Life of a Short Indian Girl

During the summer holidays I decided to rejoin the gym, because otherwise I would do zero exercise for a month and a half. But, alas, rejoining the gym gives plenty of opportunities for even more awkward and embarrassing situations. You'd think after having been to the gym last summer I wouldn't experience anymore, but nope,  seeing as embarrassment is my middle name it took no time at all to regain my position of idiot at the gym. After a pretty heavy workout (a.k.a 20 minutes of cardio) I decided to go for a swim to cool down. There was an aqua zumba class in the lane I normally swim in, so I had to go in the designated fast lane. Despite being the slowest swimmer ever, I managed to keep up with the swimmers on my first length. But on the way back there was a man standing right in front of me, completely obstructing my way. I remember thinking 'ummm there's the entire lane free and you've decided to stand right in front of me?' but nevertheless, I swam aroun...

So I've just got back from a 9 day trip to the land of Maple Syrup, or more specially, Toronto. If I were to describe Toronto, it would say it is pretty much New York but with fewer people. Canada as a whole, on the other hand, like a greener England, but with friendlier and happier people (I don't know whether it was because we were tourists or what). We did pretty much everything Toronto had to offer, but I'm not going to talk about the zoo, beach, museum etc. because they are what it says on the tin - I'm sure you don't want an account of every animal I saw (although I did see a polar bear doing backstroke which was cool). Niagra Falls was absolutely incredible, as expected. It was a bit too hot on the day we went- walking 15km in 27 degrees was not the one... but at least we had a constant spray from the waterfall to keep us cool. We were lucky enough to go on a boat trip called 'Made of the mist' in which we managed to get just metres away from the w...