Oktoberfest, Private Campus Party & much more
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At Thursday I went to the Winnipeg Oktoberfest - I was curious to see an Oktoberfest in Canada. But to enter the Oktoberfest was still a problem: I left my passport home and the entrance control didn't accept my Swiss Identity Card (age verfication) - it was really stupid - we had to turn back home to take my passport.
The Oktoberfest was in a big hall downtown, there were different booth ("Feststände") where you could get some food or buy beer. The beer wasn't german, the Bratwurst was just a Hotdog and I missed the "Festbänke" (no translation for that in Leo). Nevertheless it was amusing and we had another good night in Winnipeg.
On Friday we had BBQ at university, I met again my welcome family. Afterwards we went to campus residence and we met anew the canadian guy, who served us whiskey coke 2 weeks ago! He is so a funny guy - we always have lots of fun. Later we went to another friends residence room and had some taiwanese, chinese and japanese noodles. It was an occasion to learn eating with chopsticks, of course we tried to slurpe ("schlürfen") as loud as possible ... *smile* Because I get lost with my bus schedule (there was no bus at one clock even if I was conviced about that) I had to take a taxi again (fortunately it's not so expensive) ...
Yesterday I should do some homework, but I did everything else. I was looking for a bowling center and that was really hard - so hard that we finally played billiard. It looks like that Bowling is less famous here than in Switzerland, I did 6 phone calls and there was no opportunity to play bowling (unbelievable!). One phone call was especially amusing: I was looking on Google Map for Bowling Lanes and one entry was entitled Asian Bowl - I called them to ask for a free lane but unfortunately it was an Asian restaurant (I took a while to understand it - there is a second meaning of "bowl"). To conclude: Do not always trust GOOGLE!
Later I had my first Mc Donalds burger, it was not really great (the same as in Switzerland) and it's easy to understand why people prefer other burger restaurants. A big difference are the prices, a menu costs you something over 5 bucks (~5 CHF).
Today I walked to university (no buses on sunday morning - sorry, I'm always complaining about public transportation) to do some sport. We played badminton and met some new people. One asian guy was very impressive, his smashs are so fast that you couldn't see the shuttle. Later on I had to do homework - accounting is still repetitive, but there is so much stuff to read (over 100 pages in 2 weeks!). Yeah and now it should be time to go to bed (01:31) and for you it's time to get off, isn't it? However, good night!
At Thursday I went to the Winnipeg Oktoberfest - I was curious to see an Oktoberfest in Canada. But to enter the Oktoberfest was still a problem: I left my passport home and the entrance control didn't accept my Swiss Identity Card (age verfication) - it was really stupid - we had to turn back home to take my passport.
The Oktoberfest was in a big hall downtown, there were different booth ("Feststände") where you could get some food or buy beer. The beer wasn't german, the Bratwurst was just a Hotdog and I missed the "Festbänke" (no translation for that in Leo). Nevertheless it was amusing and we had another good night in Winnipeg.
On Friday we had BBQ at university, I met again my welcome family. Afterwards we went to campus residence and we met anew the canadian guy, who served us whiskey coke 2 weeks ago! He is so a funny guy - we always have lots of fun. Later we went to another friends residence room and had some taiwanese, chinese and japanese noodles. It was an occasion to learn eating with chopsticks, of course we tried to slurpe ("schlürfen") as loud as possible ... *smile* Because I get lost with my bus schedule (there was no bus at one clock even if I was conviced about that) I had to take a taxi again (fortunately it's not so expensive) ...
Yesterday I should do some homework, but I did everything else. I was looking for a bowling center and that was really hard - so hard that we finally played billiard. It looks like that Bowling is less famous here than in Switzerland, I did 6 phone calls and there was no opportunity to play bowling (unbelievable!). One phone call was especially amusing: I was looking on Google Map for Bowling Lanes and one entry was entitled Asian Bowl - I called them to ask for a free lane but unfortunately it was an Asian restaurant (I took a while to understand it - there is a second meaning of "bowl"). To conclude: Do not always trust GOOGLE!
Later I had my first Mc Donalds burger, it was not really great (the same as in Switzerland) and it's easy to understand why people prefer other burger restaurants. A big difference are the prices, a menu costs you something over 5 bucks (~5 CHF).
Today I walked to university (no buses on sunday morning - sorry, I'm always complaining about public transportation) to do some sport. We played badminton and met some new people. One asian guy was very impressive, his smashs are so fast that you couldn't see the shuttle. Later on I had to do homework - accounting is still repetitive, but there is so much stuff to read (over 100 pages in 2 weeks!). Yeah and now it should be time to go to bed (01:31) and for you it's time to get off, isn't it? However, good night!
posted by Alain at 00:44
1 Comments:
We went bowling in St. Boniface (french area), at Boul Provencher (over the bridge, if you come from donwntown), make a right hand turn; rue langevin or rue St.Jean Baptiste. I don't remember the name of the centre.
Two other Centres are here:
http://www.mfpbf.org/bowling_lanes.htm
Don't start with five pin, it's boring...
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