Transportation in Small Cities...

There are a huge differences between mega cities and small cities in transportation services. In my personal opinion, you shouldn't buy a car because of the sophisticated transportation in big cities such as: Sky train, buses, underground train, etc... Also, this services are applied 24/7 for example, in Vancouver,Toronto, and Montreal . How ever, small cities have very weak services. So, you just can find buses or Taxi or both. Moreover, these service has a certain time of work, for example, in week days they work from 6 am until 11 pm, but in the weekend they work until 9 or 10 maybe. I understand that this services depend on the number of population in a certain area that need this service to be provide. So, I'm thinking to buy a car in Kamloops to be confident, especially in the winter because I don't want to stuck on the road at midnight looking for a ride .

How I Deal with Homesickness...?

Usually, I feel home sick when I staid alone for a long period of time. So, that's bring me to think a lot by remembering the impressive days that I had been enjoyed before I left to Canada. Also, during the examination days I used to think about any interesting thing such as: my family, friends, and food that could take my mind away from the boring courses materials. Short time ago, I started to avoid this feeling by noticing in which time I feel home sick...?. After that, I planned to do somethings in this time to ignore it. For example: I tried to study with group of students and I felt so excited because the home sickness has been gone. Also, I tried don't spend to much time alone, and it did works. Plus, I tried to reduce the hours of using the internet or watching any thing related to my country.

What I have learned from this blog..?

Each time I visit this blog I discover new things in my classmate blogs. I have seen so many different people personalities that I'm proud to study with lately.Also, I noticed that some students and I share the same personality and hobbies, which is good to make good relationships with students you know their backgrounds previously. From my personal perspective, it's a wonderful thing to know what are my classmate favorites and where do they live.

New Place...!!!

These days, I'm preparing to move out from TRU rez,which is located in the university campus, to a new apartment in Kamloops. Gathering my stuff to be ready to move there. My new apartment is also close to the university. However, the supermarkets and the restaurants are closer to my apartment than TRU rez. I started to buy a necessities to my flat. The thing that make me unhappy is I'm going to be a way from my friendes who live in the TRU rez Because we used to meet each other almost every day. However, the advanage of living by yourself in flat give you the freedom of doing evrything you want as well as you will have some privacy. I hope that I did'nt make a wrong decision by moving alone. Anyway, I like to try new things in my life that add some experience to help me in the future

What I have Learned from 0-48 Class...?

This writing course include the teacher effort have taught me good skills and gave me the ability to approach the academic world. This class has an intensive academic writing that improved my skills. Moreover, I have learned different type of essays that make me able to write any thing I want by using any style I prefer. Plus, the styles of essay that I have learned in this class are: Compare/Contrast, Causes/Effects, and reaction essay. Also, the teacher taught me an essential information that make the sentences in the essay related to each other and make sense which includes unity, coherence, and transition expression.

My favorite food in Canada..!

My favorite food in Canada is pizza, cause it easy to make and ate as well. Especially if we have a lot of homework like what our teacher give us last class, just kidding. However, sometimes if I don't have enough time to cook I order a pizza from Domino's. I like to have different topping each time I order, cause I don't want to get bored of it. So, sometimes meet or vegetarian or chicken. I prefer to eat my pizza with ranch dip. Hopefully, our teacher give us a free time to cook healthy food before our stomach get poisoning

TRU rez...!

Since I came to Kamloops I had been looking for an available room at TRU rez till I got one lately.
This dorm is a brand new building compering to others inside campus. It has many activities during the year. You can meet and enjoyed the social life with many different nationality. Also, you'll have a separate room and sharing bathroom in different sizes of suites. Each floor has to share one kitchen which is close to the elevators. Moreover, each floor has one living room includes TV, big table, and a big sofa.

I have been experiencing a beautiful life there, especially, that I like to live inside the campus. Plus, I'm lucky that my floor is the calmest floor than others. However, I prefer to move to an apartment cause I think that I'll be more confident and comfortable. Furthermore, in your apartment you have the ability to do what do you want without any rules from anyone. Also, every thing that you need is inside the apartment.For example, kitchen, Landry, big closet. So, I'm thinking to move out next month, but after I found something suitable for me.....

Halifax...!

Have you ever heard about Halifax before?. If you haven't heard about it, just read carefully,cause you might be interested to go there. Halifax is the capital city of Nova Scotia province.It is located in the South-East of Canada which is on the Atlantic ocean. It's close to many attractions cities and places,such as: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and many other cities. Plus, it is the closest part to Europe from Canada.

The weather of this city is become crazy sometimes , and you will understood that if you know the Atlantic climate. However, they have the warmest climate in the East part of Canada. Plus, It's mostly raining during the year.

the most things that you might enjoyed in is there Atlantic sea food and there people are known of it. Also, if you are interested to visit the Titanic museum and look at some pictures of the people whom were on that vessel as well as there equipments, and other stuff. Moreover, you can rent a boat with your friends and go fishing, it's really interesting. Plus, they have very beautiful and huge lakes around the city. I found it is really deserve to visit.

What did I do in the Reading Break..?

As I planed before, I went to Vancouver with my friend two Fridays ago. After we arrived there we met our friend who came from Halifax to join us in this trip. Then, we lived in a motel which is located in Robson street. This street has a lot of beautiful stores that have different kinds of goods. Also, this street is close to other famous roads Such as: Burrard St which has some coffee shops and apparel stores, Granville Rd which has a good night life. In the first couple days we spend some times in shopping malls. I bought some light clothes to the summer. Each day we eat in different type of restaurant. For example, the first day we ate in Mongolian restaurant, second day we ate in Arabic restaurant, etc.. Plus, we went to the tallest handmade bridge in Vancouver "Whistler bridge" it was very exciting. I really enjoyed looking at the skyscrapers,especially at night cause you'll see the lights come out of these building and reflected on the sea surface. Despite this, Vancouver has a lot of rain during the year.However, it was sunny and clear all the days when I was there.

Moreover, we decided to go to Victoria Tuesday morning and we did actually. We woke up at 7 a.m, after that we had some breakfast. Then we went to BC ferries station. I was very excited to have a trip on a ferry.So, we arrived to Victoria at 9 a.m. Next, we went directly to the Downtown.We had our lunch there. After that we went to the Royal London Wax Museum. there you can see famous people made by wax,it's very interesting. Also we took some pictures in front of very old and historical buildings and palaces. So, that what I have did in the Reading Break vacation.

What are you planning to do in the Reading Break..?

I hear a lot of good things about Vancouver, especially its warm weather during the winter season comparing to other Canadian cities. Plus, the skyscrapers that this city has. Also, the shopping centers which have different types of famous brand names.Actually, I'm really excited to visit this city at the reading break vacation. So, I have planed to spend ten days there by living in a motel close to Downtown. I'm thinking to spend less money on accommodation to have the opportunity to spend more on the entertainment activities as well as shopping and food. I heard that Vancouver's restaurants have very tasty food and so many types as well, such as: Chines, Arabic,Indian, Mongolian, etc..

After I arrive their I'll choose one day to visit Victoria. I heard about it too. I know that it has museums usually the tourist are interested in. So, I might devote some time to visit these museums. Moreover, Victoria is a quite city which I like to spend some time there by walking beside the ocean or ride a bicycle and drive between the gardens. Also, there is a gorgeous gardens have many kinds of flowers and roses in different shapes and colors. Hopefully these gardens are open cause I heard it will open in the first of March. So this is my plan for the Reading Break vacation. It might change, How knows..

The Differences Betweem the Saudi Universities and TRU

Long time ago, many universities have been competing for being one of the best universities around the world. In other word, these universities have been racing to achieve an excellent rate among others. In addition, this rate is based on the quality of their systems, graduates students, and professors. However, there are some developed countries had passed many countries from the third world, in knowledge, development, and so on. To make this point more clear, lets see the differences between KSU in Saudi Arabia, which is the university that I graduated from and TRU in Canada, the one that I currently study my master in.

I believe most of people might agree if they are going to get something for free they will have a hard time to achieve it, and that what are we suffering at KSU. Apparently, the students have some difficulties to find some on to assist them.Moreover, the relations between the proof and the student are determined on lectures mostly.However, in TRU, you can find a lot of assistance are more than happy to help you such as: Information desk, TRU world, and other departments. Even the relations between the students and their instructors are more closely than KSU that you can contact them by e-mail and phone which is very helpful for the students.

To be hones, KSU has a good staff of professors as well as a beneficial academic materials, but the problem is that the responsible people haven't show up an obvious strategic to the university future. Also, they need to cooperate with some companies so the student can do a training job while they are study like what TRU doing and the Canadian universities in general.

About Me...!!

Welcome everyone, I'm really glade to write down my personal life in this blog. I would like to introduce myself to you guys.I'm from Saudi Arabia,Riyadh which it is the capital city in my country. My name is Abdulrahman Theneyan, and you might call me (Abdul) if you wish. I'm 24 years old nonetheless, I'm still young but mature.I graduated from the university in 2006, holding an Accounting bachelor degree. I have four sisters and one brother, I'm the oldest among them.

I've been in Canada since Jun 2007. I went to Halifax first then I moved to Kamloops this semester to start my program. I had a good time in Halifax actually. Even in kamloops I've been enjoying the skiing activities and my classes with my classmates.

I came to kamloops carring my goals to achieve my master's degree in TRU. I'm planning to study MBA program and if it possible to get a small training job before I go back home I'll be really happy. Thank you for spending sometimes reading my blog, hopefully you enjoyed it.

warm regards,

Abdul