The last one ~~

I hope this is my last time to do blog because I do not want to come back to LEAP 4 and do it once again…however, it doesn’t mean that I will forget everything which happened in LEAP program. So many things need to be remembered.
First, I want to appreciate the friends who leave messages in my blog~~ I wish that I could invite them for dinner… but I lack of money during this month…sorry about that~~
Second, I’d love to say thanks to all my instructors. No matter you give me A, B, C or D, I am glad that you can read my terrible writing and accepted my quizzes which full of mistakes…I hate my poor grammar…

forgive me~~ and please, please, please let me pass at the same time on my final exam!! I beg…
Third, thanks all the other things and people that I didn’t appreciate yet~~ I know I am lazy…
Anyway, I hope everybody in LEAP 4 can pass the horrible final exam and have a wonderful life on campus during next several years. The people who will go back to their own countries, I wish you good luck~~ that’s it… enjoy my last blog…

Reminiscing~~~

Today is the third last day of this semester, it means that after this week and three days of the exam, I am going to leave LEAP program. Of course I need to pass the final exam if I want to successfully leave this program and start my undergraduate study. In today’s listening and speaking class, we focus on speculations and reminiscing. I started to remember many particular things which happened in my life when I came to Canada. This is my first time to stay away from my family for such a long time; however, I never feel alone during these months because I made lots of new friends in LEAP program. Many of whom are from different countries. We had pizza party, BBQ; we watch movie, visit Peru exhibition; every thing will be stored in my mind and I’ll never forget them! I also remember the new experiences I had in Calgary; the first time to take c-train (we do not know how to buy tickets), the first time to eat free ice-cream on campus, the first time to have a part time job and try to earn money by myself and so on. There are so many first time after my 18th birthday because I came to Calgary! Now, it is my first time to rent a house and first time to live with my friends. I hope everything can become shining in my life after I make efforts on them. I will keep on doing what I can do to live in Calgary for last four or five years with the people who support me, and gain more precious reminiscing in the future. If I past LEAP program on this month, I will miss all the things in this program so much…But I still want to pass ^_^

Hate waiting for Bus!!!

If u ask me what is the feature of the Calgary bus system? I will always burst out the same answer without hesitate; furthermore, the answer is solely one word----- late. This is a kind of phenomenon I can not tolerate. Even though there are great amount of factors which can determine buses to be late, to be late is unacceptable. A late bus, however, can harm people’s health and emotion.
First of all, keep waiting for a bus, which seems will never arrived is considered as a kind of suicide in the winter of Calgary. People, waiting for bus, always do not have very heavy jacket because they believe in the schedule which they heard in the cell phone. Therefore, they probably stand at the bus station until they freeze to death or faint.
In addition to harm people’s health, it can also cause emotions breaking up. For instance, when people decide to wait for a bus in Calgary, they decide to take a test of patience as well…For instance, I had two experiences like that which happened in the same day! The bus number 9 and 407, I cursed them for almost three hours until they came and I sware that I will never give up to curse those late buses! I believed that late buses are able to destroy people’s patience and make them crazy easily.
Finally, in order to keep a healthy body and a normal emotion, people had better buy their own cars as quickly as possible.

The wonderful man I met in Calgary~~~

Last Thursday, I met a really nice old man whose name is called Bruse(I don't know how to spell his name...). We started to know him is because my friend Megan need a mattress for her new room. However, just as someone reminded, if people want to buy a new double bed, it may cost almost 500 dollars. None of us want to spend that much money. Fortunately, we heard some information from our friends about a person who can send free mattress in order to help international students. We tried to phone him as soon as possible when we got his phone number, and he quickly agreed to find one mattress for Megan! We waited him until Thursday, when we began to worry about that he may not show up, he gave a phone call to us. He mentioned that he had a meeting on each Thursday, and he was able to send us the mattress now. He is awesome because he came to our dorm to wait for us and drove us to our apartment which located in downtown. Mr. Bruse is his name, he is really a enthusiastic person who always worried about what helps we need. We were so lucky to know this kind old man!!

Finding furniture for my first home in Calgary (Ⅱ)

According to my last blog, many people should basically know what I am doing during these few days: finding furniture. I felt really hard and difficult to find second hand furniture which I loved on time. Even though sometimes second hand furniture is old, it still holds an intense competition between people like us. So, as I mentioned before, we’ll try to buy some cheap and new furniture by ourselves this time. The best place which is recommended by most of my friends is IKEA. I’d love to go there even though it is far away from our dorms because I had been the same company before which holds in China, it is a really nice choice and most of the furniture there are cheap and beautiful. I went there on Saturday with my friend Megan by taking c-train and bus. It took us a long time to find the right location. When we arrived IKEA, we spent almost five hours to find the furniture, to consider which is best for us to buy and to carry them by ourselves downstairs. At last, we were so glad to buy a pretty glass table with four chairs by just spent 99 dollars, a white coffee table which cost 29 dollars only, two big desks which hold the lowest price in Calgary and some other staffs. We spent no more than 500 dollars to buy all the furniture for our apartment, that travel is really a big harvest for us!

Finding furniture for my first home in Calgary (Ⅰ)

This week is the busiest weeks for me because I found my lovely apartment successfully last week with two of my best friends. As a result, we need to prepare our furniture now. The first way for us to find some cheap and nice furniture is that find them on the internet; however, most of them are second hand furniture. We were still glad when we were able to seek them on line and made appointments with the owners. Afterward, we tasted our tough lives……the reason is that we went to several houses which were really far away from the university, but still cannot gain anything. Most of the furniture which we like are bought or sent to others because they have cars…in contrast; we went to the owners’ houses by taking buses or c-train. How pitiful we are!! We were so said when we knew that the furniture were sold out after we arrived the destinations hardly. Nevertheless, most of the owners are really kind. They always drove us back home automatically without hesitations when they knew that we went there by buses. Those behaviors gave us confidences again because we knew that most of the people are glad to help us, and many of them are really kindhearted. Maybe we’ll try to buy some cheap and new furniture by ourselves next time.

Bad luck!

I woke up really early this morning because I had to phone the apartment company to find the house. I was so lucky to hear the answer from the officer that there is only one 2 bedrooms apartment left. The reason is that it is so difficult for people to find a cheap apartment in downtown like that. As a result, I made an appointment as soon as possible; however, after 9am, my bad luck came. The apartment company said that they were not allowed to show us the apartment until next week and they didn’t know the date that they can show it to us. It made me worried about if we cannot rent it on time.
Then, I had nothing to do at that time, so, I decided to go to the admission office to change my faculty. There was another bad news waiting for me; the officer said that I owned money for this winter semester! That is impossible because I already got the receipt when I paid for it!! Afterwards, I had to go back to the dorm in this cold winter (It was snowing outside!) in order to get my receipt. When I went back and show them the receipt, they found that the cheque didn’t work. It meant that I had to pay it again. The most terrible things happened now in case I found that my visa card doesn’t work……
As a result……I didn’t finish anything in this morning……and there are so many things left for me to deal with……

The Spring Festival

This is the second time that I didn’t get together with my family in the spring festival. (The first time I was in Australia because I attended in a winter camp.) As a result, I began to miss my family and China. However, the best thing is that all my friends are able to get together with me and celebrate this important festival. On the other hand, that day is Jennifer’s 18th birthday, it is really great for her to become an adult and start to realize this society. (hehe~~Jennifer~ have fun)
We went to China town to have our dinner which is my favorite hotpot that day. It attracts me so much and lets me feel home. Then, after I back to my room, I remembered to call my mom and dad; nevertheless, it is too early for me to make a phone call to them because my family always celebrates at night. As a result, I had to get up at 6am in the morning next day in order to call them. Unfortunately, I got a bad news when I called my mom. I found that my grandmother, my aunt even my mom’s voice all sound strange and tired. They were not at home either because my grandfather got a serious disease, so they had to stay in the hospital during the spring festival and took care of him. It made me desperate; and I made a decision to get back home as quickly as possible when I finish this semester. I wish all my family members can keep healthy and strong in this year and all the people I love can own happiness lives.

I found it is difficult to find a topic to write in my blog this week~~ Maybe I’ll just write down some feelings that I have now. I stay in Canada about six months, and this is the longest time for me to live without my family members. The life in Canada is free and comfortable except my ugly roommateJ Actually, I miss my mother so much because I am worried about her health; nobody can take care of her if I live far away from her. When I phoned her, she always told me that she

was nice, and never let me worried about anything. She also gives me a lot of encouragements in order to support my study and life in Canada. Those kinds of behaviours made me miss her more.
On the other hand, I’d love to go back home as soon as possible is because I miss Chinese food so much. I have to eat pizza, cookies, wraps, and some other high calorie food here. It made me crazy, and it is difficult for me to believe that June can eat such amount of pizza every week! You are my idol~~ anyway, I just want to mention that it is really important for my to pass level four before May, or I will not allow to go back home even change my faculty. Actually, I still have self confidence to do everything well even though I cannot have good sleep every day because of my homework and roommate. Now, going back home and live away from her are the two main points that support me to work hard in order to live with a happy life. I want to let myself know that I have to work and there are not other choices for me.

I hate my roommate!!

I cannot remember how many times I have mentioned my terrible roommate in my MSN space…actually, this is the first time I vent my angry about her in my blog~~ I think June, Jennifer, Ken and Amy may already know something about her…the reason why I always get mad about her is because:

First of all, she often talks to the phone without pick up the receiver. There are several times that she talked to her mother early in the morning on the weekends without control her voice! It makes me so angry because I need to work 6 hours in subway on that day, but she never gives me a chance to have a rest.

Moreover, when I made some sounds in order to show her my annoyance, she always said to her friends or her family members like: “I’ll never care about that!” How can I get along with her?!

Most significantly, she always brings her friends here and talks in a loud voice, even play music when I tried to study!

Consequently, I decided to change to another dorm. I told my opinion to my roommate, she was glad to change and I am really appreciating that; However, She said that she don’t want to leave this room. Then, she asks for a permission (maybe, but I don’t know clearly) that can allow her to stay in this room. It made me angry because her bad attitude and she always emphasizes that she must live in this room! I think she is really selfish!

Unfortunately, there are no more rooms for me to move in when I asked residence service. It means that I have to make a conversation with her and made some rules at the same time in order to live comfortable in next two and a half months…Oh my god!! I hate living with this horrible and low timber woman!!! I’d love to move out of the dorm as quickly as possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy my weekends~~~

I did not do any exercises until this Saturday. I think it is really important for me to have a rest and relax myself a little bit, so, I decided to do some sports on the weekends. We are so lucky to obtain a holiday on Friday, it is my pleasure to do some exercises with my friend. As a result, I arranged two lectures to attend in on that day and after that, I would go Gym with Jennifer. I thought I should pay attention to train my upper arms and legs because I am getting fat now. Consequently, I got aches of my arms on the next day, but I have to go skating with my friends on 1:00pm. I am not good at skating, actually, I didn’t go skating for more than 10 years! It made me shy when I used my stupid postures to learn how to stand and how to move on the ice. When I tried to move, there is a man came and said: “You did a good job!” and asked me to clap his hand. It is really helpful and he gave me enough courage to keep on skating. I’d love to do those kinds of things on each weekend if I have time, it is awesome and I can get lots of precious experiences that I can never get in classes!

I collected lots of information about the faculties which attract me in order to take the most suitable one for the future; then, I found that it is difficult for me to make a decision. There are three results remain after I considered all kinds of factors.
NO.1 change my faculty from Computer Science to Finance
Actually, I must finish LEAP program in April or it will be late. This limite brings me a heavy burden because I know it is not an easy job, but I have to try my best to work well with all the quizzes and assignments in this semester; not only it is the hardest level, but it is also the most important term for me and my future in the university
NO.2 change my degree to combine degrees, like BComm/BSc
The instructor told me that this program will take 5 years, however, when I spend only one more year to study here, the university will provide two degrees for me when I successfully finish my undergraduate studies. The reason why I take this manner into consideration is that I think it may easier to change than I change my faculty to Finance directly; because I already been accepted by Computer Science, the combine degree program just need to add Finance in it, but nobody can guarantee that is the truth, otherwise, the course I need to take in this faculty are really boring.
NO.3 try to find another faculty that can allow me to get a great job in the future.
This way is the last manner, I will never consider about if the faculty is interesting or not; anybody who have some great suggestions about the awesome careers in the future, please leave messages for me.
I know this is a boring topic, but I really need help; on the other hand, this is the biggest problem for me now, I’d love to solve it as quickly as possible. Please give me some suggestions, I will appreciate you so much. Thanks a lot~~~

My blog~~

This is the first time for me to create a blog, it is similar as MSN space even though it is an English website. I am so lazy and never tried to write journals until I got in trouble; therefore, this is a great chance for me to type something I want even some of them may boring:) I hope my blog can help me to improve my writing skills and typing speed. I always get trouble in managing time because my slow typing speed always waste my time on writing exams. If this kind of exercise can really help effectively, I will appreciate it so mush~~
On the other hand, I may write all kinds of peoblems that I need to solve as quickly as possible, it means I need helps from others. So, if you are the person who is reading my lovely blog:), please do not forger to leave comments for me~~Thanks a lot!!