So Friday me and Lars went to the first of two days of the Ryerson Orientation (intro). Here we got to meet Casper, who is studying some kind og engineering at the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Nice guy, same age as the rest of us, so after getting a lot of information about the programme we introduced him to Pil and Kirstine. We met them at a coffee shop and later we walked down to a place called St. Laurents market.
Right now there’s something called the BuskerFest (http://www.torontobuskerfest.com/) at St. Laurents market.
Me, Pil and Casper at St. Laurents Market, check out the little girl with the butterfly balloon wrapped around her!
That means a lot of people watching all sorts of entertainers and buying food and stuff from different small shops on the street. Quite fun.
Also here there is a big market (everyday, not just during the buskerfest) where you can get fresh vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, nuts and candy, kitchen supplies, everything! Very exciting since this place isn’t that far from where we are going to live.
Yesterday we had another day of orientation but a more casual and fun one. We we’re divided into teams and then first there was a trivia (qiz), then a case competition (where I presented a marketing plan and our team won, yaya
) and last a spirits competition. For this last part all teams had to do something funny to show team spirit. We did a song and others did little sketches and so on. Kind of akward but funny
We ended the day at a pub nearby where we had beer and some food with the others from the programme. Some of us stayed and later on me and the other Danes went with a guy from the programme, Justin, to this club called Rockwood and Grass where he works as a promoter. He got us in for free and we just had a really nice time drinking some more beers, rum and coke and dancing.
These are some pictures from the club’s website (http://www.rockwoodclub.com/venue.php):
So today I’m a little bit hungover. Got up at noon, got some breakfest and talked to my parents on Skype. Hans and Clare is at their cottage but will be home soon. I’ll just stay out here today, my feet are very sore from walking around all week long – and yesterday walking all the time in high heels. Tomorrow I’ll meet up with the others and I think me and Lars have to work out which courses we’re going to follow.
