First week in the University.

Just some scribbling of thoughts.

- It's a bit of pain to watch those cars passing by when you are carrying bags full of groceries in both hands and back.

- My campus is located in the Greater Toronto Area called Scarborough. The campus is surrounded by large forests and quiet suburban neighbours. It's a perfect environment to be fully focused on academics.... :)

- I am already seeing many colleagues who are start taking the 'freedom' for granted. However, by all means, I am not going to be one of them. I want to be different than the others (in a good way).

- I miss Ottawa a lot; those highway 417 signs, public buses with red maple leafs, government workers with dog tags, friendly smiles of people, buildings with the government signs, construction on Bank Street, joggers by the canal, and tourists taking pictures of the Parliament hills, etc.

- Ottawa might be the political capital of Canada, but Toronto is definitely the cultural and economic capital. The city has a lot to offer. I just have to ride TTC and grab it.

- I'm thinking of going to the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend and volunteer for the Environmental Film Festival (Theme: Landscape) in the October. Events in Toronto are in different scale than those in Ottawa.

- Text books cost fortune, but no one questions why (!)

- I started cooking for myself. It's only a matter of time to get better on it.

- 'Internationally- minded person', that's who I want to be.

- Internet speed is horrible.