{"id":17505,"date":"2013-07-26T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=17505"},"modified":"2013-07-26T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:21:56","slug":"a-new-home-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2013\/07\/26\/a-new-home-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Home Awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"Last weekend I flew to Vancouver to visit my brother. I have been out west several times, as my mom\u2019s side of the family lives in British Columbia. This time, however, I started thinking more about the experience of coming to a new city, of feeling lost, estranged, but also excited. I thought of all you out-of-town students, somewhere out there, waiting to make a home in Toronto! (#startUofT to tell me where you\u2019re coming from!)\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe city of Vancouver is very different than Toronto, set between the mountains and the ocean it is cooler, calmer, and more inviting to a strict diet of salmon sashimi!\r\n\r\nToronto is\u2026bigger, to say the least. It can be a fast city, a loud city, a city of highways and high-rises, a city with a castle and a great lake, a city that can be both menace and mentor to many young people, a city filled with possibility and life, a city that can be home!\r\n\r\nMy first visit to Toronto:<\/strong> My dad decided that I should see the Royal Ontario Museum. We drove about an hour from Cambridge ON (where I grew up) to Yorkdale Mall, and then my dad took me onto the subway. We sat at the front of the train, watching the dark tunnel appear and vanish in the same instant. We were almost there!\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe subway took us south to Museum station (I was completely lost at the time!), and when we came out on Queens Park I nearly fainted. The city exploded around me\u2014up was down, down was left, left was no longer a direction, and right\u2026well, it\u2019s better not to ask.\r\n\r\nI had no idea what was happening<\/strong> or where I was. But my dad took my hand (I was only eight years old, btw!) and led me up the street to the ROM. We entered on the Queens Park side, which proves it was a long time ago! I saw the dinosaurs, the medieval suits of armour, the totem poles, and I was the happiest boy you could find that day.\r\n\r\nWhen I returned to T.O for university, at age 19, I remembered the city vaguely. But mostly I was lost again. You can\u2019t help it. A new city will always feel strange and unknown, at first.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nMy brother moved to Vancouver in April and has since been adjusting. But moving to a new city is fun, he told me, \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to walk new streets, and be in a place where you do feel lost at times, but slowly you get used to everything, it all starts to make sense.<\/em>\u201d My brother was very excited to show me his<\/em> new city, and more importantly his new home.\r\n\r\nAnd so will you, after a while<\/strong>. If your family and friends come to visit, you will be able to show them your <\/em>new city. You\u2019ll say things like:\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is Robarts Library. I\u2019ve been inside 791 times and counting. They say the weight of all the books is causing it to sink, but I think it\u2019s the weight of all the sleeping students.\u201d\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe city of Toronto will become a series of landmarks and side streets, short-cuts and favourite places. The University of Toronto, St. George campus will encompass a large portion of it, and at the very centre you will find a home, your home. It\u2019s here waiting for you!\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s all for me U of T! Stay diamond!\r\n\r\n- Stephen\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRobarts Library Photo Credit: The Glossaries Blog<\/a>\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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