Now that you’ve acknowledged my Drake pun, let’s move on. With McDonald’s as my first job, I looked at the customer service industry with pity and a promise to never go back. But this summer changed everything. I cannot be more grateful for the experiences I’ve had and the people I’ve met through my summer…
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Zahra Takes Quebec: Bon Voyage Summer 2016
After doing full day road trips in Hamilton and Tobermory, I wanted to end summer 2016 with a bang – skip mother nature and go deep into some good old fashioned urban exploring. Montreal seemed like the perfect opportunity because it was close enough to get to yet far enough to make one…
No “Could’ve Eaten That” Regret Here
Food is pretty much reason #1 I travel. These are some of the spots we hit up to try some traditional French cuisine. Key word: tried. Montreal Poutine // 181 Rue Saint-Paul E // Montreal What I ate: The Classic Cheese and Gravy Poutine on a rainy patio What I thought: If Trump and Putin…
Dating Your City: A New Version of Urban Medicine
In the phases I’m not traveling, I feel as if each new day competes with the last to further grow an uneasy feeling of routine on my skin. For a Sagittarius, the idea of a routine is synonymous with Toronto’s version of the Scarborough RT: gross. Judging by the amount of content produced and relationships…
Zahra Travels Brazil: Video is Here!!
In honor of it being exactly one year since my flight to Brazil, I put my Snapchat videos together which to no extent come close to the best two months of my life. Thank you to AIESEC Franca, my adorable students, my international rainbow of friends and travelers who made it truly an incredible experience.
24 Cities in 19 Days: Zahra Road Trips Through India + Video!
We as Canadians are extremely lucky to have the sixth best passport in the world. I say this because as a dual national, I went from having access into 29 countries to 172. Simply put, it lets dreamers like me live out our traveling fantasies. Even as a Canadian, getting an Indian visa is…
A Tourist In My Own Town: Zahra Travels Pakistan
Identifying as a Pakistani-Canadian, “home” has been the only place on the map I hesitate to point to. Like anyone with a past, I also had someone in my life before Toronto swept me off my feet. It’s hard to imagine that I’ve spent just as much time in Karachi as I have in…
Celebrating the New Year in Vancouver
I’ve boarded my sixteenth flight in the span of a year, and, this time, it was Vancouver. It’s funny how one’s high time (literally because I’m flying right now) can be someone else’s lowest. I have friends who could not wait for 2015 to be over because of uncontrollable tragedies and regrets. Strangely, unlike…
“I’m too broke to travel”: A Realistic Guide to Globe-Hopping
A lot of people automatically assume my family is hella rich or I lowkey earn side checks at Zanzibar because those are the only ways I could possibly afford to travel. As much as I’d prefer those presumptions to be true, there are many other ways I’m able to scrape a budget together. Now, I’d…
Cheating on Toronto: Zahra Takes Ottawa
I’ve been in a long term relationship and I love my partner, but sometimes I just need some alone time to recoup. I’m not cheating, but I never believed in monogamy in the first place. I came to Ottawa with the expectation of three buildings: one being Parliament Hill the others the two universities in…
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