John McEnroy's Blog Entry

After a weekend of getting to see Peggy’s Cove, which was very picturesque, along with adopting the Toronto Maple Leafs as my hockey team and an early start on Sunday to watch some sports from home with other people from the hostel, I was now ready to get a start to the week ahead. Today we had a lie in as we would be collected by Lisa, Peter and Cynthia to bring us to Lisa’s house which our project is based upon. On the way to the house I drove with Cynthia and she showed us some ports of Halifax on the drive. When we arrived at the house, as a group we got down to work collecting information on the house and surveying the house for the information which our project required. While at the house we were given a tour by Lisa and noticed a number of differences to the blueprints we had been given. While there, a blower door test was conducted! This was the first time I had seen one of these done! Once we gathered the information we all got back into the cars and drove to the next house for the remaining group to complete their work. On the journey, I traveled with Peter who pointed out a number of places which he had worked on and along with the rest of the people in the car (Lucas, Anna, Matt and Jochem) we had a good laugh and developed the line “I am an international student, I was told I can do this and/or be here,” which we all found funny and plan to use during our remaining time here in Halifax. While at the next house we managed to talk to the owner while the group did their work. Once this was completed we traveled back to the College with the information we had gathered, but on the way we stopped into Tim Hortons for a spot of lunch and to continue our great conversation!

- John McEnroy, Student, Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland