Van week 1

I'm having a GREAT time. This city is crazy big and crazy busy and crazy humid and crazy smoggy. There are full of markets and endless shopping centers everywhere. People are swarming in the streets and traffic is so hectic that crossing the street is probably the most complicated part of my day. lol.
It's just so different. Actually it's like a chinese New York but everything more ampliphied. The worse part of it is that I still haven't been to the city center yet. I've been on the north shore and I still haven't seen nearly half of it. Just this side of town is bursting with restaurants and shopping. Endless ....
It's really fun going into town but whenever we come back to where we're staying, we're really appreciative that it's in a village. We live 30 minutes away from it all by bus and metro. We're living in a 2 storey appartment at the top of a mountain by the bay. I see the water from my room. I share a room with Valerie. We share a bunk bed in a REALLLY small room. but it's fine. We have a balcony attached to our room so I often go chill out there.
Or the two guys have their own appartment/loft upstairs with a HUGE roof top terrasse. It's pretty awesome. we often chill together upstairs on the terrasse or at their table. So far we're getting along surprisingly well. I think we're going to have a good time working together.
oh ya! working.... so today was my first day at school. I love it. The kids are way more disciplined than in Quebec! It's crazy! Not even comparable. At the beginning of every lesson they stand up and bow to the teacher and say "good morning miss Pacitti".
The kids love us. And they're soooooooo adorable. They speak English very well. They're more advanced than the Quebec kids. My cooperating teachers have a very similar teaching style as me. They're funny and the kids love them.
THe hostess/supervisor, Maureen, is so easy going. She's really nice, laughs at all of our jokes, relaxed and honest. HEr husband too. THey have a maid to do all of our meals, cleaning and clothes washing. It's like heaven. All of our meals are provided, except on the weekends, which is perfect cause we're downtown anyways.ok so there's many other messages to come. I hope you enjoy them.