I am not sure if anyone reads this blog anymore, since I have more or less abandoned it for the last few months - I was not even sure that anyone was reading it.
I am no longer in Germany. I am writing out of Toronto where I have move to on 30 July 2008. I guess I now have plenty of free time, and feel rather interested to connect to the outside world as I don't know the city so well.
As I am typing away here in my new kitchen I wonder inevitably if it was a good choice to move back to Canada and to Toronto? I had it good in Freiburg. Colleagues, housemates, friends, boss, all was good. It took me a while to build a life there, say at least a year, and I don't think I ever had a greatest place to be at. Montreal did not even get close. I can't help but wonder if I'll be able to pull that one again in Toronto? This time around it does not seem like my office will be the center of my social life as in Freiburg, but I guess that's normal. We'll see where the fun will come from.
Walking around Toronto last night I found it strange that I could understand each and every conversations. In Germany I got used to not getting anything around me, living in a sort of loud silence. And as I walked, a little dwarfed but the huge buildings, I thought that Europeans might have a got a thing or two right about lifestyle. Here it seems all rather artificially flavored. The most striking thing is perhaps that nothing is very pretty. Spaces or things aren't particularly cared for or well-thought. But people sure are friendly.
I wish a lot of you in Europe would be here, but I made the choice myself, and I guess I still trust it is the right one.
Cheers
1 comment:
Salut JO!
Je suis contente de voir que tu n'as pas définitivement abandonné ton blog! Bonne chance dans ta nouvelle aventure à Toronto et j'espère qu'on va se voir bientôt! Aj
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