Thursday, August 12, 2010

Another Three Days Have Gone By

My vacation will end 6 days from now. It's a shame, I'd like to stay here for a lot longer, I really like Canada. But I've still got nearly a week, so there's no point in crying yet.
Anyway, to give a brief overview of my actions lately, I'll start with the 10. August. Tiina decided to go to the cinema with a friend, and asked if I want to join them. I had no other plans, so I accepted. We went to watch Despicable Me, it's an animated movie and it was surprisingly funny. The medium sized popcorn is really big in these cinemas, a lot bigger than the large one in Estonia. Another difference is that here you don't have a one certain seat where you have to sit, you have more freedom. After returning home, I went biking with Robert. We went to the beautiful Mount Pleasant Cemetery, where I saw a hawk (apparently I was lucky to see one) and a raccoon, who seemed to be searching for food. It climbed to the top of a tree eventually. Of course I also saw several squirrels, because they're everywhere. In the evening a neighbor and family friend Henno took me over to his place. There we mostly played video games (for those who are interested, Forza Motorsport and a Call Of Duty, for the Xbox 360).
On the day after that I went on the bus tour of Toronto, immediately followed by the boat tour to the islands. It was a double-decker, I was one of the last people to get a seat upstairs. The tours gave a nice little (3 hours all together) overview of the downtown. When the tour ended, I slowly went to the Eaton Centre (at first I wasn't sure where I wanted to go), I ate noodles in the Food Court (it's an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dining, I took that description from Wikipedia, as I don't feel like explaining it with my own words) and then Viive took me to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where Kristiina (my uncle's ex-wife, but I guess I'll just call her my aunt) showed me around and later took me to a Gelateria (an Italian ice cream place). It was nice.
Today I went to Chinatown with a small group of people. The Mullerbecks had relatives coming over from Estonia, one of them is a teacher at my school VHK, one of her daughters is a student there, and there were 4 other family members, I think. So I joined some of them. We ate dumplings at a restaurant there, and I bought lychee flavored hard candy (having all ready tried lychee juice, ice cream and, of course, fresh lychees themselves) at a supermarket where they mostly sold Chinese products. After a few hours there and at some of their relatives home, Viive and Rob took me to Beaches (a neighborhood in Toronto) and Scarborough Bluffs, you can see a part of it on this photo (it's not my photo, by the time we went there, it was dark), quite unique nature there.
Well, I'm finishing for now, it's 3:03 AM. It's usually around 1,2 or 3 AM that I finish my posts, even though below it says something like

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