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Winnipeg or Winterpack – you can call it as you prefer. A city where I'm going to spend six more months of my life. It's a "capital" city of the province Manitoba with about 600 000 inhabitants, but with size definetely larger than Prague. Everything here is big – the toaster, the fridge, the TV with lots of channels (Friends and Simpsons are always on :)), ... The streets here look exactly the same as in the "typical American movies" – they are broad with trees on both sides. Only the houses are a bit smaler. There is lots of space everywhere.
Two words that best describe the city are – wind and flat. Wind because it's always windy there. In fact, Winnipeg is one of the most windiest places in Canada. That's the reason why it's always cold there. In fact it is the wind that makes the difference. Although the absolute temperature might be -15, the real temperature (wind chill) can be -25. That's why other Canadians call this city Winterpack.
The whole province Manitoba is incredibly flat – one of the first things one realises from the plane. We also make jokes that Winnipeg has only two hills and both used to be garbage :) However, the Canadians are still very keen on all the winter activities. You can see people snowboarding on a 10m high hill or kids sliding down from a bank 2m high. Although there is a river flowing through the city, there is no valley. The bank is about 2 or 3 meter high and then the land is flat again. Thus, when there is a flood almost half of the city can be under the water level. That's the reason why they built a flood channel that surrounds the city – there is also a place for skiing situated in it.
The centre of the Winnipeg is called the Down Town. It was funny that when we first went there, my homestay parents told me "Look at this building, it is really old, nearly one hundred years old." Since all the international students aren't allowed to drive, the only way how can they get there is by bus. I have the feeling that only crazy or old people and international students are using the public transportation, though. One can always be sure one will meet someone strange-looking there. The reason why nobody is going by bus is that everybody here owns a car. It's pretty interesting feeling when your 16-year-old friend sits at the driver's place. Both the cars and oil are cheaper than in CR – one can get an old car for 1000 bucks.
It's good to be staying in a city – there is always something to do. My friends are living close, there are ice rings everywhere and when I need something, it's no problem to go to the mall.
This was just what came to my mind when I was thinkink about Winnipeg. I'll probably write something about the school in the next article.
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(Honza - Mail - WWW)
Nice start. Its really well written, easy to read. But why are you writing in English at a czech site. You should consider writing in czech or moving you blog to some english interface like http://Blogger.com . I Think that this czech interface could be slightly confusing for international visitors.
(Hekko [openID] - Mail - WWW)
The interface can be easily translated in the administration. Every single word of the layout can be changed. It's only necessary to switch the administration to the Expert version (nastavení - uživatelské rozhraní - pro pokročilé). Feel free to contact me should you have any questions about that.
(Ted - Mail - WWW)
to Honza:
I enjoy reading the articles and posts by Arthur Dent/Martin Maly, so when I was thinking about which website to choose for my blog, bloguje.cz was the first one that came to my mind. To the Czech interface - there isn't actually much in Czech on this webpage - only adding a comment might be a little bit confusing.
to Hekko:
Thanks for the response, I'll look at it.
(Ted - Mail - WWW)
to Hekko:
Modifying the interface to English was amazingly easy. I'm really impressed :)
Are you checking every new created blog?
(Honza - Mail - WWW)
Yop, I read that blog too.
(Hekko [openID] - Mail - WWW)
Ted: Most of them. :)
(Ted - Mail - WWW)
Hekko: Must be interesting to see how many blogs are registered per day on average, of what kind and how long does the writer keeps publishing.
(Silvie - Mail - WWW)
I really enjoyed listening your articles during my french-lesson :) It was much more interesting, but unfortunately it didn't take 90 minutes to read :p
(Ted - Mail - WWW)
Silvie: thanks :) listening? I thought you were going to read it in blue or red
(Hekko [openID] - Mail - WWW)
Ted: I usually don't follow every new blog once I'm satisfied its owner doesn't violate any rules. I simply don't have time for that :)
(Silvie - Mail - WWW)
oh... reading of course... It's just that I thik sometimes a bit too French when I try to write in English... (and I read it in blue :) )
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