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Thursday, September 11
pizza + booze + karaoke = happy exchange students 3:58 PMThe Association of International Management Students (AIMS) and the exchange coordinator, Tara Cleve, held an orientation session for us exchange students on Tuesday evening. We were at St John's College (another ulu building on campus) for an informal introduction/information session before heading downtown for what AIMS called, the "Welcome to Winnipeg Night", where we'd booze and rock ourselves silly during ktv.
Anyway, St John's College has a chapel in it, and there are classes actually conducted in the chapel itself! It's funnily weird and even the locals don't get it - don't religious people find it offensive anyway? Anyhow, there are signs all over St John's telling people where/how to find the chapel, and it's really quite amusing (see picture).
"Come in a turn right" / "Chapel straight ahead" / "The Chapel is behind you" / "Congrats! You've found the Chapel!"
We saw some Arts students sitting on a more-realistic Campus Green sketching as well, quite a nice sight (but imagine them having to do that in the cold, yikes!)
Orientation: free pizzas with exotic flavours (like "Ham and Pine", which is essentially Hawaiian obviously, and "Surprise!", with all kinds of toppings!)
Our Dutch friends who went Chinatown with us, and the whole mix of AIMS buddies and exchange students.
We headed downtown to Osborne Village thereafter, which was quite happening. According to the local students, this is quite a good place for fashionable shopping and good Fusion food! Yay! Another sign of city life, haha..
The Academy, where we went for drinks, and AGIT Karaoke - there were English Japanese Chinese and Korean songs! But erm, the MTVs for the English songs are equally pirated like those in Kbox (just that over here they feature Korean calafares instead), hahaha.
The Academy
With the AIMS people - Dylan, Natalie, Sara, Stephanie, Chantale (left to right not counting me and Js)
Sandy from the Netherlands, Christian from Germany
I think Js got abit high and happy, haha
AGIT Karaoke - oh, we didn't pay anything at all for our songs! Apparently you only had to pay if you bought drinks..
In case you're wondering what I sang, I went for a slow ballad - Angels by Robbie Williams! And everyone was so supportive and sporting too, clapping and waving their hands for me lehhh. I must have been good, hahaha.
Then Js pulled me along to sing Kung Fu Fighting with him.. tskk.. I could only manage the background music for him! And I also helped to form a BSB gang to sing Everybody with some of the girls, haha.
The night ended at 11plus cos we had to catch the last bus back to campus. And we saw this really nice and atas bakery, called Baked Expectations. The locals say it's a must-try! Its cakes are huge and really look very tasty, costs about CAD 6-9 per slice but I'll definitely indulge and try one day, yummm!
Some humongous cookie cake on the left (the whole base is made of cookie pieces), and Oreo cheesecake
"How will you ever choose?"
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You are an enthusiastic innovator, always seeing new possibilities and new ways of doing things. You have a lot of imagination and initiative for starting projects, and a lot of impulsive energy for carrying them out. You are stimulated by difficulties and are most ingenious in solving them. You can get so interested in your newest project that you have time for little else. Your energy comes from a succession of new enthusiasms and your world is full of possible projects. Your enthusiasm gets other people interested too.
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