Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Algonquin Park Trip in Canada
I put my first step in Canada at the beginning of autumn 2006.
Before even I got used to Canada, I went to the Algonquin park with my friends. My friends took the same airplane with me for about 14 hours from Korea to Canada. I had heard lots of stories about Algonquin Park from my school friends who already took a trip there on weekends. It was really a wide park, so someone overstated to me that It could be same size as South Korea.
Even though we had planned to stay there for 2 days, we weren't able to book a room for 1 night because It was peak time, so lots of people already had made reservations 2 or 3 weeks earlier. One friend of mine told me if you tried to find a room after getting there, you could make it. However, we had to take a risk to do that plan, so we just called off the plan to go there for 2 days. Instead of it, we decided to go for 1 day.
At first, we had to rent a car because It was so far from Toronto about 3~4 hours by driving. We also could have gone there by joining a school activity or through a travel agency. We all agreed that if we used school trips, we wouldn't have enough time to enjoy the beautiful scenes and so on.
One friend had a international driver licence, so we rented a car easily. We met in the early morning about 7AM near the rental car shop. We got a fancy car just according to our wish and were ready to start our first fantastic trip on our own.
After taking the car, we suddenly were so excited. listening to music, we opened a window and talked a lot a lot including all the small stuff. We should have to get some food for our lunch and dinner, so we popped into one big supermarket located on our way to Algonquin park.
As soon as we entered in the store, we ran to a chicken corner and picked it up. After that, we looked around for other foods more slowly. When we were out of the store, our hands were full of food. It took about over 3 hours to get there. When we finally got out of the car, we were starving and exhausted due to long time driving. We found some seats and opened chicken and lots of foods waiting for us to be eaten for 3 hours. The food disappeared within 30 minutes only garbage remained.
Now, we saw the beautiful park mixed with bright red, dark red and yellow. Each place had it's own name. We needed to move from one place to another by car since it was too far beween two places. We wanted to pop in every place but we weren't able to do it. When we looked at just 3 places, the sun had already gone down. There were lots of tent cars to stay at night and we took a picture with a man who went around by a bicycle. Despite the fact we just met him, the travel made us relaxed and we got along easily. I think it is the biggest benefit of traveling. On the bridge, lots of people shouted and took a picture the animals which were crossing the river. However, we had to pass it.
The way back to Toronto felt longer than before. We were so tired, because we had
been almost whole day in the car, except for taking pictures. During on our way home, we fell asleep naturally. We successfully returned to Toronto at 11 pm inspite of getting lost in front of Toronto because It was our first time to drive in Canada. We weren't used to the Toronto traffic system. It was tiring but also nice trip.
We got along with each other more through this trip and enjoyed Toronto's fall colours. If you come to Canada, I suggest you to go Algounqin park at any season. In the spring, you can feel how spring is close to you. In the summer, you can enjoy Canoes. During fall, the beautiful trees will welcome you. In the winter, you will see a white world.
Let's enjoy your life in Canada.
By Sue Gyeong Choe, ESL in Canada Intern
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Before even I got used to Canada, I went to the Algonquin park with my friends. My friends took the same airplane with me for about 14 hours from Korea to Canada. I had heard lots of stories about Algonquin Park from my school friends who already took a trip there on weekends. It was really a wide park, so someone overstated to me that It could be same size as South Korea.
Even though we had planned to stay there for 2 days, we weren't able to book a room for 1 night because It was peak time, so lots of people already had made reservations 2 or 3 weeks earlier. One friend of mine told me if you tried to find a room after getting there, you could make it. However, we had to take a risk to do that plan, so we just called off the plan to go there for 2 days. Instead of it, we decided to go for 1 day.
At first, we had to rent a car because It was so far from Toronto about 3~4 hours by driving. We also could have gone there by joining a school activity or through a travel agency. We all agreed that if we used school trips, we wouldn't have enough time to enjoy the beautiful scenes and so on.
One friend had a international driver licence, so we rented a car easily. We met in the early morning about 7AM near the rental car shop. We got a fancy car just according to our wish and were ready to start our first fantastic trip on our own.
After taking the car, we suddenly were so excited. listening to music, we opened a window and talked a lot a lot including all the small stuff. We should have to get some food for our lunch and dinner, so we popped into one big supermarket located on our way to Algonquin park.
As soon as we entered in the store, we ran to a chicken corner and picked it up. After that, we looked around for other foods more slowly. When we were out of the store, our hands were full of food. It took about over 3 hours to get there. When we finally got out of the car, we were starving and exhausted due to long time driving. We found some seats and opened chicken and lots of foods waiting for us to be eaten for 3 hours. The food disappeared within 30 minutes only garbage remained.
Now, we saw the beautiful park mixed with bright red, dark red and yellow. Each place had it's own name. We needed to move from one place to another by car since it was too far beween two places. We wanted to pop in every place but we weren't able to do it. When we looked at just 3 places, the sun had already gone down. There were lots of tent cars to stay at night and we took a picture with a man who went around by a bicycle. Despite the fact we just met him, the travel made us relaxed and we got along easily. I think it is the biggest benefit of traveling. On the bridge, lots of people shouted and took a picture the animals which were crossing the river. However, we had to pass it.
The way back to Toronto felt longer than before. We were so tired, because we had
been almost whole day in the car, except for taking pictures. During on our way home, we fell asleep naturally. We successfully returned to Toronto at 11 pm inspite of getting lost in front of Toronto because It was our first time to drive in Canada. We weren't used to the Toronto traffic system. It was tiring but also nice trip.
We got along with each other more through this trip and enjoyed Toronto's fall colours. If you come to Canada, I suggest you to go Algounqin park at any season. In the spring, you can feel how spring is close to you. In the summer, you can enjoy Canoes. During fall, the beautiful trees will welcome you. In the winter, you will see a white world.
Let's enjoy your life in Canada.
By Sue Gyeong Choe, ESL in Canada Intern
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Join the TLC Club - Travel Language Culture Network Club
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