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8/14/2019 Life Record in Edmonton(fourth week)
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Fourth week (11/30~12/06) Temperature 2~-15℃
The temperature was going down every day when it started
snowing. It’s freezing cold if you stayed outside and forgot your hat
and gloves. This week was also my first week in Canada alonewithout Dr. Chang’s assistance. I needed to do everything alone. I
was getting familiar with the city transit system in only few days.
Although the fee of taking bus is expensive (CAD$2.5), it is still
worth than walking in a snowing day.
I read papers regarding “knowledge map” this week and I try to
integrate them into my research. The authors of these papers apply
different methods and knowledge structures to build their learning
systems. For instance, there are several kinds of knowledge map
likes hierarchy, taxonomy, network, and so on. Knowledge map not only
presents knowledge or concept in learning system but also describes or sorts the
relations of the concept and knowledge. One paper inspired me in the
design and development of systems because the author applied
knowledge awareness map to generate personalized knowledge
according to the learner’s location and interest.
Another point in these papers is that a successful learning system
should include some characteristics such as curious, challenge, and
fantasy to interest learners. However, how can I present learning
objects and related knowledge structure in my systems? I need to
read more papers regarding to knowledge map topics in order to do
research and develop systems.. In addition, I also complete a
timeline to describe every components and tasks that our research
project may need and when I should complete which tasks. There
are many tasks on the list and it is the time for me to catch themup.
Beside the researches, I also have some interesting experiences this
week. I went to a gym with my friend, Fluvio. He is an enthusiastic
Italian and now pursuing Ph. D here, he is also working in the iCORE
project. I find that we have same interests and sport habit, and he
introduces me a sport and wellness center belongs to Grant Mac
Ewan University.
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The sport center is really cool and near to my place. It has gym,
swimming pool, places for different ball games and so on. It is a nice
place to do exercise after working. The entrance fee is CAD$7~9
depends on whether you are going into the center at the peak houror not, and the monthly membership fee is CAD$40~50. I decide to
join as a member in second, because I believe that I will have fun
and enjoy my life here.
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The cars were covered by snows
Outside the apartment, the road was gone due to the
snows.
The Parks and River Valley.
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North Saskatchewan River
This was a parking place, can you tell it right now?
Every mall has Christmas
adornment
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Fifth week (12/7~12/13) Temperature -13~-35℃
The weather forecast this week was never higher than zero. The
lowest temperature even went down to minus 35 Celsius! I neededto protect my exposed face with scarf. Although the weather was
cold, I still had fun everyday. Usually, I went to ELC (Athabasca
Edmonton Learning Centre) from Tuesday to Friday. After work, I
went to the gym either alone or with Fluvio. By the way, because
the daytime became shorter and shorter, the time we got off the
duty was around 4 p.m. As I said, “life style in this city is relaxed,”
thus, sometimes I worked at home in the morning and went out in
the afternoon to find new interesting places of the city
In this week, I also met two students came from China. They are Ph.
D students and do the oversea researches here. They told me that
China government has serious plans to send their best students to
foreign countries and support them in the financial, so that they can
stay here and to do researches for either half or a year.
I realize how big the world is and we need to compete with talents
from the whole world. Perhaps Taiwan government will allow the
students from China to work in Taiwan in the future, we have to
study harder otherwise we might have trouble in competing with
them.
Of course, the wellness is the most important thing to all people. I
keep the sport habit and go to the gym at least twice every week.
This habit not only makes me feel healthy but also bring additional
benefit to me. People in the gym are friendly and I chat with them toimprove my conversation skill. We always start with “how are you?”
and end with “have a good day.” Sometimes we have longer
conversation and sometimes we just greet with each other by
saying hello. Anyway, it’s really interesting to me.
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Fluvio, a friendly and funny guy.It’s freezing cold outside.
We went to the gym after work.
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LRT station. There is no manager and staff inside the station, but
people still obey the rule and buy the tickets from the machine.
One day, we ate dinner in an American style restaurant; it costs me
CAD$20…
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Sixth week (12/14~12/20) Temperature -10~-18℃
After last week’s storm, I feel the weather this week is very
comfortable. I even want to use the word, “warm,” to describe it.Next week is Christmas, so everyone works with a good mood, for
example, some AU employees have lunch in the kitchen and they
bring guitar and harmonica to sing songs. They are delighted and
enjoy the holiday’s atmosphere. It’s really an important day for west
countries. As a new friend told me, the really good things for them
in Christmas are: (1) they can stay at home and enjoy the time with
their family; (2) they send gifts to each others; and, (3) they can
have a wonderful dinner with the ones they love.
As usual, I work and do exercises during Tuesday to Friday this
week. The iCORE project announces a group research meeting will
be held on January 15, 2010, and each research group has to do a
progress presentation. So I work on our project and discuss with Dr.
Chang to make sure that our presentation will have high quality in
the meeting.
On Saturday night, I go to an Italian restaurant to have a dinner with
Fluvio and a friend of him. The dinner is expensive but it is so good;
the pasta is different from what I ever ate before. The wonderful
dinner and good service costs me CAD$35, the price includes tips. I
think cooking at home is a better idea for me, but sometimes,
having a dinner with friends is also interesting.
William will come here from Taiwan next week. I know many friends
concerning if we can survive here and preparing a lot of stuffs forus. It is so sweet; I deeply appreciate that and look forward to see
his arrival. Anyway, I hope next week’s weather will be good and he
will have a nice flight.
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Snows on the outdoor tables and chairs, they look like ice
cream~~
Minus 11 Celsius, it is warmer than last week…
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Seventh week (12/21~12/27) Temperature -9~-21℃
William came from Taiwan on Dec. 23 and it finished my single life
here. To express my welcome, I planned to rent a car to pick him up.Unfortunately, but the plan was rejected by both of our families.
They suggested me to find another way instead of driving on the
snows. So I went to Edmonton International Airport by taking “Sky
Shuttle” and came back home with William by taking taxi. It was
safer and cheaper, although I lost an opportunity to have experience
of renting and driving out of Taiwan.
William brought a lot of stuffs that friends sent to us, it made me
feel warm and I appreciated it so much. So many friends supported
us in studying abroad. But these warmest gifts made him pay an
overweight fee. Anyway, we were still glad to see each other and
thanked to all for these.
I took him to purchase something he needs just like Dr. Chang
helped me when I arrived in November. He was lucky because his
arrived on Christmas and New Year holidays, it meant there are a lot
of on sale promotions and we got our essentials for lower price. I
also introduced this beautiful city to him and helped him to get
familiar with her quickly. On Christmas, William’s supervisor, Dr. Tan,
brought us outside with two students from China and his two
daughters. We took a walk in a park which has a small descent that
people can slide with a board. The view was so good and many
people had fun there. In the evening, we went to Dr. Tan’s home and
had a bountiful feast. It was a wonderful Christmas!
This week is the last week of 2009. People have holidays and
welcome to the New Year. I also try to catch up my work in order to
make a perfect ending for this year. To prepare January 15’s
presentation, I need to complete several tasks according to my
timeline: (1) database schema and infrastructure; (2) basic agents
and functions on mobile devices; (3) reading papers; and, (4)
reporting progress and schedule in works I think these tasks train
me to be a person who can manage his time well.
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Finally, time flies so fast. It is amazing that I have been here almost
two months! I wish that I can do better in the next year and all my
friends have joyful and fortune. Merry Christmas and happy New
Year!
A small beautiful park.
William feels so exciting…
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On our way back home, we saw a beautiful house, the
owner must be rich, just kidding :p
Crazy boxing day on Dec. 26, everyone goes to
shopping!
The weather is cold but we are cool~
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New Year’s Eve, we went out and joined others to do
final countdown.