Crazy study, great life!

Can’t believe already one month past since my last post. Almost every day I told myself I should write something, but it just ended in doing tons of assignments. I even started to think of myself as Queen’s students instead of an exchanger. Exchange life should be much easier, right?

I do think I should spend a little time talking about study life here. I admit, that Queens’ students are being “intense”, especially commerce students. I’ve heard about this tense study atmosphere in the North America for a long time, but the fact is that, when I see by myself, I was still shocked. I went to Stauffer Library, the largest one on campus (4 floors) on SUNDAY (it’s Sunday! Not even Saturday) to get some of my stuff back from my friend. Well, as what I had experienced in Tilburg, library on Sunday is almost empty, though there might still be some hard-working students. But what I saw here is that, it’s not simply that there are students, the whole library is FULL!!! You can not even find a place to sit! 

First blog finally!

Hello, everyone:

Finally I got time to write this blog. Sorry for all of you since it’s a little bit late. This week is the Add/drop period, and I was busy enrolling/ changing the courses.

Well, something about myself first. My name is Zhuoying, I’m a 3^rd year IBA student, and I’m now on an exchange in Queens’ University in Canada. I’ve stayed here for about 3 weeks now, and I love it!

Background Info: I arrived in Toronto on 30^th August in the afternoon. Then I took a coach directly to Kingston (where the university is located). Here I have to say, Canada is indeed a country with vast land areas that it took me 4 hours on the way and it’s already 11pm when I got there. I stayed in one of the campus residence hall for the night and on the next day, I met my host for the coming 3 nights, Kristiana Clemens, a music producer in Queens’ Campus Broadcasting Station, who is so kind that she offered me a temporary accommodation for free. Of course, during those 3 days, I have to find another place to stay for the rest of my time here.