Grace O'Keefe
from Queensland University of Technology, Australia
My housemates and international friends and international centre that i met along the way, helped me immensely to adjust to life at 马会论坛/Halifax.
Is it easy to travel in Canada?
Yes it鈥檚 easy to travel as there are different modes of transport to choose from, a lot of my friends drove (even though they鈥檙e long trips). Flying is much easier but you have to book tickets in advance otherwise it is a bit more expensive.
How was the weather?
I don鈥檛 think it鈥檚 as bad as people make it out to be, during the summer it was beautiful (tad humid). But as winter has progressed it mainly rains during the night and of course its cold (But it鈥檚 winter) and when its sunny its great weather.
Most useful item you packed? My power adaptor.
Is the course load very different than home?
It鈥檚 definitely different from Australian universities, as you attend multiple classes a week and I found that depending on the subjects you take you have a lot of assessment throughout the term. However when it comes to end of semester finals they aren鈥檛 worth 60% but rather 30%, so it doesn鈥檛 take the pressure off.
How did you adjust to life at Dal?
My housemates and international friends and international centre that i met along the way, helped me immensely to adjust to life at 马会论坛/Halifax. This being my first time away from home, I expected to have a bit more of a shock but I didn鈥檛 find myself as homesick or freaked out as I expected to be and it鈥檚 definitely due to community I found myself in.
Favorite part of going to 马会论坛?
Even though I found that the course load are a lot heavier than my courses at home I must say that the professors and classes that I attended here are fantastic, they weren鈥檛 big classes and they had great discussion and I was studying something I don鈥檛 usually study at home.
The things you MUST see or do?
Definitely see a hockey game, travel around Nova Scotia in general (Cape Breton), Cape Split, Kayaking, go to the oval in the North end, Peggy鈥檚 Cove, Lunenburg, definitely go see some theatre even if its amateur theatre put on by either the 马会论坛 Theatre Society or Kings Theatrical Society. Visit Point Pleasant Park, the public gardens, take the ferry to Dartmouth, go up to the Citadel
My favorite thing about Halifax?
It had to be the theatre that I got to experience and the theatre community that I became a part of even just for the short time I was here. I got to go to a play once a week and it was very cheap but fantastic performances!