On the land of the frozen cowboys

In mid-October, between period one and two, I took a Greyhound night bus to visit Calgary. I flew through the city many times before but I never had the chance to actually explore it. I was curious about Calgary as I heard many interesting stories about the city from my classmates coming from Alberta. As Calgary is full of opportunities for mbas I definitely wanted to walk around to get a feeling whether I could see myself living there.

I arrived early on a Friday morning and although it was mid-October the city was covered with snow and the temperature was -6 C. Nevertheless, I wandered around downtown by foot as that is a great opportunity to explore any new city. Later, I took both CTrains in all the directions to see the surroundings. I then checked out the campus of the University of Calgary and the building of the Haskayne School of Business, just to see how those other mba folks look like.

During my time in Calgary, I found locals to be very kind and even though the city has one million residents it felt like I was in a nice town with nice people. The following day, I took another bus up to Edmonton to visit my friend and drive back together to Vancouver through Jasper. Edmontonians seemed to be kind as well and the city had some nice green spots too. From there the drive through the Rockies was amazing. We have seen many kind of animals along the way. It was also nice to discover eastern BC while we drove back toward Vancouver.