Making of Korean Kimchi

Since there was no class on Thursday and Friday, we had an interesting plan to make Korean Kimchi. I have a friend who can make kimchi. So today, l invited her and my other friends to make kimchi at my home. We were so noisy because we were excited. Everyone worked hard to learn how to make kimchi. It looks easy, but actually it was difficult. We make a mistake once when we were making the sauce. First, we put salt on each a napa leaf, and let it a napa shrink. Second, we made the sauce. We needed 2tablespoom of rice powder, some chili powder, and a bowl of water, all mixed together on a warm pot. When the sauce thickened, we put in some slices of carrot and some slices of green onion mixed together. We waited for the sauce to cool down. Finally, we put the sauce on each napa leaf. After ten minutes, we cut it, and we put it into an empty jar. When we finished cooking the kimchi, we were amazed at ourselves. We could do it. The kimchi can be served with rice, noodles, or hot pot. It can make any kind of food taste good. That's great. We liked making kimchi very much.

Lunch Time

Today at noon, when I was microwaving my lunch box in the school, my Taiwanese friends gave me good news. They invited Mizuho and I to lunch at a dim-sum restaurant. It was a famous restaurant of Hong Kong cuisine. We decided to go for lunch with my Taiwanese friends. We were so sorry to our English teacher, because we disappeared again from the afternoon computer class. During our lunch, we ate many different foods. We ordered different steam dumplings, rice cake, congee, steam squid tentacle, fried turnip patties, steam fingers of chicken....It was very delicious. I liked it a lot. We shared experience of Canadian life, such as: how to find the Taiwanese supermarkets, a good hair salon, a good bakery store and delicious restaurants. We all enjoyed. l think it is very important to make friends who let you get to know Canada. You can talk to each other for about everything, and they can help you adapt to Canada. So I was happy in my lunch time.

Field Trip to the Small Business Forum

   On this Tuesday, our class went to downtown to join the Small Business Forum. There were many programs about different business forums, and you can choose anyone you like. My classmates and I listened to the program on Tips for Better Rankings on Search Engines.The presentation was very good, it had a lot of information for everyone. The speaker spoke very clearly. I understood the whole thing, but I didn't understand the details. In addition, l learned some new words. I was happy that the presentation can improve my listening skills of English.

After the forum, we went for lunch with classmates. This restaurant offered Middle Eastern food. We ordered "Shwarma" which had many different vegetables and meats inside in the pita. Its taste was good. So we enjoyed at all.

Finally, we went to St. James Park to see OCCUPY TORONTO. There was a lot of people, it was like to a camp. Many people were energetic, but I didn't understand their purpose. l only hoped that people in OCCUPY TORONTO could take care of themselves, because the weather was very cold.

Buying A Car

 Every family live in Canada have one or more car. My family has two cars, because it's very convenient for Canadian life. I have my own car, so I can go anywhere. I could go shopping, go to school, go to Tim Hortons with friends, go to volunteering, restaurants, supermarkets... I need a car, so it can help me to adapt to Canada.
When I arrived here, I couldn't drive, because I didn't have driver's license. We live in the suburb where I need to drive to buy anything. If you live in the city, you can take the buses and the subway. I felt a little sad because I couldn't drive at the beginning. In Canada, the residential areas, shopping centres and supermarkets are in different places, and you need to drive. Some places in Toronto don't have subway, it just have bus stop. I thought Toronto was a big city with good public transportation, but it was not. In my home country, there were many subway lines in big cities. Even if shopping centres and supermarkets were in difference places, you can take subway or bus. It is very convenient for families without a car, and you don't need to spent a lot of time on public transportation. Other than this, TTC's fare is expensive. You pay the same fare, no matter how far you travel. My home country's fare is cheaper than Canada, it was just half of the price in the Canada. So I consider that driving is very important for me in Canada. In Ontario, only two Asian countries can transfer their driver's license to here: Japan and Korea. I need to start from the beginning, from the written test to the road test. Although the test process was difficult for me, eventually I got the driver's license. I was very happy that I can drive anywhere. When l got my driver's license, my husband leased a car for me. I can go anywhere, such as school, shopping with friends and get to know Toronto. I don't like to stay all the time at home, because it is boring. I like to go outside every day, and I like to look for something interesting. l am very happy that I can drive. My car is like my friend, it can take me around Toronto. My car lets me get used to Canadian life, and I like it a lot.

Last Weekend Felt Liked Different Season

Last weekend was very cold that it felt liked winter. I called my father in Taiwan.  I told him that Toronto was getting cold.  Here temperature was only 6 degrees.  He though I was joking.  Taiwan was 30 degrees that it was so hot.  My father wore T-shirt and short pants, but I wore coat and long pants.  It was  interesting that we felt liked different Season.  My father lives in summer, but I lives in winter  last weekend.

Apple picking

What a nice day!  We finally went to a farm for apple picking which had been postponed.  The weather was nice, and everyone enjoyed riding on the bus from school to the farm.
When we arrived, the farm was beautiful.  Everyone was very excited, and we took some pictures.
My classmate and I went to the apple trees and picked apples.  We founded many apple trees, but the apples were gone.  Finally, we found some apples on the trees and we were happy.  we ate the apples and took some pictures.  We had fun and enjoyed the trip.