Canada

Hello Patient Readers, hope you're all enjoying your holidays. I'm now in Canada studying at Guelph University. 

The beginning of my Journey was pretty stressful, there was an altercation at the US visa desk that basically means due to faults of their own I was not allowed on the flight, meaning i had to pay an extra £450 for a direct return flight that didn't go through America. Which was very annoying i'm currently in the process now of getting a refund!. 

Immediatly when i got off the plane into Canada, I went to the immigration desk and they'd ask me questions about my course to see if anything didn't add up! I was naturally pretty nervous at the time which was probably detected as I was starting to wonder if i wasn't meant to go Canada after what happened with the US but... when i get past there i went to baggage where i saw a friend I had been talking too from Keele who was going, that was nice being with someone who was going through similar things that i was going through. After getting our luggage we both went to an international students desk where a man from Guelph greeted us and took us to where all the other Guelph students were waiting. Toronto airport was so much more advanaced then any airport i'd ever been to they even had a monorail to take them between terminals!. Manchester you had to walk about 20 minutes to each terminal!. Although I have a feeling they are more gun concious as all of them there were equipped with body armour and what looked like concealed firearms. 

But anyway meeting people at the airport was nice we got talking, we were all pretty tired after our long journey and we were all relieved after the about 2 hours of waiting at the airport that we could get on a bright yellow school bus (Commonly used here) and depart to Guelph. Upon being on the Bus i noticed how much larger the buildings were here, how people all drove on the right and how each village signs each had populations of each city which was nice!. Anyway i think i've talked alot about all that... Don't want to bore you guys!. 

So those of you who are thinking of studying abroad and might be reading this blog, the process is a long hard one but if you get to the end of it it's worth it!. The classes are actually easier!, other than one where i have to present a paper every week (Something i've never done before and i'm nervous about) But confidence is my middle name (Kinda) (not at all really) so i'm looking forward to it. 

The campus here is much better than Keele, cleaner, bigger, happier, and the weather is suprisingly hot! 34 degrees. I am starting to miss little things about home like the friends at my university and in Burton but... I've made alot of new friends here which is nice!.

Right now i'm in my room revising neuroscience!, Yesterday i went niagra falls... I've done an awful lot while here so if i did it all i think you'd all be bored so maybe i'll post next week. Bye Bye readers l