Hello
Friends and strangers who want to come to Vancouver to study English
or already arrived here or.....whoever you are,
Thank you for reading this and being interested in my experiences in Vancouver
I hope I'm not wasting your time and I hope this can give you some information
I've been in Vancouver more than 5 months
I arrived here in the middle of January this year
Actually I can't believe this...I feel like I just arrived ! No,no I'm kidding
Honestly I feel like I've lived over 1 year almost like a resident
I guess It's because Vancouver's downtown(I'm living in downtown) is really small
and it's surrounded with nature like ocean and mountains all around of this city
Yeah definitely, it is one of greatest things of Vancouver ;)
Everything is pretty simple like living and finding ways and public transports (If you live in downtown,you are not gonna use them very often and you can go on foots anywhere in downtown)
Except paying bills whether taxes are included or not
Have to pay taxes and tips... This is really annoying sometimes
I would never get used to this !
Oh,someone is very distracted here
Please, forgive me, I have ADD so....
Anyway,Time fries ! XD :(
Well I've studied at GV(Global Village which is one of the biggest schools in Vancouver)
And I took a General English Course
Before starting the course, there were some tests(speaking,writing)
to assign students to their appropriate class at Orientation day
I got level 6 I was very surprised.....Cus it was higher than I expected
Maybe It was totally not wasting time spent watching a lot of american dramas and movies before I come here
My parents were always worried and wondered whenever I was stuck in my room to watch them and studying English
The class was a lot of fun and very helpful anyway
Some teachers are really great, Facilities are pretty good and clean
And as my wish, I could make many European friends at GV
Specially swiss friends :D
Once I changed my course to IELTS though...
(Because I though i need the score to get in to the graduate school in Canada or U.S. or to immigrant to Canada...
I haven't decided to go to the graduate school here or immigrant here yet,BUT who knows what's gonna happen in the future.
And who knows if it's gonna be changed again what I want to be,what I want to do for my career...you know)
But I changed the course back cus IELTS class was tooooo boring and stiff.....I coudn't stand it..
And most classmates were from Saudi Arabia....
Cus they need this score to get in the University in Canada desperately.....
12 Saudi Arabians and 2 Koreans....Can you imagine that ? :(
(Please don't get me wrong.I don't hate them.
My one of favorite formal classmates,Ahmad is from Saudi Arabia)
It was really not funny.......and not helpful to improve my English at all
I have one month left at GV and I'm gonna take TOEFL course in Toronto or Hawaii GV ! YAY :D
Yes ! One of good things of GV is that you can transfer to other city like Victoria,Toronto,Calgary in Canada
and Hawaii in U.S !
Even though you already paid all of your tuition fee !
Now I guess it's time to introduce my former classmates to you
They are from all over the world ;)
Blonde swiss girl,Reggie is my best friend in Vancouver
Even though she is 3 years younger than me,
She is very wise and psychologically mature and nice and
obviously lovely
Maik is from Liechtenstein which is a very small rich country located on between Switzerland and Austria
They speaks german and population is only 34,500
He is surprisingly huge and kind and he has sens of humor
Reggie said people who are living in other countries of Europe
usually make a joke with his country
and she also makes a joke about his country and they tease each other vert often
It's kind of a joy watching their arguements about something of their own country hahaha
Jair is a Brazilian guy
But when I first saw him, I thought he was Saudi Arabian
He has a nice voice and an adorable face like a Brazilian baby
Ahmad is from Saudi Arabia
We were in the same class for two months with Reggie
I like him very much
He is really cute and very nice and friendly
He is very good at playing table tennis
He was a winner of the school table tennis competition
And he can be a great actor ! amazingly talented person
Roger is from Switzerland
He is very young and seems smart and kind
He is against smokers
What a great guy !
Winie is from Taiwan
She is a shy girl
The other day, I wanted to throw our classmates's B-day party during the class cus there were many B-day girls
but she said she doesn't want to get any attention from people...:(
I think she is pretty but she acts like a tomboy a little bit haha
Till is from Switzerland
He seems have hangover always
I heard that He drinks beer everyday after school hahaha
He is handsome I think he's quite popular from some girls
But he usually acts like a little boy
He likes teasing girls and playing and drinking beer so much
Sometimes during the class he stared at me for a long time
It was really embarrassing me and it was totally unacceptable
Oh boy.....He went back to Switzerland last week
Goodbye Till
And Mr.Walter
Our great great teacher
We could make some movies and played a murder mystery
because of him ! Thank u Mr.walter
It was pretty fun and kind of a great experience
I've met many awsome people and have had amazing experiences in Vancouver so far
I have captured precious moments
And I'm learning a lot everyday many many various things
I feel like people are just having different faces,different languages,different cultures, living in the different places
I think most stereo types about people's cultural behaviors all around the world could be wrong
what people like, the way people think,
What people want,what people prefer,
everything is absolutely similar
just there are only personal preferences
While i've been staying here, I realized many things
I feel that human life is just same
There are just kind of some results of education and society ideals
Everything is very motivative to me
They are very helpful for figuring myself out
I still have no idea Who I am, What I want, What I need,
just all i can do is trying to get to know about myself
I'm taking some time for me
I hope it's not too late and everything's gonna be fine :)
And I also hope you guys are doing very well whatever you do
I hope all of you the best of luck ! Cheers from Vancouver :D
One more thing,I am really really grateful to my agency 어연뽀 specially Tony오빠,실장님
for supporting and helping me always
Thank you so much !!
I will try to write about some tips or advises or information for new students who are coming or getting ready next time ! :)
