Meggy 's blog

Prepare For Moving Out Again

2007-07-28T01:57:00.000-07:00

Prepare For Moving Out Again

I will move out from dormitory that I have lived for three months. Adding this time I have moved from one place to another place four times totally since I came in Canada last year, although I did not stay in here one year.

I had some different experiences of moving. The first time I lived with my cousin who have already lived in Calgary four years was studying his major in here. Although the almost reason of I came in Calgary to study was my cousin, I felt unhappy and uncomfortable of living with him after I lived with him several months. Therefore, I had to move out finally.

The second time, I lived with my friend who also was my classmate in a Chinese Canadian family. We were very happy of living together because that family was very kind with us. My roommate and I went to school and went home together every day, even though we went to work together. Now, I feel very unforgettable those days that I lived with her in that Chinese family.

The third time, I lived with another Chinese friend in the dormitory of University whom I made in Calgary. We lived together happily, sometimes we chatted and talked about some interesting things each other .Although we lived in dormitory happily, we will move into an apartment near the university. We both think that we will have better life when we live in the apartment.

Anyway, I am very excite I can move out again with my friends that should be the four time of moving since I came in Calgary.

Contrasting living in a small town and living in a large city

2007-07-28T01:14:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, some people prefer to live in a small town, but others prefer to live in a large city. There are undeniable advantages to live in a small town and in a large city. Whether people would choose to live in a small town, or in a large city, they would have their own different preferences. Therefore, there are many differences between living in a small town and living in a large city from the educational and career opportunities, leisure time, and transportation system.

The first factor is choosing to live in a small town or live in a large city is the educational and career opportunities. The large city often attracts the best teachers, and they have better and standards in their education .Students can enjoy using them in their classes. However, the quality of education in a small town is lower than the large city. More and more children, who live in a small town, want to go to a large city to study in the university because they could learn a higher quality education there. In addition, the large city has a wider choice of jobs, so it is easier to move up the career ladder. In contrast, people who live in a small town do not have many choices of options available.

The second factor is about spending leisure time. In the large city, people can offer much more excitement and stimulation because there are more leisure activities available, such as watching blockbuster movies, going to clubs, and doing indoor rock climbing. On the contrary, people who live in a small town can not enjoy enough activities in their lives. In addition, contributing some stimulation to people is all that is new in a large city, whereas a small town does not have it, for example, new fashion, new trends, new creations in art and design and new restaurants and cuisine. Finally, people who live in a large city can buy all kinds of products from other countries that make people have a wonderful shopping time, but people who live in a small town could not buy some goods that they require, so their leisure time is simple and their choices are limited.

The third factor of living in a large city or living in a small town is the transportation system. In a large city, there is better public transportation so that it is easier to get around in the whole city. They can enjoy the convenience of transportation, such as well -developed bus, train, and airplane system. Nevertheless, people who live in a small town have limited transportations that people will take a long time going outside. The transportation system of a small town, and virtually the way to their town from the airport is by car, which often can take longer than the plane trip from a city.

In conclusion, if people can not decide if they will live in a small town or live in large city, they can look at three factors: the educational and career opportunities, leisure time, and transportation system. However, there is no doubt that whether people choose to live in a small town or in a large city, there are still advantages and disadvantages .If people want to be successful, living in a large city is a good choice, and if people want to have a simple life, living in a small town is better for them.

A Boring Weekend

2007-07-14T17:21:00.000-07:00

A Boring Weekend
Today is a bad day that people always call the bad Friday because today are both Friday and fifth. I stay at my dormitory and nothing I want to do. I do not do my homework and I lay my bed to listen to my favorite music. I feel so hot that I can not fall asleep .Those days; the weather of Calgary is warm and warm. Although there is a little hot, the weather of my hometown Beijing always wet and warm when August comes every year, the weather is so bad that people could feel uncomfortable or be sick. In Beijing, I always stay at home if I will suffer the bad weather because I could enjoy the cold air with using an air conditioner. Now, I miss that life very much because my dormitory does not have the air conditioner even though a small fan. When I will fall asleep , my cell phone suddenly ring I look at my clock , there is no doubt that this call must be from my family because my father and my mother always give me a call at this time every day. I am so excited that I jump from my bed and say hello .Wow, I hear the voice of my father. Because of time difference, my Friday in Calgary is right the Saturday in China. My father and my father talk with me that they just finish their breakfast, we chat some interesting news that happened both in China and in Calgary. All in all, my mood becomes better after my parents talk with me.

Quit My Job

2007-07-06T21:28:00.000-07:00

Quit My Job
I have sent a mail to my boss and told her I wanted to quit my job. That job was my first job in Calgary. I got it after I have arrived in Canada two month. My job usually were food prepare and cashier. However, we changed into another boss who worked with our first boss before six month ago because the first boss had some personal reasons that he had to switch his store to other people, and then our bad day followed it come.

Our second boss changed almost rules that staff did not like her since she became our new leader. She always liked saving everything, if our customers knew that, they could not come to eat our food in the future .Also, she always reminded us doing everything very quickly, you would be suggested if she saw you worked slowly or stopped working .We knew that she had some difficulty in buying that store and she wanted to do everything perfectly, but her rules looked like so acrimony that many worker had quit their jobs.

Now, I really want to quit my job too, and I will tell our boss I hate you and your new rules loudly. As a while, I think our boss need to pay attention to her actions, otherwise she will lose more workers in the future, and maybe one day she will lose everything that could be her whole store.

Helping A Spanish

2007-07-01T19:06:00.000-07:00

Helping A Spanish

Today is the Canada Day, but I have to go to work .

When I went out my dormitory, I met a young man who need to cleck in to dormitory asked me how he could find some people cleck in because the residence office closed.I told him that could go into residence directly to find some people who were in the first floor's office.He had not had the key yet,so I had to go with him to the dormitory building and used my key opened that door.However,there were not have any officers either.I thought that maybe the campus security who usually walked around in the student centre could help him ,and I were going to work in the student centre too..Therefore,I asked him go with me to student centre to find some help.By the way,from some talking I knew that he came from spain and would study in our university .After we arrived in student centre,we did not find any security on the second floor, so I had to run to the place that I worked gave the security a phone cell ,and let that young man wait for me on the second floor because I thought he had many baggages and must be tired.I told the scurity the problem that that man were having and asked for a help.The security said he would wait us on the second floor.Then ,I ran to second floor again to find that young man.Finally,the young man with the security went to a office that could be helpful.The young man thanked me before they left.

Although I would work late today ,I thought a person got a help from me, so I felt very happy.

Go Back China

2007-06-28T10:33:00.000-07:00

Go Back China
I will go back China after finishing my final exams.

I have not seen my family for almost one year, and I have studied several months in Calgar ,Canada. I really want to see my family and my friends in my hometown Beijing , especially I miss my grandfathers , who are my mother 's father and my father 's father, had past away. My grandfather who is my father's father just left us before I went to Canada last year, so I am worried about my grandmother very much because she will be alone by herself in her spare time. As people as known , when an old woman lost her dear husband, that must be sad in her rest of life. My grandfather and my grandmother had a very well relationship, and they got along with each other very well.They always like doing the same thing together and like helping each other. Now I can remember that my grandfather and my grandmother had the scene which is making fun each other was very unforgettable. However, I also would miss my dear partens when I were in my bed to prepare to sleep .Sometimes I may remrember some delicious food that were cooked by my mother made me unforgettable too, and I can remreber that I talked about some interesting things with my father that made us very enjoyable.

In short, I really want that I could go back China right now.

The Hateful Mosquito

2007-06-24T18:27:00.000-07:00

The Hateful Mosquito
This Friday was a bad day because I were bit by a hateful mosquito that was huge. Now my left arm is suffering a pain and swellings. I can not believe that a huge mosquito could have such toxicity that my arm have to suffer the pain.However,I hear from my friends who lived in Calgary longer than me , as thay said the mosquitoes that lived in Canada had the gigntic toxicity , and you will suffer at least two weeks if you are bit a mosquito unluckily.Actually I did not want to believe my friends said that the mosquitoes in Canada had the gigntic toxicity is a fact, but now I have to try to believe it after the same situtation happened at me.

As some people as knowen, the female mosquitoes bite persons in order to feed their infants, but there is no doubt that I had became a victim.I do not want to hate those mosquitoes, athough they brought me some pains and now I felt a great deal of pain.

All in all, I hople my left arm will have a better feeling next week.

Missing My Grandfather

2007-06-23T23:30:00.000-07:00

Missing My Grandfather
I am really missing my grandfather now because I lost my grandfather forever last year.

There was a rainy Friday on June 24th last year, my grandfather had to stop his breath after suffering the lung cancer more than one year.I will never forget that time ( 4:46 am on June 24th , 2006 ) on which my grandfather leave away us forever.I did not believe that my grandfather died by the lung cancer.As many my grandfather 's friends as knowen, my grandfather had such a strong body that they thought my grandfather wound have a long life.Although my grandfdfather suffered the lung cancer, he always liked doing some exercises at the park in the morning and going to dance in a party in the evening to keep his health .In his spare time ,he usually like watching the programs of boxing and drawing pictures .As an excellent soldier, my grandfather who was a admiral helped

some people solved some problems and did not retire before he left us . I have put my grandfather 's picture in my cell phone as my background for one year in order to commemorate him.While missing my grandfather ,I sometime would have a looke at my grandfather 's picture in my cell phone. I always thought my grandfather close me although he had left me was the truth.

Nowadays I can remember that some interesting things happened between my grandfather and me, and my grandfather also gave me many good examples that will affect me in my whole life.I lived with my grandfather in a long time and we produced a very deep love each other.Today I write this blog to commemorate my dear grandfather left us one whole year.Although I am in Calgary , Canada that I can not to see him with my family , I really hope he will live in another world happily.

Finding a apartment

2007-06-03T20:09:00.000-07:00

Finding a apartment
Still this Finday the resident office told me I must pay a deposit of one thousand dollars if I want to make sure living in dormitory in university, becasuse I applied that in Janary this year with paying application fee.However, I want to live in a apartment with my friend who is a first year student is taking courses in our university ,and my friend will be not a fresh student next year, so she have to find anthor apartment to move out dormitory because the dormitory is only for the first year students.Although I could live the dormitory next term, we still finding a three bedrooms apartment in the internet these few days. This Finday we fond a three bedrooms appartment at Thirty-Seven Street , we make a apointment to veiw that apartment ,and that address is so difficult to find that we asked five people to find it finally .After viewing , we though that the transportation was not convenient although that apartment is near by our university.Now, we are looking for another apartment that we like and is convenient to take bus or C-train near our university.

A Buffet

2007-05-27T21:46:00.000-07:00

A Buffet
This Sunday my boss whom I am working for treated us to eat a buffet in a Chinese restaurant. There were both all kinds of Chinese food and several western-style foods in that restaurant. I really enjoyed them that made me remember the savor of some Chinese food in my country, I suddenly cherished memory of some delicious food that are cooking by my mother, also, I yearned my family so much. However, we chatted and talked about some interesting topics when we had nice meals together, and I knew the family of our boss that had four daughters and a couple deeply after we talked each other .In this buffet I were interested in the steak that is a kind of roasted beef in this restaurant, and that steaks were so popular that some customers had to stand in a long line to take them. I ordered a piece of medium steak and put some BBQ sauce on the surface of meat, which was dainty. After we finished our dinner, we saw a semicircular rainbow in the sky, which is so beautiful that I put my cell phone right now quickly to photograph those nice views, and I was very excited with seeing that because I did not have more chance to see a rainbow in my country. In all, I had a good time in this weekend.

2007-05-26T00:18:00.000-07:00

A Terrible Holiday

Although I had a long weekend, I had to finish my homework and to work hand my part time job. Unluckily, my computer was right to have a trouble that is I can not run my computer at all, and I was worried that because I had lots of homework need to type. Then, I asked my friend to help me repair my computer quickly, and he is an expert in computer and is studying the computer engineering in our university. After he checked the problem of my computer firstly, he said I need to wait at least three days, so I had to go to the library to type my homework in my long weekend. However, I had another reason to explain that I had a terrible holiday. I continue working my part time job about eight hours because there was a volleyball game in our university on this holiday, so a great deal of audiences and team members went to our store to order our meals. I did not have a chance to have a break although we can break after we worked in a long time. All in all, I had a tired holiday that I can not forget. However, everything has gone, and everything will be better now. Also, my computer can run regularity, I am very thankful to my friend for helping me.

Intrroduction

2007-05-12T19:46:00.000-07:00

Hello, world!

I am a Chinese girl who comes from Beijing, and I am studying English program in University of Calgary after I finished my high school in China। I have already been here for eight months to study English. I fond my first job in student center of our university when I studied English in Calgary three months. That job is an interesting job in a fast food store, and many works I need to do, such as taking an order, preparing all kinds of food, making all kinds of breads, and taking a cashier. I were afraid that I could not become a competent worker in that store at the beginning of working in there, but I gradually found that job was not difficult with me after I worked one week and grasped some skills. However, I heard some international students who went to study while having a part time job before I arrived in Canada. Nowadays, as they I enjoy my busy lives that are studying and working a part time job happened at the same time. Without doubt I go to Canada in order to study English and take courses in university. Therefore, I focus my attention only on English studies, and also I studied some knowledge which I did not study in my English class from my part time job.