Rome WAS Built in a Day
Me thinks I’m too inconstant to have a web log. Blogging, jogging…I start and then, a few weeks later, can’t seem to get around to doing it. However, just as I feel a certain tinge of guilt seeing my runners lying in the corner of the room or my unplayed piano gathering dust, I do have the best intentions with regards to this site. I will make an effort to get this going again.
What’s my excuse for neglect this time? Well, everything has been up in the air for the past X number of months. We were seriously considering moving to Montreal this September because we both wanted to live in a French-speaking city. I had been looking forward to it although I was worried about what I’d do for work out there. Teach English, I suppose, but I didn’t want to work in a low-paying private school and I heard it can be difficult to get work in a CEGEP (I haven’t finished my BEd) because the pay and benefits are so good that no one ever leaves. Still, I was kind of looking forward to it.
Then, within a few days, everything changed. I got offered a job in Etobicoke (an opportunity that I didn’t feel I could pass up…Umm — not the Etobicoke part, the job itself, Silly!) so this past Wednesday I flew out on a moment’s notice to Toronto and found an apartment and am moving back to Toronto (for the 3rd time in 9 years) in a week and a half. I can hardly believe it. I’ve been quite comfortable in Winnipeg the past 3 years (how time has flown!) and have settled into a nice routine, teaching English to immigrants, taking courses at St. Boniface College, going to yoga down the street every day, meeting my mom for dinner every second Sunday, etc. I’m going to miss all that. And I’m going to miss the wide blue sky, the (relatively) clean air and the sense of space that we’re blessed with on the Prairies.
What am I going back to? Loads of people, warmer temperatures (yay), smog (boo), an efficient transit system, opportunities to do almost anything under the sun, an invisible/scattered French community (I didn’t find it last time), high rent (boo), Kensington Market (yay) and a fun city come World Cup 2006 if I’m still there then. Which I most likely will be. I found a place near Ossington Station that will be home for at least the first year or so while I settle into my new job, which is one long subway ride west. I hope to make new friends somehow (it seems hard in Toronto as everyone is so busy!), take up yoga and Spanish again and have lots of new adventures on weekends.
I’ll keep you (all three of you reading this) posted!
Posted on June 15, 2004 10:42 AM