This week has passed quickly.

Sorry for the slacking,
Yesterday Jenna and I went to People's Potato, but this time it was out on the terrasse because the school was having a clubs thingy, where all the clubs come to represent themselves to the students. Unfortunately, not many of them looked all that interesting. Anyway, we went to the terrasse and got some lunch and then went around to look at the different clubs. While we were at the stenciling workshop, I heard someone speaking on the overhead about there being a volunteer meeting for People's Potato @ 5 and I thought "awesome!" So Jenna and I decided to go up to Mile End and go thrifting. We hopped on our bikes and made the trek (probably a few miles). We went to some thrift shops but they just seemed really over priced for preloved items. I was like, "45 for a preloved shirt? no way man. 18 bucks for a scarf? no siree" I found a few cool things in this 50s vintage thrift shop (which had vinyl, oh my!) It was really cool in there. Then we decided that we wanted to get some world-famous bagels in the jewish district. We'd been craving them since the first time we visited while staying in the hostel. So we walked up to fairmount bagels and I picked up a blueberry one, yummmm. Then we tried to find this place that looked like they would have promising coffee, but after we looked at the address and our current location, we decided against it.

After walking a few miles back to our bikes (near the boutiques), we jumped back on and booked it over to campus (we had about 20 min until the meeting). We arrived in the knick of time! Waiting for us were some very friendly people, offering us juice, pita, and homemade hummus (talk about a way straight to my heart). After that I knew I would fit right in. The meeting took about 30 min and after, they let us take home some of the hummus! Talk about perks from the start! Basically, they told us they would use our help any time that we could offer it, so Jenna and I are going to start tomorrow, bright'n'early to chop some veggies. I'm really exited to meet people, learn how to cook more vegan meals, and help my community out, (and get free food of course).

This morning it was 9 degrees celsius outside, I threw on a beanie and wrapped myself in a scarf...winter seems to be coming a little quicker than I expected. I should probably go and pick up some winter clothing within the next few weeks before I freeze my butt off.

Well, I have 2 more classes today, so I better take a nap and finish up some more reading.

cheers!