The 5th of November, back in the U.K it is
Bonfire Night. But here in Canada it’s just the Sunday that the clocks go back.
Generally I have been pretty lucky in that I have not experienced
home sickness or culture shock. In the run up to going to study abroad I heard
so many things about how ‘you will get home sick’ but honestly I haven’t and
this far into my exchange I think that it’s unlikely it ever will hit me.
However that doesn’t mean there aren’t some little differences which when I
come across make me miss home.
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As I mentioned at the start of this post,
Bonfire Night. I want to go see a firework display tonight but there isn’t one.
·
Halloween, yes I had an awesome Halloween but at
the same time I did miss going to the Halloween event that I have been to every
year at my UK uni.
·
Tea. I haven’t had a single cup of proper
English Breakfast tea since I’ve been here because the ones imported from
Britain are too pricey and I don’t like the look of any of the other brands.
·
Instant coffee, you can’t buy decent instant
coffee over here. As I need my coffee
every morning I had to buy a coffee maker.
·
Halloumi, it’s not available in Walmart.
·
Having a full reading week, we don’t have one in
the fall semester but it’s nice to have a break.
·
Money, I’m fine with saying dollars instead of
pounds and using notes but the coins keep confusing me. This is awkward if you’re
at a till when there’s a queue behind you and you’re faffing around trying to
figure out what’s a 10 cent and what’s a 5 cent.
This isn’t a list of all the differences between being a
student in the UK and Canada or everything that I miss but it’s just a few
things that have stood out to me.
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