I think I've fallen in love with the East Coast a little bit - mind you it's only been 5 days, but the weather here is my type of weather - a nice cool breeze 24/7 xD. Today we had a "field study" in Prince Edward Island which for me was extremely exciting. We first went to the Cape Jourimain Nature Center where we learned about some natural history as well as the history of the bridge connecting New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island. It turns out before the bridge was built, in order to deliver mail and get from the island in the winter, a few poor souls had to walk across the ice with a boat in tow as often parts of the water was melted and other parts were not. After that we visited the Province House in Charlottetown where the fathers of confederation first met followed by a live music theater performance depicting Canadian Culture. Then the most exciting part: Avonlea Village!!! We walked around and met Anne and Gilbert catching some live reenactments as well as dressing up ourselves. That was followed by a trip to the Green Gables National Historic Site where we learned a bit about Lucy Maud Montgomery, and finally an all you can eat mussel dinner before heading back. Needless to say, it was all very exciting and Prince Edward Island was absolutely gorgeous. I think in the future I'm going to have to come back and spend a bit more time in the Maritimes!
-M
P.S I've been listening to my biffle Alanna Matty on repeat for the past hour. Y'all should definitely check out her new cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_4OVpjf8U
So, this month I'm on exchange with students from Japan and Canada in a Cross Cultural College, Joint Seminar Program. I wish I had better pictures, but anyways, I arrived here this morning at Mt. Allison University with the students from KGU, Queens and Mt. A! The UofT students took a flight here from Toronto which stopped in Montreal before continuing on to Moncton New Brunswick. Everyone here is super nice, and this month should be really fun! The campus itself is quite a difference from what I'm used to at UofT, with Mt. A being a rather small contained university but at the same time some of the buildings are on the other side of town (mind you, the town isn't actually that big, so it's not a strenuous journey to get there ;D)! Sackville has a lot of neat shops and eateries, and there's actually a music festival going on this weekend called the Sappy music fest. The tickets are pretty expensive so I don't think any of us are going to bother going - but we can hear it from the edge of campus and it sounds pretty good! Indie/hipster - ish, but I didn't really listen enough to make an actual judgement. When I get better pictures of campus I'll add them to this post and until then, I don't think I'll have anything new to put up until we go on our day trips. For now it's pretty much just going to be working on our projects and the actual academic portions of the course!
-M
So one thing I really miss about both Hong Kong and China is the food. The food was really cheap and wonderfully delish. So since I'm procrastinating on my packing I figured this would be a good time to relive the nommyness also known as Chinese food. I promise this will be my final post about China, don't worry xD. Tomorrow I head to the East before the Japan portion of the trip....Sackville I'm coming for youuu! Enjoy this collage of food from the tour portion of the trip:
-M
