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I'm back! :) After I finished the last entry, things really started to get tight at school - at some point I was convinced that I would most likely drop dead by the end of november... but, what do you know, I'm still here!
On november 9th, a couple of us went to see The Police at the Air Canada Center in Toronto... that was a pretty big thing. A really fun, great concert... even though I think Sara got a lot more excited than I did... but still, really good fun, and some great music! Apparently, Sting's son has a band of his own, so they were opening... they were really good, so 2 fun bands in one night. Oh, and we got reseated because they didn't sell all the tickets (it was their third concert in Toronto on this tour), so we ended up in seats that were a lot better than those we paid for! :) Steffen took some pictures, so I'll put one in here, just for the heck of it. So, picture number one: The Police and the ACC.

As far as school goes, I got to interview Randy who is a counselor for Aboriginal students at York, which was really interesting, because he is a First Nations person himself (what we used to call "Indian" up until 1982), so I learned a lot about their culture and history. Plus our presentation we did based on the interview turned out really well, so what more can you ask for?!
On november 20th, I had the first concert with my Jazz Choir (the second one is in march) - not a lot of people there, but we did well and our conductor Bob couldn't wipe the grin off his face, so it was a great night for us... I can't wait to do the next one!! Joining the choir was weird at first, since I hadn't been in one since... 2002?! And I had never ever been in a Jazz choir, for that matter. So it took some getting used to, but now it's really good, and fun, and hard work... and a nice change from all the psychology courses I do otherwise :)
So, for me at least, the semester ended by the end of november... which doesn't mean that I'm just lazy now, because I work three days a week, so I'm keeping busy. Plus, as I mentioned earlier, november was quite straining, so I need some time to recover... the next time I hear someone say that exchange students don't do anything for school and just hang around and party and travel, I'm going to kick them, hard! Turns out that that is not AT ALL what it's like to be an exchange student... at least not in Canada... at least not in Toronto. Although I do plan to go out some more next semester, since I've been here for four months now and have hardly seen anything of Toronto - and that's kind of pathetic. So, that's about to change :)

To celebrate (well, kind of) the end of the semester, I went to see Bon Jovi play at the ACC - one of the best Bon Jovi shows I've seen, ever... and (although usually with Betti and Ramona and in Germany, not Canada) I've seen quite a few! :) But SO worth going to, especially since the ones in Germany will be open air, so, if you get the chance and even remotely like the music, I really recommend you go!! It was GREAT!!! They played tons of old songs, of course the new ones... it was just really amazing... and even Andreas and Sara thought it was a good show, and they aren't into Bon Jovi too much, so there you go - must've been good! And of course it didn't hurt the general mood of the audience when the singer put on a Maple Leafs jersey, which is Toronto's beloved hockey team ("Eishockey", that is) - they go crazy for them! Anyway, in case you were wondering what the blue shirt on picture number 2 is... it's a Maple Leafs jersey. I really really really want to go to a Maple Leafs game (they are like Bayern München for Munich... or the VfB to Stuttgart... important, anyway), but the tickets are outrageously expensive!!! 100 dollars at least, is what a friend told me!
Anyway, Bon Jovi was fun, and Hedley opened for them - which is a Canadian band that everyone goes crazy for around here right now (especially teenage girls, oddly enough ;) ), so that was a nice treat to see them play as well - they're entertaining... but I like them better on CD (or television, rather) than I liked them live.

Hm... lots of concerts in this post, huh? Well, that's it, too, because I'm starving and need to go get food before I can finish this off. So, Bon Jovi was december 6th, and on the 7th I left for a long weekend in Montréal (after having had to turn down Maike and Magali and their trip to Québec city because I had to work on tuesday :( )... so that's coming up!