Toronto, a place to come back to again
The city
At first, when I arrived at my homestay, I didn’t realize that I was in Toronto because it didn’t look as a city with 2,6 million population. It just looked like an ordinary small city in Switzerland but when I went in the core of the city, I realized, everything was so much bigger than my town. In Toronto, there is a law that you must show your ID when you want to go in a pub after 10 pm. because you had to be 19 years old to be legally drinking a glass of any sort of alcohol. Sadly, Kevin and Alexis, both from AKSA, weren’t 19 years old so I couldn’t go with them in a pub after 10pm. but we went many times to a sports bar in the middle of the town to watch some games of hockey or soccer and at the end we felt that this bar was our regular bar.
The city had everything and from restaurants to shops and you just had to walk around the corner to find new ones, but a thing I noticed when we were walking in the city, was that you were walking in front of a Starbuck or a Subway and then kept walking away from it for 5min you already saw a new …show more content…
They didn’t care, but not every teacher, if you were on your smartphone as long as you didn’t interrupt with the class. But one rule did Global Village have and that was you were only allowed to speak English in the school building. If someone caught you, they would send you home and you weren’t allowed to come back for the day. The funny thing was that when a teacher heard you speaking another language they often would say something like: What I don’t understand is probably not English or Could you say that in English that I can understand it. Mostly only the staff at the reception would cast you out for not speaking English. At AKSA, I think, would the teacher not always be that nice but in a way, it would be helping the students to
The city
At first, when I arrived at my homestay, I didn’t realize that I was in Toronto because it didn’t look as a city with 2,6 million population. It just looked like an ordinary small city in Switzerland but when I went in the core of the city, I realized, everything was so much bigger than my town. In Toronto, there is a law that you must show your ID when you want to go in a pub after 10 pm. because you had to be 19 years old to be legally drinking a glass of any sort of alcohol. Sadly, Kevin and Alexis, both from AKSA, weren’t 19 years old so I couldn’t go with them in a pub after 10pm. but we went many times to a sports bar in the middle of the town to watch some games of hockey or soccer and at the end we felt that this bar was our regular bar.
The city had everything and from restaurants to shops and you just had to walk around the corner to find new ones, but a thing I noticed when we were walking in the city, was that you were walking in front of a Starbuck or a Subway and then kept walking away from it for 5min you already saw a new …show more content…
They didn’t care, but not every teacher, if you were on your smartphone as long as you didn’t interrupt with the class. But one rule did Global Village have and that was you were only allowed to speak English in the school building. If someone caught you, they would send you home and you weren’t allowed to come back for the day. The funny thing was that when a teacher heard you speaking another language they often would say something like: What I don’t understand is probably not English or Could you say that in English that I can understand it. Mostly only the staff at the reception would cast you out for not speaking English. At AKSA, I think, would the teacher not always be that nice but in a way, it would be helping the students to