Escaping the Everyday Drudgery of Canada
Spending a summer abroad in Europe, even working, has a whiff of romance about it. Museums, cathedrals, and train journeys all seem quite exotic, especially from your desk during April exam time. I jumped at the chance to spend the summer in England, paid in pounds sterling and British culture. Having the opportunity to settle down for a few months in another country is wonderful; I’ve always been a bit of a frenetic traveler, never spending more than a few weeks or a month in any one place.
Escape Cruelty In Our Comunity
Face it – we are back to routines and back to reality. In an effort to make our school days as memorable as possible, consider looking outside the Laurier community and into the larger Kitchener-Waterloo region. In our community there are many that are in need of a little compassion, support and assistance. Cruelty to [...]
Car Crash Nightmare
If I complained to you about our North American car culture and my need to escape my automobile dependence. you would say that I’m crazy, that it’s nothing new. You would ask me to tell you something you haven’t heard me rant about before (I suppose I rant to you too often). I would then [...]
Escape From A War-Torn Country: An Immigrant’s Tale of Life
The palm trees swayed from one side to another, encompassing the beach side on a bright sunny afternoon. The sense of freedom was abundant, yet at the same time mounting tension overshadowed the lives of everyone living in and around this tiny island. What island am I describing, you may ask? This not-so beautiful country [...]
Escape This
If you think that films are escapist entertainment, then you are not watching them hard enough. They entire art forms of film is given what I would colloquially refer to s a bum rap. Indeed, I’d guess that most people go to films with the intent of escaping into their reality and sinking into another [...]
No More Monotony
During the summer I work in a factory, or rather, a plant, though there is nothing organic about it. I put parts on cars for 8 hours a night, 40 hours a week in the giant, disgusting, pulsating, social organ that is the General Motors Oshawa car assembly plant. Please understand, I’m not complaining about [...]
Underworld
when the sun is gone
the light flows like
so much water
