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Sunday, September 7
this other side of town 11:06 PMHaving talked about Downtown, here are some pictures from this ulu other side of Winnipeg where I live in, just to show you the stark contrast and the surroundings that I wake up to. I managed to capture these today while walking an hour to the grocery store (a.k.a. the Real-Canadian Superstore). Do scroll all the way to the bottom!
On campus
Can you spot a puny me in the 2nd picture?! Haha.. and I like it that buildings here are "brick-ish", at least different from SMU's glassy and city-centre finish.
Erm.. I'm still in both of these pictures. The building is huge!
University Centre - most facilities are located here, including the bookstore, pharmacy, Tim Horton's donuts, a pub called Wise Guys etc. Some of the offices are here too. And this bus-stop's right opposite the AVM residence, which is where I stay.
Tache Hall (another residence hall on campus), and Tier Building
UMSU stands for The University of Manitoba Students' Union. This is a shuttle "bus" that runs every weekend for residence students to hitch a ride to the grocery store and back. Seriously we didn't know that it was gonna be so small, haha. So we couldn't get on anyway and decided to walk.. -_-
This is the long route which takes us at a good half-hour to walk out from residence, before we hit the main road outside.
Off campus
Pembina Highway (the main road)
Lots of space, greenery and beautiful skies. Winnipeg's a really sunny place too so it is quite nice to stroll outside and enjoy the scenery (only that it's getting real cold so it's horrible at times)..
A favourite haunt, Value Village - it is a used-item store and so far we've gotten pots and pans and some other 2nd-hand items at really cheap prices, e.g. less than 5 CAD each!
A Malaysian-looking "All Canadian Family Thrift Store", as well as the The Real-Canadian Superstore. Shopping here is mostly limited to these kinda places, so it is a really different experience (even downtown does not offer much shopping I heard). Good thing is, I probably won't spend so much then :)
At the Superstore: Singapore sauce?!?! And this morning I dreamt I was eating prata, when my alarm clock woke me up! Brr.. then apparently I saw popiah skins and prata today.. got me excited for awhile but we didn't get any though.
Okay this post is long cos of all the pictures and the lack of collages to summarize them all. But yea.. this is the place Wini's in, in Winnipeg!
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