Here is the facade that leads to the fitness center... you walk in these doors and go underground. Behind this facade is actually beautiful grass and a park! You will learn more below... and I took this picture from the internet since I haven't uploaded pictures yet!
Well unfortunately this post is going to be super lame, but I promise once I'm all moved in and settled I will be able to post some pictures.
I can't believe I am really in Toronto. It still seems like I am going to jump on the plane with my parents and go back to Calgary and this is just a vacation. Just a four year vacation....with a few trips to Calgary in between.
Anyway, picture this. A little bit smaller version of New York. Some freeways have 12 lanes across, and there was a huge accident today on the main one... Let's just say, I will never complain about Deerfoot traffic again. There are huge billboards, lit up with different advertisements, and huge tv screens playing commercials. The buildings are tall and there are people everywhere. And not just ordinary people. You see white people, families, black people, breakdancers, nuns, homeless people (luckily not too many) and even a strange man standing on a corner screaming out random scriptures from the bible and yelling at people as they go by. (not the best way to introduce the gospel into people's lives in my opinion). There are also fountains where kids are playing, and a Starbucks on pretty much every corner. Yup, this is downtown Toronto. Now you walk about half a block and guess where you are...Ryerson University, my school! The buildings are different, some are super old and quaint and beautiful with really tall hanging trees and then there are some new beautifully designed glass buildings. But since I don't have pictures yet, I will try to create a picture in your mind.... There is a big rectangle in the middle (like the size of an elementary school field) that is all grass, and trees and a few pathways, and cute street lights and benches and there is a big building that goes all the way around this huge square. Also inside this big field is a gated off play area for the childcare center, where students learn hands on about kids and taking care of them! Kind of cool. On one side of this huge square there is a huge facade (looks like the front of a building but is really JUST the front of a building and not a while building). It is actually been there from during the war, and soldiers trained downstairs or something so they build Ryerson around it. Anyway you walk in the doors of the facade and go downstairs (underground) to see a HUGE fitness center.... squash, tennis, swimming, gym, table tennis... you name it! It's so cool! What else is cool about Ryerson? Umm... there is a huge pond with big rocks in it and it's called Lake Devo and in the winter it ices over and serves as a skating rink... that's cool. Or what about the building that is connected to Eaton Centre? I think I'd have trouble walking past H&M and Forever 21 to get to a boring class inside Eaton Centre!
Anyway, it's pretty cool that I live so close to everything. And now to my apartment. I have a friend, her name is Sam. She is from Burlington, ON which is about 45 minutes away. She is in the Theater Production program, which is something I was super interested in after putting the show Lion King together in High School. She's awesome. Super nice, and caring and generous. Her room is wicked...it's all painted and looks so spiffy! Then I go to my room... it looks like a hostel... or more like a jail cell. Okay that sounds bad... but the floors are black and white checkered marble and then the bed frame, table and chairs and dresser are that birch veneer wood from IKEA and the desk and chair are black and white. The walls are WHITER THAN WHITE. But i've decided that in order to spice up my black and white theme I am getting everything in bright pink and green and blue. I have bright pink and green and blue picture frames, and plates, and cups, and even lucked out on a kids bedding that is the exact same colour of pink blue and green! My towels are green and then I have pink ones for a guest. I still have to get some more stuff for my room as well as food and what not, but it's getting there! It's amazing what a little colour can do. And it isn't ALL that small. I have a single bed, a dresser, a wardrobe, a round table and chairs to eat and then a good sized desk and rolly chair, a tiny kitchen with just a fridge, stove, microwave and sink. And then a bathroom with a large shower but no bath and then a little walk in closet. I guess it's more like the penthouse of a dorm...
I also wanted to congratulate my Dad on working at his job for 35 years! We went for a big dinner in his honour lastnight, and some people had some pretty cool things to say about my Dad that's for sure! It was funny... one guy knows the district manager of the Apple Store and is going to get me a job, one lady already put me in touch with an Executive Producer of a TV show here at Rogers, and one guy wants to set me up with a graphic design student at Ryerson that he says is "tall, dark and handsome" and someone else is hooking me up with a tv... man am I ever spoiled! Also, my best friend from dance Bretonie is coming here on Thursday so I can't wait to help her get settled! AND my best friend growing up Sonja is coming this long weekend for Beach Volleyball nationals so I hope to go watch her play! AND the Toronto International Film Festival starts soon and people from my work are coming, and supposedly you CANNOT get a flight from LA now because it is just so booked!
So I think I have some exciting days ahead of me to blog about. And pictures too. I don't think anyone will make it this far because I realize this blog is SUPER long and boring.... except maybe Alana and maybe Kandice.... haha. Who knows! Anyway, I miss you all! I promise to get into the blogger mode once I'm settled in!
Signing out from Toronto.
