Living at ISV (International Student Villas)
I moved into the new place (International Student Villas) today and it's fantastic, I really think I'll like living here. There are 7 townhouses each with 4 rooms, a kitchen (fully equiped w/cutlery and pots and pans), livingroom and backyard; and each room has an ensuite. Each house is also equiped with a washer and dryer in the garage, no coin laundry for me! Cleaners come to clean the common area bi-weekly (or fortnightly as they say here).
There are lots of organized trips and there are 2 other girls here from Canada. One, Kelly from Cornwall and the other Chantal with who I sat with on the plane here; she's from Niagara Falls.
I moved in around 11:00am and around 2:00pm the landlord James had a bbq for everyone in the complex, there are about 28 people living here, so a pretty small group, a few of which don't really participate in any of the group activities here, they apparently like to keep to themselves. After the bbq we all sat and talked for a while, and we all seem to get along just fine. Once it started getting dark we watched movies (Euro Trip and Van Wilder both pretty funny) via projector in the livingroom of one of the townhouses. Once summer comes around October or so and it's warmer we'll start watching movies on the wall outside in the garage instead.
I got to try vegemite today! It's not as bad as people say, I had it on some bread. To me it tastes like soysauce but much more salty, some people really hate it. Troy (one of the guys living here) says it tastes really good on mashed potatoes, so I'll probably give that a try at least once.
I have 3 other flatmates in my house Jan (pronounced Yahn) from Germany, Owen from England and Elena from Spain, all great people.
Kelly, Chantal and I are going out shopping tomorrow as well as to the school, we found a deal at the butchers for a bunch of meat we can get for $80, that feeds a family of 8, we're going to split the cost and each take a bunch and freeze it that way we can save money since food is a tad more expensive here than back home (bread is twice as much).
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Sounds great, Val. Annette's husband Mark is a big fan of Vegimite - we've tried it long ago and the word that comes to mind is "YUCK!" Can't figure out what that strip of grass is for in the driveway - maybe to catch oil spills? Very strange. Something for the boys to discuss here during one of their "garage" parties. I'll let you know if they come up with any "printable" answers.
That's awesome that you've met some people from different parts of the world as well as home!!
It looks like a very nice neighbourhood to be living. i hope you are happy there
I'm surprised you never ate Vegemite when you lived in Canada! It was sold in Safeway out in Vancouver. My labmates ate it!
Oh they don't sell it in Ontario as far as I know.
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