The Niagara Falls

Sunday April 27th
Anneke en Johan arrived on the 26th of April and together we went to The Niagara Falls! It took about an hour and a half by car to get to the falls. Apparently the falls are located in a pretty large city, which I did not expect. In all the pictures online it looks like it would be more out in the nature, but it's pretty central in a city. We parked the car pretty close and walked along the Niagara river. It was pretty big and there are two waterfalls.

The Horseshoe waterfall

City next to Niagara Falls

We also decided to buy tickets to the attraction "Journey behind the falls". With this ticket we were able to go down into the mountain and go into underground tunnels behind the biggest waterfall.

Behind the falls

Behind the falls

Original Tunnel Structure

Underneath the falls

After looking at the falls from the Canadian side, we also wanted to walk to the U.S.A. side and see if they have a pretty view as well. There is a bridge that crosses to the U.S.A. and we walked to the border. When we made it to the border we saw there was a lot of border control and we didn't feel like filling out many forms for just a half an hour on the other side, so we walked back on the bridge.

American border control

Border between U.S.A. and Canada

Around 6 pm we drove back to Toronto and had a nice all you can eat dinner near our place. Once we were back home, I went straight to bed because I had to get up at 6 am to go to school!

Monday April 28th
I had classes until 1:30 pm today, and after that Johan en Anneke picked us up from school and we went downtown together to go to Ripley's Aquarium. They had many beautiful fish and some really weird looking ones, which made it very entertaining. They also had a long tunnel where the fish tank is all around you while you walk through. In this tank there were many sharks and awesome fish.
I'm not sure what else to say about an aquarium, so I'll just leave some pictures here.
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Seadragon

Casa Loma

March 18th 2016

I bought a new camera! I've been researching what the best camera would be for my needs. I wanted it to be compact enough to travel with but still with a good quality in pictures and movies which wouldn't be too expensive. Another thing is that I wanted one with a screen that can be flipped so you could see yourself if you're taking a picture of filming yourself. So after some research and advice from people at Best Buy I bought the following camera: Sony A5000

March 19th 2016

We signed up for another international student activity, and this time we'd go visit a castle here in Toronto. The castle is called Casa Loma and was built in the early 1900's. It was a 30-45 minute drive and we walked around the castle for about 3,5 hours. It has 98 rooms and some secret passageways. Of course I brought my new camera to take nice pictures!

Midterms and Studyweek

8th school week, February 22th to 26th
Since we're already half way our semester, it's time for our midterms. For every course we have a test this week or upcoming weeks. Since we always had to do our homework because our homework gets graded as well, I didn't have problems studying for the midterms. Actually, for most of them I didn't really have to study because doing the homework was enough information for me.  

Studyweek, February 27th to March 6th
The studyweek is basically just a vacation week, but they expect you do still do homework. Besides the necessary homework, our plan for this week off was to go sightseeing in downtown Toronto and see all the tourist attractions. In the end the only thing we did was see the one of the largest underground malls. It was three stories down into the ground and had over 230 stores and many food corners. We were able to find two new pairs of jeans for Berwout, which is very special because his size is very hard to find. Other than that we strolled around the mall and had some food at the food corner. After a day of walking there we decided to to home. Below you'll find some pictures of the mall and outside.
For the other sightseeing trips we wanted to wait till it was better weather outside, since we'd be walking outside the whole day we didn't want to walk in rain or snow and freeze. So, more trips upcoming!