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I studied at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg from January to April 2001.

Canada: Arrival (part I)

FlyingDutchman
2006-03-15 17:52:07

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from yesterday).

In the evening of January 2nd I still didn't have an alarm clock, so we (Mart and I) decided to go to a mall. We took a bus (besides the university, nothing is in walking distance here) to St. Vital Centre, one of the large shopping malls (140 shops) in the city. It is open until 21.00 hours, which makes it really convenient to go shopping in the evening.

On January 3rd my first class, Introduction to Communications, started at 10.30 and it promised to be a lot of work, assignments were due for every class, 3 times a week. Afterwards I had brunch (could have been dinner as well, I'm definitely not going to be starving here) and I got ISIC card and some more books. The class Consumer Behaviour in the afternoon sounded better, a pretty funny teacher, that helps. For the class Seminar in Administration we have to work in teams and analyse team behaviour, pretty interesting, although the first class only lasted for 15 minutes.

On the 4th of January I needed to get a Zipdrive for my laptop computer, so I went to the Futureshop by bus. Since I also needed something to drink in Rez, I went to the Safeway, one of Canada's largest supermarket chains. I got all my drinks in 2 liter bottles, which is about the smallest bottle you can get here. However, I couldn't find the bus stop afterwards, so I decided to walk back to Rez. Bad idea, it took me something like 40 minutes and that was the nearest supermarket!

That evening we decided to go to Monty's, a bar on Pembina highway near the U of M campus. There was some sort of student night. So Mart, Marina, Reds and I took a cab to Monty's. Then we had our first experience with Canadian ID policy, we needed some official ID like passport or driver's license just to get in the bar. Of course we'd forgotten those and since we had to go back by bus or something, in the end only Mart and I went to the bar and played some pool. So what's new?

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