Exchange Diary (CityU Students)

Monday, 20 October 2008

Today, I skipped the morning class for finalizing the group report due at midday. “Luckily”, we eventually submitted it on time :)

After submission, I had lunch with my international friends in the sole pub which locates on campus. PUB? Are you serious? This is my first response when I was noticed there is a pub on campus. It actually runs like a restaurant in the afternoons and then turns to pub in the evenings, serving alcohols and having some performances someday. This explains how the people in Halifax fancy to the alcohols are.

After finishing the lunch with my lovely friends, I had a macroeconomics’ mid-term test. It was not that hard; the questions covered were almost the same as the practice questions. So everyone just took only half of the time to finish it.

In the evening, I joined the Mini International Night. Throughout the party, we had a chance to enjoy the Flamingo performance, Japanese folk songs and Indian dance... of course, we had drinks as well. It is the main reason for each gathering and meeting at here~


Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Every Tuesday and Thursday, I ended my classes by 11:15am , so I would have a free afternoon. Today, I decided to show the “traditional food” to my flat mate, a Canadian woman. Can you guess which kinds of food I wanna show her? Yup, it is “barbecue pork”. You may wonder where I find the BBQ pork. Yes. I baked it. From flavor to cook, all done by myself. Following the guidelines of the recipe searched on the Internet, I found it is not as hard as we imagine. You can make one to your foreign friend if you interested in. I think they must love it as well!



Wednesday, 22 October 2008

To celebrate the birthday of my international friend, we went to “Father’s mustache” tonight. This is a restaurant famous for chicken wings and beer. Even though we were there very early (around 5:00p.m., far before the peak hour), we still need to wait for a couple of minutes as the chicken wings would be served as 50% off on Wednesdays; everyone would like to go especially.

When we had a seat, we can’t wait to order beers and two 50 chicken wings with “suicide”, “honey garlic” and “barbecue” sauces. As their names, suicide sauce is super super super spicy, but we love it very much!

Right after the meal, we went to the closest hill to observe the star. Because the clear sky and none of the high buildings, the view was awesome…a lot of stars twinkle in the sky…really wanna sing “Twinkle, twinkle little stars, how I wonder what you are..” Crazy…I think I was drunk~


Thursday, 23 October 2008

Study Day –I am preparing for the mid-term holds tomorrow. In the evening, my flat mate made a traditional Japanese food –“Okonomiyaki” for me. Although she is Canadian, but not Japanese, she learnt it from her ex-roommate. The most important point is it tastes really good, like the one we have outside! She also goods at homemaking various kinds of dips, so I picked up a nickname for her, “Queen of Dips”. And we are kidding I would find her on the newspaper under a topic with regard to A Canadian Woman Develops a Global Market for Homemaking Dip” one day. If it happens, it should be really funny!


Friday, 24 October 2008

Having my major course’s mid-term in the afternoon, so I keep studying hard on it until the time to go to school. Gosh… out of the two short questions, I can’t even find one part that I exactly know the answer with. :(

To get rid of the “painful experience” of mid-term, my friend invited me to enjoy the football game (Attack Rugby) with her. In fact, it is my second time to go. Maybe I am not familiar in the rules and I’m still worry about my test, I can’t enjoy the game so much. But it was a funny sport definitely!*I think I properly need to rearrange my time for fun and study, try to get a balance between them, so I can enjoy life and also gain a high marks in the academic aspects.

Labels: 2008/2009 Semester A