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My 6th month in Calgary
March 16, 2007
My 6th month in Calgary
My 6th month in Calgary
This is my sixth month in Calgary. I am still doing good and very enjoy winter and snow here. I love snow :) It allows me to do a lot of fun winter activities. I go hiking and skiing in the mounntains which is so lovely. Unfortunately, Spring is coming (many people are happy but I'm bit sad :( ). Winter is going. The weather is nicer and warmer. Though, I will miss skiing so bad.
Talking about work makes me feel excited. I like what I am doing because I get to do so many things here. I think my multi-tasks skill has improved...hahaha... This year, still, Filipino is the biggest number of immigrants, followed by Indian and CHinese. We just celebrated our success for the last fiscal year. We reached our clients target. I am in Community Development department and under volunteer program. Everyday we have new volunteers from immigrant and Canadian families. I really like it here because people really have sense of volunteering themselves to community. Now we are planning our volunteer appreciation day in April. This year we plan to have people wearing traditional costumes. That will be marvellous. About my teaching, It's going so well. My students love me so much. Most of them can be my parents or grandparents. I really enjoy doing this but sometimes it's boring. hahaha... I am teaching on one day a week now cus I got more volunteers to help cover classes on Monday and Tuesday. Other days, I have to do support work to other programs. I enter data of volunteers to our agency's database. SOmetimes I am asked to help at the reception which I really enjoy because I meet a lot of people. I listen to and help clients. SOmetimes I even have to encourage ( I feel like I am a counselor :p ) them to fight and live the life here in Canada :p And other days, I do support work for ISP (Immigrant and Settlement program). I help them enter data of clients to our agency's database and Canadian government data base. I've learned lil bit about immigration types and stuff. There were couple of times that we had Thai clients and I helped the counsellor as an interpretation which was fun.
Canada is such a lovely place but so different from the US. People are more friendly (from the heart) than people in the US and they care and want to learn about another cultures. I think it is also because of our mixture of population and new immigrants. I like the quality of life here. There is one of many things that I really like it here is public library. You pay 12 dollars for one year membership and you can borrow a lot of materials up to 99 items in a time. I am a heavy user, though. They got a lot of good books, movies and CDs. You can borrow and return at any branch. I can see that parents here always take children to the library. and the library has good friendly staff and professional service. They have ready-to-pick-up bags for parents who got young children which the bags contains good matterials for children in certain age. That is such a good idea because even the parents are busy to spend time in library but the children can still got good books to read. I just wish that Thailand could do something like this. So Thai kids will be aware of the importance of reading.
Canada is such a lovely place but so different from the US. People are more friendly (from the heart) than people in the US and they care and want to learn about another cultures. I think it is also because of our mixture of population and new immigrants. I like the quality of life here. There is one of many things that I really like it here is public library. You pay 12 dollars for one year membership and you can borrow a lot of materials up to 99 items in a time. I am a heavy user, though. They got a lot of good books, movies and CDs. You can borrow and return at any branch. I can see that parents here always take children to the library. and the library has good friendly staff and professional service. They have ready-to-pick-up bags for parents who got young children which the bags contains good matterials for children in certain age. That is such a good idea because even the parents are busy to spend time in library but the children can still got good books to read. I just wish that Thailand could do something like this. So Thai kids will be aware of the importance of reading.
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