[Assam] visiting Vancouver: World' best city to live in

[umesh sharma]

Hi,

Today morning I was sitiing in Washington DC's Dulles
airport -since 11pm the night before and caught the
early morning flight at 8am to Vancouver , Canada
-diaginally across the North American continent -just
below Alaska. We reached here in 4 hours - one hour
before we were due. At the customs -they had lots of
questions for me -- since I am visiting here -an
Indian, young, single ,male (so might be a terrorist
as well!) -and demanded to see my return flight to DC
ticket -which I did not have but did show my letter
from US consuate foe  my coming visa interview (for
H-1B work visa) for Sep14th. It was tough but one of
the immigration offiials was a Sikh girl wearing a
truban so it did not seem so bad. I changed three
buses to get to my Harvard classmate's house. ALL
thebus drivers were Indians -with Indian accent. The
city is laidback but chilly weather -about 15 degree
celcius (64F) . Now I am getting toknow how to live
with am American family - I will be staying with them
for a month and go back to DC to work after I am
allowed to.

Vancouver, does not have much snow due to some warm
water sea current which goes all the way to Alaska. It
is a very green and lush place. For years it has been
voted the world's best city to live in - by United
Nation's survey. Looks a bit like Mumbai downtown -
like Nariman Point area etc but less rush and more
chilly and green.   

Any comments?
Umesh

Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, MD 20740 USA

Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada

 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
Canada # (607) 221-9433

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/


		
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