Do you wanna know people from everywhere? Come to Canada!

 People from all around the world

One of the things Canadians are proud of is their mixed population. And they are right, all peoples are here -- First Nations, Asians, Latin Americans, Europeans, Africans -- and everybody has a good chemistry with each other. 

We are enjoying this great chemistry in our classes. One of the richest experiences of doing this MBA program is that we have been studying with people from everywhere: North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. This is excellent because we can learn a lot about their cultures, ways of life, ways of studying and so on.

Also, another interesting thing is that our professors come from all around the world. During the Pre MBA, we had classes with a two Canadians, an Haitian, and a Scottish, who is one of the funniest Professors ever. Now, on our first semester, we are taking courses with three Professors from Canada, one from Finland, one from Thailand and another funny and excelent Professor from Ghana.

This great mix Canada offers is so rich, since we are not only learning Economics, Accounting, or Marketing, but we are also learning about different ways of teaching, different ways of dealing with cultural differences, different ways of supporting the students, and, of course, different ways of marking!  

Besides, studying with classmates and professors from everywhere is the best method of understand about some countries and delete some stereotypes. Now we know that there are some warm places in Russia, there are beautiful beaches in Canada, there are more Lebanese people -- taking into account Brazilian-Lebanese -- living in Brazil than in Lebanon.

Also, it is a good opportunity to share with our friends a little bit about our country. Now, our friends know that we are not late all the time, that we "speak" with our hands more than we do with our mouth, some of our friends also know that we have an American Football league where teams play on the beach, that we have snow in some Brazilian regions and that we have one of the best hockey teams in the world called Rio Heat... We are kidding about the hockey team, but all the other ones are true. We swear!   

See you in the next post!