Chapter 4
3rd Course - (5th Nov. 2001 ~ 2nd Dec. 2001)
Morning - Communication A1 Teacher (Michael / Joanna)
Afternoon - Grammar 3 Teacher (Galina)
There are a lot of different courses but I don't want to take too much pressure on myself. I always had chosen the relax one. I want to communicate with people without problems. A1 is the highest level in communication course. My classmates use vocabularies and sentences are better than any other classes. BUT it's good for me to improve myself. Especially, my teacher Michael corrects me a lot. Ex:"TH" pronunciation I had leaned it. There is another assistant teacher, (She is learning how to teacher highest level students.) We have two teachers to correct and teach us. My English levels improve a lot in A1 class, such like fly to the sky. Ha ha ha....
Jimena was in the same class again, she like a little cute sister. Her dream is to be an auto race driver, but she knows it's hard without training from childhood. You will find everybody as a dreamer, expect every dream and try to make dream come true.
Marta - 25 years old. Gaby's best friend. From Spain. She speaks slowly and gentle. She is Cecile and Spain Jorge's friend, too. In ILSC, we are easy to be classmates and friends. Cony's rule: Friends' friends equal to friends. Right?
Rebecca - 22 years old. From Switzerland. She has a Brazilian boyfriend that she had met in the Roxy pub. When they fist meet I was there. The Roxy pub is a very famous dancing pub for ILSC school students. Especially students go to Lady's night on Wednesday.
Balthazar - 18 years old. From French. A little funny boy and play boy. Ha ha... French romantic. She was tht beutiful nurese on Halloween. Super sexy pretty.
Other classmates: Asako- 22 (Japan), Claudia - 35 (Mexico).
There was another student from Quebec, Canada, name "Emily". She looked cold and corrected Claudia's pronunciation not in polite way and said felt her English level was too good. I don't like this kind of pround people at all.
There are 13 students from Spain, French, Switzerland, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Canada (French area) and Taiwan, 10 countries. This is a special class like a little UN.
(Teacher Michael and I4 Communication classmates joined TV show at Vancouver station)
(I4 Communication classmates at ILSC)
The grammar teacher "Galina" is a hot and sexy woman. She always dresses up and wear high heel. Attractive teaching way has make boring grammar into funny.
Andrea - 28 years old. From Venice, Italy. The most romantic city in the world, he said. He is talkative and funny, too. He has become my Italian brother. I hadn't believed somebody can say "I love you" like a greeting. Wow! Andrea had made me surprised about him.
(Grammar classmates at ILSC)
My classmates and I always went out. Once I had taken them to Hong’s where the famous Chinese restaurant in Vancouver is. There is only one Chinese "Me", they don't know too much about Chinese food even some of them were the first time to try it. It was so funny to see them eating with chopsticks. Cecile had a question “What is vegetarian chicken?" Chicken is chicken. Why do Chinese have chicken but vegetarian? We had so much fun to eat Chinese food. Anyway, about Chinese, it's all mystification for them.
（Cony with classmates to Hong's restaurant at downtown Vancouver)
In all the parties, my only one time to be totally drunk was in Cambie Bar. Because on that whole day. I didn't feel good t and ate something. I hadn't eaten any food before drinking, so I was drunk after few bottles of beer and spit out. Ha ha... Joan and Harry took me home, thanks for my good friends. I remembered I said to homestay family, "I am drunk, talk to you tomorrow." I didn't take a shower or change my cloth. I had fallen down to my bed directly without waking up during the night. I didn't have handover that was another "first" time experience. Many friends saw me drunk but I didn't do something stupid. Ha ha.... *^_^*
I had attended Rob school activities, one of them was three days two nights to Tofino Island. There was only 6 students and Rob taken a Van to there. Tofino Island is bigger than Taiwan. I have met the most important friend "Yoshie" in my life.
Yoshie - 36 years. From Japan. She is not pretty but with the most beautiful personality inside. (We all aren't that kind of pretty women.)I have good sixth sense to make friends. I like somebody or not by first seen and conversation. We have had close friendship until now. We become roommates and bedmates for five months. After I come back to Taiwan, we e had many times met each other in Japan, Taiwan, Vancouver and Italy.
(My best friend Yoshie at seaplne in Tofino.)
Undina - 33 years old. From German. She had been to many counties and liked to take photos. Her life philosophy is “Enjoy” right now then plans the future. I like to be balance now and future. I am still Chinese inside somehow.
Toby - 22 years old. From Swizterland. Little boy like homestay Sunil's feeling for me. We had fun all the time but I had lost his contact. If somebody knows him please tell me, thanks.
Heiko - 35 years old. From German. He look serious but very gentleman. Germany are not that hot outside feeling. You need to know each other more; they will talk to you in deeply.
Dinar - 23 years old. From Swizerland. Nice personally and sweet smile on her face all the day. She was impressed me about being full of energy, happy and easy get along with Asian girl.
(Yoshie.Cony.Rob play duck and drake games at Tofino)
(Cony in front of a big tree at Tofino)
(Undina.Yoshie and Cony at a beach in Tofino)
(Rob.Cony and Heiko in front of the luxe youth hotel at Tofino)
(Cony and members took a seaplane at Tofino)
(Hotspring at Tofino)
I would like to do sky diving but the weather wasn't good to do it at Ninaimo. We had gone to Casino and I won the 30 CAD.
(Cony's first experience at Casino, I really won！)
The most important thing was Yoshie and I become good friends. We decided to move out and live together in Rob's house to save money, so we become roommates and bedmates. At 2001, homestay fee is 672 CAD a month including everything. We share a room without food is 300 CAD. It's not cheap but Rob's house is more near downtown, we thought we will easier to go out and didn't worry to come home late. Ha ha.... But after move out, we didn't go out that often. About Saving money, it spent more to cook by ourselves. Anyway, I had enjoyed lived with Yoshie, we usually talked until sleep almost everyday. We had live in Rob's house for three months then Yoshie and I moved to my homesaty.
Another Rob's activity was two days one night "Snowboarding in Whistler". There was the first time for me to see real snowing. It was different from seeing Columbia Ice field. When snow fall down to my hand, wow, which feeling is hard to say. Dany joined this activity, too. We looked like two little kids dancing and singing under snowing. Snowboard is a board. Ha ha... I had fallen down more than 100 times at the first day. But I had tried hard. People asked me about my snowboard level, I always said, "I am professional...beginner."）I am too small for big Canadian, even my coach lift me up as a snowboard.
The second day, I had met Jorge and his friend Beto. There were James (Korean), Jorge, Beto, Dany and I snowboarded from Black Comb Mountain. (Another mountain in Whistler) Five people were the same poor snowboard level. Ha ha.... James and I were hungry, then ate hot noodle first. Finally, I had played the snowboard not snowboard played me. If you asked me about “Do you feel cold to do snowboarding?" I tell you, snowboarding make you "HOT".
(Cony dress up on the ground at Whistler)
(Cony snowboarding at Whistler)
Three days and two nights travel to Portland, USA. Cecil and Spain Jorge went together. There is not enough to see NBA game for one time. I wanted to do everything at least two times. This time I saw Scott Pippen. My idol is Michael Jordan, but Rob told me the games with Jordan, tickets need to book in a year. Portland is a small, quiet not that busy city, I like here.
(Portland NBA game, the left no.33 is Scott Pippen)
(Cony at people mountain people sea 's NBA live game. This is a real photo. At Portland.)
(Cony at Multnomah waterfall)
(Cony at Multnomah waterfall)
(Cecile.Cony.Spain Jorge at Multnomah waterfall)
(Cony and USA flag at Multnomah waterfall)
It was so hard to tell homestay family that I want to move out but they expect my decision and wish me everything going well. They told me come back home if I want. Even I move out, but my heart lost in Homestay. That is my Vancouver and family I had known it after three months.
I almost had a activity each week, I had spent a lot of money but in cheapest way learning from life. Playing is better than reading. Taking an action is better than thinking. Enjoy the moment won't regret anything is my principle. How do you think bout it?
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