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

Wed Aug 30 10:50:18 PDT 2006

Dear Umesh,

  Welcome to Canada. I do follow some of the discussions that go on in assam.org and don't really get passionately involved. I am not sure how I got into the mailing list of this forum.  I must remark, that not all the discussion strings are interesting. Obviously there is a lot of spare time to indulge in this forum. Thats very good, I have nothing against it.

  I see you were very quick to firm up your opinions about your trip & Vancouver. I cannot help mentioning some of your comments which are kind of weird,

  1. Why do you need to sleep of at the airport in Washington D.C @ 11.0 pm the previous day tho catch a flight at 8.0 am in the morning? I am sure there are hotels nearby. I may be wrong.

  2. I have not heard of flights landing one hour ahead of schedule. Either the time table is wrong or there could be a unimaginable high tail wind to achieve this. I am not sure if you have considered the time difference.

  3. A sikh girl with  a turban is unheard of or was she wearing scarf on her head?

  4. I am not sure if you have been through US customs and security check from outside US or for that matter within US as well. Because, that is some experience as well. I was almost ready to take of my jeans, on one of my visits to the US,  because these guys were not sure what was setting the frisking beeper on. I am sure they know that a pair of jeans has a metal zip in front.

  5. You are very eager to form an opinion without even been in the country. British Columbia is the name of the province and it is a very beautiful place to be in. Glad you chose to visit Vancouver. Please reserve your comments till the end of your stay. You mentioned "green" and thats what it is.

  6. Have you seen or been to Sion and Dharavi in Mumbai? Some neighbourhoods in the US look like that, but we choose to ignore, because we stay in US of A.

  Enjoy your stay in Vancouver. Try and visit Jasper, Whistler, Victoria Island and Kolowna, where the vineyards are  plenty. Try and vist the Shuswap Lake if you have the time. See the Rocky Mountains. You are little early for the Salmon run in around October - November. Drive to Hell's Gate, you'll enjoy every bit of it. Go and see the air-show at Scottsford. Heard about Red-Arrows, they are spectacular site. Do some whale watching if you can. Take a cruise to Alaska from Vancouver. Have you seen a Rodeo show or a Chuckwagon Racing or Steer wrestling, or bareback bull riding? come to Alberta.

  Cheers
  Jyoti

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
  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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