Freak Out!

Hi all - and how are we? I am trying to distract myself from current freak out status (level high, intensity medium, outcome uncertain) and thought I would write and update you all on what I have been up to for the last couple of days!

I had a great day celebrity spotting a few days ago - the Toronto Film Festival (second biggest in the world) is on at the moment and all the stars are in town. While I have had no luck with finding Vince Vaughn I did manage to see Jason Biggs (American Pie), Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Diane Kruegar (no idea but she seemed to think she was famous) and Ed Harris. It was quite cool really, just loitered out the front of a hotel with about 20 or 30 others and waited to see who came out!

Yesterday I did a city tour and harbour trip which I really enjoyed. The city tour covered most places I had been on foot but gave me a bit of the history while I was looking at it which was cool. The harbour was lovely and I can't wait to go exploring there - hopefully at the weekend with Natalie (a friend of James' I met last week).

This morning Victoria (my hostel roomie) and I went to visit the Shoe Museum. It was absolutely fantastic and I can imagine that a fair few of you dear readers would have loved it as much as me! There were lots of exhibitions of shoes through time and different cultures and different exhibits of famous people's shoes and novelty shoes etc etc - utterly fantastic!

On the boring side (and hence the freak out status) I have learned that I am overqualified for temp work but unable to work in the field for which I am qualified, which creates an interesting quandry, and that I love houses that I go and look at just after being told about the overqualified and am now uncertain how one goes about finding rent on a house without a job... I won't bore you with the details but suffice to say that a Tim Hortons donut has been consumed today...

Right - better get on with job hunting I guess. Hope you are all well - miss you loads!
Hugs,
Clare

Oh Mounties... where are you?!?!

Hi everyone - hope things are well with you all. Well almost first week up in Toronto and can't believe how fast the time (or the money!) are going! I really do like the city though so I think as soon as some work and a place to live comes my way things will really start to fall into place.

I haven't been doing anything too much - just generally exploring and finding my way around but have seen a few interesting things ranging from a guy at my hostel who has smarties on pumpernickel bagels for breakfast to police officers on bicycles to a ridiculously tall tower that people expect me to voluntarily go up... haha keep waiting everyone!

Let me see... what has been happening... I have been to a few bars (favourite definitely "the Loose Moose"), spent some time in Little Italy and Harbourfront, gatecrashed a bbq at James' hostel, visited parliament and city hall, tried to stalk Vince Vaughn who is in town for the Toronto Film Festival (with no luck) and drunk a lot of Tim Hortons coffee. James has headed off to Winnepeg now but it has been fab having him here... I look forward to his tales from 'the dark side'!

Hope you are all good!
Clare