There are a few things I instantly recognized with Switzerland. First all, was the price of McDonalds. Although I pigged out on the flight over, by the time I got through customs and found my bag, I was rather peckish. However, I lost all my appetite with once glance at the price of a Big …
Today I began my adventure, leaving Toronto bound for Zurich. Somehow, leveraging my greater that average height, I was able to secure a bulk head seat, with leg room galore. In the end though, it turned out not to be as useful. Perhaps due to the general lack of snow in Switzerland recently, the flight …
So today was supposed to be my first class at l’ecole de management – Cross Cultural Issues in Human Resource Management. Starting at 8am. So I managed to get myself out of bed (after a night involving a bit of wine) and went to class – to wait. We waited from 8 to 9 before …
It’s been 15 days and counting since I moved to Strasbourg, France. I will be living in Strasbourg for 4 months, the longest I have ever been away from Canada, my parents, my cats, home. Although not everything has been simple (still don’t have access to my french bank account), I don’t feel overwhelmed, homesick …
Although Hong Kong is FULL of sky scrapers, almost any MTR station you go to there will also be temples (I feel like I can count a nunnery as a temple, they really do look the same- especially as I didn’t see any nuns!) It’s slightly weird because you think you’re in a completely urbanized …
One of the many awesome things about Hong Kong is that it feels like there are actually hundreds of Cities crammed in this one tiny place! Going to Central (City University of Hong Kong is located in Kowloon, which is a peninsula) is island hopping in itself. For about a dollar canadian you can …
Well more accurately this is my second night in Barcelona, as the first was mainly filled with sleep, the 12 hour trip & jetlag hit me that first day. But my first actual night out in Barcelona was a great one! The bars are just so much more creative and fun! We started off the …
