Brief Notes: More Kingston-Charlottetown Differences

4. Squirrels are everywhere, running across streets, climbing up into trees.

5. So are periwinkles. They seem to be the roadside flowering weed of choice.

6. Ikram may be right in describing Kingston as "white", at least by Torontonian or Ottawan or Montréalais standards. By Charlottetown/Island standards, though, it's rather more multicultural than any place I've lived in.

7. In Charlottetown, I lived at home. In Kingston, I live in Jean Royce Hall on West Campus, a twenty-minute walk west of the main campus on Union Street. The dorm experience is definitely going well; good dramatis personae.

Now, my long-delayed updates will come now.

Trip Chronology: Monday to Wednesday

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My Courses

It turns out I'll be here until the 15th of June, which is a bit unexpected. Ah, student debt; I'll carry it like weight on a paterfamilias.

Anyway, my courses:

Fall Session
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Winter Session
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Spring Session
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Another Update

I just spent two hours with other grad students in the English program at Queen's. I feel very good about the department, generally speaking.