I have been in Victoria, Canada for about 5weeks. I have learned a different lifestyle here. Victoria is absolutely different from Hong Kong. In this city, I feel really satisfied and relaxed. In this programme, I have learned more about Canadian culture and some condition than before. It is really helpful for improving my global view.
During the Cultural and Language Immersion Scheme, my homestay has helped me a lot and provided a pretty good life condition for me. From my observations and analyses, I find my homestay have a not bad quality of life, and the family belongs to a middle or between middle and upper social-economics.
Different from Hong Kong, almost people in Victoria have their own houses and gardens. Although my homestay does not have a very big and well-decorated house and a wild garden, their house is not bad and garden is fairish with some beautiful flowers. In the house, I can find most electronic equipments that are provided in the market, including LCD television with a big screen, PS3, Wii video game and several not bad computers. I do not my homestay’s specific income for one month, but I can find that they have enough money for food, education and entertainment. Every dinner is pretty good and delicious. On weekends, they can go out for hiking, doing sports, shopping and sailing. At night, some friends of them will get together for talking and games. It is worth mentioning there is a balcony in this house, we sometimes have dinner on the balcony together. To be honest, I can have a beautiful view from the balcony.
There are many equipments for housework, like dish-washing machine, full automatic machine and dryer. I think they are not cheap. Also, there is a diversity of tablewares and cookers, the foods in the big refrigerator are multitudinous, so I can cook by myself and choose the tableware I prefer to use. My homestay has two cars in total. Both of them are not