The good, the bad and everything in between - so far

No, I haven't been living on a bed of roses and fun and excitment. There has been bad things along the way.

Homestay

First, let's point out that a house is not a home and no family will live up to your own. Secondly, take the fact that you are sharing a house with around 10 people, and there are 2 of them that make the rules. You won't be able to know all the rules from day one, so disagreeing, and some arguments may come along. Feeling insulted by the way people talk to you can be frequent, and the lack of freedom for preparing your own food will definetly be a bad point. Sum that to the fact that you'll mostly be out of home so you'll spend a lot of money - which ends up making a homestay a pretty expensive option. And, to end these bad aspects of the homestay we go back to food. If you were used to a certain diet, be ready to let it go. One day you'll show up at home just to have lunch hoping to fînd some sort of protein and you'll find soup, or you'll be expecting a proper meal for dinner and you'll find pizza.
Of course, it's not a living hell. You'll get to arrive home the time you want, you won't be bothered and there won't be one single chore for you to do. As saving money is more important than saving myself from chores, leaving the homestay seems the best option - finding a place to stay, well, let's leave it for another day.
Also if you are willing to dialogue, you'll learn people can be much more understanding than you ever thought they could, which can be comforting for a while.

School

Let me tell you that these are pretty disappointing aspects of my trip. Can you imagine that I've been here for a week and the people from the exchange company didn't get in touch with me even once to check if everything's ok? How much for post sales or whatever they believe.
But the worst part is the school here in Canada. As I'm not the regular ESL student, I can only rely on myself for information and development of my program. The course I'm taking now is pretty much intense and regardless the criticisims I'd have about it, it's been pretty informative - overwhelming too, I must add. At some point people are helpful, but only at some point which makes you believe that for them you're just an amount of money.
As good aspects, well, people are amazing. I like every single people from my class, and I can see they care about me too. Different experiences, different backgrounds. Unfortunately we're so focused on our subjects that we don't get to share at all, but hopefully there'll be some time for that.
There'll be more, but I'm pretty tired for today... laterz

 ps: this is not the house I live in - just a pic I liked! lol