hi everyone I am Robin and in this video
I'm gonna talk about my hometown now a
lot of my students ask me where are you
from and of course I answer I'm from
Canada and then they usually asked me
which city are you from in Canada
Vancouver or Toronto okay so those are
two cities most Koreans know and I
explained well I'm not from Vancouver or
Toronto and I tell them I'm from a city
called Edmonton okay and they're like
where's Edmonton and I explained well
Edmonton is closer to Vancouver it's in
Western Canada but actually Edmonton is
not really close to Vancouver if you are
driving from Vancouver to Edmonton it
would take about 16 hours to drive
through the mountains okay so that's
still pretty far all right now I tell
them my hometown is Edmonton because you
know I went to university in Edmonton
and I spent about six or seven years in
Edmonton
but Edmonton is not my real hometown my
real hometown is Fort McMurray where is
Fort McMurray well for McMurray is north
of Edmonton so if you're going from
Edmonton and you're driving north you
have to drive another five hours to get
to Fort McMurray okay Fort McMurray is a
smaller city there's only about 60,000
people living there and even in Canada a
lot of Canadians never heard of Fort
McMurray because it's so far north and
isolated okay there's no other cities
around it and as I said the closest main
city is Edmonton but that's a five hour
drive away now for McMurray is in the
bush
okay there's lots of trees there lots
and lots of trees and in the wintertime
because it's so far north it's very dark
in the winter time when I went to school
it was dark and when I came home it was
dark there's not
sunlight in the winter time and also for
memory is very very cold it is freezing
so I remember temperatures of minus 30
degrees Celsius minus 35 degrees Celsius
and with the windchill that can easily
go to minus 40 degrees Celsius minus 45
degrees Celsius very very cold all right
poor McMurray is not a very good place
to visit okay there's no tourism there
there's nothing to see and do there as I
say there's just trees but there is one
thing for McMurray is famous for and
that is oil there's a lot of oil there
and that's the main industry there
that's why people live there they work
for the oil industry and the oil there
is different it's not the oil that you
pump out of the ground actually the oil
is in the sand and they call that tar
sand okay so they have to suck the oil
out of the sand so that's that's how for
McMurray makes its money and that's why
people live there probably I wouldn't
want to go back there and live I live
there during my childhood that's enough
it's too cold for me I enjoy living in
Edmonton which is five hours south and a
little bit better weather anyway that's
my hometown I hope you enjoyed my story
see you next time