[Assam] visiting Vancouver: World' best city to live in
umesh sharma
jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 30 12:27:05 PDT 2006
Jyoti-da,
I am not forming my opinions about anything -just
relating me experience. I'm sure many more would like
to visit Vancouver and it is really a nice place.
Though no place is perfect and there is no heaven on
earth -if you really want a ga-ga picture about
anyplace in the world.
About your remarks:
1. I needed to be at 11pm atthe airport at night becos
I cannot afford to stay in a nearby hotel or take a
taxi from my house 30 miles away.
2. It was a non stop flight and we did reach an hour
earlier .
3. A Sikh girl with a turban - I have seen quite a few
in Los Angeles -if you want I can show some photos
also. And there ws one who interviewed me initially
-she did have turban.
4. Vancouver downtown is really good -very British
like -like buildings in Mumbai downtown.
5. I do not mind taking off clothes for the inpection
--but as a visitor one must have all the documents in
hand - i didnn't -so faced some music - others may do
so . SO I shared my experience.
6. I would love to travel around but I lack themoney
and I plan to devote my time to revise my study
material.
Best Wishes and thaks for your remarks.
Its a nice place.
Umesh
--- Jyoti Kumar Das <jkdas_2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
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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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