On the picture you can see my hotel’s street where I stay from the 1^st to the 4^th of January. This is Gower street, downtown, 30 minute walk from the university

After now one month in St John’s, I will present you Memorial University, the welcoming, the class content and I will talk about some differences between French and Canadian in the classrooms.

First, international students had to go to a meeting to present the rules and how MUN works. It was called Orientation Session. But it was reported due to a big power outage on the all island after the cold wave that happened in the beginning of January. They also present us The Works, which is the sport club on the campus. It’s a huge building where you can do anything you want (run, weights, squash, swimming, football, badminton, yoga, kick boxing, steps…). After this session, we share pizzas and start to meet others internationals students.

Then, the semester starts and we had to choose four classes at least. I take Consumer behaviour, Organizational behaviour, Intro to entrepreneurship which are major business courses and also fitness which is a lecture course on what is a wellness life, how people are changing their sports and food habits, what are the consequences of all this habits modifications…

Finally, I will describe what the differences between French class and Canadian class are. In Canada, every students is quiet in the room, talking to your classmates is a bad point and lots of courses have participation mark. Teachers (it depends of the teachers) want you to call them by their first name as they call you by your first name. Group works are common but you have to work alone in your home cause most of the time you don’t have homework.
You can also do what you want but with the proviso that it does not disturb the course. If you are late, just come and have a seat, if you want to go to the washroom or just leave the course cause you have others things to do, just do it.

This system is similar to the north American way of thinking, you can do what you want but you have to work to succeed and nobody will told you what to do, you are responsible of your life and of your studies.

That’s all for the moment, I will tell you more about St John’s later.