food fest image dump II

here are some more images from the food festival

Random Canada photo's

Here's just a sampling of what can be seen when you fly into Vancouver. All fo these were taken quite some time ago, I think my last trip back home.


For our first shot we have good ol' SFU.



















Then we have what I could barely get of surrey, I think that blue tower is SFU-Surrey, but I could be mistaken. It certainly looks like it to me.



















Then we have Stanely Park.



















And finally Playland and the PNE.

Food Festival image dump

hey, it's been a while since I've last put up photos, again. so here's some of the food festival that took place just before midterm week.

来到SFU就怎么办？

Hey guys. This blog goes out to all the Chinese students who are coming over to SFU next year. Hence, I'll try to continue in Chinese. Please forgive my horrible Chinese in advance.

我这次写是为我们明年来到SFU的中国同学。我下面答了一些普通问题。如果你们还有问题，最好留它们在这里。

1）SFU的宿舍怎样?每个学期要多少钱？
如果在SFU宿舍住，房租不包括上网费（（必要；~130加元/学期）,电话费（~＄115/学期），用洗/干衣机，和楼费（必要；＄10/学期）。

SFU最新宿舍叫Towers，这里有照相。每个学期要大概2060加元。住在这里也必要用学校的饮食项目，像浙大的，最少要一次下存$1350/学期。一个人一个房间，每个房间有床，桌子，椅子，衣柜，书柜和小冰箱。床下面有两个柜。每一层有电视，微波炉和水槽。还有，卫生间是公共的，没分男女（右边有照片）。每一楼一般有一层为男生住和一层为女生住，但是大部分没分男女。第一层有洗衣机和干衣机。

SFU Shell House是个传统男女宿舍，这里有照片。每个学期要大概1900加元。一个人一个房间，每个房间有床，桌子，椅子，衣柜，书柜和小冰箱。每一层有公共卫生间和厨房。如果要看电视要自己买。楼下有洗衣机和干衣机。

SFU的McTaggart-Cowan Hall跟Shell House一样。这里有照片。

最后，SFU也有房子， Townhouses（左边的照片）。 这里还有照片。每个人每个学期要给大概2225加元。每个房子有三层：第一层有客厅，食堂和厨房，第二层和第三层有卧室和卫生间，一层一个卫生间两个卧室。厨房有冰箱和炉，食堂有一张台和四把椅子，客厅有沙发，椅子，三张台，和灯 - 没有电视。

2）我不要住宿，我还有些什么选择？
你的选择可以分成两种：租房子和Homestay。要是租房子，你可以去这里(SFU Off-campus Housing) 或者这里（Homes 4 Students) 开始找。每个人的房租一般$500左右，有些＄350，有些＄700。赵的时候在"Vancouver and Lower Mainland"下面些城市找。注意，SFU有两个大校区，主校区在Burnaby，另外个在Surrey。

Homestay是跟个本地家庭住，最基本会有自己的房间，衣柜，桌子，电话（不包长途电话费），洗衣机，干衣机，早饭，和晚饭。Homestay的资料全部都可以在这里（First Choice International Placement Inc.)找到。找到Homestay难不难，我不知道，但是你可发给info@fciplacement.com问。

我问过SFU，如果你们要这样做，你们要自己办。

3)Co-op难入吗？
Co-op,特别关于计算机的Co-op不难入。

4）学校附近难找工吗？
很近学校没有太多工找，但是远一点（达交通15分钟以上）不难。你们最好多练习你们的英文，因为大部分会要你们讲话的。

Right, all done. I'm very sorry for butchering the Chinese language.

The Happy Couple

 
Poor Devan - his cruel girlfriend Cynthia beats him! Pity the unhappy couple.

The Kiss...

...that never was. Behold, the illusion of our moment of joy. Christine's idea, by the way.

谢老师再见！

After seeing to it that the second DDP cohort of SFU has comfortably settled into their new home for the next 2 years, 谢老师 spends a day with all of us at beautiful 西湖 before flying back to Vancouver.

Panorama-rama Part II

last two panoramic shots, first one I really took because Edward told me to take it for Christine, I had my own version, which focused more on the cityscape, but after tunning this photo, which took a looooong time, I decided not to stitch together the one I did. This one isn't the best, but it's the best I could do, considering the software wasn't liking the water, or the sky for taking references of where to connect. This is from the North end of the Island looking Northward.




Here's the last one I'm posting for now, it's actually the second panorama I shot, but it has one problem, but it's not major or anything. It's even got our favourite Cynthia in the shot. :D. This one wasn't taken on the main island, but actually a smaller island NW of the main Island we went to.



Now for some normal photos :P. Here's a shot of Me and Cynthia



When we were done with the islands, we got off on the east side of the lake, around there there we plenty of performers playing music and singing.



That's all I've got so far. Tune in next time for more photo's from Devan!

Panorama-rama!

more panorama photo's as promised. We took a trip to the West Lake as a goodbye excusion for Xie Laoshi, So what better place to break out the panorama shots than on pretty cool greenage.

First shot was the largest, some minor problems when stitching it together, but I'm satisfied. This photo is of one of the docks along the lake perimeter where we took a boat to the islands in the middle of the lake.


Second favourite photo, had a bit to tune up using the panorama software, but overall turned out great, some minor focusing issues, but overall pretty good. especially good since some people in the photo were completely edited out, and I figured I'd be left with some half-person in the photo. The rest of the photo's are on one of the islands of the lake, it's roughly a shape of a circle with a cross in the middle dividing the center into four mini-lakes. This is from the Northern end of the island looking southward.


This one turned out really well considering people were moving across the bridge very quickly. I thought I'd get some problems for sure, but it looks great! This is of the Southern end of the island looking Northward.

for fun: can you spot the three clones? (really easy)


Another great shot around the island. This is from the South-Western edge of the island looking towards the center of the island.


I'll be following up with 2 other panorama's as well with 2 other normal photo's.

Panorama test

Just checking if these panorama shots can be posted and not bork up the blog.

If they're fine, there might be more ~_^


kitchen durring spahgetti night (Jenny was supposed to be in the photo, but since she crossed the room while I was taking the photo's she got cut out.)


view from my Room.

Home Cookin'

So, on the weekend we decided to cook up some spaghetti for dinner. We ended up using the entire jar of sauce that Cynthia had brought over from Canada to feed us all. Only sad part was that there was no sauce left over :(




Then the next moring we made pancakes! Yum :P
wasn't really enough for everyone, but since some didn't wake up for pancakes, it all worked out.

3 Canadian Girls

Cynthia, Jenny, and Karine: Cynthia is patient, sensitive and respectful and she's a good tutor. Jenny is helpful and hard-working, and she's funny and makes me laugh. Karine is comfortable to be with and I like her easy-going style. I'm glad they have come along to Hangzhou.

One last thing...

NO EXPLODING CARS ALLOWED!

hehe, sign I've been meaning to take a photo of for a long time.