Friday, July 24, 2009

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Ottawa

The school organized a trip to three cities nearby: Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City in mid July. They had already had one in May but this time when we try to buy the tickets were already sold out, so now we wanted to buy them time. However, a friend suggested Ydania best off using a travel agency in Chinatown, because we would come much cheaper. We went to check it and indeed, the bus and the host will cost us 136 CAD per person based on quad when the school was 215, so we pay 2 weeks before your trip.

July 4th On Saturday we gathered outside the offices of the agency in Chinatown at 6:45 AM, from there we went to other parts of the city where more people went to the bus and 8 were already on the highway. As expected, most of the passengers were Asian, presumably Chinese, hehe, but we were several Mexicans, 11 in total.

As at 10:30 AM we arrived at Kingston, a city located on the shores of Lake Ontario, and Toronto. It is a small but nice, very quiet. The most remarkable thing you have is a fairly large university. We were there an hour or so, breakfast on the lake. At 11:45 we boarded the bus and went to Ottawa, the capital of Canada.

arrived at 2:30 or so, and stayed a while in the area where the Parliament, the seat of government of Canada. Before Parliament is a source, called the Eternal Flame, which made to commemorate 100 years of Canada in 1967 and is supposed to be on forever, no matter the weather or anything else. I say "supposed" because the day we went was off. I talked with a teacher and he said he has been to Ottawa several times and has never seen the flame on, hehe.

stayed a while near the Parliament, on one side there is a lookout where you can enjoy a panoramic view of the city, which is divided by a river. We took several photos and we go back to the bus. From there we took the Canadian Museum of Civilization, located across the River. We do not enter the museum, rather than a bridge that we walked back across the river and were going around a while for a small market. We spend the hour and half and we were given back to the bus. From there we went to the highway again to go to Montreal.

The Parliament building.

On one side of Parliament.

cernanos Overview of the Parliament buildings.

Overview of the river that divides Ottawa.

Our bus.

Parliament seen from one of the bridges over the River.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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wedding Echoes


full photo session downtown.
The couple poured honey.















My favorite photo.
A bit does not seem to magazine? ;)















Mary and Ioannis, inn and gave me the best behaved.
are friends that anyone would have. I miss you guys!


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tourist visa for Mexicans


already saw it coming. For some time we have seen that there has been a massive influx of compatriots across Canada requesting shelter, most of them false. What did we expect? authorities are not stupid and their work history and verify each case.

Check out the harsh words of Anne Arnott, Director General of the International Area, Bureau of Immigration in Canada, representing immigration policy from the north country:

"You Can not lie on your application and still go to Canada. If we find out you is a lie There Will not Be Going Anywhere. Or if you do end up in Canada we will take steps to remove you ".

" You can not lie on your application and still go to Canada. If we find that is a lie, not going anywhere. Or if you end up coming to Canada, we will work to get you "

Source: CIC Canada

I do not judge those who try to reach Canadian soil through asylum or refuge. Nor will trying desperately through falsehoods achieve as long as possible to stay there. Nobody really knows the causes that are bordering to it.

I know the circumstances in our country are appalling: there is no work and there is very poorly paid, governments that do not help the people and engage in theft, kidnapping, crime, insecurity, drug trafficking, poverty, indifference between ourselves and to discrimination. Unfortunately the Canadian government does not consider any of the above as reasons to seek refuge , even if you are receiving extortion calls from death thereby threatening your life or your family or if you've been kidnapped and maimed despite having paid the ransom, but at this point coming out of something alive is to give thanks to God. No, we should be in a war or political persecution, religious or racial to be candidates. It does not seem fair, but so are the rules of the game .

not blame them for trying to find a better life for themselves and their children, who could? but if you really are in our hands and have the potential to do everything legally, why not do it as it should?

We'll have to see if there are no more rigid immigration requirements.



The full story here and here.

Friday, July 10, 2009

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An Evening at the Museum

On Tuesday 30 funny thing happened to us. We were at an intersection near the school, eating a hot dog, when suddenly he stops in front of us a woman in a van, and tells us to get closer. Mexico obviously know we should not approach strangers, lol, but as we are in Canada because I decided to see what he wanted, and gave me some free passes to go to some places (just like in Mexico).

The point is that the passes would expire that day and as surely she would not be able to use, it gave better. There were three, but the only one caught my eye was for the Royal Ontario Museum (or ROM). I already had going, and now with the pass that we could get both for free and take advantage of we went.

Entry normally costs 22 CAD per person, so we saved a good yarn. Only 6 CAD who are paid extra to have access to a special exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Supposedly is the first time you leave to go abroad to be exhibited publicly, so I had to seize the opportunity.
The exhibition consists of various relics found in the caves where the scrolls were and some of the cylinders in which they were stored. Of course, there were several fragments of the scrolls, which were really well preserved to have almost 2 thousand years. I read that brought in several planes, because they could not risk to lose them to go together in the event of an accident, lol, something like the urban legend of the Coca Cola formula.

After that we went to the part of Asian cultures where several murals and paintings in China, Japan and several things, including some samurai armor and katanas.
The second floor has a display of minerals, complete with jewelry made of precious stones (emeralds, rubies, sapphires, etc).

Then we turn to the natural history, where they have many figures of all kinds of animals, real size. Of course, we could not miss the dinosaurs, which is always what strikes me most attention. They have many skeletons, most are recreations, also in real size, but some do have one other bone of truth.

Unfortunately for when we finished Hence it was too late, we arrived at the museum and at 4 and when we see the dinosaurs were already 7:30, so I did not give us time to climb to the third floor, where are the world's cultures, including the room Egyptian sarcophagi with everything related to their funeral rites.

The good news is that Wednesdays from 5 to 6 PM I think the entrance is free, so find out well and will return to see what I missed.

Ydania not told me he was going to take a picture, hehe.

Posing next to a camel.

With dinosaurs.

Front Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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Gay Parade

On Sunday we went to the Gay Parade, a parade that closes the Pride Week (week of pride) and is the biggest party in the gay community. In fact, the Gay Parade is the most popular festival in Toronto, and there are over a million people each year. Closed several streets and armed a party.

The parade was at 2 pm and arrived early, before the 1. Funny thing was it was raining, and rain stopped exactly at 2, when the event began. The next day the newspaper spoke of the parade with the headline "It Never Rains In Our parade (it never rains on our parade).

lasted about an hour and a half and it was good, basically like a carnival parade, some are normal, others dressed and even had a bunch of guys who went around naked.