James took a class school trip to Toronto yesterday. They encouraged them to become "immersed" in the culture. I wondered what the culture was. They were going to the Eaton center. So a culture of commercialism? At any rate they had to go into stores and look and see how they were laid out and compare them to Kingston ones to see the difference in culture. The problem with this is that James rarely goes to stores in Kingston. And so he didn't notice much difference. He took pictures though, so I'll have to see how different they are. Is the culture really that different a few hours away?
Then they went on to Kensington Market and Chinatown. His main stories of the day revolved around people on drugs who came up to them. So I guess there was that for culture.
Retail stores all have the same layout amongst themselves. So.... sounds like the teachers wanted to go shopping...
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