Mission Vancouver

Hi everyone! Its time for a report again… A lot of things happened in the last week and especially last weekend in Vancouver. After a night with just 40 minutes sleep we started our trip to Vancouver on Friday morning. Once in the afternoon we came to Vancouver and our nice and really luxurious hostel near the Hastings Street. The neighbourhood there was quite creepy… After a little walk and a really nice lunch in Gas town we went out to Tonic later. It was quite a thirsty night and a good party with a lot of fun. On Saturday we went to the famous Capilano Bridge near Vancouver. Later we saw the sunset in the Stanley Park which was pretty romantic ;) Then we dressed up a little bit for going to the Plaza. It was quite a nice Club, but not that much fun like on Friday. The funniest part of both evenings was anyway almost the way back home to our Hostel. So we talked to a lot of people and had a lot of fun with them… On Sunday morning Tyler and I went for a ride to search some cars and the others (Jakob, Mike and Chris) went to Downtown and later to the Stanley Park. The first Car dealer was at the beginning quite nice but later it’s getting quit scary there. It was a Chinese Car seller and I knew that these guys are hard to handle. But that it would be that hard I didn’t expect. I bargained a car from 4900 down to 3600, but this price was still a way higher than I planed to spend, so I told him that I’ve to think about his offer. Then he got angry and also sad and so he dont wanted to give me back my credit card… At the end we could leave with everything, but it was quite a crazy experience. Then we went to a big Auto Mall where a lot of Car dealer are. At the first dealership they told us, that they’ve no cars in this low price range… Fortunately the Car seller Danny made me then an offer to buy his private car - a Ford Escort LX Station wagon year 97 with 240000 km for 2200 CAD… For me it looked like a good offer and after 1.5 hours of waiting the man from the insurance company came and we could finish the deal. Because I have a limit from 2000 per day on my card I could bargain the car down to 2090 CAD. All in all together with the insurance I had to pay 2700. In my view quite a good price for this car. Right after that we went back home to Kamloops. Then the first stories happened with my new ride… Maybe 150 km before Kamloops we passed Merrit. There my tank was still 25% full and from Vancouver to Merrit we used not that much gas so I thought it’s easy till Kamloops. But maybe 40 km later the fucking gas pointer was at the lowest position and the lamp blinked really threateningly. So Jakob and I were really scared that we don’t come home anymore. So we drove like an 80 years old couple on the highway in the direction of Kamloops. It’s unbelievable it’s just nothing around there between Kamloops and Merrit. You’re just out of nowhere there. So Jakob and I sweated a lot when it went up again, because from Vancouver to the highest point on the road to Kamloops it’s a difference of more than a 1000 high meters… But fortunately we made it till the street went down to Kamloops and to the first gas station in town. The tank from the escort takes about 50 litres. So we tanked a little bit more than 50 litres what told us that we maybe had 1-2 litres left… Phuuu that was close! I really wouldn’t sleep in the out of nowhere in Ford Escort with just a T-Shirt on me ;) Later we recognised that the muffler of the car brake down, but it was really easy to fix. Ou and yeah in my first tree days I got 2 fines for parking already in Kamloops :) But I don’t going to pay any fine here in Canada anyway, so I don’t care about it. Yesterday was again horny Wednesday in Max… So we had a lot of fun again together. Today we make a nice barbeque at Tylers place. I think its going to be awesome because its going to be one of the last sunny and warm days here. So Rock on!!

This weekends moto: "Eine heimer no geng gno!" ;)

Genau wäg senige Stigige simer när bim zrüggcho chli iz Schwitze cho... These hills were the problem with the gas when we came back...

Landscape

Brigde between Stanley Park and Northern Vancouver

Capilano bridge

Äs wär doch eigentlch ganz eifach sech dsrächt dsfinde i derä Stadt ;) Actually it would be quite an easy city...

Ja sisch halt nid wie daheime... Yeah its not like home...



Capilano bridge area

Sunset @ Stanley Park

Sunset @ Stanley Park


My brandnew car...

My brandnew car...

Mis Nummereschild. Die Nummere wärde d Dschuggere hie ir nächste Zit ziemlch viel müesse ufschribe ;) Übrigens mit mire Lieblingszahl 23 druffe... Nice Omen isnt it ;) My new Car number...

Dressed up for Max... Aria(Australia), Eleonor, Sarah and Skip alias Stiffler(both Australia)

The neverending Korean story

Hey! I have a plenty of time at the moment because I broke my eardrum last Weekend. Now I’ve to stay a little bit at home that it can heal as fast as possible. It’s really weird to walk around with this shit. I feel always like I’m sitting in a big production hall with a lot of machines around me. And it’s even harder to listen to the teachers than before. I’ve to align my healthy ear always as good as possible to the teacher that I can understand anything. It’s also really funny, if I don’t wanna hear something I just turn left and I’m in my own world. Now it’s also the perfect possibility to write something about our Korean friend Han. He’s a really nice person its just not that easy to talk with him because he cant understand a word English so he needs always a friend of him as a translator. Just his shower and toilet- Behaviour is not the best. After he took a shower it’s always a big lake in our toilet and last weekend we had to clean up our toilet in the middle of the night, because it smelled like hell of pee inside there. That was not the experience that I waited for... Otherwise it’s really nice to live together with him. On Monday we could try some Korean food and vodka. The food was pretty nice, it was something like the Italian Tortellini, but I loved the Vodka. It’s not a really strong one (20%) but he’s really smooth to drink. And the funny thing is that the Vodka is in a Tetra pack... First I thought its some jus or something like that.

Im moment hani grad chli viel Zit, da ig letscht Weekend mis Trummelfäll kaputt gmacht ha. Iz muesi grad chli daheim blibe, dases müglechscht schnäll wider guet chunnt. Sisch mega komisch mit däm Seich. Sfüeltsch aube ah, wieni ire riese Produktionshalle umgä vo luter Maschine würdi hocke. Und ir Schuel muesimi iz aube müglchst guet mitm gsunde Ohr richtig Lehrer usrichte. Die ganzi Sach het aber ou sini Vorteile, weni irgendöpis nid wott ghöre, dräi eifach mi chopf gäge links und ig bi wider i mire eigete Wält. So chani mau ou grad mau öpis über üse Koreanisch Kolleg am Han verzelle. Sisch eigntlch ä sehr agnähmi Person zum mitim zämeläbe. Är isch würklch vou easy, sisch mängisch nume chli schwierig mit ihm ds Kommuniziere, da är fasch ke Änglisch versteit und ihm immer ä Kolleg vo ihm als Dolmetscher mues figuriere. Eifech sis Toilette und Duschverhalte isch verbesserigswürdig. Wenn är geit ga dusche, isch eifach immer ä rise Überschwemmig i üsem Bad. I weis also ou nid was dä geng macht ungr dr Duschi. När heimr letscht Weekend dsmitz ir Nacht müesse üsi Toilette putze, wüu är äuä nid het usegseh und sis Zielfernrohr nid guet isch igstellt gsi. Dasch nid grad die Erfahrig gsi, woni hie in Kanada gsuecht ha... Am Mäntig heimr zerscht mau chönne chli vom koreanische Ässe probiere. Shet so öpi wie Tortellini gä und derzue ä koreanische Vodka. Sisch würklch mega fein gsi, wobi smer dr Vodka bsunders het atah. Är isch nid so stark (20%) aber sehr schön zum trinke. Ds Luschtige isch, dass die Vodkas in Tetra pack verpackt si. Ha zersch gmeint äs sigi irgend ä Jus wonis zerscht mau im Küehlschrank gseh ha.

Da heimr doch kurzerhand müesse äs Schildli mache ;)

Äs geit de scho...

Hey how is it going? A lot of things happened again. There was always a party going on the last 3 nights. Some sick homepartys. The last two days the weather wasn’t that nice anymore. It was really cold and rainy, so it was nice to go out a lot. I got also my results from my last exams in Switzerland. And I passed all of them. So there was a big party yesterday! I would like to congratulate everybody who passed all exams also. Our first year is done buddies!!! I never thought that I am still here after the first year… Today the weather was good again, so we went to the wildlife park near Kamloops to see some animals. Tomorrow ill go hiking if the weather is still so nice. I am looking forward to the next weekend. Ill go for 3 days to Vancouver. There ill find a car – hopefully.

Hallo zäme was lampet? Äs si wider viel Sache passiert letscht Wuche. Die letschte drü Äbe isch immer öppis los gsi. Mir si immer a irgendwelche Homepartys iglade gsi. Vom Wätter här isch die letschte 2 Täg nümme so schön gsi. Sisch mega chalt worde und äs het immer chli gschiffet. Geschter hani mini Resultat vode letschte Prüefige becho und ig bi überall dürecho. So heimr geschter ä strubi Party verastaltet. Isch ä spassigi Sach gsi. I wet allne wo bi denä Prüefige ou si dürecho ganz härzlech gratuliere. Ds erschte Jahr heimer hinger üs Lütlis!!! Ungloublech, aber i hät nie dänkt dasi nach eim Jahr no am Start bi… Aber äbe ds Sprichwort "Äs geit de scho" hetsich wider mau bewahrheitet. Super gsi! Also fiiret guet und tüet nid dswüescht. Hüt isch ds Wätter scho wider super gsi und mir si i BC wildlife park ir nechi vo Kamloops. Morn gömer wider chli ga wandere, wenn ds Wätter immer no so schön isch. I freumi scho uf ds nächste Weekend. Denn gömer für 3 Täg nach Vancouver. Dert wirdi de hoffentlch ou ä fahrbare Untersatz finde.

Sitter här och tänker på vad jag ska skriva om. Vill ju inte smutsa ner Roys resedagbok. Hm...kanske lite tips om hur det är i Sverige. Åk till Sthlm, ät köttbullar, bada bastu, ta ett vinterdopp, se en älg o.s.v.

Barbeque@School

Players: Me, Joana(Finnland), Ruben(Australia)

Eleonor(Sweden) and Mike

Ueses Lieblingsbier ds Kokanee. Dr Name erinneret scho chli ads wisse Pulver. Das Bild isch natuerlch gstellt ;)

Da isch äuä eine neu izoge wo vorhär ä Drogedealer gwohnt het ;)

Ufem Wäg i Wildlife Park

Around Kamloops

The last days were pretty busy. Last Weekend we made some Trips around Kamloops. First we were hiking at the Petersens Creek Park in Kamloops. We had a lot of fun there. It was so nice. Sometimes it was really steep and we had to climb a little bit. At the beginning we saw also a snake, but only a small one. On Monday we went to the Sunpeaksresort, 30 minutes out of Kamloops. There we found a totally different nature as here. It looked more like the real Canada -what we expected from. A lots of really nice forests and a beautiful nature. We stayed there in a restaurant. In the winter its a nice ski-resort with really nice dry Canadien powder and in Summer its a really nice resort for biking, especially downhill- biking. So ill go back for sure for a few downhill- runs. On Tuesday the school started. There were a lot of new people and i think its really nice to go to school here. I have also really interesting courses with some nice teachers. After a few changes im gonna take: Spanish; Global and Canadien Economic Issues; Sports Event Management; Managing Festivals and Events and maybe French, but this i maybe gonna kick off, because the Canadien French is so extremly bad, sometimes i dont understand them at all... But the two Event- courses are really interesting and they dont feel like normal courses. Its real fun there and its exactly what i would like to do and whats interesting to me. I go to bed now. Cya soon...

Ir letschte Wuche isch ziemlch viel los gsi aber mä cha ja nid immer nume über wildi Partys brichte, sondern mues ou mau chli öpis über d Gägend verzelle. Letscht Wuchenend heimr so äs paar Türli um Kamloops ume gmacht. Zersch simer imne Park in Kamloops chli ga wandere. Sisch ziemlch luschtig gsi. Zersch simer no are Schlange übere Wäg gloffe und speter heimer üs am Wasser nah a Höline verbi dürne Schlucht ufekämpft. Sisch zum Teil scho zure richtige Chlätterpartie worde. Am Mäntig simer heimr när no ä chline Abstächer nach Sunpeaks gmacht, ä Skiort öppe 30 Minute vo Kamllops wäg. Dört isch d Natur scho wider chli me Kanada- like gsi mit vielne Wälder und äre wunderschöne Landschaft. Im Winter isch Sunpeaks äs ziemlch grosses Skigebiet mit sehr trochnigem kanadischem Powder und im Summer isches ziemlch guet zum Bike, speziell zum Downhill- Bike. I wirde also sicher mau no dört ga dr Bärg abheize... Am Ziestig isches när richtig los gange ir Schuel. Vieli neui Gsichter und feie chli ä Mönscheasammlig ufem Unigländ. Sisch scho rächt geil ä so id Schuel dsgah. Sisch eifach immer öpis los hie ufem oder rund ums Unigländ. Nach einige Wächsle i mim Programm hanimi iz für folgendi Kürs entschide: Spanisch; Global and Canadien Economic Issues; Sports Event Management; Managing Festivals and Events und ev. Französisch, aber das lahni de ev. la si, wüu so wie die Kanadier hie Franz redä, wirdi eher nume no schlächter, alsi mi cha verbessere. Mängisch hani also ziemlch müeh, die dsverstah. Aber die 2 Event- Kürs si also sehr geil! Dasch genau das, woni mir eigentlch vorstelle. Sisch würklch sehr interessant und d Lehrer si ou cooli Sieche. Das isch nid wie eifach ä normale Unterricht. Mi geit eifach dört häre und hets chli luschtig mitenand... Also mues iz mau ga schlafe. Bis gli...

Kamloops by night. Sicht vom Viewpoint

Ds Hölemonschter

Sicht über Kamloops vom Petersen Creek

Sunneuntergang ufem Petersen Creek

Ufem Wäg uf Sunpeaks

PS: On all these pictures u can see, that theres always some fog in the air. That comes from the big fire around Washington... Its really crazy, sometimes its even hard to breathe.
Uf all denä Bilder gsehtme, dases immer chli dunstig isch. Das chunt vom Rauch vom Für ds Washington... Sisch rächt strub, mängisch merktmes sogar bim Schnufe.

Players

Yesterday night we had a nice Homeparty at our Appartement. A lot of people were there. Later we went out to Players. Here some expressions...


Georgie and Big Mike

Selina and me

Eva and Chris

??? and Kay

Rätsel: Weli zwöi verstecke sich ächt hingerem Vorhang??? Wärs als erschts usefingt, däm schickemer äs Chärtli vo Kanada. Also los gehts greifft in die Tasten und macht mit...

The Max

On Wednesday we were out in Max, one of the Clubs Downtown Kamloops. First we met Fabienne and Taylor in a Bar for drink a cupple of beers. Taylor made us a gift... A bottle of finest Canadien Whiskey, which we had to drink while walking to the max. Once at max we had to wait in line for about a half an hour till we could go in. Unbelievabal for a Wednesday. In there it was funking crazy!! I mean it was a normal Wednesday but everyone was pissed like hell in there!! I didnt expect that much party in Kamloops... So we had fun there till about 4 oclock in the morning. On the way home we made a traditional stop for a burger. It was really a sick evening!!

Am Mittwuch simer im Max gsi, ä Club in Kamloops. Zersch simer uf äs paar Bier inere Bar mitr Fabienne und em Taylor. Speter simer när is Max witerzoge und ungloublch fürne Mittwoch heimr ca. ä Halbstund müesse astah, bismr hei inechönne. Dert inne isches abgange vom strübschte, eifach alli kaputt vom strübschte -so wie d Kanadier halt si. Ufm Heimwäg heimr när traditionellerwis no halt fürne Burger gmacht. Also sisch würklch ä strube abe gsi!!

Ufem Wäg is Max

Dr Big Mike bim Luft- tanze. Check out the asses in behind!

D Fabienne und dr Taylor