盧建亨Life Record in Edmonton(first to third week)

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This record was written for report of NKFUST, and I was trying to remember

everydays experiences in Canada.

Edmonton ( Avenue, Street)

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WEM, Shopping Mall 12 ,

ELC 11 ,


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First week (11/07~11/14) Temperature 3~-5

After totally 13 hours flights and connecting time, I arrived at Edmonton, the

festival city, and began a whole new life in Canada. Frankly speaking, I felt

exciting and also nervous. After couple of days, I found that people in this cityare very friendly, I did everything very smoothly. In this week, I completed

following things:

1. apply for a bank account;

2. apply for Student ID;

3. register courses;

4. search for living places (one- or two-bedroom apartment);

5. apply for personal cheque;

6. rent a nice one-bedroom apartment and deal with a rental contract;

7. and, shop things and grocery for living.

Everything was fresh to me and I tried to enrich my experience by doing

abovementioned things by myself. Each one had a story and became my

unique experience. I was a lucky guy because many people helped me.

Especially Dr. Maiga Chang took care of everything that I need in Canada, and

gave me a lot of advices and assistances. To sum up, I had a quite busy

however fascinating first week.


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Second week (11/15~11/21) Temperature 3~-5

The most important task in this week was renting an apartment. After

searching and visiting five places, we found a beautiful one-bedroomapartment which is near the intersection of 110 Street and 108 Avenue. For

me, its able to walk to ELC (at the intersection of 109 St. and 101 Ave.) and

also convenient to go to several supermarkets. Because the two-bedroom

apartment was too expensive and too large to us (two people), it was around

CAD 850 to 1000, I thought that we could make the living room be one

bedroom. In addition, the space of the one-bedroom apartment was big enough

to 2~3 persons to live.

The apartment locates at a quiet and safe place, the rental is $663/per month.

The price is for one year lease, so it actually has two free months. In other

words, it means the original price is $795/month for twelve months, however,

due to there are two free months we need only to pay $663/month, that is (795

* 10 months)/12 months. The price is a good deal because the apartment

locates at a convenient place and has a very nice environment. We are going to

move in on Nov. 25, and then Dr. Maiga Chang may feelrelieved and go

abroad.

In this week, we also start our first research meeting about the project and my

master research topic. Both of my research topic and the project follows Dr.

Changs proposal in iCore project: Story-based Context-awareness Role Playing

Learning Activity Generation. Because he had done a lot of researches in

knowledge map, ubiquitous learning, educational game, game-base learning

and so on, he has explained the details to me very clearly.

To sum up, what I need to do now is reading academic journal and conferencepapers and studying necessary programming technologies and skills. Just like

the new environment I have faced in these couple of weeks, I also have many

new challenges in the research domain, but they are interesting and

fascinating. So far everything is good. I do believe that I can overcome these

new challenges very soon.
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At iCore research room

Furniture and stuff for living


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Third week (11/22~11/28) Temperature 5~-10

This weekend I saw the first snow here, its really impressive and beautiful. But

the cleanly white snows were just kept for a while. After cars drove through itand people stepped on it, the snows became dirty and slippery.

Our big task in this week was moving in the new apartment. Before I moved in,

I needed to contact with power company and internet service provider. The

former one was to put the address on my name, and then I will receive the bill

every month.

Internet services in Canada are really expensive, now I realize that we have a

very fast and cheap internet environment in Taiwan. I have applied the high

speed internet service via cable (7.5M/512kb) and it will charge me $35/per

month.

Everything is well-prepared and we move in on Nov. 25. The apartment has a

brand new kitchen and bathroom, by the way, in Canada, people use washroom

rather than restroom in American and toilet in Europe. The bedroom and living

room are of course empty and need us to fill it up. The good news is that we

have purchased a lot of furniture and stuff for living, so I show some pictures

and share this nice place following:

Living room is my bedroom


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Another empty bedroom (I forgot to turn on

the light)

Kitchen

There are two storage rooms The brand new bathroom

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