My new castle :)

Today I left my welcome family to join my permanent residence. It’s a nice house which was built in 1996. It is fairly modern and well equipped, I’m really happy to find this place. My fellow occupants (=Mitbewohner) seem to be nice (1 woman and 2 men). So tonight we were doing some shopping – for my first time I was at a shopping mall and at a grocery store in Canada.

It was really helpful, that I became a ride to put my stuff to the new accomodation and to do some shopping. Food is really different from home, so it’s not so easy to make the right choice. Fruits look shining (=glänzend), it was explained to me that the producer put something like wax on the fruits (sounds really strange). Milk is usually fatfree – but I found some with 3.5% fat – my fellow occupants looked strange that I like that. The same for yoghurt. There is only a small selection of cheese, but I found some german swiss cheese which is produced in Germany (Why swiss? Perhaps because it looks like Emmentaler J ). Meet is really cheap here, I think it’s about a third of our prices in Switzerland. The same for Coke, a 2 litre bottle costs only 99 cents (~ 1 CHF) … so just have a Coke.

I even bought a small mp3 player (256 MB), it would be usefull for my walk to university (~ 5 km from where I’m staying) or for longer bus rides downtown (I wasn’t there by bus, but I think it will take me about 40 minutes).

This morning I visited the University of Manitoba (that’s were I will study). The area of the university is gigantic, there are about 60 buildings belonging to the university. At university centre (main building) you could find a lot of stores: bookstore, pharmacy, restaurants, a small grocery store, hairdresser, dentist and lots more … the employees of the international student office and the student coordinator are really friendly and very helpful. So I became my timetable today, I have only school on Tuesday and Thursday – but this two days are very charged (even I’m sure I will like it).

At this moment a pussy is looking me lovely … no no it is not what you’re thinking about … there is little cat on the table and is watching me writing this lines …