Assignment 2 - New place to be for 3 months!

This assignment is supposed to be about our new country, new city, new place for our placement and the similarities and differences from our normal canadian life.

For Marco and me, it's Johannesburg a city in the other southern hemisphere of the planet. Beside being so far away from Canada, there is a major difference between the northern and the southern hemisphere: the season are reversed here!
So there you have it from June to August when this placement is taking place it is actually winter. I still c an beleive that I voluntarely gave up one of our so short Canadian summer, arrggg!
However this is not too bad because even if we are in the most southern country of Africa the temperature still remain easily above freezing with highs of about 15 degrees.

On the same note, something that is very different from Canada is the total lack of insulation whatsoever. This is making our lives difficult in the morning: I don't want to get out of bed!!!

Difference number #1 : The seasons are reversed

After a week of living at a co-worker's place, we finally found a lovely house to stay in a nice neighborhoud. My address is 100 3rd Avenue in Melville.

The landlord is this very sophisticated but very nice white lady Catherine. This is actually the first time I see these two quality go hand-in-hand this nicely.

As said the neighborhoud is great: it is extremely safe. The city itself is manageable but a bit sketchy so it is a major relief to come back home and know that we are safe even at night.

There is also a little strip of night life just outside our door with restaurants and bars that are very affordable!

here it is possible to treat oneself to fine restaurant dining for canadian fast-food money!

I have never been at restaurant so many times in my life!

Difference number #2: Restaurants are affordable on student money!

Speaking on a more general point of view, I don't really feel as being this far from any place in the world I would call home. I think this a remarkable acheivement from the people of our planet and it is due to a number of factors like language, our wonderful communication means and also my own experience but I'll elaborate on that in upcoming posts to this blog.

Stay tuned!!!