University of Waterloo

I had stayed in a residence called 'Columbia Lake Village' which is espeacilly for exchange student and upper-year canadian student for 8 months, and had lived off-campus for 4 months. The cost is a bit higher than market price, but the residence, CLV, offered a very nice garden, clean housing and great opportunity to make social connection. CLV runned its own programs such as Holloween party, BBQ party and niagara trip etc, so that people could actually have a chance to get to know each other.

Must shop around for relatively cheap things. Ask people about where to get what. Get to know organizations like salvation army, food banks etc when the going gets though.

Even if the language was different, i really adapted fast to this new life, i was a member of the international student association ( i organized trips around Canada and United States), i was also the captain of an international indoor soccer team. My first semester was a real success and thaks to my grades,one professor allowed me to follow the next semester a master course about mathematicals models for finance

There is some red tape involved, however, support from the university is provided and worth the investment i guess!

I had the possibility to achieve one of my dream: i rent a car and with some other friends we went to Algonquin Park and there i did "Dog Sledding", that was an awesome experience