Last weekend I went to Toronto and Niagara Falls with CISA - The Concordia International Students Association. I hadn’t travelled anywhere in Canada outside Montréal before this trip, so I was quite excited to see a bit more of this HUGE country (in fact the second largest in the world).
Thursday night at 23:00 I left my appartment and took the metro to school. A rather bizarre feeling really, going to school that late at night. The bus left at 00:00, and we drove through the night, arriving in Toronto at 6:30 in the morning. When we got up to the top terrace of the hotel, this is the sight that met us:
So, after soaking up the morning sun for a while, I guess most people went to their room and caught a couple of hours of well deserved sleep. Not me. Together with my two trusted roommates, I started walking the streets of Toronto. Which was a really special experience at 7:00 in the morning - you’ll see from the photos that the streets were not excactly jam packed with people.
Sorry about the last image, I just thought it was kind of an interesting image of the pressures of the big city, and how it can push even its winged inhabitants to what did infact look almost like a suicide. I still have no idea what happened to the poor bird.
Anyway, Toronto is a real nice city, especially for architecture, but in terms of charm and atmosphere… well it doesn’t hold a candle to Montréal.
On Saturday the time had come for, I guess the main attraction of the trip - Niagara Falls. I’ve always been really interested and fond of nature and its wonders, and Niagara Falls has always been on my list of natural wonders I want to see, so going there was really quite exciting for me. For the people who haven’t been, this is what it looks like (through the lens of my camera anyway, the real thing is much more impressive).
We also went on that boat you see on the pictures, the Maid of the Mist. It was quite spectacular, feeling the incredible force and wind and spray of the immense falls on the deck, taking photos was really hard. I do have som BW photos that I’m developing, so hopefully I’ll have some great shots for a later occasion as well.
Well, those are the best photos I have. I didn’t bring my camera to the club on Saturday night (probably just as well), but to all you people who were also on the trip - those photos are on Facebook, which you probably already know. Oh, and thanks for a great trip everyone. These parting images are from our busride home, when some of you might have been sleeping…
