Greetings! Last night I went to the International Food night at the school. We had to bring a food from our country for everyone to try and this was my contribution:
Now before you start asking what muffins have to do with Canada... let me ask you what you would have brought... think about it.... does your answer involve maple syrup by any chance?? I knew I had to bring something that incorporated maple syrup somehow, and I wasn't about to bring soggy, cold pancakes... so maple syrup pecan muffins it was!
(The icing sugar represents snow :)
I didn't take a picture of it but I tried my first bit of haggis since I've been here. Yay! I actually didn't mind it, but it's the type of food that you can only have once and a while and in small quantities at that. It's got an interesting spicy taste, but I liked it.
Poutine from Canada, mmm.
My blonde-haired, blue-eyed, German friends.
As you can see, I wore my Canada sweater and a few other Canadians came up to say hi (the ones that brought the poutine) lol. I met a girl from Toronto and a guy from BC. It turned out that the girl and I knew someone in common - a friend of hers that I lived across the hall from in first year res. It's a small world! So all those times you get sick of hearing "Oh, you're from Canada! Do you know John?"... there's the odd time that you actually do know who they're talking about.
I also got stopped by another guy on the way home who was Canadian too. There is a good number of us here!
Success: none left!
On an unrelated note... I made a Scottish friend! They have a program here called the Buddy Program and international students can sign up to get paired up with a student that goes to the school so they can show them around and such. We finally met today for lunch and she is very nice. Sometimes it's hard to understand what she's saying because of her accent, but we get along well. I had to explain to her what a snow day was because she didn't know... so sad.
To make life EVEN better... Glee also started yesterday! I got a big poster to put in my room just in time. I'm not obsessed...
And to finish off, here are some other random pictures:
^ The tiny bar fridge and freezer the 6 of us have to share.
Poundland, the equivalent of Dollarama! ^
v Double-decker city bus to get into Stirling
Your muffins look like a photo right out of a cook book (great angled shot) so it's no wonder that there were none left! Don't lose the recipe, cause you've got to make them for us when you get home.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but Poundland sounds more like a weight loss gym than a store...
Where's the best place to sit on the uni. bus?--looks like a fun ride.
It's amazing you even have time for school, what with all the stuff you've been doing--glad you've managed to squeeze classes into your busy schedule!
Cheerio, :-) Mom
mmm maple muffins, what a catchy alliteration!
ReplyDeleteWho brought the hot-dogs? Or are those suppose to be sausages?
And is it sad that I expected the double decker buses to either look like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Routemaster.JPG
or like this:
http://www.popcrunch.com/ebay-spice-girls-bus-auction/
Then I realized that Scotland =/= England. Clem fail.
Anyway, loving the updates! Keep 'em coming!
Those muffins look amazing! You are for sure making those for us when you return. :) And I would be so much more excited to take the bus here in Guelph if it was a double decker one. Jealousss! Keep having fun sister.
ReplyDelete‘Interesting’ taste re haggis… I sense a little euphemizing :P Good job on the muffins; they look awesome. You’re repping us well!
ReplyDeleteAbout snow days: I heard on the news recently that various Boards of Education (or just one? This was playing in the background and I was a bit distracted) that some are changing policies so that online assignments can be given to the children when they’re at home. NOOOOOO! I object!
I heard that sometimes the accent can be very difficult to understand. I spoke with a Scottish lady who moved to Canada around twenty years ago, and she told me that she went through a mild depression because, literally, no one understood her.
Poundland’s hilarious :D I’m sure to you the novelty of such things is gone, but I still smile at the stuff you post!