When my friends from Germany got here saturday, march the 8th, I picked them up from the airport.. and didn't really do much with them after that for the next couple of days, because I was so sick I got dizzy whenever I tried standing up. Great. Anyways, so they went off to explore Toronto on their own, and by tuesday I was feeling better, so Kaela, Betti, Uli and I went to the Toronto Zoo. It was a beautiful day out - very sunny, fairly mild temperatures, and lots of snow! The unfortunate part about going to the zoo in winter, and when they're doing some construction, is, that you don't get to see all of the animals. The grizzlies were hibernating, the polar bears were somewhere in the North because their space at the zoo was under contruction, the elephants weren't on display that day, and so on and so forth. Anyway, we still saw some amazing animals, and I think everyone enjoyed it. The gorillas were awesome! And the zoo has an Orang-Utan that was born in Borneo in 1958!!!!
Apparently, they think we're just as interesting as we think they are...
Watch out! Danger!
Go for the eyes, go for the eyes!
Betti and Uli, standing on the zoo's equator... and Kaela, waving in the background
A cheetah in the snow... now here's something you don't see everyday!
Oh, and Betti and I ate crickets covered in chocolate - actually, it doesn't taste that bad.
Betti and Uli left early thursday to go on their Ontario roadtrip, I went to school to write an exam, and then headed off on my own roadtrip - to Chicago, for St. Patrick's day! It was Matthias and Sara, who did the driving, and then Ian (a British guy Sara knows) and Florian (a French guy, also a friend of Sara's). We drove all night and arrived in Chicago around 9 a.m. on friday morning. We spent friday exploring Chicago - that was a trip down memory lane. Kind of weird, but also kind of nice - I really like Chicago! And we had 10°C, plants were growing - it felt like spring! I had completely forgotten that there was anything other than winter... it was nice. Saturday we got up early, because that was the day of the St. Patrick's day celebrations - meaning there was a parade, and, much more importantly: the dye the river green!!! And when I say green, i mean BRIGHT green! So that was fun! I also went to about 10 different shops to find Converse for my sister, but it turns out none of them had the ones she wanted... that sucked. We ended up not going to any bars, because two of us weren't 21 yet, so they wouldn't let them in. We went out for dinner instead and then bought some beer on the way home. So we spent that night playing card games, laughing a lot and having a beer in our room back at the hostel. On sunday, we went up on the Hancock Building, picked up a dozen donuts at Dunkin Donuts (YAY!!) and then started our drive back. We didn't get back on time, so we ended up driving everybody home because they had missed their last bus - and I didn't get back home to Toronto until the next morning, I crashed at Matthias' place - on the up side, that way he didn't have to drive on his own for 2 hours after driving for most of the day.
from left to right: Ian, Flo, Matthias, and Sara - in the background, the Chicago skyline.
Even the dogs get dressed up for St. Patrick's day!
Me, in front of the green river (the day AFTER they dyed it!!)
In case it doesn't come out on the previous picture: THIS is how green the river was!
... St. Patrick's day.
I got back to Toronto on monday the 17th - and my Jazz choir's concert was on the 18th. The concert went well, we had fun - it was a little sad to say goodbye to some of them, though. Afterwards, Dani and I met up with Steffen, who'd come to the city from Waterloo to show his friends that were visiting from Germany around.
The man flailing his hands in front of us is Bob, our conductor/professor. The black&white shirt, that's me.
Okay, once again, I'm getting hungry. I'll tell you about the rest of it later... meaning everything after march 18th up until now. Hope you guys are well!
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