{"id":21936,"date":"2014-10-21T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=21936"},"modified":"2014-10-20T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T23:49:00","slug":"the-distillery-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2014\/10\/21\/the-distillery-district\/","title":{"rendered":"The Distillery District! (feat. Segways)"},"content":{"rendered":"If you guys didn't know yet, I'm the Male Head of Non-Resident Affairs at Trinity College. Being a student leader comes with many duties - some duties are infinitely more enjoyable than others. You know, attending Finance Committee meetings sometimes just isn't fun.\r\n\r\nBut enough with that blah, my favourite duty as a Head is organizing \"Trin Goes to...\" events. It's exactly what it sounds like. My partner Head and I organize events outside the campus that the whole College is invited to!\r\n\r\n
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Me and my partner Head, Kalyna!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nAnd it's all because we are 20-something billionaires \u00e0 la Mark Zuckerberg.\r\n\r\nNo -- I'm just kidding. It's because our College's student government is excellent at managing student funds! Clubs and Heads are given a considerable sum of money to organize events that bring together the wider student community.\r\n\r\nSo, having a great foundation like the TCM<\/a>, I was able to take a group of 25 students on a full Segway tour of the Distillery District. Usually, it costs about $70 per person, but we were able to subsidize that cose so that each person only had to pay $10. Not a bad deal at all, I'd say. We were even able to pay for the TTC ride there!\r\n\r\n
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Look at me, not falling!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nWhen we arrived to begin our tour, we were immediately trained to use Segways. The quirky tour guides acted as the wind beneath our wings. I can't say it was easy at first, but after about 5 minutes on those bad boy vehicles, I felt like the Segway was one with my body -- I was Steve Wozniak. After training was done, we zoomed all around the Distillery District like Tweens illegally skateboarding in malls. I've never felt so free. I was a bird.\r\n