First half of the Canadian Adventures...

I am precisely two months in Toronto, today. Two more to go... It is all going too fast, there is too much to do and too little hours in a day. I realised just now, how full my first two months have been. The hassle of paperwork and the getting-used-to-everything-new phase seem to be cast away to the far past. As hard as I tried to remember and absorb every single moment, you inevitably lose most of those precious memories, it is only the big and important things that stay with you. I have had some thoroughly good and fulfulling days and weeks in this amazing city, and I wouldn't have wanted to miss a single second of it all. Of course, there was a lot of work to go through, readings, literature, midterms and papers and essays of course, but then that is what I came for in the first place. And besides, I really musn't complain about my courses, they are all interesting (well, not all equally interesting, but that would just be an ideal world, wouldn't it) and I have the feeling that I have improved several skills in leaps and bounds. Moreover, in two months we managed to 'establish' a pretty close and amazing group of people from all over Europe. The Algonquin park trip in two weeks will probably be the reward for two and a half months of hard work. We all deserve that... :)

My days are incredibly full lately. Even 18 hours of active living seems to be not enough. I never go to bed because I am bored, I never have 5 minutes left, where I start wondering myself what I might do next. Obviously, that's all part of the fun, but there's hardly any time to do all the things I thought I would have time for. This website, for instance. My initial plan was to write here more often, about the small and slightly bigger things of life, but there is just too little time. My last paper is due on November 16th and I hope I will have some free time after that to start checking off my to do list!

This weekend's tone was mainly set by studying. Some of the highlights were Laurens calling me, completely out of the blue. I subconsciously enjoyed the craziness of his whim! Great, although slightly loony guy! First time my Wycik-phone actually did come in handy!
The A(lma)-team surprised me with a joint card today! Thanks girls, count me in from February onwards! I am absolutely picking up on that 'koninginnehapje met frieten aan €3.10' when I get back!

Apart from the above, no transatlantic news that's worth mentioning. We had a nice evening at Future's backery yesterday evening, after a completely and ridiculously stupid evening of allegedly funny sketches. Well, Future's chocolate explosion cake made up for it. Other than that, life just goes on, in it's own merry way, as I am sure it does in Belgium too!