Canadas streets

Canada streets

I woke up the next morning feeling GREAT! so i decided to go for a walk. While i was walking i was thinking about what i should do for the rest of the day, so I planed to go to one of the churches here in Toronto. I have heard so many good things about it, and thought “why not” i am in Canada anyway so i went to see the church and it was amazing! i think it is one of the biggest churches i have ever seen in my entire life, it had so many colors. after i had seen the church i went down the streets of Canada, they are actually not that beautiful but somehow i find them pretty fascinating anyway. There are all kinds of old looking houses and retro yellow yard chairs that you just could sit on if you felt tired in your legs. I went by many many small café’s and restaurants that i am looking so much forward to try out.

August 13/08-2015

Trying out Canadian food :)

trying out Canadian food :)

It was starting to get dark and i was getting hungry. I went down to the lobby to hear if they had any good restaurant recommendations, and they told me that “The Elm Tree” had wonderful food and have a talented chef. I went to the restaurant and it was amazing! My taste buds were dancing. I ordered Poutine, which is french fries generously slathered in gravy and cheese curds, Fiddleheads which is are curly, edible shoots of fern, often consumed in many provinces seasonally across the country. And then for dessert i went for pancakes, and What could be more Canadian than syrup that comes from the maple tree, whose iconic leaf has come to symbolize Canada and its national pride. A cup of tea, and last but not least, a butter tart which is a classic Canadian dessert made with butter, sugar, syrup and eggs.

august 12/08-2015

A different schoolsystem

I went to a presentation about the Canadian schools. At first I thought  it was a kind of borring, but after a couples of minutes it was okay. 

I remember that I was sitting beside a very old man and he slept through the whole presentation. His head was lacking on my shoulder and he salivated on me. 

The woman, who were presenting the subject had a strong american accent and nice laughter. Her outfit was very funky and casual, for shirt she had a very orange top with a sun in the middle, for jeans it was normally black jeans. I started to relax more under her presentation. 

I forgot to say that her name is Diana. Diana told the audience about the basics in Canadian school. I learned, if I was a student in Canada I would be at Junior High School also known as middle school. After middle school I would be at High School. I think it will be very exciting to joining the canadian High School in a while. It will be a little difficult, because they have english and french-language school, so I need to practice my english if I will be at a Canadian School. 

Diana told us that in the canadians school they will have to wear a dress code, so if I was at a Canadian school it would be weird in the beginning, because I’m not used to wear a specific dress or outfit.  In my opinion you don’t have to wear a specific dress or outfit. 

They have private schools, which is a little bit different than a public schools. In the private schools some of the classes is splits between girls and boys. At the first time I thought that it will be cool with a class only with girls, but at the same time there will be a lot of gossip and that kind of stuff. 

At the end of the presentation Diana told about how they have religious schools. I haven’t heard about that kind of schools before. I think that  we need some schools like them, because people have different faiths. It’s very important that people are allow to have their own faith. The religious schools are for jewish, muslim and christian people. 

I went home to the hotel with a good experience.

 I have got a lot to think about!  

August 11/08-2015

 

Pizza, burgers and lamborghinis

I decided to go and borrow a lamborghini which was fast and noisy and had the color red and traveled to Montreal because I wanted to see formal 1.

I saw a lot of people and of course the nice cars. I ate a lot of pizza and burgers and enjoyed the race a lot of Canadians does.

August 10/08-2015

Chinatown and little Italy

Chinatown and little Italy

I chose to walk deep into Chinatown. I think I was in the exact middle before I realized, that I couldn’t see a single person around me, who wasn’t Chinese. Actually it was a bit funny, here I am in the heart of Canada, yet not a single ethnic Canadian person. I stood still for a few seconds before, I made up my mind and went to get some real Chinese food, “made in China”town. I ate the food eagerly, and went straight outta Chinatown.

After I had been in Chinatown I went to Little Italy. I expected Little Italy to be much like Chinatown, just Italian instead of Chinese. But yet there was a tiny difference. In Little Italy there were way more restaurants. Well actually it wasn’t restaurants, more like just Pizzerias. But also in Chinatown there were a lot of tiny shops. In Little Italy it was more like not very Italian shops, but just normal Canadian shops. I had one tiny meal in Little Italy before going back to my hotel room. After all that adventuring in just one day, I felt really tired and just wanted to relax and have a cold drink.

August 16/08-2015

Arriving to Canada

Arriving to Canada

I arrived at the airport in Toronto at 12AM, we flew with the aeroplane company Air Canada. My first expression of the country I had was all the different ethnic groups. And this was just at the airport. There was hundreds of different people, and I think that there was several religions represented by all the different people. But the first thing i wanted to do, was to stretch both my arms and legs, when thinking about it, seven hours in a plane is a long time. So I immediately went to my hotel room, I was staying at The Fairmont Royal York so I went there, unpacked my stuff and went straight outside to take a good ol’ walk in Toronto City. It was an impressing experience because of all the small shops, and especially Chinatown. A little China inside Toronto. Actually there’s 350.000 Chinese people living in Toronto City.

August 09/08-2015