where the foothills meet the prairies: Practically a Canadian already!

Well I may not actually be a Canadian or even close yet, but I have spent a lot of time doing typical Canadian things. University here reminds me of the kind of things you see in American high school movies, lots of pep and enthusiasm and organised events.

The first thing that I did since last time I updated this however was very typically British! After meeting a group of British girls at international orientation day we all headed to the Student Union (The Den) for ThursDen, the night which everyone goes to every week! No differences there from back home apart from some guys wear backwards caps without even a hint of irony and people seem to go out earlier and come back later as opposed to only leaving pre-drinks at 11 or later.

The next day we went to see the Dinos play the University of Alberta Golden Bears at American Football. This involved wearing red (apparently on Fridays the majority of people wear red to show team pride) chants such as "Get stuffed" (oh the witty-ness!) a lot of cheering even though we had no idea what was going on and more stopping and starting and advertising announcements than there is on the X factor...however it was great fun and definitely an experience to tick off the list of things to do! We also won 65-6 so that was great!

I've been Downtown (albeit briefly), been to Chinook shopping mall (which is massive and amazing), gone to Peter's Drive Thru (which is an institution in Calgary and to be fair was a very good burger), bought a rucksack (well backpack, they don't know what a rucksack is!) as everyone at uni seems to use them, bought excessive amounts of textbooks which it transpires actually get used in Calgary and today I booked a trip with a large group of British people to go to Lake Louise next weekend which'll be lush! So all in all it's been hectic but seem to be getting into my stride now!

Here's a few photos which kind of sum up life so far: