Blogs from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 98

The day after Valentine's Day, rather fittingly, marked the day of my departure from the tedium of suburban life and the career ladder. Not that I hadn't enjoyed my first taste of being a worker drone. After the monotony of studying for 4 1/2 years I welcomed the chance to just be a cog in the machine, mainly just because a 9-5 schedule can actually give you a greater feeling of freedom than one where a deadline is always looming. The only real problem with my cog was that it wasn't big enough. And whatever it was connected to, way far away in my future, wouldn't be quite as impressive as I'd hoped. So after sticking it out for the mandatory year I decided to jump ship. Well I shouldn't say I jumped. I wasn't pushed, ... read more

Short version of events thus far since last entry: Wheelchairs, rickshaws, jagermeister, drunkeness, missing trains, missing shoes, baby attacks, sophisticated electronic thingamajigs, crazy insane homeless people, singing tunes really loud at bars when the music is *not* playing, shady individuals, hangovers, booze, minimal sleep, pancake breakfasts, "whoooooosh!", dragging an aussi up a flight of stairs to his bed while he pukes on me, university gals, potential insanity, cheap rum, injuries, tongue wreastling, ice paranoia, getting lost, 50 cent beers, meeting old friends, passing out, meat on sticks, incoming trees, bird poop, nearly dying and really really bad breath. Not in order of course. I'm also amazed how little money i'm spending while having so much fun! Well, that is a lie since I figure 50% of my planned budget is going towards getting myself ditzy. Seems ... read more

Hey everyone, I'm pretty much ready to go on my 6th month trip to Aussie Land. I'm extremely excited. I leave on Monday January 16th at 5:55pm. I get to Australia on Wednesday January 18th at 6am! LOL, crazy that just in one day I go from snow and cold to sun and hot....I can't WAIT FOR THE SUN. Man, not having a winter this year is going to be sweet. I'm going to be writing in this hopefully every week if not every other day..letting everyone know whats going on...so the parents don't worry haha. Alll I know is that I will be buying alcohol the minute I land in Australia :) Drinking age is 18 yeahhhh...haha just kidding of course ;) Ok, well...come back and check out my pics that I will be posting ... read more

I can't believe I'm back in Toronto! Three weeks goes by very quickly when you're having the time of your life... My last day in Australia was spent on the beach, in the ocean, and just generally relaxing on the Sunshine Coast with Brent. My flight left at 6:30 pm (out of the tiny Maroochydore airport) and I landed in Sydney at 9:30 pm, where Tasha, Dejana and Petar picked me up. We went back to Dejana's apartment and relaxed, and of course had some more Tim Tams before bed. Speaking of the legendary Tim Tams... I bought about $30 worth to bring home with me, but Tasha bought double that and actually had to buy a new suitcase just to hold them all! On Saturday Dejana dropped us off at the Sydney airport and we ... read more

Hi everybody!! I just started this Blog (why blog? anyone?) and I thought I'd notch up my first entry. It's early in the morning on the 5th of January and here I am trying to figure out how to use this website. But I'm sure nobody wants to hear about my many shortcomings in operating modern software. So let me get you up to date. For the last 8 months or so i have been working as hard as possible (for me) to save money for this trip. I can't thank enough the kind customers at Grano restaurant here in Toronto for their generous, and in some cases not so generous gratuities as I now have saved enough cash that I will not have to fake a smile or laugh at another crappy joke for at ... read more