My first weekend in Canada is almost over and I am not really awake right now, but I will write something anyways and then go to sleep after. The reason I am so tired is that my body still thinks I am in Europe and wakes me up every morning at 7 or 7.30. I get tired around 6 pm and then, at 11 or 12 pm, I really have to go to sleep. I think this will be alright somewhere next week.
I was just hanging out on thursday and on friday I had my first meeting with Whitney, the Local Committee President (LCP) of AIESEC here about what exactly I will be doing here, so I could get started and I already did make a planning and some nice to-do lists :). It feels soooooo good to finally be doing some AIESEC work again. On friday night Aida, her boyfriend Dan and Amos woke me up because my place is apparently the party place where everyone meets all the time. Of course I knew they were coming, but I had to take a nap anyways. Which extended itself...
With more people around we prepared for a night at the bars, preparing meaning drinking in this case, which I did not join in for a change. We went downtown to a bar at 12, where we danced until 1.30. That was when my back started hurting really really badly again and I had to go home. I didn't miss much though, because bars in Guelph have their last call at 2 am and close at 3 am latest. Poor people here. They miss the whole fun part. Mean Canadian government. There are probably after-bar-parties at peoples houses, but wtf...I already miss Copenhagen party nights till 7 in the morning and I finally understand why all the Americans go crazy once they come to Europe. By the way, the mean Canadian government also has the monopoly on the sales of alcohol. Probably like in Sweden. But as in Sweden I'm not sure it has a positive effect on the population's alcohol consumption.
On saturday morning Krista, the VP ICX (Vice President of Incoming Exchange) and I went to the farmer's market which is every week just across the street from my house. Very convenient, it has a lot of organic nice vegetables and fruits, Amish cookies, dumplings, nice juices, salsas...really cool. And to me, still used to the Copenhagenish price-level, everything seems very cheap there. I think the vegetables are, even compared to Germany and the Netherlands. The Canadians consider the stuff at the farmer's market expensive, because it's not genetically manipulated. Like a lot of the produce you can buy at the normal stores. The onions here are incredibly big and I've also seen some scary cucumbers and tomatoes. And people can't believe me when I tell them that this is forbidden in Europe.
After the farmer's market I went home and that's where I stayed, doing some AIESEC work and reading. I was supposed to go to a Barbecue at night, but since my back was hurting so badly I was messed up by the pain (and also by the painkillers I had taken) so I decided to stay at home and watch a movie so I would be alright today to go to the zoo!!!!
So this morning we got on the greyhound bus to Toronto at 9h45, it took us an hour to get there. Luckily no scary things happened. Scary things related to Greyhound bus travelling in Canada like the decapitation story that happened some weeks ago in Edmonton...bah bah. The greyhound bus has a sign that says "don't bring weapons" and "violent behaviour towards the driver or your fellow travellers will be punished". Sometimes the Canadians are not worried enough. Most of them don't lock their front doors. I trained Brett to do so and when I told him why we do that in Europe and that it also has something to do with insurance of the stuff you have in your house he was like "oh I never thought about that". I hope I didn't worry him. Still, apparently they are as worried about terrorism about Europeans, because they have the same rules for hand luggage, even on domestic flights. . I see a mismatch here. Anyways, Greyhound took us safely to Toronto, there we went on the subway, another subway and a bus to the zoo. Which was quite cool. Unfortunately the main reason we went there was because Nilu, the Indian trainee wanted to see polar bears and penguins. They don't have any penguins anymore and the polar bears are temporarily moved to another zoo, but we still had a great time. I saw more groundhogs. And took a lot of pictures, I'll put them online tomorrow. Unfortunately, walking around the zoo all day makes very tired. I will remember that for if I ever have kids. So I already fell asleep on the bus back to Guelph and am sleepwalking ever since we got here, it might be time to go to bed then. Especially because tomorrow I will start going to the office and everything.
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