Friday, February 20, 2009
By Mr.Rahim

Hi, Rahim here to conclude the whole Canada experience. The students have been lively, cheerful and healthy throughout the 3-week stay. They had managed their finances well by cooking their own meal and had saved some money to buy souvenirs for their loved ones back home. The apartment suites at Calgary Downtown where we stay have been very comfortable. The experience on going to school at minus 10 degrees Centigrade during snowing, walking on icy walkpaths, taking the Calgary Transit rail, learning robot programming and automated systems alongside their Canadian classmates and exposure to the Sait culture, and visits to Canadian industry have all been a very good experience for the students. And most memorable, the snowy trip to the dinosaur museum at Drumheller, taking a gondola up a snow mountain at Banff National Park and walking up to 7667 ft above sea level at minus 14 degrees C to its icy tip, walking on icy frozen lake at Lake Louise mountain resort, playing the popular local ice curling game, watching an ice hockey match, have all been an experience which cannot be forgotten. All of us have really enjoyed this trip. We have achieved what we came here for. To all these, we are grateful to our Canadian host, especially Pam Baji, the Global Education Network coordinator, all the people at Sait Polytechnic School of Manufacturing and Automation, especially Craig Maynard, Alan Boykiw, Brad Donaldson, Dr Gordon Nixon and others for their hospitality and effort in making those wonderful arrangement for us during our stay. Not forgetting all those people at ITE who have made this trip possible. As a finale to our visit, we will be going for an industrial visit today and in the evening to attend the farewell dinner for us which is hosted by Sait. Too eager to meet our loved ones back homes, we have started packing our bags and will be leaving Calgary on the 6am Friday morning flight which is scheduled to reach Singapore at 12.5 am Sunday morning. We bid goodbye to Canada but the memories will remain with us forever… We are closing this blog now.

Monday, February 16, 2009
It's a Weekend & the trip to Banff!!

well, today is SUNDAY!! and we went to Banff!! hahas.. with the accompany of Alan and his Girlfriend Shelly... the trip is around 2hrs ride.. hahas.. and as we go up we all feel so tired and all was sleeping.. so when we reached and got off the car, Alan told us about why we felt tired.. so he said, as we are going up to the mountains, there is lesser oxygen thus we all feel tired and sleepy.. hahas..

first stop, LAKE LOUSIE! the ice sculptures is all very nice.. take a look at all the photos =)

next stop is Banff!! so we took cable car up to the mountain.. the treat is on Gordon!! thanks alotx!!

look at that Kah Seng.. he is relaxing.. hahas..then lunch on top of the mountain.. treat on Alan.. they are all really very nice people.. =)

then after lunch, we climb up to the highest top of the mountain, there live one man, Alan said.. he say his house is very neat and tidy and that is really true.. hahas.. this is us and the man's house...

after that, shopping.. =) enjoy the photos... =)

Sunday, February 15, 2009
Time for Curlers to shine...

-Thursday,12th February 2009-

Okay, today's weather check... -12 Deg (wind chill:-16) plus it was a sunny day =)

Alright, today we all went to experience Curling the 1st time..
Curling is a popular game in Canada, which is also a very fun and yet challenging game..

At 1pm, we met Pam at the lobby and then set off to Calgary Curling Club
it was not that far from the hotel but the weather permitted us from walking there...hehe =)




Then we met Daniel..our 'coach' for the day and he got us ready and set for some Curling..


<<< the coach

<<<<< the court





it was a slow start for us Beginner, but we got the hang of it after a few tries and coaching...




-Desmond and Janice on the ice-

Soon we got started with a small match between ourselves...
The Team... Janice,Peggy & Kah Seng VS Desmond & Fadzly
we had alot of fun on the ice..sliding,sweeping and also Curling
in the end..Peggy's team beats Desmond's team scoring of 4-3
*Close Match*
and oops, did i mention Kah Seng was the 1st one to fall.. =D
Muahahaha! eventually Fadzly too fell down as we were exiting the court
we laughed our stomachs out.. *Laughs Loudly*



At about 4pm, we finished the game. We then went back to the hotel, and also Mr Rahim was planning to go out Shopping later that night..
So around 5.30pm, we all we ready and went off to Anderson Mall.. It's located quite far from the hotel and we had to take the train there.. *phew*
there were alot of commuters during this time,and we had to squeeze into the train like Sardines..a very similar case inside the MRT back in S'pore, hehe =)

After a few train stops, we reached our destination....Anderson Mall *wohooo*
again, weather check... -15 Deg Celsius!
we rushed to the Mall because it was really cold and only we know how Relieved we felt entering the mall... *another Phew* how happy we were to feel the Warmth =D

and then we started walking around looking for some stuffs to buy..
and yea, everyone got what they are looking for -__- I guess?
We then entered a Chocolate store to buy some deligths for Valentine's Day..
Bought some cards to along with it..


Wohoo, and we are done for the day..
again,the rush back to the train station..
and finally to our warm hotel rooms..

From Canada with Love,
all of us ♥

and some thoughts for the day? Enjoy....