The past two days the group has spent doing sessions with the Center for Intercultural Learning. Throughout various workshops we were taught many skills on how to be effective working in an intercultural environment, ranging from games on group dynamics, culture shock, c!ultural sensitivity and adaptation. The training was productive and I think will be a valuable asset to helping me make realistic goals and achieve success in my own measure.

Last night, a group member and myself decided to really treat ourselves for our last night in Canada. Despite being the coldest night of our entire week in Toronto, we found ourselves walking around downtown finding a good place to get some Canadian grub. Seeing as how we are staying in the Fasion district, the first few blocks of eateries were... lets just say, out of our league haha. Finally deciding on a s teakhouse, we walked in to have our last meal. I, of course, orderded a giant steak and potatoes. Satisfying my cravings, we opted to having a few glasses of wine and even dessert. Once we were finally stuffed, we realized we had spent more on this entire meal than we had all week on eating. Oh well! I think I may be looking at eating vegetarian while in Tanzania, that steak may have been my last look at beef.
We just checked out of our hostel and now we're just bumming around Toronto until it is time to head off to the Airport. Suprisingly, I have remained very calm throughout this whole time; I don't have that nauseous nervous feeling in my stomach that I had before taking off to China. In all honesty, I still have no idea what to expect of what I will be doing in Tanzania, but I'm okay with that. We fly out of Toronto to Amsterdam at 6pm Toronto time this Sunday evening and do not arrive in Tanzania until 11pm January 27th. Once I'm in country, we have a few days of orientation in Dar Es Saalam before venturing off to Morogoro. Wish me luck and I'll talk to you all once im in AFRICA.