Min's Life in Canada (1st): 2006-05-21

It was at noon when I got up. There would be Chiho's birthday at school at about 1:00 pm. I hurried to go to school. I phoned Tomo and Eriko but no answer. When I got to school, there were some friends in Riddell Centre. With Tomo, I went to Golden Mile to buy a cake for Chiho. The party started at almost 3 o'clock. There were many kinds of food on the table. I was happy. I got full easily.
In the evening, I went to Rie's home because I was invited for supper. Church people would come there and would have supper together. I think luck seemed to keep on me. Again, I was full. It was so delicious. It is true that food makes me happy. ^^;;

Chiho's Birthday

Chelsea, Tomo, and Shun

Shun and Hiroki

Eriko and Makiko

Yukari and Chiho

Rie

Yuri

Little Kids

Little kids

with church people

Rie, Yuri and ...

I didn't understand about this...

heavy Brady

with Brady

There was a Mosaic at school in the afternoon. (But, I still don't know what does the word "Mosaic" mean exactly.) That was prepared by a ESL class. Students from each country prepared about each own culture that was set up each room in LI (Language Institute) and showed them other students from different country - Korea, Colombia, Mexico, Japan, Germany, China, Thailand etc. It was very interesting. Luckily, I was able to eat "Bulgogi" with rice and "Kimchi" at the room of Korea and it became supper.

After that, I went to Seoul Mart near downtown on my way home. I bought some Korean food and was able to talk to the owner of the shop in Korean. They were nice people and gave me some information about a church where they are always going to Sundays. I was interested in, so I said I wanted go. I will probably go to the church in the afternoon this coming sunday. If so, I would have gone to the church 3 times this coming Sunday - first with Rie's homestay, second for Korean and third with my homestay. That will be interesting.
As soon as I got home in the evening, my homestay took me some place to dance. By chance, I met the Chinese guy again who I first met at the bus stop a few days ago because his homestay knows my homestay and we were going there together. It was a small world. During dancing time there, I did never dance. I was so sorry that they were always asking me to dance together but I didn't feel like dancing. But, All people seemed good dancers. I will never go there even though the music was nice and satisfied me.

Korea

All Korean had a Bugogi Party!!!

A Korean traditional bow

Germany

Mexico

Thailand

Colombia

Japanese toy. very difficult.

After shool, I went to Holy Rosary Park near downtown for Cathedral Arts Festival with my friends. It was good. I listened to a storytelling from a storyteller. I stayed there for only 1 hour and went back home early because I was tired.

I am done my presentation. It was not good as expected. Now I am in library and so tired.
I told Tomo in the morning that I wanted to the Cathedral Arts festival until 7 pm, but I am not sure whether or not I can go there. What I need now is to take a nap.

The result of yesterday affected me as it was because I was able to go to bed by 3:30 in the morning. It was so terrible. Until then, I was thinking of the topic again and again but I had no clue. It was the most tough, difficult topic I had ever had before. I was running out of energy. Nonetheless, I should get it finished somehow (or other) and I did it although it didn't satisfy me. I thought it was making a fool of me at that time.

Today was really hot. I did put on a thin shirt in the morning. When I got to the bus stop by 7:20, there was Rie and a Chinese guy. He seemed to going to school but he had no change to take a bus, so I gave him a bus ticket. I didn't understand about that situation a little bit.
I am going to have a speaking presentation in two days. But, I didn't anyting. There was no plan, even no idea. As a result, I spent on lunch time 3 hours doing nothing. Also, today was the day I went home early. Yet I was too tired to stay longer. Sure enough, I fell asleep at 8 pm. After that, big trouble was waiting for me.
I heard Rie say about the day of brady's birthday on the bus in the morning. What am I going to prepare for his birthday? I want to give him something so I need to think about it.

I kept lying down on the bed up to 10 am. We checked out at noon and began to look for some restaurant. We came in a Thai restaurant, but the food we ordered was not fit us but Shun's. My food had a lot of ginger so that made it hot and spicy. Tomo and Yuki ordered the Shun's food again and shared.

We went to Tunnels of Moose Jaw that was very interesting and amazing. Although I was unable to figure out what the guides said, only seeing and feeling the history of underground made me excited.
It was 2:30 pm. There was nothing to do afterward so we went to Crescent Park again to do homework. I was so tired that I closed my eyes lying down on the lawn a little. Other friends sat on the bench around the table in the park doing homework until 6:00.
We all got to Regina and went to a Japanese dining room. I ate a hot udon. Today was a big holiday so there was no bus. We called cabs. As soon as I got home, my homestay family got home from Saskatoon.

Terrible food - ginger!?

In Tunnels of Moose Jaw.
We were going to buy tickets.

Doing homework at the Crescent Part in Moose Jaw

Really!?

I had to go towntown by 10 o'clock, but I realized that there would be no bus in the morning, so my dad took me downtown. It was crummy day - cold, cloud and windy. I met my friends at the bus shelter in Victoria park. We went to Dipo for GreyHound. The round-trip ticket from Regina to Moose Jaw was $29.43 for students.

The Greyhound took us 1 hour up to Moose Jaw and It was 1 pm. It was nice day compared to Regina. After checking the hotel of Mineral Spa, we had lunch at the chinese restaurant. It tasted good. After that, we went to Crescent Park, the scenery was awesome.
We heard that Tunnels of Moose Jaw is one of the most famouse place in Moose Jaw. We wanted to go sightseeing there, according to a staff in that place we thought we better come back tomorrow.
I got to Spa and slept until 7o'clock and we went swimming to the 4 floor in the spa until 9. There were all kind of flags above the pool and a lot of people in the water. The water was warm. There was even a steam (= sauna).
We got hungry so we got going out to have supper but couldn't find any restaurant. There was no choice but going to a store. I bought a sandwich and a banana. We watched "King Kong" paid some money, but some friends fell asleep on show.