Blogs from Ontario, Canada, North America - page 312

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All my bags are packed (pretty much) I'm ready to go (almost) I'm typing here inside my door I hate to let you know I'm saying bye. All right, enough cheesiness. It's been a LONG year, it's been a good year, and in many ways, it's been a growing up year (although I wish the growth was a physical one as well as an emotional one). After the craziness of the last few weeks, I'm looking forward to the semi-controlled chaos that is South-East Asia, and seeing if UBC was wrong about my rural suitability. ;-) I'm typing this on the eve of my departure early tomorrow morning, so I wish you all good adventures this summer wherever you may be. I'll be sure to remember to drink bottled water, remember to open my eyes, and ... read more

I am on my way! I leave for the airport in a few hours and I thought that I should take care of a few things first. The first and really only thing to take care of is writting this journal and sending this page out to everyone. Lets start this story at the beginning so everyone is on the same page. the story so far... After suffering a devistating defeat at the battle of graduating from the Univerity of Waterloo, I have found that I have to one CSC (or Complimentary Studies Course) over the summer term, which would make it hard to travel. So as usual in the cosmic balance, my bad luck at having to take a course gave way to taking a two week course in London, England touring around. Sounds like ... read more

So I'm setting up this journal with the plan to use it as a place to keep record of my adventures for the next four months. Right now, its my last night at home - training starts tomorrow, i'll be in toronto for a week and then off to Tamale. This is just a test entry to make sure everything's working... lets see how it goes :) ... read more

I have to admit that I felt a lack of enthusiam for this upcoming trip. Perhaps its because I've already been to Toronto, New York and Italy but there are always new adventures to be found in familiar territories. Albert and I went to the Royal Ontario Museum as it was free on fridays. There were decent roman, greek and egyptian collections but that seemed to be the highlight of the museum. I didn't see a lot of Canada's history (perhaps thats in another museum). One random thing I did learn, that I'll share to enhance your trivial knowledge, is that all people, at the end of the 1500s, ate with their fingers or with the knives that they carried as their personal possessions at all times (spoons were graciously provided by the host). It was ... read more