The final stretch..

Once again the month has absolutely flown by. December was a whirl of exams, uni ending, goodbyes, well-wishes, tears and of course parties.

The Eaton Centre became very festive and put up a huge Christmas tree and ginormous reindeers all over the place. Store windows became a part of the ‘Winter Wonderland’ display where stores competed to have the most Christmassy looking windows. Lakes froze over and ice skating rinks popped up all over the place. Just down from our apartments what was a skate board park in Summer turned into an ice skating rink (which we ended up on many times before heading out). The Toronto Christmas markets opened and we were introduced to the Canadian world of Christmas. It rained almost non-stop and I had to come to the awful realization that not one pair of shoes I owned would keep my feet dry/were winter sensible.

Classes ending was quite sad. The beginning of the end in a way. I did quite well (2 A’s, 1 B and a C), and got an offer from my photojournalism prof to keep sending him my work and to keep in contact. My only exam was for Politics and it was multiple choice. Too easy.

One girl on exchange organized a flag signing for everyone, so we all have fun souvies to take home. We found out about Dancecave (a club/bar) and became frequenters there (or as much so as we could). Farewell parties started popping up and people started leaving either to go home or to start travelling. It became really hard to say goodbye to everyone though because so many things were going on at once.

Zach organized a music shoot for a girl on exchange who is a singer, and I got to do stills photography. It was great fun and kudos to Zach for organising everything, I’m sure the end product will look amazing.

As we realized we only had a week left here, we decided to finally do the CN tower climb on one of the sparse sunny days. It felt good to accomplish something we had been meaning to do since day one.

Christmas was spent with those left at Primrose. One the 24^th we had a traditional Danish Christmas and two Danes cooked for everyone which was lovely. On the 25^th we headed back there after doing a small Kris Kringle with Jess, Zach and I and had an Aussie Christmas complete with ham, turkey and chicken. It was great.

Then the 26^th we finalized packing and got booted out of our little homes at midday. Spent the day bumming around Toronto, got one last feed of all you can eat sushi then headed to the bus station to head to New York!