Post # 9 - What is Next?

My plan for the next 3 months is continue studying English in the ESL Program. I'm anxious for start the winter semester! Foy my holidays (Christmas), I'm going to visit family's husband in Winnipeg. After that, I stay with my husband for two weeks in Canmore. We celebrated our first marriage year. For the next months I hope improve my English and stay in Canada for a long time.

Post # 8 - Online Games that are Good?

Do you like dancing?

Good, there are a lot of interesting and fun dance video games in the web! One of them I can found is High School Cheerleader Game is really addictive. I can't avoid play while I was doing this blog! :) It's interesting and fun because you can hear the song and move the keyboard (only your hands in this case) with the song. There are others similar and more fun dance video games where you can dancing truly! I think this kind of dance video games are really good because you can share with friends, move your body and practicing dancing!. Also I think that online this kind of dancer game maybe is a little boring and static.

Post # 7 - Is Chivalry Dead?

Why people nowadays have a decline in manners and polite behavior? 

I think that people don't have awareness and don't think in others, in the environment because the people has become individualistic due to dependency on handheld gadgets such as our smart-phones (I agree with M. Doll, the writer).

We should try to create and maintain a healthy environment all the time, in all the places if is possible. I think is important see around and don't be individualist. We should be respectful and courteous behavior. 

You can improve politeness, saying "please", "thank you", "hello", "morning", "have a good night", between others easy words.

Post # 6 - C-train Etiquette

I have taken public transportation in Calgary, C-train and buses. You should be consider others when you use public transit and following some unwritten rules such as: care personal hygiene and behavior with others, no eat inside, not obstruct the entrance and exit, care for the volume of your audio, others.

Others rules are: Stand on your right and walk on the left, form an orderly line when boarding a bus or train, let passengers exit first, don't block the doors, stand clear of doorways while inside a transit vehicle so that doors can properly and fully close the first time, pay the fare and don't fare evade, others.

This rules are ok. We need common sense to respect others!

Post # 5 - Long Weekend Plans

This weekend with my husband had planned eat dinner with my host parents, go to skating, see one friend in Fernie and participate in the last night Festival Banff in Banff. Part of our plan it has fulfilled. On Friday the dinner with my host parents was great! my host parents celebrated 28 th years your anniversary wedding. On Sunday we went to skating with my husband and one friend, Marika. We skated approximately one hour in the rink of the U of O. My husband was the first time skated in ice. He was very happy.  We suspended visit to my husband's friend. Driving conditions were a bit complicated. On Sunday also, we went to the last night of the Festival Banff. It finished very late because we viewed a lot of documentaries. It was very interesting!. For Monday and Tuesday we will stay in Canmore for share with my husband's friends.

Post # 4 - Counterfeit Products

Now, that winter is coming, be careful with your buying!. If you want buy a jacket is important no buy a imitation jacket. How can you known it is fake? For example, with the jackets, you can see the hologram security label within the jacket. The zipper are different, normally are waterproof with hermetically seal. The material can be another indicator. One feather jacket like this, maybe costs almost CAD 300 or 400. A jacket fake could cost maybe CAD 100 or 150. I think is not good idea buy a fake jacket for this price!

Post # 3 - Money

Chile's official currency is the Chilean Peso ($). The monetary system consists of a series of coins and bills. The coins are manufactured in Winnipeg, in the Royal Canadian Mint!!!!!!. The Mint has made over 55 billion coins for more than 75 countries, between they the coins of Chile. I had no idea !!!!. 

In the Royal Canadian Mint, Winnipeg

The chilean bills are issued in denominations of 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 and 20,000 pesos. Coins are issued in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 pesos. Below the pictures:

In my country the people usually buy things with a credit cards. The cash usually are use in neighborthood stores. The things are similar prices that in Canada. Bellow a comparison chart:


1 CAD = 520.21 CLP

Average prices (1 person)

	Chilean $  (CLP)	Dollar Cad (CAD)
Rental of half a standard	250,000	480.58
Mobilization (2 buses / subway daily, Mon-Sun)	81,600	156.86
Breakfast, per day	4,000	7.69
Lunch, per day	5,500	10.57
Dinner, per day	7,000	13.46
Food in total (or simple homemade food restaurants)	405,000	778.53
Entertainment (cinema 4x)	15,200	29.22
TOTAL MONTHLY	751,800	1,477

Post # 2 - City Life vs. Country Life

I think that the city life is better than country life because it offers many things easy to obtain such as basic services, variety of education, entertainment places and diversity of commerce centers. If you have a emergency or forgot buy something, you can obtain attention heath quickly and buy whatever. On the other hand, in the city life you can found a lot of traffic, noisy in the downtown, garbage and in some cases violence. In spite of this, I think the city life is better than country life.

About me!

Hello, my name is Bernarda Perez but my family and friends say me “Cote” it’s my nickname. I'm from Santiago of Chile, I'm 34 years old and I have a beutiful family. I'm married 9 months ago and we haven't children for the moment. About my studies, I'm Environmental Engineer and Industrial Engineer. I completed my Master of Energy Economics the past year. Now I hope learn English very well!. My major hobbies are travel, view movies and practice sports. I like all of kind the outdoor activities mainly the hiking, mountaineering, ski and I also love skating. Now for the winter season, I’m practicing ice speed skating. It’s very fun and exciting!!!!! I'm happy to study here!.

Post # 1 - My husband's job

Andres, is my husband, he comes with me to Calgary while I'm studying in the ESL program. He's a metallurgical engineer but his occupation in the past 5 years have been the avalanches control. He isn't working now but he expected work in the Rocky Mountain, Canada. He's is a passionate backcountry skier and ski mountaineer and he loves this work because he can stay in the mountain all the time. The mountains is his passion, he loves the risk and work outside and the most important for him is involve in avalanche science, rescue and control programs to help the people.