Homecoming and Happy Nuit Blanche!

McMaster Marauders Vs Waterloo Warriors

Homecoming arrived and left with a Bang! After purchasing my homecoming ticket for $10 a couple of weeks ago,  I couldn't wait to finally experience it! After going to one game already, i kind of knew the drill, but Homecoming tends to be the main game! And that is the impression i got. One thing that still confuses me is the whole concept of Homecoming! After asking many Canadians "what is Homecoming?" no one could actually give me a clear answer. There has already been an opening game, so the players have already come to back Home (as in Uni). So looks like I'll have to Google it! Anyway the Game was great, free food, pictures with the mascot, McMaster University cheers, free inflatables, face paint and the atmosphere is what made Homecoming! Everyone went all out, wearing anything that represented McMaster University, so anything that said McMaster, had an Eagle and the colour Maroon! Early that morning i managed to buy myself a Marauders T-shirt to show some support! If you didn't have enough Maroon on you, then that's shameful! The whole event was pretty good, with many people having parties in the morning before the game had began and Homecoming breakfasts. Once we all arrived, we brought hot dogs during quarter breaks and watched the marching band do their stuff! Half way through the game a streaker starts running across the pitch and gets arrested by the police,  which was funny!! After winning the game McMaster 40 Vs 20 Waterloo, people went onto their house parties to celebrate!! Funny story is that Waterloo have not long just started playing Football again as they got suspended because their players were on steroids. Too surreal haha!!

Marauder's Mascot

Once Homecoming was over, it was time to hit Toronto! Every year Toronto holds a huge Festival with many pieces of art and technology located around the city. The cool thing about this festival was that it was on from 6pm to 6am the following morning! So you know what that means, time for an all nighter! A group of us decided to go and stop the whole night and return early morning on one of the first busses! So that is what we did! After setting out and arriving in Toronto, we grabbed something to eat (this is the moment i started to hiccup for 2 days solid) no joke!! We made our way around the different exhibitions all night long! But the best thing about Nuite Blanche (the name of the festival) was the moment when we were walking on a busy street and all of a sudden a truck pulls up with a Dj set on the back and strobe lights blaring out from the back onto a crowd of people raving. So obviously we all joined in and it ended up being wicked! haha i had to take a moment to think, 'Musty your in Toronto doing this on the street!' It was really Surreal! (ye i know i keep using that work but it seriously was haha

  

After walking around for so long, we came across some really cool arty things. For one we ended up in a bus that was a stimulator with images projected onto the windows inside the bus. It was cheesy humour, we also went into a museum with sculptures from the Maya culture (thats the one which predicted the world to end in 2012) as well as visiting a bollywood movie gallery. Overall we had a great night, along with free coffee and a free flask towards the end of the night at this random stand. As the daylight was approaching we decided to go and see if we can catch the sun rise over lake ontario so we all sat down and waited for the Sun to rise only to be disappointed with a sky full of clouds haha! but it was still cool! 

                      Hiding sun-rise over Lake Ontario                         Meal was the Bomb!                     

Once day light had come, we headed to the bus station to catch the 7:30am bus back Home. And then i practically slept the whole of Sunday! The weekend was one to be remembered! 

Me and Lucy @ Dundas Square

See you on the next post peeps!