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Toronto - Reality Check

Yes I am in Toronto.... Back to a city of concrete structures and shopping malls. I reached Toronto this afternoon with my friend and went to the hotel directly. Checked into a most amazing room and am happy about it... Have a living room and a bedroom and 2 washrooms. Still don't understand why. Anyways writing this blog I am gazing out of the window and can see the C&N towers standing tall.... me, Rahul, Dashmeet and Dhanashree went out and had dinner and came back to the rooms and chatted for 5 minutes and then off to sleep everyone..... unlike Vancouver, Toronto is a typical North American city with more people, buildings and all other stuffs. Wide freeways, fast and angry people. I had big expectations for Toronto and when I saw really whats there I am disappointed. Although I have not explored any of the city the first impression was not what I expected. i expected to see more and more buildings, huge billboards, or at least a huge place... The place is huge but I gues

Toronto here I come

Oct 7 th morning 2.20am: I have some time to write my new blog. It has been a hectic week and a tiring one. The course work is killing me and the exams during the next week are going to be awful (I should say it is good looking actually). The only reason I am motivated is because of my friends. I am super happy to get new friends and at the same time get back to the normal way with some of my old friends9 especially the one I care a lot). But, the highlight of the time is I am looking forward to my first trip to Toronto for an interview. I am getting an opportunity to see the largest city in Canada and the financial one too. Having already seen London, New York and Mumbai, Toronto is going to be exciting. The hotel stay is gonna be in Fairmont (phew!!!!!!!! one night’s stay is $397) and the travel is through Air Canada. Although my stay is going to be only for 2 days (36hrs precisely), I want to make it worthwhile. The good thing is that I might as well land up with the job and go the