Let me back up for a bit, and describe the past week or so. Soo, last Saturday I got to Toronto. The entire journey was RIDICULOUSLY long. I had to hold pee sooo many times for fear of using the public toilets. First we went to Riyadh on a BMI flight, it was slightly delayed. And we started off at 1am. Following this we waited in Riyadh about an hour or so. Then we flew to London, which took 6 hours +. There was a 4 hour transit at Heathrow, where I watched the French film, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain ("The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain"). It was a nice movie, although there were several explicit scenes. In the entiiiire journey, I watched He’s Not That Into You, Dog Hotel and some 30 Rock episodes. Nothing fantastic.
Then there was an 8 hour + journey to Toronto. So by the time me and Bob reached the hotel 24hours had passed. We walked around a fair bit the first day, we went to this festival at the harbour, which we looked around for a very short while. There was some picturesque scenery, and basically we just walked and walked. Which resulted in my baby toenail jamming itself in to the toe next to it and causing it to bleed. Yay >_< . Since I didn’t make a great deal of fuss, Bob didn’t really pay attention and I was in immense pain by the time we returned. The reason Bob came with me to Toronto was to make sure I got there in one piece. I feel this is an illegitimate reason. Firstly because he indirectly caused my toes to be injured, and secondly because Bob likes to walk fast. I do not. This means I tend to get left behind. Bob walks at a brisk pace and generally has a hurried air and therefore does not look back to see if I am still there and have not been abducted by some serial killer driving an ice-cream van. Also, it’s not like I’m physically or mentally handicapped, I can read the signs in an airport perfectly well. That night Bob took my to the CN tower, we had a look through the glass floor and ate dinner at the CN 360, which was incredibly posh and expensive (i felt guilty after). I was nowhere near suitably dressed. I’d fallen asleep when we came back from our walk, and woke up right before we were supposed to leave. I hadn’t had a shower, and didn’t want to waste clean clothes on my dirty aeroplane self so I simply wore black really baggy trousers, a t-shirt and hoodie. It looked like pyjamas. As it was a Saturday night most of the people there were couples all very formally dressed. It was cold and I stole Bob’s blazer from him. I was pleased as this kept me warm and was fashionable-ish and made my outfit more formal. However I was horrified when the waiter referred to me as “young man”. I’m hoping he meant to say “young ma’am” or suffered severely from dementia. Anyways it was nice and there were fireworks. Second day there with bob we had the morning together, during which we went and had a look at Eaton Centre. I bought Manic Panic Hot Hot Pink UV radiant hair dye. I probably never got a chance to mention but before I left I had bleached coontails into my hair. I didn’t use hair beach so they only went to an orangey-brown even after several hours. They looked like tiger stripes. Anyways I messily died these pink in the hotel bathroom. They don’t look pink, they look more purpley-red but they were meant to be pink and it doesn’t show so well in pictures. Then I had to go to the residence and get checked in. As it turned out I was indeed sharing with M :) . So, on that first Sunday basically we just wandered around the place meeting people an what not. As we wandered around I noticed S so I said to M, “how long do you think it will be until he comes after us?” and literally as SOON as I said this he popped up behind us. This caused me to laugh excessively. So then this stupid chick who was standing with us asked me “do you like your friend? because you keep laughing at his jokes.” 1) WHAT JOKE? 2)what a stupid conclusion to jump to. >_< . At lunch I made 2 friends, D and A. (An American Mexican and a Chinese-Canadian). They were nice, and we explored the basement together. We got really rather lost, and scared the life out of ourselves because we decided to turn around and leave the way we came when we realised we had no clue where we were going, so we tried this pink door we THOUGHT we had entered from. It was LOCKED. We had a little panic. :P But managed to get out of there alive. Later they split us into groups with counsellors. My counsellor was very amusing, and told us he had once tried to escape from the YSP to Chinatown :P I made another friend, V (Canadian Indian). Some other girls from her school had come as well. S is extremely popular here, even on the first day. It makes no sense to me. It’s very unlike school. When I said I was from Saudi, they were all like “OMG do you know S?!”. I found this so strange. He wasn’t even in the group and everyone was talking about him. Haha. M and I were a little weepy at night, missing home and it’s cleanliness and what not.
The next day was Monday, we were forced to awaken early at like 7am. Ew. We didn’t really eat breakfast and we ran to the meeting spot. From there they walked us to the university where we had a lecture at 9am. I can’t really recall what it was about I was too sleepy, but something to do with Physiology (it’s Physiology week) and more specifically lab safety and homeostasis.We were then split into teams, I got Purple with S (One of the team leaders reminds me of Drew Barrymore). Then we had a practical in which we took blood pressure in different situations. Several times, me and S found that we had no pulse and were dead. –sigh-. After this we had another lecture. The speaker was a German professor, who spoke about the circulatory system and other transport systems. He was interesting. I liked his speaking style. Unfortunately I was too tired to fully appreciate the lecture. He spoke of the Oktoberfest which I found amusing, and his presentation was nice. After this we had a practical where we did blood-typing. This was immense fun, even though it involved pricking oneself and I’m a wimp. I’m an O+ which is the Universal Donor :) unfortunately I’m not a Universal Receptor :( . We also looked at the circulation in a anaesthetised frog. I was quite scared it would wake up and jump at me, but it was cool as you could clearly see it’s blood flowing. That evening we went into our counsellor groups and there was a scavenger hunt. It was fun. I made a few more friends K, L and a couple more. It was rather fun. We had to take pictures of us jumping in front of a coffee stand, playing leapfrog across a street and I climbed into a fountain. It was rather fun, even though my feet killed after. (Loads of walking. We had to follow a man with a dog and take a picture of it. Ew.) Our group did not win unfortunately :( . Me and L walked to the nearby convenience store that evening. (Taiwanese Canadian doing Law). We were so exhausted when returned to our room that M and I did not feel like getting up to brush our teeth, so we formulated our plan. We used my mouthwash to clean our mouths and spat the remainders in her empty milk bottle. We then STRONGLY considered disposing of it via the window, however M felt this would be illegal. I got up again later and peed and brushed my teeth though.
Tuesday we discovered coffee. More specifically Tim Horton’s. (a Canadian brand I’ve never heard of who sell a good French Vanilla for a cheaper price than Starbucks and have a stall in the Medicine building :) .) We had a lecture in the morning by a professor who really reminded me of good old Mr.Burnley of Conti, speaking in the same monotone voice with a similar British accent. His lecture was on blue babies. It was reasonably interesting. Then our practical was to do with Ventilation rates and Lung volumes. It was alright. After Lunch our lecture was on a more boring topic, however I was far more alert and took notes. It was about diabetes. We then did a practical about Weight, by filling in information about our daily eating habits and energy using activities as well as our age and sex etc. A computer program factored this in and told us how much we ought to consume to maintain our wait. It told me to eat more, so I’m sure it’s inaccurate. If I was a guy, I would be less fat. –scowl- . After class the evening activity was the CN tower (which I’d been to with Bobbo) but we took more pictures and had a better look around. I even ventured onto the glass floor, refusing to look down however.
On Wednesday our first lecture was AWESOME. It was about the Brain and memory, by an Oriental doctor who had graduated from U of T himself. His presentation was really amusing, (it showed his experiments with mice, and him playing confusing tricks on them – no worries animal activists, no harm done). His speaking style was very nice as well, and his jokes were actually funny. Three things that help with learning and memory- 1) Actually learning, 2) Running and 3) an enriched environment. There are no drugs yet :( . The practicals after this were not so interesting. One was cool, because electricity was applied to a volunteer’s funnybone causing their hand to shake ridiculously hahaha. Another was amusing as it was to do with the balance, and it was done by this cute old guy, who told us some stories. I feel he should make friends with Nanaboo. He spun volunteers round in a chair,  and we watched their eyes flicker. There was a vision lab after this but there was not enough time to go through it all so I didn’t get to give myself an eye test. What a shame. There was also a lecture from an Asian guy who was hard to understand and frankly boring. I benefitted nothing from him. I’m not sure what he talked about, it was something like nerves and muscles and stimulation. There was then a lecture about Sports Medicine. I found this had a lot to do with physics and was sort of lame. I was bored with it, but took some notes :) . The evening activity was to go to Queen’s Street and Eaton Center (on their underground – or SUBWAY as they insist you say, the have the stations Kings, Queens and Dundas. Bob found this funny and thought it should be King Queen & Dumbass when he was here). Did a little shopping. I didn’t want to do too much as I have no need for summer clothes and stuff is expensive and can be found at home. However a bought my self a pair of green aviators and some black ones for Serene and some funky nailpolish for Aliya. I spent some time in the Center with L, I looked for a pair of gladiators. On the way back, I was a bit late to return, and these Asian girls discovered a lost me and we ran the whole way back. It gave me a stitch. M and I had discovered that since breakfast is 8ish, Lunch 12ish and Dinner 5ish we were hungry at our normal dinner time, around 10 and went to the convenience store to buy snack food. (e.g. POP TARTS which I've never had before though I have heard the name a lot).
This brings us to Thursday. We had a REALLY INTERESTING lecture from an Asian Emergency Doctor. It was fun! I was as if he was doctor House. He kept giving us case examples and we had to guess the problem. I loved it. He said he doesn’t have a very hectic shift and can pick and choose working only certain hours a week so he has time for his family. He said Doctors are not rich, and if we want loads of money and a extra lavish lifestyle, Medicine is probably not the right way to go. After this we had a practical on Physical fitness. My BMI shows I am one point overweight :( I’m quite strong and can jump an average amount. By this point I have made several more friends including S (a Taiwanese Canadian) and M (an American who I feel is dirty, although nice) in my team. Then we did some work on Presentations which we had to make for a competition on Friday, my group included S, S, M, this annoying girl S, who we’ve dubbed Jigglypuff and reminds me awfully of this annoying chick who used to be a good friend of mine, N, at home. Yeauch. Our topic is haemophilia (my idea). Then we had a brief lecture about Lie detecting, which was rather fun, and we did a practical on it. We were split into small groups and asked to chose a card from a bunch. We were then asked by other group members what our card was, and we were supposed to repeatedly deny the card they said was ours. My group did not manage to guess my card :) ! I’m a good liar! The evening activity was bowling which I skipped to do other stuff, like connect to the internet. This task was a pain in the ass. I paid $5 for an ethernet cable ( I MISS WIRELESS) and had to deactivate Bob’s Virus scans and install U of T’s choice, and run some scans on my laptop. This took far too long. I also took a niice LONG shower washing my hair (pink came out!) and everything in peace. I made our presentation pretty as well.
Friday we went in the morning. They had a totally worthless lecture about university in Canada. These people do not have a schooling system which makes sense. :( It was entirely useless. Then we had guest speakers of a Grad Student, a nurse and a paramedic, to show us what we might become if we flunked medicine, each of whom tried to persuade us their career choice was amazing. The nurse was an annoying Pilipino chick.The only speaker I enjoyed was the Grad student, since her researching sounded interesting. I like research. After Lunch (there was no Halal meat that meal :( and we ate Pizza, I’m so sick of it. I think I may have accidentally eaten a non-Halal beef burger one day. Bleh. The food is ALRIGHT though. But it’s the sammmmmeee always.) We presented presentations in front of our team and voted for the best one. By some fluke we WON. (this is odd since we made deals with people to not vote for us). We presented in front of the whole Med. Group after, and as the other groups had funny skits we improvised, and made one which involved me hitting S and him dying. It was ridiculous. Needless to say we didn’t win again. There was interesting presentation on for Porphyria, the Vampire disease :). They served refreshments after and some people’s parents came. After this, me, M, S, S and J went on an adventure, which should have resulted in us shopping, however it was a failure, and our escape failed and we returned home in time for dinner. We ate, and the evening activity was to go to a Harbourfront festival which I’d been to with Bob. We didn’t buy anything as we found it was largely Desi merchandise being sold at ridiculous prices to poor unsuspecting white people. I sat next to group member K in the bus rides. She sang, it was good singing, but rather annoying.
Let’s see… Saturday! Saturday was awesome. We went to Niagara City. I LOVED my outfit. :P It was rather green :) The bus journey was rather long, but when we got there OMG THE FALLS WERE COOL :) and I’m not the nature-appreciating sort. We took a boat ride known as Maid of the Mist, and got wet despite the blue bin bags we wore.  For lunch we went to HARD ROCK CAFE (me, M, S, V –who knows a guy at 7oaks. V & J-who may go to 7oaks or Eton like my cousin). It was really nice, however unfortunately the meat there was not Halal :/. The music and decor was awesome as per usual. After this we went souvenir shopping. I bought a crapping hippo key chain, one of those mini slideshowish camera’s (idk what they are actually called) a fridge magnet, a snow globe for Ser, a Canadian flag kite for Ali (as she keeps “flying” pieces of paper) and Maple Fudge for Bob :) . After this we took touristy pikturs and went to Hershey's for free samples as desert! IT WAS SO YUMMY. Very rich, but we sampled the mint chocolate chip fudge and the cookies and cream fudge, and it was MOUTHWATERING. YUM. V and I played with my iPod the way home. When we got back to our room M and I were extremely upset to find the floor had not been cleaned and the sheets had not been changed as had been promised. So we decided to take matters into our own hands, as we shed a lot, and our hair was on the ground, as well as a sticky mess I’d made with lens’s solution and hair mousse. I brought water in a cup from the bathroom and splashed it over the floor (causing me to slip and fall on my ass). As we had no tissues, we used a duvet that had fallen on the floor to sweep up the now gooey mess. It was EW. We then decided to shake the mess of the duvet in front of the door of our hated neighbours room. (she’s very haughty). Sadly the mess on the duvet would not remove itself from it. So we put it down. We then removed the mess from it using a spare pillowcase. The mess was stuck to this as well. So we hung it out the window in hope that the hairball we’d created would blow away. It did indeed. And every time M tells this story she claims the bald guy in the house next door was no longer bald the next morning :P
Sunday was also utterly fantabulous. We went to Canada’s Wonderland, a theme park. The entire time, me, M S and V stuck together. We rode NINE roller coasters in total, more than everyone else, although we missed some of the scariest rides, i.e. the bungee jumping and a ride called Behemoth which is the longest roller coaster in Canada if not the world. It doesn’t have any bars across one’s chest, merely one across one’s lower half, perhaps we were safer :P. We also didn’t go to the water park (OMG the number of times I was asked if I had brought my bikini… ) . We did however go on a roller coaster where you lie down, one with loops where your legs are hanging, several with sheer drops, one where you got soaking wet (it was very icky and i was forced to remove my shoes and walk barefoot for a bit. Ew) and one which swings back and forth and then turns the whole way round.  I SCREAMED my lungs out. I’m surprised neither me or V lost our voices as she was screaming wildly in Cantonese hahaa. These were some of the wildest roller coasters I’ve ever been on and I closed my eyes and clung on for dear life for quite a few. It was IMMENSE fun though, and waiting in line was made easy by keeping nice company. We met a really good looking guy from the UofT English Program who was Ukrainian-Syrian and spoke Arabic in one of the lines. Very cool. It was an AMAZINGG day! Anyways, that was the end of week ONE :)
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As I was not poisoned or anything after that, I was even MORE adventurous (and carnivorous) the next week and bought the halal chicken from premier at the Union. I then proceeded to make Chicken and Salan for Marz and I as we were having dinner. It worked fairly well, other than when I dropped the chicken on my iPad whilst trying to get my mom to give me skype instructions in the kitchen. Oops. Anyway I had to borrow a chopping board (my lack of chopping board amuses Marz terribly as I have a massive knife but nothing to use it on. I told her plates worked fine. She gave me a look.) Anyway did the usual chopping, frying of onions, mixing spices and pasted, sticking chicken in a pan to cook, mixing it all up and waiting. It was done when Marz arrived. Actually it was probably done a bit before but I was concerned about poisoning us and decided to wait. She was astonished at my newfound culinary prowess.
Ok now for the piercings. While ideally, I would really love dimple piercings and snake bites, it would appear that doctors with pierced faces are scary. So I just want a second piercing in the lobe of my left ear as well as a piercing in the cartilage of my left year. Additionally, I'd like dermals in my hips and my back and seen below as well as another pair somewhere else not going to discuss here. 
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