Blogs from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 4

Everyday on the wall by the main doors to the building, the reps put up a poster showing the day’s activities list. On Wednesday’s written besides 3pm-6pm (after the clubs fest and before the pj parade) were written the two magic words we’d been longing to hear all week: “Free Time”. So, after going around the campus and signing up for all the groups we wanted to, we had lunch and then tried to decide what to do with our free time. Funnily enough, because every minute of every day had been organised so rigidly for us over the first few days, it was actually quite hard to think what to do. But someone eventually suggested we explore the basement to our building. Here we discovered a widescreen TV, table football, a pool table, and a ... read more

I’m not sure if I mentioned this before but Mac likes cheering. And the annual “Bed Race” is the focal point for this. An hour before the race we had a Pep Rally. Everyone from our halls met up outside and we literally covered ourselves in purple paint from head to toe, writing Bates on any skin available. Whilst doing this we practised our cheers, learnt even more, and generally got high on excitement and paint fumes. We then walked down to where the race was being held and queued up with the other Halls. This lead to more cheer-offs, including one with SOCS, the off campus students and biggest group by far. However we held our own thanks to some ridiculously loud Australians and before we knew it, we were running down the course to ... read more

As the plane started to descend below the clouds we could see Canada properly for the first time. It was really, really, flat! Any height was given by buildings like the CN Tower, although, there was a whopping great lake. I knew Lake Ontario was huge but I'd never imagined it to be that big. At first I thought it was the horizon but as the plane tilted in to land I realised that I could see America faintly in the distance on the other shore. All the housing estates were built in identical, neat patterns and the roads were ridiculously straight and just went on and on forever into the horizon. Where the roads did cross each other it was done in a nice, neat, symmetrical pattern. If the rest of Canada was as organised ... read more

So I'm home now.. and marks are finally out! Yay! I passed.. and I'm trying to get ready for France.. Holy Shit.. I never realized there was soo much paperwork to get a visa!! Anyway, everything is really hectic right now.. parents are sick and with the new house and whatever.. I just wish the summer goes by a little faster and I'm on my way to Paris!! I can't wait! I'm actually really excited!.. and scared.. Just picked out the courses today...registration starts tomorrow.. yikes!! Anyway I'll keep this updates as I get ready for departure! =D... read more

Well, our travel adventure has started...in Hamilton, ON!!! We arrived at the airport last night 3 hours ahead of our departure time, only to find out that 2 hours previous to that, the airline had decided to delay the flight until today (Aug.27) because of mechanical issues (the plane was still in Europe). Thankfully, we were put up at the Sheraton hotel in downtown Hamilton and provided $50 each per day to use towards food and drink. (So last night we took advantage of it and drank free beer ). We have not yet been notified of our new flight details. So far we've spent the day using the pool at the hotel, watching tv, and bugging the front desk every hour asking if they have any info. Hopefully we can get to England soon...all of ... read more