Goodbye Toronto

Hi there, Louise here again from Toronto!

On my last few days of studying aboard and on countdown to Christmas. Different than my normal end of semester stress, as most of modules are continuous assessment I have not much study to do. The lectures here in Humber are so nice. They know from last few years of students from WIT that we are ahead of the Humber students so they have allowed me try new things and explore with different foods. I have learnt by coming here and working with different cultures that the Irish are very hard workers which we take for granted at times. I have learned about different types of food from students from many cultures. I found with other students we ended up teaching each other about different food cultures, comparing our own cultures which was very interesting. 

Irish dairy is taken for granted. Learning about Canada’s animal husbandry in class here has opened my eyes. There beef industry is massed produced (large sheds of cattle), fed on grain diets which they pay around the same price as our dairy which is produced mainly by family run farms and pasture fed. They pay so much more money for our quality meat we have in Ireland. Their cream is 35% fat compare to our cream which is 45% fat which says enough about the difference in quality of farming in dairy cattle. The taste of meat here, doesn’t have half the flavor we have in Ireland.  

We found a great place up the road from us here in Humber. The name of it was Pursuit, it is like an adult’s indoor playground. It was so much fun, has a ball pit which was surprising hard to get through. I had more visitors from home so I did Niagara Falls again, this time we booked a tour bus. It brought us to Niagara on the Lake first which I recommend going to! It was well worth a visit, was like a town out of a film. Old wooden building and small run shops. Around this area was loads of wineries which we stopped at one for wine tasting. We did the boat trip down around the falls which is well worth trip.

In November the snow started. Snowed straight for two days. Not used to this much snow at home we were like kids playing in snow, making snow angles. Toronto has Broadway! I went to see “Come From Away” which was brilliant and well worth it. The Christmas markets in Toronto are amazing and are most do in Toronto. There is also an outdoor ice rink which is so cool!

In November the snow started. Snowed straight for two days. Not used to this much snow at home we were like kids playing in snow, making snow angles. Toronto has Broadway! I went to see “Come From Away” which was brilliant and well worth it. The Christmas markets in Toronto are amazing and are most do in Toronto. There is also an outdoor ice rink which is so cool!