As I’m still trying to get used to the whole idea of sharing my thoughts every week I realized how difficult it is to actually choose a certain topic. Whenever I have time to think about potential topics, I have at least 5 different choices, which is not exactly making it easier to choose.  I finally decided to write about something important to me: my family.

Coincidentally, it’s my mother’s birthday today and I realized it’s been a little more than a year since I moved to Nova Scotia. I was the first of my parent’s children to move out, my sister just left for at least one year of traveling and working in Australia. We try to use this great invention called “Skype” every week, and I know from friends and family that my parents really appreciate the possibility to talk to me and see me on a regular basis. My mother has actually told me that she had a hard time adjusting after my sister left, simply because the house is empty and it’s just my parents having dinner and spending time together. I’m glad that technology enables me to keep close contact to my family and friends, it makes a necessary step in my life a little easier.

Observations on the way home

This is my very first blog ever, as well as my second language, so please bear with me.

It's not a secret that most students are living on a somewhat tight budget, cost of living and tuition strain a lot of students wallets. Most people have been there and it’s not always a pleasant experience. Universities are aware of these struggles and most of them include a buss pass in their tuition, enabling students to take advantage of a fairly cheap mode of transportation.

On one of those bus rides home I realized today how many different characters and people are actually using this mode of transportation. On this single bus ride alone, there was the mother with her two kids. The older lady with the hat and the purse. The parking enforcement officer and even a businessman with his suit and laptop. While every one of those people might have entirely different reasons for taking the bus, there is the one fact that brought those people together: They all wanted to get home, whether to be with their loved ones or just to leave work.