After 13 hours inside the PAL’s four-engine jet plane then… touchdown Canada! Wow whatta nice and clean airport terminal. From Vancouver airport going to our rented house (homestay) in Burnaby B.C. is like driving inside the Ayala Alabang Village in Manila. The weather is cold and its about 5pm already when we arrived in Burke Street. After a day of rest and preparations, then here comes the first day of the class as usual a self introduction between off-site and the on-site SAs. Still groggy due to jet lag but I managed to look mentally perceptive and responsive most of the time during the training and it last for more than a week of adjustments before everything went fine.
The following weeks we visited Stanley Park, well of course the popular Downtown, Pier, Metrotown, the forest-like Parks at the heart of the city. Canada is a multicultural country just like Singapore because here there are Filipinos, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indians, Koreans, Japanese, etc.. and you can see them everyday in malls, streets, parks, stores, and even in our office. Homestay is actually made for tourist students and in our case is somewhat a different scenario since we are here in Canada for on-the-job training. We’re lucky because the house is very near to the office and just a 10 minute walk going there. The house doesn’t have aircons but heaters, hi-tech dishwashing and laundry machines, quiet neighbourhood, free wireless high-speed internet, cold and hot showers, Satellite Tv programs, and cable Tv. Our house also is very near the Metrotown mall, BestBuy, FutureShop, Sears, and Toys-R-Us. For the fast foods you will find Starbucks, Subway, Mcdonald, Pizza Hut, A&W, and KFC but I noticed they don’t serve meal with rice! Oh no where is the rice?
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