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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!