One of my Chinese friends told me "This place is just like a jail, so boring!". Indeed, there are very LIMITED ways to entertain yourself as the way you do in China. You can NOT go shopping for a whole day, you can NOT have lots of Chinese food to eat, you can NOT go to KTV, and you can NOT go to the internet cafe to play PC games with your friends.
However, what I see is that the environment is total different, and I can learn from the different. Take here's winter for example, the snow is so heavy that sometimes just one night your vehicle would be buried. Honestly to say, it is annoying to dig the car out of the snow every morning. People living there have their own ways to enjoy. They play hockey, play broomball, go cross-country skiing, go down hill skiing, drive snow motor. You will see, it is the snow that provide the fun.
Like or dislike is subjective. Boring or fun is relative. But you can choose to make yourself like it, enjoy it.
I just learn skiing. But the way to learning skiing, is to find the guy who is good at it, and learn from them.
GO skiing!