The trip to toronto

Nuestro viaje ottawa-toronto lo hicimos con una chica de la universidad, que contactamos por la pagina web. El site tiene una seccion que permite a la gente ofrecer y pedir colas por un precio menor que el bus, e inclusive solo compartiendo los costos netos del viaje. In nuestro caso, despues de escribirnos con varias personas, cuadramos con esta chica de fiji. Nos recogio en el edificio, todo bien. Nos saludamos y nos montamos, todo bien hasta ahora. Luego, durante todo el viaje, las pocas conversaciones que tuvimos fueron de este estilo:



(ale) - Pues si, estoy haciendo un master en computacion, y tu que estudias?
(amrita, the driver) - Ciencias de la salud.
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(ale) - Interesante, y que tal te parece hasta ahora? (pregunta bien abieta, permite hablar de la carrera, de la ciudad, de la gente, de los profesores, de sus expectativas de trabajo,etc)
(amrita) - Me gusta mucho.
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(ale) - que fino, a mi me encanta lo que estoy haciendo. Y mudarnos para ottawa ha sido una nota tambien, nos gusta mucho la ciudad... cuanto tiempo tienes aqui en canada? (pregunta gigante, abre temas como inmigracion, idioma, clima, comida, y un gran etcetera)
(amrita) - Siete anios.
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Y esa fue la diversion de nuestro viaje para toronto. Dani tambien sintio lo raro del asunto, asi que no es mi locura. Bueno, al final nos ahorramos unos dolaracos y lo hicimos mas rapido que en el bus. Vamos a ver que tal nos va en la vuelta a ottawa con ella el martes :)

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Our trip ottawa-toronto was done with a girl from ottawau, who we contacted through the univ webpage. There is a section of the site that lets people offer and request rides for a lowest fare than the bus, or even sharing the raw costs of the trip. In our case, after mailing a few people, we hooked with this girl from fiji. She picked us up, all cool so far. Said hello and got on the car, all nice so far. Then, troughout the whole trip, the few conversations we had were kind of like this:

(ale) - So, Im doing a MSc in computer science, what are you doing?
(amrita, the driver) - Im studying health science.
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(ale) - Interesting, and how do you like it so far? (very open question, lets people talk a lot about their careers, the city, the people, the teachers, their job expectations, etc)
(amrita) - Its great.
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(ale) - Nice, Im liking mine a lot. And moving to ottawa has been great too, the city is very cool... how long have you been in canada? (huge question, opens up inmigration questions, language, weather, food, all sorts of things)
(amrita) - Seven years.
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(ale) - ... (after half hour of frustrating silence, looks for the most valuable gadget of all: ipod. If she doesnt want to talk, at least let me listen to something pleasant)


And thats how fun was our trip to toronto. Dani felt the awkardness too, so its not mee going crazy. Bah, in the end we saved a few bucks and we did it a bit faster than the bus. Lets see how going back to ottawa with her on tuesday goes.