Today is the 1st of September, a public holiday as well here, it's Labour Day in Canada and the States so 2nd Sept is the 1st day of the autumn term but 100 level classes will be cancelled due to a 1st year orientation programme called IMAGINE UBC and I got my Spanish 100 on Tues. Class cancelled for me!!! Yaysss...!! ^^Y
UBC has a huge and absolutely beautiful campus, you can see trees everywhere you go.
Oh oh oh..lavenders too!!! and now i got some in my room..hehehehee...
Lavender and pine corns are everywhere. Nice?
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It's 12.30pm now, couldnt finish this post last night cause was a little distracted by everything else. I'm still suffering a bit from jetlag I guess, get tired very easily and I wake up very early in the morning now. Well, because i wanna catch my family and everyone online as well. (Vancouver is 15 hours behind Malaysia, so its 3.30am in Malaysia now.)
It's 3rd Sept today, have been here for almost a week, and it's taking me forever to finish the post. (Sorry la, been busy ma...jetlag and all. You know la, the adapt and adjust thingy.)
Okie, so far UBC and Vancouver have been really nice to us, people here are really friendly.
I think Vancouver is the most diversify city (as in diversify in races and countries) that I ever been in and I'm speaking as a citizen that comes from a pretty diversified country itself!!! Poeple here come from all over the world to study, work and live here, you can hear more than 5 different languages are spoken when you're walking down the street, from spanish to french, japanese,korean, mandarin, english, cantonese and etc..Pretty cool eh?
Classes started yesterday, I'm currently taking Spanish, Contrasts and Conflicts: The Cultures of Central, Eastern and Northern Europe (in English) and Introduction to Cultural Anthropology which all have no relations to my major or minor back in USM. *sweat
But hey, that's why i'm here isn't it??!! so no complaints here.
The teaching here is quite different from what you can find in USM, lecturers here...or erm..they're all professors by the way, they talk very comfortably in class, and students participate actively in class,very interactive which is really good~ Students are encouraged to speak up their mind and they are allowed to call their professors by their first name too!! Isnt that cool??!! ehhehee...
Maple leaf
There you go, a sneak peek of where I am now,
will update more shortly!
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