{"id":22903,"date":"2015-01-16T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=22903"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:49:38","slug":"all-over-the-place-travel-experiences-at-u-of-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/01\/16\/all-over-the-place-travel-experiences-at-u-of-t\/","title":{"rendered":"All Over The Place: Travel Experiences at U of T"},"content":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a new year and a new semester! I was lucky enough to make it home to Alberta for the holiday. Many students on campus also have family close to Toronto. Students who have to stay in the city away from their families in their home province or country are the toughest of us all. I can\u2019t imagine being alone during the holidays!\r\n\r\n
\"Snow-covered<\/a>
A Chinook sunset over the Rockies from my backyard in Cochrane (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nIf your home is not Toronto, it can be hard to be away at school all semester. However, travelling home can also be difficult.\r\n\r\n
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Alberta is vast and beautiful, and it looks a lot different than downtown TO! (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nMy flight home in December is a good example. My flight was on the 12th<\/sup> which was the day of a huge snowstorm. That\u2019s a perfect day for flying, right? I\u2019m glad I left early for the airport because the roads were a nightmare. What normally is a 40-minute drive turned into a two-hour snail race. Commuters must have it rough!\r\n\r\nOnce I made it to Pearson airport, I had to quickly make it through security and find the gate my flight had been relocated to last-minute. When we got on the plane the real <\/em>fun began\u2026\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
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The snow is so pretty, who would think it could be such a big issue? (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nSo we found our seats and the plane proceeded to sit there for four solid hours<\/em>. \u00a0Pearson was so backed up there weren\u2019t any ground crews available to put our luggage on the plane! The de-icing process took a long time as well because of the huge lineup of planes. My flight was very lucky though, because all the flights to Calgary from Toronto after ours were cancelled last minute.\r\n\r\nAfter trying to stay sane watching TLC re-runs the whole time, I got my hopes up when we inched onto the runway. What happened next? You guessed it, the plane didn\u2019t move<\/em>. We sat on the runway for another fifteen minutes before we managed to take off. Nobody on the plane had any patience left though we were in store for a four-hour flight to Calgary.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve actually heard worse stories from my friends about their travels this year and maybe you\u2019ve even had a worse experience.\r\n\r\nThe holiday was very relaxing though returning home after an entire semester away can feel weird <\/em>(especially when your home is so different from Toronto!) If you spend enough time at home, Toronto can feel just as weird when you come back as well.\r\n\r\n
\"Looking<\/a>
More epicness from the Rockies, (Note the frozen waterfall!) (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Here's a shot of the Banff Springs Hotel, a beautiful building and rich-peoples' mountain fortress (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nThe flight back was also an adventure, which included huge turbulence, a last-minute landing abort to avoid hitting another plane and an hour-and-a-half delay waiting for the luggage. I also had to give the cab driver directions through downtown (I guess he was new to the job) and finally made it home at 1:30 a.m. on the first day of classes.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s important to anticipate the difficulties of travel, including airport madness and the weirdness of returning home after a long journey in this strange place. It\u2019s also important to have a community like First Nations House to jump right into. It makes the transition so much easier when you have friendly faces to see!\r\n\r\n
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It's nice to be given warm food during a cold day of classes, especially when it's a hearty minestrone from FNH's Friday lunch on Jan. 9th (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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