These days I am always thinking about my first four months in Calgary, this lovey, clean city. Even now, I still feel that it is like a dream. Sometimes, I couldn't believe that I'm here, a totally different place far away from my hometown. (Perhaps I'm still in a dream now~~)
I can remember that when I first arrived here, I was like a lonely bird, no families, no friends, no experience. Fortunately, I attended ESL program on last September. To be honest, I should say that it was a fantastic course for getting fun, but not an ideal course for learning English. We had extra activities every Friday, which attracted me a lot, such as Banff trip, hockey game, museum visiting. It was a good opportunity to make a lot friends coming from different parts of the world. But now most of my ESL friends have gone back to their hometown, so I really missed them.
Then after a short-time rest during the Christmas, our EAP program came. The first thing I should do is to prepare for the placement test in the first week. Though the ESL program was not a perfect place to learn academic English, anyway, I still got benefit from it, especially in writing. So just in my opinion, I thought I did my best in the test. After finishing the test, I thought perhaps I would be in level 2, however, when the result came out, I found my name in the sheet of EAP 3. To tell the truth, it was really a big surprise to me. I hadn't thought about it before, but I felt so excited because that means I can go back to my hometown after this semester and stay there for couple of months---jaja~~, actually that was what I wanted most.
The next week, the course started. It is totally different from ESL. It is more formal and more strict, and also a lot of homework to hand out during this short 3 months. In another word, it is out of my expectation. I can completely feel the fast pace of this course. Sometimes, I felt so tired, but whenever thinking about the trip back to my country after 3 months, I became energetic again.
So, anyway, wish everybody( of course including myself) can pass this semester. We all FIGHTING!!!!!
1/22/2008
~~ielts test:-(
Last Saturday, I took my ielts test. It was not a good day for me: snow, strong wind, low tempreture, hoho........should I say " I'm a lucky dog?" *--*
In the morning, I struggled and struggled, I said I'm lucky, so I was not late for the test(*^__^*) , and that was the only thing I should celebrate about.
I could not believe that we were not allowed to enter the test room wearing electronic watch, hat and also our jackets. OH, MY GOD!!! It was so strict. During the test, it's OK, like a dream, and time passed quikly.
It was not finished yet, I had a interview test in 2:40 in the afternoon, so the problem came---- how can I spend these almost 3 hours?It was snowing heavily outside, I didn't want to become a snow-women after this long lunch break. So I decided to waste this 3 hours in Mcdonald's. It was really a long time that I can't imagine how time passed .Anyway, it came to my interview after a century's waiting. I think ( just in my opinion...o(∩_∩)o.....jaja~~) it was a fantastic conversation, I was relaxed, so I did my best.
Then I thought: hoho~~~I can go home, NOW!!! However, maybe that was not the right time to think about it, because it seemed that the god didn't want me to go home quikly, perhaps he just wanted me to experience more about the terrible winter in Calgary. So I kept waiting for my bus for almost 1 hour, but unfortunately no bus came. This time I totally became a pretty snow-woman. Finally, I gave up waiting for No.9 bus, instead, I chose C-Train. Even though it took
longer time, I thought I would die if I still kept waiting for the bus.
Fortunately, I got home safely. When I opened the door, I just shouted to my roommate"Hello, our snowman came back!!!" And then we bursted to a laughter. So the only thing I can think about in this moment is getting a car, but now I just have a toy car in my house......
In the morning, I struggled and struggled, I said I'm lucky, so I was not late for the test(*^__^*) , and that was the only thing I should celebrate about.
I could not believe that we were not allowed to enter the test room wearing electronic watch, hat and also our jackets. OH, MY GOD!!! It was so strict. During the test, it's OK, like a dream, and time passed quikly.
It was not finished yet, I had a interview test in 2:40 in the afternoon, so the problem came---- how can I spend these almost 3 hours?It was snowing heavily outside, I didn't want to become a snow-women after this long lunch break. So I decided to waste this 3 hours in Mcdonald's. It was really a long time that I can't imagine how time passed .Anyway, it came to my interview after a century's waiting. I think ( just in my opinion...o(∩_∩)o.....jaja~~) it was a fantastic conversation, I was relaxed, so I did my best.
Then I thought: hoho~~~I can go home, NOW!!! However, maybe that was not the right time to think about it, because it seemed that the god didn't want me to go home quikly, perhaps he just wanted me to experience more about the terrible winter in Calgary. So I kept waiting for my bus for almost 1 hour, but unfortunately no bus came. This time I totally became a pretty snow-woman. Finally, I gave up waiting for No.9 bus, instead, I chose C-Train. Even though it took
longer time, I thought I would die if I still kept waiting for the bus.
Fortunately, I got home safely. When I opened the door, I just shouted to my roommate"Hello, our snowman came back!!!" And then we bursted to a laughter. So the only thing I can think about in this moment is getting a car, but now I just have a toy car in my house......
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