Voilà déjà trois mois que nos étudiants sont arrivés au Canada. Fêter Thanksgiving et Halloween a été source de beaucoup d’enthousiasme et de rires, tout comme assister aux matchs de hockey et partir à la découverte de Toronto. Quelques étudiants particulièrement chanceux ont même pu observer des aurores boréales, un spectacle rare.
Et bien sûr, beaucoup ont été émerveillés de voir la neige en novembre, qui a toutefois fondu rapidement avec le retour d’une météo plus clémente.

Réflexions et impressions en photos

Quelle a été votre meilleure expérience jusqu’à présent ?

”Halloween was really fun!” (Emmeline/Guelph)

“Halloween party with my friends (exchange students and Canadian friends)” (Thaïssa/Sudbury)

“Going to a Spitfires hockey game” (Leon/LaSalle-Windsor)

“For me, just hanging out with my new friends ” (Hugo /Windsor)

“I’m excited about being a cheerleader” (Erin /Windsor)

“It would be the night with my friends at Kona Sushi or the football match at St. Clair” (Louise / Windsor)

“I got to see some northern lights which were amazing. I’ve been able to play some sports and meet new people which has been a great experience itself.” (Alice / Peterborough)

“My best experience so far was the sleepeovers with a girl spanish student.” (Joanna / Cobourg)

“We learn each other from the words of our country” (Qwanell/Brockville)

Quelle est la chose la plus drôle ou la plus étrange que vous ayez remarquée chez les Canadiens ?

“If I mispronounce ONE sound in a word you don’t understand 😂😭.” (Emmeline/Guelph)

“They joke a lot about the weather ” (Maya/London)

“They speak so easily to strangers” (Erin/Windsor)

“They sometimes say « ay? » to say « right? »” (Samuel/Windsor)

“They say hey all the time” (Noah/Sudbury)

“It makes me laugh how they find it so fasciniating when i tell them what life is like in Switzerland.” (Alice /Peterborough)

“They don’t say anything before eating ! For example in French we say « bon appétit » so personally it always feels weird to start eating without saying anything.” (Cerise/Guelph)

“They really go every day to Tim Horton’s.” (Joanna/Cobourg)

“As we already know, they always say sorry” (Chin Yin Edwin/Cornwall)

Racontez nous une anecdote amusante qui s’est produite à l’école.

“I was talking with the principal because we both love soccer, and then a bus full of students passed in front of us and everybody thought that I was in troubles so they where amazed” (Thaïssa/Sudbury)

“We do a lot of labs in chemistry and one time we made an explosion with chemicals” (Maya/London)

“During a bake sale one of my friends dressed up like Shrek for asking more bakes” (Hugo/Windsor)

“The boogie for Halloween, it was a big just dance in the auditorium” (Louise/Windsor)

“Our teachers buzzed their hair for Terry Fox (Charity Run)” (Alice/Peterborough)

“In my maths class, a girl is always sleeping and one time she started snoring very loudly so everyone laughed.”(Cerise/Guelph)

“My chemistry teacher (male) wore heals for a challenge.” (Joanna/Cobourg)

Jusqu’à présent, cette expérience correspond-elle à vos attentes ou est-elle différente de ce que vous aviez imaginé ?

“It’s really how I thought it would be. ”

“The experience have been as I expected, I love it”

“It was not the town I expected but I am happy to not be in a small city with nothing to do.”

“As I expected, people are kind I have a good host family and class are easy.”

“The snow in November!”

“it’s pretty close from my expectations, which were good”

“Very different, I think it’s completely useless to try to explain to people as people in Switzerland tried to explain to me how the experience was going to be because everyone has their own experience. ”

“It has been very different. I didn’t really know what to expect and so i was basing myself off social media which is completely fake.”

“The experience hasn’t been as I expected because I’m here to discover a culture that I didn’t know before coming here and I love being surprised and learning about Canada and Canadians every day! So it’s not as I expected because I didn’t expect  anything except to take the plane and live my dream, and it’s happening so it’s amazing even if it goes by sooo quickly!”

“I didn’t expect the school to be like that, it’s very different from Switzerland”

“The snowday was amazing because we don’t have this in Switzerland.”

“The first months were pretty fun but now, with the cold and the fact that it’s so repetitive, it’s not as good as I expected, but still good though”