Veröffentlicht: 25.12.2016
Today
is the big exciting day. We slept in and then had breakfast, packed
our bags and checked out at 12 o`clock. Then 10 minutes later the bus
came to pick us up. Somehow I was really relaxed right now and just
taking one step at a time. At the airport Jannik grabbed a bite to
eat and I had a juice and a large cup of coffee.
While standing in
line waiting for boarding we were surrounded by Canadians. I couldn´t
help it but I was kinda sad seeing all these people with Canadian
passports, because I wish I could have one myself but to be honest
the chances of achieving this one day are pretty much close to zero.
I
know it might sound strange and silly to some of you but spending one
year in Canada again has been my dream for so long and now this dream
finally came true. I should be grateful to have the chance of living
my dream and I am more than that.
But I don´t quite know how to
decribe my feelings...
I
will learn so much in this year and will have so many great
experiences that I dont want to get negative feelings in my way, or
influence the multiple positive feelings I have :
I am happy,
excited, somehow not nervous, which surprises me as I am usually a
person who likes to know what's coming up(have some kind of
security). And now it´s just an adventure: we have made sleeping
arrangement for the first 8 nights and then we dont know exactly what
is going to happen. Of course we have a vage plan for the first month
but we do not know exact dates or times.
I
would like to meet a lot of new people and may even be able to travel
with them or get some tipps... making some friends and connections
and see where they might lead or what they might teach us.
We
had a very pleasant flight, watched some tv, listened to some music
and slept a little.
After arriving in Toronto I was a little
nervous because os all the "horror" stories I heard/read
from other work and travellers about getting their visum: What
documents the CBSA=Canadian Border Service Agents all wanted to see
and what kind of questions they asked. But as we had checked out what
we need in order to get the work permit and what we might be asked at
the border control we actually had nothing to fear.
So we went
there, had all our douments ready and they did not want to know
anything so we got everything done in like 10 minutes.
After that
we waited another 45 minutes for our bags and then followed the very
well given directions to the couchsurfers appartment.
We were
greeted really kind and had a lovely welcome. After talking a while
we went to bed (couch in the living room) which was really nice to
sleep on.