Away is a way

Next day, noisy stupid birds woke me up...made me really want to kill them and cook to eat. Still chilly in the morning. I walked around the campsite excitedly. Other people's tent looked so professional, our's was...still could used though. I walked to the lake. It was sooooo beautiful!! The lake was like a mirror reflect the beautiful sky, like a postcard.
After having some breakfast, we decided to go canoing first. This is my first time canoing!!! We rent a canoe at Canoe Lake. It was made by aluminum, but i want a wood one. Like the description of Indian people in the novel. Our canoe was peddle by two people. The one peddle by one person is called Kayaks. I really wanted to try it, but better not in my first try.
The direction is difficult to control. It is peddled by two people so we have to work together, not by my own will. No matter what we're doing, cooperation is always hard. I wanna to go though the whole lake, but it was too tired to do so. After an hour i started to feel tired and my arms ached a little bit.
We went back to the camp site and had some food. It was beef hamburger for the lunch. But all the hamburgers are burnt.... I couldn't remember how much i ate for the lunch, but after eating i feel like there was a  basketball in my stomach.
In the afternoon we went hiking. I really like walking in forest. Every time it makes me think of Dad. Thanks for his hard training since i was a little child. After half an hour we walked up to a cliff. How could i say...so beautiful!! Looking down was wide coniferous forest. Not until now did i believe Canada was a beautiful country. Walking along the cliff, we just kept marveling and taking pictures.
The map said this trail took 3 hours. But after 3 hours we were not even finished half way of this trial. Maybe it because we took too much time in taking pictures. Now everyone felt so tired and walked so fast, not stopped for the beautiful scenery again. Four girls walking in the forest after sunset is not a funny thing.
When we were almost finished the trail. There was something big moved in the bush. It was a MOOSE!!!! I was so excited. Never expect to see a moose in such a short distance. It was not afraid of us, just stayed there let us to take pictures. (Unfortunately, i didn't catch a clear picture >"<)  I know it is very common to see a moose in Canada. Sometimes it walk on the road, and when a car crash into a moose, the moose is ok but the car would rollover. Can't believe that.....

This is my first time to go camping in my life!! People in here really like camping, they even book a camp site for the whole summer. Summer time is really treasure to them. Well, maybe this time was not a "real" camping because we have washroom and shower at the camping site, But never mind for my first try.
I went there with Gina, Alice, Wihtney, Jennifer n her husband Gary. They are all closed friend to Gina, i'm the one new to them. We lefe Toronto around 2 o'clolck in Friday afternoon. I took us alomost three hours drive to the park. On the half way to the park it even rained sooo heavily like someone poured the water from the sky...first time to see raining like this in Toronto.
Our camp site was at two river. After raining the weather became damn cold. I wore two jeckets but still not enough. Although we have six smart people, only Whitney really know and have experience of how to set up the tent. Expecially Gina bought a new king size tent that is not easy to figure out. The sky became darker and darker very soon.The worst thing was it started to rain again when we setting up the tent, it would wet inside the tent. I felt so bad that i can't help, Whitney showed really optmistic way in this kind of hard time.
Finally, we set up the tent. Everybody felt so tired and hungry and cold. How could my first day of camping being like this?? 
We grilled all the chicken Gina brought. Because the fire was hard to control, every peice of chicken was burnt, smoke made my eyes uncomfortable. Generally, i won't eat these kind of thing because of health, but this time i have no choice. How could i being such like Father......
The fire was warm. The cold air made me really didn't want to take a shower...but everyone did, so did i. When i took a shower the wind was keep blowing inside from the crack of the door. We have to use the flashlight during walking in the camp site. There must be many stars in the sky, but i just too tired to watch it.
It was hard to fall on asleep in the night. We only had a layer of carpet on the ground and a sleeping bag. I need a warm blacket >"< This part of camping is really unbearable.

7/28
It is not very intersting when I heard Jazz festival first time. I don't like jazz music that much, actaully, I think it is very noisy. But this weekend we have no where to go, so we went to the Jazz festival.
I've heard a friend said that Jazz festival held in Toronto every year. It was a really nice weather on that day. We took the subway to woodbine station then took a bus south to Queen St.E. Then we just walk down Queen street with the crowd. There are soooo many people there.
There are so many stores on the side of the road, also many street vendors. After walking for fifteen minites we finally heard the voice of the jazz music. The main stage is in a little park. There is a band singing and people just sitting or lying on the grass, very casully. There are families, friends, couples, expecially lot of old couples, holding each others hands. Until this time finaly made me feel like in a foreign contury, because there aren't many asin people here.
After listening for an hour we decided to go to the beach. I felt a little dizzy because the sound is still too loud to me. The beach is small...actually it is just beside the lake. They move sands for other place i guess.
Back to the street we saw a Tai food resturant sold cheap combos outside their store, so we decided to have some for dinner. It has Pad Thai, spring roll, and satay. I didn't have these kind of things when I was in Tailand this winter and I thought spring roll was kind of Chinese food. @@ No matter what it taste really goooood !!
There are many bands singing along the streets, like a small concert. One guitarist is really handsome~~and one violinist plays with his face became whole red. I was so impressed by their performance~~ IT IS JAZZ !!!
In sum, Jazz festival is really fantastic~~far beyond my expectation~~
The bad thing is that after seeing the festival....we couldn't find the movie theater on the newspaper.....spending almost two hours on finding the theatre.....so frustrated. : (
7/29
Another sunny day. I was still wondering to go to the beach volleyball or not in the morning, but finally i decided to give myself a try of this new things.
It was on woodbine beach park. Almost a hundred volleyball cout on the beach !!!
Although I don't like the meeting people that much.....I still very enjoyed the volleyball game !! Thaks for the hard training in high school that I can play it, but there is always a big problem if someon is really care about the rule and someone doesn't. Actually, i do sometimes pass the ball directly to the other side and it made some people unhappy. Besides that, beach volleyball is really a lot of fun, really want to play it again sometimes. I'm the one that think playing volleyball is just for fun. Life is not that strict.

Why I'm going to write this paragraph is just because the color of August TTC monthly pass is very beautiful XD~ at least much better than July......ˇˇ

交通運輸是一個城市的命脈，多倫多的地鐵叫做TTC (Totonto Transit comission)，有主要兩條線，一條是南北向U字型的Yong，另一條是東西向的Bloor，搞清楚東西南北之後就相當單簡單，憑良心講以多倫多的城市規模來說，只搭地鐵除了downtown是去不了甚麼地方的；公車基本上也還算方便，多倫多大概算是晚開發的城市規畫很整齊，所有的道路都是井字型，基本上只有走反方向不太會迷路的，公車也都走直線，不像台北的公車繞來繞去的讓外地人覺得很恐怖，還有我永遠都會迷路的永和。
不過這裡的地鐵收費相當可觀，單次搭乘要買token，一次買五個一個至少也要2.1加幣，只算次數不算距離的，雖然價錢是台北的兩倍但是距離已經好幾倍了，TTC monthly pass是99.99加幣，我在學校買可以便宜十幾塊，這個月內不限次數不限距離隨便搭，其他還有day pass, weekly pass等等。
老實說對多倫多地鐵的印象不是很好，除了第一次被形形色色的人種震撼到之外，它給我的感覺就是有點破爛.....好吧，不能拿四十幾歲的它跟不到二十歲的台北捷運來比較，可是台北捷運真的比這裡乾淨舒適很多，也不會在靠站時發出轟隆隆的聲音，而且我來這裡才一個月，就碰到兩三次地鐵shutt down....幾分鐘不一定.....台北搭了很久才碰到一次吧好像。
另外一個可以比較的城市就是Tokyo了，我相信東京地鐵應該沒有比多倫多年輕，但是便利性就不能比了，東京地鐵的複雜程度真是嚇死人，真的和居住人口的密度是成正比的，一個站是三四條線的交會是常有的事，不過它的感覺就比多倫多地鐵好很多....

六點鬧鐘響了，按掉。八點睜開眼睛，有點晚了，掙扎著要不要去學校。
九點，應該要坐在教室裡的時候，我在桌子前面邊打電腦邊吃早餐，又是奶油烤土司，像中餐的sandwich一樣，一個人在外生活，連吃膩的權利也沒有。
空空的冰箱，思鄉的情緒，背上空空的了準備要帶去三天兩夜的大背包，跳上subway到Fintch轉53號公車，一路搖搖擺擺到了大統華。
轉啊轉，面對著熟悉的事物，比逛Loblaws要開心的多，轉到蛋糕櫃前，吃慣了日式的精緻風格，這裡的看起來都不怎麼樣，還是爽快的買了一塊抹茶蛋糕，上面有一顆讓人心情很好的大草莓。
自己上超市買東西和跟媽媽去很不一樣，腦中不斷著規畫著該買甚麼不該買甚麼，勉強列出下禮拜的菜單，直到這次出國之前都是個只買自己愛吃東西的孩子。
最後我的背包裡塞了一瓶豆漿、一顆帶葉的鳳梨、和一桶冰淇淋，其他一些拉哩啦吧的東西加一加，真不是普通的重。
每個人都悠閒的走向車子，只有我任重道遠地走向遙遠地bus stop，途中還冒出一個怪喀稱讚我的old navy夾腳拖很好看...囧
回程比來時艱辛許多，滿滿的巴士上面沒有位置，一個東方女生提著大包小包驚險地對抗每一次的緊急剎車，我不想再去一次了。
下午本來要去湖邊走走，結果懶在家裡，吃吃睡睡，吃掉了那小小的一塊蛋糕。
我20歲生日的蛋糕。
早就在公車上翻了好幾圈了，真難為它形狀還在，滋味就是一般，夾雜了一個人在異鄉的惆悵。
並不認為在台灣會好過一點，也許在這裡我更可以視寂寞為理所當然，如此平常的一天，不知道該說甚麼做為結尾。
日子並不會因為從19歲跳到20歲而有所改變，遺憾的是我終於永遠揮別了1字頭的青春，2字頭是更多的責任，天啊.....好老的我。

It's midnight here in Toronto. 來這裡快要一個禮拜了，雖然是第一次自己一個人上飛機，除了下飛機有點緊張、第一次走進教室有點緊張，其他時間都還好，也沒有特別excited，我想我適應力還蠻強的，亦或者是心如止水習慣了。
You won't feel out of place here, because there are sooooo many Asian people. I was suprised when I first got on the metro, there was only half white people!! Not to metion in the Chinatown or Koreatown. Even you can't speak English you can still survive really well in here.
I took the placement test with a girl from China (see.....Chinese again). I'm at level 6. I think it is OK. There are Chinese, Koreans, and South Americans (The countries there are all same to me @@) in the class. The class is...just the way we do in Taiwan. The diffirence is we have to speak English. Well, that's why i came here. Paid for a really high pice.
The metro are only two main lines so I can't visit many place by myself...only downtown. It takes me 45min to go to school, form North York Centre to Dupund. I've visited the University of Toronto. Much bigger than NTU, both ancient and morden buildings...beautiful...that's all.
Yesterday I went to Toronto Island withe Angie, a girl from Korea. She is a...比我還女生的女生，高跟鞋、超濃妝、低胸XDD....我們約在Union車站，之後都是她帶路了，搭street car到"港口"，買了12$好貴的船票，也沒人驗票，上船之後又收了3$的小費，超不習慣這裡又是稅又是小費的，很快就到了island上面，結果只看到樹和在野餐的悠閒的歪果人，Angie不會騎腳踏車所以我們只能用走的，就是風大了一點不然我覺得很愜意，走一走不知道要幹嘛我們只好打電話求救。原來走錯方向了，島很大，感覺就像是一個很大的公園，人超多的，大部分是family帶食物來野餐這樣，有給小孩子玩的遊樂設施，還有小小的沙灘，Angie一直覺得很無聊，所以我們又搭ferry回downtown了，還好ferry是free的，我覺得很可惜，騎腳踏車把島繞一圈應該很不錯，唉....真是的....
到Dundas車站有個逛街的mall叫Eaton Centre，現在everywhere is on summer sale，逛一些衣服鞋子和化妝品，非常符合Angie的style，之後她帶我去Koreatown，在Christie station，為了形容那個石鍋飯我形容超久的，還是失敗XD不知是不是因為long weekend感覺Chinatown還是比較熱鬧，那家餐廳還真貴，都要7$以上，不過很多人排隊，吃烤肉和泡菜鍋，超享受的大餐耶~~好吃好吃學到泡菜叫做"kimchi"，除了不會騎腳踏車Angie還不錯，我們用破破的英文也聊了不少，她還是念數學系的，超酷！
摸了一天太累就沒去看煙火了，真是的，太陽居然那麼晚才下山，喔對，昨天是加拿大國慶日，well我也不懂他們的歷史，就這樣跟著放了三天假，也沒做甚麼.....我要出去玩啦！