Blogs from Ontario, Canada, North America - page 316

Hey Guys, sorry its taken me so long to update this thing but im a busy wifie here you know. Anyway i'm gonna try and get up to the present day ASAP. I arrived in Guelph on the 3rd of Sept and i was panicking. All alone at last with no idea of where i was going. Anyway i finally arrived at my residence which is a massive (tower) and got moved into my room. There were few other people here cause the Canadians had to wait til Sunday to move in. So i went wandering around my 12 people flat and found some crazy Aussies. Bianca and Eban, within two hours of my arrival they'd dragged (i say that loosely)me to the pub where many other international students were. Met a hundred people that night. ... read more

Hey, just trying this thing out for the first time...like the title says, there is only 2 1/2 months before Ann and I jump on a plane for 21 hours (that doesn't even include the flying time from Ottawa to New Jersey). Now that summer vacation is over and the countdown is on it's seeming more real for sure. Before, it didn't really sink in that we were actually going to do this but it's coming REALLY fast! We're busy now trying to sell off our stuff so it's less junk to store while we're away. We're also busy getting all our documents organized like addresses for Canadian Embassies in the countries we're going to...Malaysian Airlines (that's who we're flying with most of the way) offices for when we want to change our flight dates...and we've ... read more

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Recently found my notes and thought I'd upload them. ***Disclaimer*** I'm not the sort of person who can read a travel guide for long spells - i prefer looking at maps and drawing red lines on them. I can't sit at home and read, "take bus No. 154 for 3 stops, transfer to the red line ..." I am, as a result, totally useless in train stations, airports, bus depots etc. Also I can miss the must-see attraction and end up else where. (I never made it into the Dom in Cologne despite walking past it 5+ times, I did manage to go wading in the Rhine river) So how did I survive? I travelled with a friend (the Buddy System does work) who is organized and prepared. (Ted) All this to say: probably shouldn't ... read more

May 22, 2004 City official name :Toronto Founded date : Location :Ontario Province Elavation :? ft (? m) Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). Facts :Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. The city had a population of 2,503,281 and its census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,113,149 at the 2006 Canadian census. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA), a provincial planning area that differs from the federal CMA, had a population of 5,555,912 at the 2006 Canadian Census. Toronto is the economic centre of the Greater Golden Horseshoe, a large urbanized region of 8.1 million people, spreading outwards from the western shores of Lake Ontario. Residents of Toronto are called Torontonians. ... read more