I remember when I was gathering information for preparing my exchange application to NUS. The engineering professor in charge of engineering exchange at UWaterloo talked about how he didn't really care so much about people going on exchange who already had some sort of international exposure (referring to my friend with me who grew up in a different country all together). The people that he really wanted to go on exchange are people who grew up and lived exclusively in the GTA all their lives.

Being away from Toronto for the past while, I've found that I've actually come to appreciate the times I get to be back in Toronto. There is a certain familiarity that it brings. I suppose, having grown up completely in Toronto's suburbs, I never really knew anything else until now.