First impressions of my life in canada, University of Regina
Thursday, September-04-08
I am living in College West, it is not a nice and well-cared residence, but at least I can use it to sleep. Sometimes I am cold in the night or in the very morning. Now I am wearing three T-shirts in order to prevent a cold night.
I am living with four guys from China: John the oldest from all, Cheng, Fang and i forgot the name of the other guy, also i am living with Daniel a guy from Brazil, so in my apartment we are living 6 people in total.
Today I am not feeling really good because I realized that this is not going to be as easiest as i thought, it is getting difficult, my dad got angry maybe because he thinks that I didn’t do what I was supposed to do. He thinks that I could prevent all the expenses that we are having right now such as the books or the financial calculator that I need to buy. I am under a lot of pressure now, I need to think in my family because they’re making a great effort in sending me here, but I am quite sure that I won’t let them down.
I also feel so stupid!!! I did a payment with my dad’s credit card I thought that I could get all the book for 17 dls and just look at it via online but guess what?? I am nuts I didn´t read everything and the money that I paid was for an online evaluative version of the book, haha now I will have the chance to be more prepared for the tests I guess. On the other hand, I miss my girlfriend, yeap I am sure that there are a lot of hot canadian girls but they seem so old, they seem to have like almost 27-28 years. I don’t like that kind of girls. I miss landy, my mexican girlfriend.
I guess that tomorrow I have to do everything that I need to do, I need to go to the library and look for the books that I need, I also need to go to the bookstore and look for graph paper!!! You know some times there are a lot of things that you never thought you will use when you are a foreign student.
It is really challenging to be a student in a country where they don’t speak the same language as you do, and because of that I have to think, write and “eat” in english that was also one of my goals but again I never thought that it was going to become this complex.
I am afraid of talking in front of the group, I feel very nervous I just don´t want to participate. This is like a big and difficult journey.
Fang and Daniel are now my best friends, I hope that by the end of the semester we continue to be the same kind of friends, by the way daniel is a very good english speaker, and fang haha well he is funny, he is also very intelligent and he is trying to give 110% of himself, I am impressed.
I am sleepy now.
