Remembrance of Canada

While I was looking through pictures in my phone I found some memorable moments from my exchange. For example my first bus ride from Toronto to Guelph when I fighter planes or what ever they are called. Quite impressive. 

There were also some pictures from my first trip to Detroit before Halloween. Fall colors in the USA just scream Halloween to me, it also reminded me of this one tv movie I watched. It is such a different feel to what life is like here in Finland.

Also one of my first sights in Guelph was this beautiful sunset, at the time it was raining and I was on my way to get some food as the next day would be Labour Day and no shops would be open. Its kinda odd how in Canada the sun would set at a certain time and so early in the day. Well for a Finn, whom is used to either dark all day or light all day, the Canadian light was so strange.

The one thing I've been craving like crazy lately, TIM HORTONS. Their french vanilla cappuccino is to die for! It was my favorite, and it even beat Starbucks! Lets see if I can convince anyone from Canada to send me the powdered instant coffee version. 

Pumpkin carving contest. There were some interesting pumpkins. Not much to say about this event, I ate a lot of free pizza and watched people carve pumpkins. Didn't try though, I had tried that once before and it doesn't feel so hot on your hands. 

Oh yeah a poster me and another Finnish girl made to promote our school. I think my school has had only one exchange student from Canada so far. Anyway we tried to highlight all the cool things about Finland. Like Lapland, Northern Lights, Nokia, Angry Birds, Hockey players. We also included pictures of Lahti and our school(though our school has no official picture of it, very lame)

Toronto In December

Still with these late posts, but pictures are always worth sharing. So its a bit odd looking at some Christmas stuff in them but so what. Toronto was truly magical during this trip I loved it! So get ready for a overload of pictures.

CN Tower, a must see in Toronto

Everything is so small

The glass floor, my mom didn't dare step on it

golden building!

tikkutalo!

the tower

worst cecar salad ever

the streets

Business stuff

christmas lights!

thousand mirrors

there were quite a few windows like this one

perfect break from the cold weather, gingerbread latte!

Swarovski tree!

Niagara Falls vol 3

So I'm a bit late with these pictures but better late than never right? :) Anyway I made my way to Niagara Falls with my parents when they visited me in Canada, this time we were on the US side. Actually when we went to Buffalo we drove back through Niagara Falls.

Joo siis oon vähän myöhässä näiden kuvien kanssa, mut hei parempi myöhään ku ei milloinkaan. Tosiaan kolmatta kertaa Niagara Fallsilla mutta tälläpä kertaa USAn puolella. Eli kun Buffalosta ajeltiin takas Guelphiin ni poikettiin Niagaralla.

odd to look at this part of the falls :)

Oddly good picture of me.

Good ending with finally finding Linkin Park stuff in a Hard Rock Cafe! My favorite band of all time, though I'm not that constant at liking music. Like me I change my mind quickly or I make up my min quickly, it also applies to music :)

Hyvä lopetus tällä postaukselle eli vihdoinkin törmäsin Linkin Parkiin Hard Rock Cafessa :) About time! Tosiaan Linkin Park on yks niitä bändejä johon en kyllästy vaikka välillä on erilaisia vaiheita musiikin suhteen. Mun mieli muuttuu aika nopeasti mut mä myös teen päätöksiä aika nopeasti, joten sama pätee musiikkiin. 

Breakfast Cora Style

So yet Im already home in Finland, I still have some pictures from Canada that I want to share. Quite a lot actually. So lets see if I can get some out now. Yes I am sitting at Toronto airport writing this, so what :)

Coming Home

Wow, that was an odd two days. So much to do so little time. Yet I made it to the airport with all my stuff. After the most confusing check in I made my way to the US customs where they claimed my visa had expired yet in the passport it says January 9th. Well finally they let me go and I went through security check, where a nice lady was looking at my jade bracelet and said exactly the same as my daughters. After I told her how I got it she was really impressed and asking me about going home. She made my day. Such a nice lady. So now Im sitting at my gate already, since it seems there isn't that much to do here and my pack back weighs a ton. Cool that they have free wifi at Toronto airpot. I wonder if JFK will have it as well. I can't wait to get on the plane and sleep. I haven't slept much in the previous 2 nights. Oh yeah, here is a very very photogenic picture of our tired traveler aka me :)

Road Trip

My parents were visiting me here in Canada. These are a few pictures from their first day here, they had rented a car and we drove around the Guelph area. Huge traffic that day so we ended up in Waterloo. In Waterloo I saw the first christmas lights. Cool snowflakes.

the car

Something In Your Mouth

It was a lazy lazy Saturday morning when me and the girls made our way to Cora's to have breakfast. Cora's is a Canadian chain of breakfast places and I have to say quite good. As you can see from the picture below they had a wide selection of foods and most of them had a lot of fruits. They also had a very good mango-banana smoothie. Take a look at their menu and stuff here.

Creps and frech toast with fruits

Sushi

This one weekend me and the girls wondered to a all you can eat sushi restaurant. It was my first time to eat sushi but not my first time to eat raw fish, since we Finns love our fish cooked and raw. I was a little worried about it, since I'm quite particular about the freshness of fish but turned out that I was worried for no reason. Though the salmon did not taste as good as some graavilohi (gravlax in English), but hey not everything can be perfect.

You've Got Mail

Its always an exiting process of going to your mail box and checking if you have any mail. Usually you find ads and bills, but then again sometimes you get postcards and on the rare occasion you might get a letter. Well I've been lucky enough to be remembered by a few people and this post is to them and also the people that have emailed me, you guys made my days much brighter.

lol, my address is huge, so long

Everyday I'm Suffering

I don't really have any idea behind this post, just had some pictures I wanted to share and kinda trying to get my mind off school stuff in a way. Can't believe my time here in Canada will be soon over, but I'm really excited about going home. Its going to be hard to say goodbye to some of the nicest people I've met here but on the other side I can't wait to be back in the arms where I belong and to get to hug my little nieces. Oh that reminds me, need to do some serious Christmas shopping soon!

At least not all text in school books are boring, yet these are articles so no wonder they were interesting.

Halloween Hunt

So before Halloween there was a trip to the amusement park in Toronto for a event called Halloween Hunt. Basically you went to the park during the evening and they had Halloween decorations and horror houses that you could visit. So here are some pictures I took, there was a lot of smoke and very little lighting so most are a bit blurry but interesting none the less, so enjoy:

Halloween is a Coming

So from today until the actual Halloween day I'm gonna post everyday something related to Halloween. Mostly just show some old decorations I have done in the past and then some new ideas I have come up with. So at the moment my Halloween stock here in Canada is a bit small, but that's the life of a exchange student. Though I got myself a spider web to put up, let's see how it looks once I get it done.

Yep, so this was the short intro. More Halloween to come, with lots of cool pictures etc etc.

Montreal Crew

So just adding some pictures of the girls I was with in Montreal they really are what keeps me going here in Guelph. The nicest group of girls I have ever know.