Medieval Times & Toronto Island

Saturday April 23rd
Today we went to a Medieval Times event. It's a dinner show that's entirely about Medieval Times. It's in downtown Toronto and we went with about 20 international students. The show started at 4:30 and we got an awesome green crown which meant we had to cheer for the green knight in the show. The main part of the show was about six knights compete to see who is the strongest between the realms. The audience was divided into colors as well and we all needed to cheer on our colored knight. Our green knight did awesome and won the entire battle so we were very proud! The food that got served was very good as well and we had to eat everything with our hands because in the Medieval Times, you did not have any cutlery. Overall it was a fun show and I even won a little souvenir at the end!

Sunday April 24th
Another international students activity! Today it was time to see the Toronto Island! We took a school bus with about 26 students and went to the harbor where the ferry leaves for Toronto Island. The ferry trip only took about 10-15 minutes. It was a pretty sunny day but still quite cold.
The students in charge of the activity brought a lot of fun stuff along like footballs, frisbees, and badminton equipment so we could have fun on the island together. Once we walked to a nice place where we would have our gather spot, we separated from the group to walk around the island. The island was very pretty and had many parks and beaches. Berwout and I decided to lay down in the grass, where we both fell asleep in the sun and got a sunburn as a result... When we woke up we walked to the petting zoo to pet all the animals! The petting zoo had a HUGE pig called Charlotte, and weighed about 700 pounds(350kg)! It was a very nice and relaxing day.

Sick days and Final Exams

Friday April 8th and on
Berwout got sick on Friday and stayed in bed all day. I took care of him until he passed it on to me on Sunday. From here on we were both sick in bed and couldn't go to school. Luckily the classes we missed were not as important anymore because we mostly had projects to hand in at the end of the week. But because we were sick we couldn't work on these projects... After explaining the situation to our teachers we got an extension and could work on it when we felt better.

We handed everything in successfully at the end of the week and now had time to study for our upcoming final exams. I officially have three final exams but for one course the exam is optional if your grade is a B or higher. My grade is apparently an A+, so I decided to to take that exam. Now I only have two exams to do, but they're both on Monday.

Monday April 18th
Final exam day and it's even 18C!
My first exam is Mobile App Development, which was an interesting course to follow but the exam is given on paper... I am totally not used to doing programming tests on paper. It requires you to remember every little syntax of code while normally you get to google these things. Even our teacher would not be able to write so much code from his head, because in class he would always have to google the answers to his examples... Besides that, I think I did alright on the exam.

The next exam I had was Hardware, which required me to know a lot about routers, switches and ip addresses. This course itself was a fun course to follow and had very nice teachers, but the final exam was pretty hard in comparison to the in class exercises. Overall I do think I did well on it.

The only thing left that I need to do for school is hand in a project and the end of this week. After that I'm all done! Then I get to relax and do some more sightseeing before we go traveling!