to the lake. Now I’d heard that autumn in Canada was amazing but to be honest it didn’t exactly sound that remarkable; I mean leaves change colour in England too. However, when you put thousands of these trees together and then place them all next to a lake, well I have to admit, it’s pretty spectacular. It wasn’t just that however, but the colours of the leaves themselves seemed a lot brighter ... read more

So Thursday came, and with it came classes. Somehow in all the madness of the first few days I’d managed to forget about the whole work side of Uni; the real reason why I was here. Every building at Mac has an acronym so asking for directions made me sound like some sort Bond girl. My Thursday timetable said I was in TSH, BSB, MDCL and PC. Not only that, but every building has a ridiculous number of rooms and apparently very little logic to them. (I’m still trying to work out how BSB340 isn’t the room immediately above BSB240.) Luckily enough my first class was with Sarah, one of my flatmates who’d not only been to the campus before, but also had a map. We set off in search of TSH120 a good half an ... read more