Our First Month Here

Calgary Tower and our amazing blue sky!

Last week, on Tuesday (September 20^th) we completed one month in Calgary. Yes, time flies… It has been one month already.

As everyone who follows our blog knows, in Nanaimo, we met special people who helped us and made our journey even nicer. So, in the beginning we were anxious to know if the same would happen here, since we were moving to a larger city in a different province.

It was a pleasant surprise to meet great people here as well; everyone has been so kind and friendly. The person who (along with his fiancée) welcomed us here and hosted us at his house for a week is a friend of a friend. It means: we have not met one another in person until we arrived here in August! We met them in the Calgary Airport. Nevertheless they did everything they could to make us feel comfortable at their house! A very special thank you to Alexx and Geneviève for the perfect welcome to Calgary!

My internship mentor also was so nice. She (together with her husband) invited Renato and I for a delicious dinner at the Calgary Tower Restaurant as soon as we arrived here. It was a night of good chat, good food, and good fun. Another very special welcome to Calgary!

For us Nanaimo is, for sure, the most beautiful city we lived in. We always asked ourselves: will we like Calgary the same way we like Nanaimo? Will the city be beautiful? Will we find a cozy home? 

Well, the answers are “yes” for all the questions! Our second pleasant surprise was to discover the beautiful city of Calgary! Calgary is full of historical and contemporary attractions.  It is possible to step back in time by visiting the blacksmith shop or riding the steam locomotive to get a taste of what Calgary was like 100 years ago, and it is also possible to be impressed by the modern architecture of the buildings in downtown. The Bow River flows through the city of Calgary, which makes the city even more beautiful. You can check out some pictures here! 

Besides, we found a cool home in less than one week. Thank God! And thanks again to our patient friend Alexx who helped us a lot! We are living near downtown, Renato and I are taking the bus to work and we both get on our offices in less than 30 minutes! You can see our home sweet home here!

Now we are anxiously waiting for the real Canadian winter! People are saying that we will likely have some snow by Halloween! Yes…by Halloween! Since we arrived here, however, the weather has been amazing; warm; very sunny; but a bit cold at night! The temperature ranges a lot during the day. When we are going to work at 7:30am, it is common to see the thermometer showing the temperature of 5°C, and at the same day, when we are going back home at 4:30pm, it is 27°C! Just like that...

Last but not least, just to let you know that we have forgotten what is rain! It rained only two days since we are here! Please do not be mad with us, but this is true! We are missing Nanaimo, our BC friends and VIU, but not that annoying rain that falls “just” nine months of the year! LOL!

Thanks for reading! See you!