December 8

This Wednesday, I will go back to my hometown, Shanghai. I am so exciting about that, and I miss Shanghai a lot. I will be very busy during this vacation because I have so many things to do. Also I want spend some time with my friends in China.  Looking forward at that.

Christmas Vacation and the New Year

This Christmas, I will stay at Shanghai and spent my vacation with my friends. I have so many things to do when I back to China. First, this Christmas will be very special to me because it is my grandfather's 70th birthday. I always think it is a coinsidence that my grandfather's birthday is on December 24th which is Christmas eve.  Second, my friend's Japaness restaurant will open around Christmas. He is my best friend, so I am going to attend the opening ceremony. Then, I am going to have a big shopping with my sister. I want buy so many things, and eat different kinds of food. I miss Shanghai so much, and the tranditional chinese food, too. On the last day of 2010, I want go to the count down with my friends, and stay up whole night until the sun rise. Of course, I will have the dinner with my family during that time. I hope everyone have a nice Christmas and everything start fresh in 2011.

Busy Week

This week was very busy because it almost near the end of this semester. The last assignment that we have to do is a research paper which based on poverty in Canada. This is a very broad topic, so I am thinking about how can I narrow this topic. I have so many things can say about the poverty, such as finanicial crisis, drug addiction, mental illness, and family problems. However, in each topic, it is very hard to write about that I can explain the topic clearly. Never mind, I will try my best for the last assignment, and keep work hard on it.

Lake Louise and Columbia Ice Field

This summer, I went to Banff with my mum, my sister, and my aunt. On our way to Banff, we went to the Lake Louise. It is a very nice place, and we spent two nights in the Fairmount Hotel at Lake Louise. The purpose of this trip was take my aunt to travel around Canada. My aunt was come from Spain, and she decided to spent her vacation with us in Canada. When we arrived at Lake Louise, we could explain how beautiful the view was. The lake was as clear as crystal, and the mountain behind the lake was very mangnificent. The top of that mountain was couvered by ice, and the shadow of the mountain reflected on the lake. It was like a peaceful picture. Then we went to Columbia Ice Feild which located in the National Park. It took our three hours to drove, and  the Ice Field was so huge. We took few pictures about the Ice Field, then we walked onto it. It seemed boundless when we looked at it even closer. This trip was a very great trip that I ever have, and I would like to go there again.


Lake Louise:

Columbia Ice Field:

Picture took by: Vicky Wang



Cultural Mysteries

If you want to start a new life in different country, you need to spend a period of time to know the culture of that country. When I came to Canada, there are so many things that I was not confortable about. People in Canada are so kind and friendly, because if you had a eye contact with them they usually smile, and start talk with you. However, in my own country, people won't talk to a stranger. Also, while in class, once teacher ask you a question, there are always some other people start to shout out the answer. That makes me very unconfortable, and made my feel unrespected by other people. I thought that Canadians like travel a lot, people often go out on their vacations to other place or countries. I do not understand why is this so popular in Canada, maybe it is the life style here.  Because more and more immgrantes are coming, Canada is a multicultured country. People can see different countries' traditional  culture in Canada. It is always very interesting to know other countries's cultuer. There are still many things that I don't know about Canadian's culture, and I hope as long as I live in Canada, I can learn more about Canada.

Snow

This weekend is snowing! Everything is cover by the snow, and the country is changing into a white world. I love snow, because it is so pretty. However, most of the snow is melting. Even though outside is very cold, I like walking in the snow. 

These is the view you can see from my house:

On my way to Downtown:

Photo take by: Vicky

The Effect Coming to Canada Had on Me

There are so many effects about coming to Canada, and I learned a lot of things when I came here. Live in a new country is very hard because you need learn many things, such as language, culture, and life style. Since I lived in Canada, it changed my personalities and made me more independent. First, I need learn English and must be good at English, so I can live there, and talk with other people. While I learn English, it help me to build self-confidence. Before I came to Canada, I feel unconfortable about talking in front of a lot of people. However, in Canada, student often need to have presentation in front of the class, so it will help me to practice my English, and help me feel confortable when talk in front of people. Next, I was more independent in Canada than in my hometown. In Canada, the things I did is almost by myself, like live by myself and learn how to live. The most thing that I need get use to is life style in Canada, because it has slow and relax rhythm of life, and very quite. It took a very long time for me to get used to this kind of life style.

New member

Last Wednesday, my house had a new member. She was so small, so pretty, and so cute. She was a little cat which my sister's boyfriend's roomate bought few weeks ago, and the cat was only borned six weeks. The cat was so cute that everyone loves her. However, my sister's boyfriend brought it back to his roomate. Now, I miss her a lot, and I hope I can see her again.

Here are pictures about her:

Photo take by: Vicky

My Home Town

I was born in Shanghai, China, and I love the city, but I think it has a big problem about education. When I came to Vancouver, I thought the education system was different than Shanghai. In Shanghai, every school's student need wear uniform, and the school has all this rules about how student should look. For example: student cannot wear earrings when they are in school, or if a student's hair is too long, the teacher will ask he/she to cut his/her hair. However, students in Vancouver can wear their own clothes to go to school. Girls can have make-up, and the teacher do not care about student's hair length. I think student in Vancouver have more freedom than student in Shanghai. Moreover, in Shanghai, most teachers are focus on the text book. They do not teach anything else, but the ones in the text book. Therefore, the lesson is very boring. On the other hand, I think the lesson in Vancouver's school is more interesting than the lesson in Shanghai. The student is more thoughtful, and teacher teachs useful thing , not everything in the text book. This is the most big diference between Shanghai and Vancouver.

Here are some picture about Shanghai:

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Picture from: http://www.chinastone.cn/exhibition/shanghai2008/images/dfmz.jpg

Pools

On Saturday, I went to play pools with my sister and her boyfriend. The place is named Q1, and located at Richmond. Although I am not good at play pools, I often go there with my friends. I like play pools because I think it is very fun, and I feel relax when I play it. In the future, I hope I am good at play pools, but I need spend a lot of time to practice.




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Friends

Until now, I totally have three types of friends:  bosom friends, buddies, and just "friends". First, bosom friends means exceed normal friendship. These friends are really hard to find, and maybe in my whole life, I will only have 1 or 2. Bosom friends are the ones that you don' t need to spend a lot of time with them, but it won't change anything between you and your bosom friends. Sometimes, I even don't need to speak, but my bosom firends always know what I am thinking, or what I want to say. Second, I have some buddies that always help me when I had troubles. I can share my happiness, sadness, and anger with them. When we spend time together, we always make a lot of noisiness, and very happy. Buddies are the ones that know me a lot, so I won't feel any uncomfortable when I go out with them. Last, I have many just "friends". They are the ones that I don't know a lot, maybe we just met few times, and the only things I know is their name. Maybe sometimes we will go out to have some fun, like play pools, or singing. Although I don't know them a lot, I think I will know them better as we spend more time together. These are the three types of friends that I have.

Movie Night

Last week, I went to the silver city at metrotown to saw a movie called "Jackass" on Tuesday with my boyfriend. It was a 3D movie, and there were so many people. I heard that the movie was very fun and allstar, so I was very exciting and looking forward to wahch it. The movie was about couple guys going different kinds of funny experiments. As I watching the movie, I found it was kind of disgusting, and made me sick. After I watched it, I still remembered the feeling when I watching it. I could not imaging what those guys are doing, and it is unbelievable. But the movie was fun anyway, and it was a amanzing night!








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