The impression of the weather of Calgary

I have been here about 4 months. The weather here gave me the impression is big change. Why I said that. In Calgary, at noon the temperature is 5 degree, but at night it drops down fast to -10 degree. Oh, my god, I can't believe it.

I have encouter the coldest temperature in this winter, it was -48 degree. At that night, I went out to buy something from Safeway, on my way to Safeway, I felt the wind blowing to me like a knife cutting my hands. Painful!! However, few days later, the temperature rose to -15 degree. I think that's because chinook that is the warm air from the Pacific Ocean. Moreover, I remember that when my home-stay father drove me to look around the city, the heils suddenly fell down from the sky. At that time, I was so astonished why the weather suddenly changed.

Now, I am waiting for this summer of Calgary. I don't know what will happen in this summer, but big change is my impression of the weather in Calgary.

Littering will get fined in Calgary

Spring is comming and the snow has completely melt, but the weather of Calgary is still cold. When the snow is melting, I can see something has been hiden in the snow. What is that? That is the garbage which was thrown by someone and have been covered by snow for few weeks. Coinsidently, in this week, I have read the article from Metro that is about trashing garbage will get fined. In this article, I got to know, if someone throws garbige in the public, he/she will get fined about a hundred dollars. Why did the local government make this rule? It's because the local governemt suppose to make calgary to be the cleanest city in North America, So if someone goes on my blog and read this, please pay attention your behavior to prevent getting fined.

I was shocked by bus driver!!!

Tonight I was shocked by the driver of 73 route bus because he stopped the bus to ask two guys get off the bus.

Tonight, I finished my worked at 10:30pm, when I reached bus stop, I saw a man sleeping on the bench of the bus stop. I think he was drunk because tonight the alcohol of Den had discount. Few munites later, another man walked in the bus stop and woke the sleeping man up. The sleeping man woke up and started to talk with another man. From their conversation, the frequent word they used is "fuck". Later, bus came, I got on the bus and those tow guys got on too. They sat on the back of the bus and started their "fuck" conversation that made a girl who was sitting across those two men to change her seat in order to prevent hearing the coarse languages.

The bus stopped at the bus stop, and the driver asked those two men to leave. When I heard the driver's word and saw this scene, I was shocked because in my home city, bus driver absolutely would not do this kind of thing. However, in Calgary, coarse language speaker would be asked to leave.

From this case, I felt that some Calgarian are justise and polite!! I like this social atmosphere!!

In University of Calgary,Child soldier spoke his former life to give us awareness!!

Yesterday, it was Sunday, March 16 2008. A 27-year-old ex-Serria Leone soldier spoke at University of calgary about his former life, whose name is Ishmael Beah. In his speech, he told others about his experience of being a child soldier that have been writen in a book by himself. In his book, Ishmael Beah outlines his younger years of war and conflict.

When Ishmael Beah was 12 years old, he had been a soldier and had started to learned how to use real gun to kill the others, and he adicted to drug. In fact, at the begining, he recognized that what he did was wrong, but after weeks or months later, his mind was changed by the environment around him. And then, he believed violence and drug are the only way for his life. I think it is the most one of terrible things in the world, isn't it? It is like a man fell into swamp who is sinking and cannot safe by himself even has been aware of the wrong. In his speech, he not only told us his experience, but also told us the fact of the war-ravaged nations. I think in next post I will tell you the fact of war-ravaged nations.

Teenager need the internet less than adult, insteresting!!

Few days ago, I read an article about the statistic of the internet users. According to the article, it showed that recently adults' needs of the internet are more than teenagers' whose ages are between 14 and 17 because teenagers are focus on the other ways of communication instead the internet. In other words, the internet has been ignored by new generation. When I read this article, I felt very interesting because the internet is an innovation and a revolution of the way to conveying information, also, in the past ten years, the application of the internet have been booming and have been widely applied in each country of the world. However, why is it ignored by the new generation?

My first impression of Calgary

Calgary, which is the forth city I have been to, is a big and busy city in Canada. Unlike Vancouver, Calgary has less high building in downtown, but the building of Calgary are modern building, and its downtown also is smaller. I think the highest building in Calgary is Calgary Tower which looks like a symbol of Calgary. On september 5, 2007, my home-stay mother drove me to look around the whole city when is my second day in Calgary. With her ride, I found some areas have been constructing such as extending the road, constructing the building. The impression of my mind is that Calgary still is a developing city in Canada, although it has more than 1 million. However, Calgary has convenient transportation system such as CTrain that is like skytrain of Vancouver, but the speed of CTrain is lower than the skytrain's; also, there are many modern shopping mall in Calgary such as Market Mall, Chinook Mall, etc. With the modern building, mall, transportation syste, I think Calgary is a morden city, but in fact it also is developing.

As a result, Calgary give me the first impression is a modern developing city in Canada.

The first time, I saw snow in my life

This winter is my first winter in Canada; also in the winter, I have seen snow for many time, but when I saw it, I still felt exciting. Till now, I still clearly remembered how exciting when I saw the first snow in my life. I think you are curious why I was so exciting at that time. That is because I never saw snowing before when I lived in my home city which is a tropicle city of china.

I remembered I was surfing on the internet at that night, suddenly, my friend, whose home city is same as mine, send me message that it was snowing outside. I doubted for her messages and went to check through the window of my room, but unfortantely, I did not see anything because outside is dark and my room is light. I had to went out to see whether it was true or not.

When I opened the door, I was shocked. The roof of my next door was covered by the white thing which was falling from the sky. It's snow. I went out to the garden of my home in order to feel the snow. I raise my hands to let snow touch my skin. I felt that once snow fell on my hands or on my arms, it melt quickly. I stood outside about 15 minutes and the temperature was -7 degree, but I still felt warm even hot. I think I was so exciting at that time to make my blood run fast.

So exciting, that night is the one of exciting nights in my life!!!

The Lake Superior

The Lake Superior, is a the largest fresh-water lake in the world, where twice ice ages happened. Thousands years ago, explosion of volcano form this lake. When I studied in Sault, one day my instructor drove me to visit the Lake Superior. When I reached there, I cannot believe my first sight because that is not a lake, it like a ocean, it is huge. Around the lake, there are jungles, colourful jungles because of maple trees.

We got off the car and began to hike. We walked in the jungle and stepped on leafs which fell from trees. This is my first time to walk in a jungle, at that time, I worried about we would lose, but few minutes later, I felt relaxed because I found a sign with pointing arrow which was nailed on the tree. With the signs on trees, we reached the shore of Lake Supperior. At that momnet, I was so exciting, I took off my shoes and directly walked into the water. Do you know what was my feeling of feet? Cold, Very very cold!!!!! I just stood there for 30 seconds, I felt my feet frozen. I think this is the result of twice ice ages!!

If you have time, I think you should visit there. That is a natural-gift place!!

The first city of Canada!!

The first city I have been to, which lies on the junction of Lake Superior and Lake Huron in Ontario and lies on the border of Canada and U.S., whose name is Sault Ste Marie. Sault Ste Marie, this name is from French. Sault Ste Marie is a small city and a beautiful city. I think you wonder why Sault Ste Marie is beautiful.

I want to tell you the famour thing in Sault that is its colour. Its colour is from trees, Maple tress. There are a lot of Maple trees there which are different colour, some are red(normal), some are green, some are purple, some are orange, some are light red. When you walk on the road, there are colourful trees around you, How do you feel? I think you will feel amazing for this view. In addition, there are small bushes in Sault. When I was there, sometimes I would go in the bushes. In the bushes, I can see squirrels, chipmucks, spider, geeze; also, I always walked with bird's song. That's so comfortable and relax.

Could you answer my question? Do you know what is the most beautiful season in Sault Ste Marie? Please give me answer in your comment!!

Study in Canada

Hello everyone.

My name is Bill. Are you wondering why I have this name? There are three reasons. The one is that this name is simple and can be easily spell and remember, the other one is that this name is used by some successful people who have achieved in their causes such as Bill.Gates, Bill.Colliton. The last reason is that the cantonese pronouncation of the last word in my chinese name is simular with the pronouncation of "Bill". For these reasons, I have this name. Also, I hope I could learn from them and achieve my cause-Computer.

I like computer technology and programing because I can design what the people need with computer languages. Before I came to Canada, I was a programer. Every day, I would write program to command them how to work and fix some problems of the former programs. I think that is an interesting job, but at last I quit because I need to learn more and improve my skill. Moreover, I need to extend my knowledge to other fields such as business, engineering that will help me to achieve my future.

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Hello, my blog's name is archer's life in Canada. Why I use this name? I think it is because I like to be a archer. archer is a kind of soldier with bow and arrow, when archer is aiming at something, he would concentrate himself on his target. Like me, when I want to do something, I will concentrate myself on what I do.

In this blog, I will show and share what I have experienced in Canada and what I opinions about my what I saw. Maybe some topic is very boring and uninteresting, but I think some topic will attract your sight. please choose the topic you like or feel interesting and give me feekback.

Thank you for your visiting!!!