Ice skating and Irish pub

Hello everyone!!!

Cathy has been visiting her friend from China that also study around here so I’ve been home alone L but I survived! I have been studying, watching movies and so forth. I were going to Detroit with another exchange student, Ard from The Netherlands but Cathy accidentally had my passport with her, so there were no Detroit for us, hopefully we will go next week.

Instead I and Ard went ice skating with the Windsor University’s VISA group which is a student organization that arranges activities for international students. It was a very long time since I last ice skated but I think it went OK, I didn’t fall once!!! Haha

However we arrived a bit later than the rest of the people so finding our size in ice skates proved to be a quite difficult task. As can see here on the picture, I’m fighting to get my foot in to a too small skate. And to another thing, if you look in the left down corner, you can see my new sneakers that I bought last time me and Cathy went to Detroit shopping. More on that later…

Ard on the ice, he skated better than me, which is a shame since I’m from Sweden… But when I come back to Sweden, I will practice!

At least I could stand on the skates and even move forward! (Sandra don't laugh :-()

AI don’t know what this Euro Hockey school have to with Windsor, but the Swedish flag is in the left corner :D I concluded that the European hockey leagues is much better than American hence the Americans want to practice like us, haha

After some ice skating (with too small sizes I want to remind you), we went to a downtown Irish pub, called “Mick’s Irish Pub”. However this pub showed to be no different than the usual pubs, beside some small green lights, se we didn’t notice what was Irish about it, but hey, the name was Irish :p

There were some band (Celtic Cross) playing some Irish/American songs, some songs were quite good, others you could hear the singer’s voice which proved to be quite bad when you are sober… but in the end it proved to be quite fun anyway…

Today Cathy comes back and the school starts again as we are in Monday today. The time goes by extremely fast, too bad though…

//Henrik

Thanksgiving time!

Hello everyone, Thanksgiving time!

Yesterday (Mon 12 oct), Canada celebrated their Thanksgiving. This is a day were people think about what they are thankful for and get together with their family to eat a great dinner. The Canadian and American thanksgiving is on different dates but they represent the same things. Because we have our family many, many, MANY, like millions of centimeter away from us, Me and Cathy got invited to a traditional thanksgiving dinner at Michelle & Kevin’s place, thank you so much guys! We had a wonderful evening with great food as I will show in the usual manner!

On thanksgiving, people it turkey, they even have a turkey cooker like the Chinese have their Rice cooker :D

We were a few exchange students that were invited for the dinner which were very nice… look at all the great food!

Lets take a closer look at the food, shall we?

And if we zoom in even further, we see in great detail what thanksgiving is all about :p

See my happy face!

Cathy shows her appreciation in another more direct way!

And after the food, it was time for another great tradition, carving pumpkins!!! It’s soon Halloween here in America so people need to have pumpkins in front of their homes. It was a really fun thing to do because you get messy! Also you can design your own pumpkin which makes it even more fun.

This was one of those activities were playing with a sharp knife is a good thing!

Cathy is putting the last pieces together of our pumpkin….

Tada!! Woho! Our pumpkin is alive!

When we were done with emptying the pumpkin, it was time to carve, me and Cathy made our own COOL design!

Our finished pumpkin, or as Cathy calls it, “Our first child”…

Later in the evening we ate some apple pie and sat and talked. It was a very nice experience and it seems like a quite fun holiday when you are a child, we should adopt something similar in Sweden!

So that was it for this time! Good night people!

Russell Peters live in Windsor

Hello, everyone! Sorry for the late post, but it’s been a very busy week! We have a lot of school things to do and many exams to prepare for next week. However we managed to get some free time, and what did we do? We went to the live show by Russell Peters!!!!!!!!!!

For those of you who don’t know who Russell Peters is, I can tell you fast that he is possible the most funny and one of the most successful stand up comedians ever. He is a Canadian with Indian decent and he is currently doing Canada’s biggest standup comedian tour in the history, and he came to Windsor. This was a opportunity that neither me or Cathy wanted to miss (both of us is big fans) so we decided to see him.

To show some proof, of course I uploaded a few pictures!


Me and Cathy waiting for the bus to take us to the big arena, of course after first eating some nice Chinese food :D


The tickets!

We are sitting and waiting, apparently his tour bus were stuck in traffic, and he was 20 min late… fortunately, there were 2 incredible djs entertaining the masses whilst we waited.

Finally he arrived and he is really a genius! We laughed until we cried; the evening was funnier than we thought and it was almost two hours of it!

So there you have it, we saw a celebrity, yay! However it would actually be more fun if we sat on the first row because he made fun of the people sitting there, but it was still fun, so if you have a change, go and see him, or at least check out his clips on YouTube, here is a start:

And to continue: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=russell+peters&search_type=&aq=f

So until next time, have a good one!