No Snow??

I always pray for snowing when November finally turns to December because I hope there is snowing on my birthday, Dec 5. However, today, the weather doesn't seem there will be snowing tomorrow.It is pretty sad because I don't remember any of my birthdays with snowing.  If there is no snowing outside tomorrow, I will just go outside, walk around Coquitlam Centre or Metrotown, go to Starbucks Coffee and get one of holiday specials.

Unfortunately, even if there is no snowing tomorrow, I still have to finish my research paper. However, it is okay because I will control my day-schedule effectively for tomorrow^^

Plans for Christmas Vacation and the New Year.

After my final-exam schedule is over, I have approximately 3 weeks of free time. During this period, I have three things to do. First, I will concentrate studying on TOEFL. The reason why I have to take this test is to go on to 1st year English courses. Although I can take EASL 0460 next semester in order to enroll in any 1st year English courses, I don't want to take any further EASL courses because they cost lots of money and I cannot take other academic courses that I will be majoring in. Because of this reason, I want to study hard for TOEFL during the Christmas vacation. Second, I will pre-read textbooks that are required for the next semester. On winter semester, I have 16-credit course load (Biology, Chemistry, Math, Chinese); and also, I need to get higher grades on the two science subjects next semester.  I expect that there will not be enough time to preview next semester's courses thoroughly, my goal is to get a basic idea so that I will not confuse in Week 1 of the winter semester. Last, I will go shopping on Dec. 26, Boxing Day. I always go shopping on every Boxing Day because I get enough money from my parents to go shop on every December (They send me enough money to buy birthday gifts myself^). On this day, I will spend my money mostly on clothings or other things that I urgently need.

For the new year, I will call to all of my family members who will wait my call in Korea. Then, I will start creating my plan for the next few months. Finally, I will think about what kind of person I was in 2010 and how I can improve my weaknesses that I had in 2010.

PUK Blocked???

While I was playing with my cell phone after a boring TOEFL reading practice, I got a scene that made me press PUK code.

Because I didn't know anything about PUK, I just pressed any number for more than 10 times.

After that, my cell-phone says "PUK Blocked" on the screen, and of course, I couldn't receive or make any calls and text messages.

When I got home, I searched about it on Google and people said that I have to get a new sim card;;

Until now, I can't communicate with anyone with my cell-phone.

If someone made a call or sent me any text messages, sorry for not receiving^^.

I just got mad at that I have to buy a new sim card; I hope I don't need to buy a new one because it costs $10 (it is pretty high amount of money for me..).

Vancouver Island

Two years ago during the summer, I travelled to Vancouver island with my family who came to see me from Korea. It was two-day trip and during this period, I travelled around Victoria (Butchard Garden, Wax Museum, Victoria downtown) and Chemainus.

I loved Vancouver Island because I could travel with my family, and the views I'd seen was so beautiful that I could never forget.

At that time, my family wanted to go to Rocky Mountain, especially my brother. However, any tourism comapnies' Rocky Mountain schedule didn't fit into my family's schedule in Canada; that's why I and my family decided to go to Vancouver Island for just two days.

If I have a chance to go to Vancouver Island again, I will definitely go there again because I still remember the memories I had with my family there.

These are the pictures that I took during the two-day trip.

The view on ferry

                                              Chemainus (I forgot the big sculpture's name..)

Drawing on the wall (Chemainus)

(On the ferry with my brother)

At Butchard Garden (I love the background^, and I don't like my face in this pic;;)

Only 10 Days Left!!!!

"10 days left" means that my birthday is coming in 10 days from now (Dec 5)

The reason why I'm so excited about my birthday is that I'm turing to 18 in this year!!

Although today is not my birthday yet, I have many thoughts in my head - what I have to do at age of 18 and which things I have to repair myself as becoming an adult...

The other reason why I feel exciting is that I didn't care about my birthday last year ( I even didn't tell to anyone about my birthday because I was afraid of failing English at secondary school)

Anyway, I hope to spend my birthday meaningfully this year~~!

Cultural Mysteries in Canada

Now, I have been in Canada for over two and a half years. As I spent two and a half years of my life in Canada, I found some interesting cultural mysteries that I did not have in Korea.

First, when I went shopping first time in Canada, I was so suprised about a variety of clothing sizes. Before I came to Canada, it was really hard to find right clothings for me because most clothings were smaller than what I usually wore. As a result, I had to spend my precious money on clothings that I did not like that much! This was why I impressed that I could buy clothings that I really wanted to purchase.

Second, I noticed in Canada that almost all Canadians say "excuse me" or "sorry" whenever they could collide against other people while walking. In Korea, no one really cared about crashing into someone else, so I thought that this would be similar in Canada. Although I needed some times to be familiar with Canadians' "excuse me" and "sorry" phrases, I would like to use these phrases in Korea some time^.

These cultural mysteries are the major ones that I experienced in Canada. There will be lots of other kinds of cultural mysteries that I cannot realize until now. I hope to know other cultural mysteries that people coming from foreign countries may have.

Hyde Creek Salmon Festival

On this Sunday, Nov. 14, I went to Hyde Creek Salmon Festivalwith my homestay family.

I've taken some pictures of salmon swimming to where they were born.

This stream is the way salmons keep swimming forwardly