My week in a couple of pictures and thoughts # 2

Monday: Homework in Stanley Parc, enjoyed the warm weather

Tuesday: Did some tourist shopping, the first souvenirs are already bought!

Wednesday: Carnival at school wasn't that "super awesome fun fun fun", so we went to English Bay instead! Such a beatiful beach, with beautiful people, doing sports or just enjoing the sun. An awesome place!

Thursday: Stanley Parc, Slacklining and meeting some new people. The Parc strats to get one of my favourite places after school. When schools out at 4:30 pm there is not that much time to do something absolutely exciting, so realxing in a nice parc is a  pretty good option. espacially if the weather is that nice!

Friday: Granville Island, Bratwurst for Lunch, cute Public Market and a fun time! Granville was so nice, it felt like in France whith my bestie Becky, when we've been to that huge market in .. where was it again??? So many fruits, vegetables and above all sweets!!!! Had a delicious Eclair for desert ^^

Saturday: Museum of Antropoligy, University of Britsh Columbia, Annas & Livias Birthday. That eles is there to do on such a rainy and cloudy day? Right. Visit a museum! My hostmother recommended it for a day like this, and I didn't want to stay at home all day, so I went there with a group of friends! It was.... nice, but not what I had expected. :P You got soe information of the natives and the Totem and the history of Vancouver, but it was really differnt to an eurpean museum. The UBC was greeeeeaaaat & huuuuuuge! I've never seen such a big University. And it has bautiful souroundings. I just want to say: The sea is 10 minutes away from the campus :P I don't want to know how much the students have to pay for their studies there!

Sunday:  Nothing special happended  slept in, read my book, did school stuff, and at the moment I'm planning my week :)



Sorry for the random arangement of the pictures. :P

Granville Island!

University of British Columbia & Mueum of Antropoligy. The weather was pretty bad, as you can see!
 

 Just a sunny day in Vancouver! Yaaay!

  The Totem Poles of the "native" Canadians

 English Bay! Enjoying an other sunny day, after class with a cold Bellini!

I hope you are all fine and I wish you an nice week!  x)

Every sunday I'm suffeling #2

Thumbs up for: The Sun, a funny teacher 

Thums down for: rainy days, air condition!!!!

Bought: Bus passes, postcards (yees, soon many of you will get some ;) ), food :D

Thought: "Money is a bitch!"

Searched: my sleep and motivation at school haha ^^

Found: Blizzard! The best invention that exists! Love this icecream!
 
Worth hearing:

Irie Révoltés- Soleil

Listening to french music, while talking in english and writing in german. This is multilingualism ! ;)


Worth seeing:  English Bay. I've rarely seen something as beautiful as this beach!

Quoted well:  “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” -Victore Hugo, Les Misérables


Last sin: Pizza at Livia's & Anna's birthday!;) Yummie!

My first week!

Hey there!

I just thought that it might be intresting fpor you if I tell you a little bit about my frist week in Vancouver. I know, That's what the weekly post is for, but I wanted to share some more information with you and some pictures as well!

Okay, I'll TRY keep it short, as most of you already know the most important things that happened in this first week.

Saturday: Arrival after a loooong exhausting flight. Almost missed my second plane!!! But, I made it to Vancouver safely & got to know my wonderful hostfamily!

Sunday: Discovered Vancouver on my own,  6 hours of walking through this wondeful city! When I came home, my lovely hostsister (that girl that stays with me here in North vancouver ) has already arrived! Isadora is 17 years old and from Brazil! I really like her and it is fun to stay with her at the hostfamilys house (and nooo I'm not only saying this, because I know that you read this! It's the truth! :) )

Monday: Welcomeday at school. Pretty cool exept for the placement test! Already met sooo many people andy many of them were from Switzerland!

Tuesday: Other than expected we were aaaall seperated to different classes. I'm now in ther CAE class one! But the thing was, that we were there togehter with students that are doing the preparation class for 4 weeks already, and we just got mixed. At first it was really hard to keep up with the others, but it's getting better! And I also made some new friends in this class, too. After class (16:30) I was so tired that I went straight to my home and did nothing special

Wednesday: School all day, and afterwards: Took a short look at Stanley Park, really beautiful, but we were missing the sun!

Thursday: In the mornig the weather was awesome. But when we got out of the school it was all rainy again. Actually the whole day was really bad! I still had to pay for the Camebridge Exam (its about 250 $ extra!!!) and my creditcard didn't work at school. At lunchtime I had to go to the bank because I needed to pay cash. But after I had tried over and over again nothing worked, until I finally foudn a bank that payed me out the money. Unfurtunately, I was late at school, and I had no lunch. Also, I was really afraid that I my teacher would'nt let me enter the classroom again, because the rules for late students are really strict. Normally, teachers are not allowed to let them in again, but Jim made an exeption and let me in. After a really bad afternoon in class with writing exercises and a headache I decided to go to the library for studying. It was so huge and beautiful there. But before that i went to the mall to do some grocery and also normal shopping.This was basiclly the highlight of that day.

Friday: Okay, I'm keeping it short again. Sorry! We went to Stanley Park after Lunch (because on Friday school usually ends at 12:50 (yaaaay!). There we visited the aquarium. It was really sunny and we were a nice group (you can see us onthe first picture ). Aditionally we saw a dolphin show and a beluga show as well! It took us about the whole afternoon to get to Stanley Parc because the Brazilians (Thais and Isadora) were taking pictures aaaaall the way, but that was okay, be ciuse we had a lot of time!)

Saturday: Yaaay, weekend! finally! I slept in then skyped with family and friends, went to Downtown just for fun and for Thomas' birthday dinner! He ivited the whole class to come to a japanese bbq togheter to celebrate his 20th birthday! It was so much fun, so tasty and my first japanese bbq! Afterwards we went to a pub, watched the hockey game and just talked a bit (btw the vancouver canucks won !)

Sunday: Not a lazy day at all! I went skiing with Tobias, an other german boy. It was o much fun. Even though I haven't skied for 5 years now, I wanted to try it again and yeah it went quiet well. The cool thing is, that the mountain we went to is only 20 minutes away from my home. And it was absolutely worth a visit. Even if it was expensive, there were so many different ski slopes and we had such a nice view on Vancouver!


So, now I'm reeeeeaaly tired and its already 23:20 and I have to get up really early tomorrow. Sorry, I haven't kept it short again :( I need to try not to write that much next time! Most of you might not even read the text but only be interested in the pictures haha.
Sleep well, or better: good morning!

x)

from the left to the right: Isadora, me, Tobias, Thais, Jennifer

dolphin-show at the Vancouver Aquarium

View of Vancouver's skyline

The family, I'm staying with! really nice and awesome family!

A glider for my airfield guys ;)

Grouse Mountain!

Every sunday I'm shuffeling .. ^^

Hey! :)

I tried to translate my weekly summary in english, and I thin it worked quiet well. The headline is actually nonsense, but I like it ^^. Ah and just in case you didn't knwo, but, in Vancouver it's still Saturday, but I wantedt to be on time with this post, so you get it early this weeek, because I'll be skiing tomorrow!! If anything interesting happens I'll let you know of course :)
Now, have a nice sunday!

Thumbs up for: The city, Downtown, new people, funny teachers

Thums down for: Tough school and beeing new in a school/class!; rainy weather; creditcards that do not work

Bought: A gorgerous top at American Eagels, black Ked's, Coffee(or rather hot choclate) at Starbucks

Thought: " Am I right here? - No, I don't think so."

Searched: A bank. help and a healthy lunch

Found: a beautiful parc, new friends,  the bus station(yaaay!)

Worth hearing: The Kooks - Seaside

Worth seeing: Stanley Parc, "Harry Potter and the Dealthly Hollows" (could watch it over and over again!)

Quoted well:  -


Last sin: rice waffles

Some impressions

Hey there!

I just came back from running and wanted to show you some impressions of my neighbourhood. I stoped almost every 500 meters to take a picture, so that I wasn't "running" actually :P

Those pictures are taken with my cell, so they are not that good, but they'll give you a first impression :)

And last but not least: My home for the next two months :)

Other pictures of my room will follow in a few days ;) Now I have to do loads of homework! Camebridge Avanced Exam Preparation - Class is reaaally tough, tougher than I had expected it to be!
But, oh well, we learn a lot, and I'll improve my english pretty soon!

First day of school!

Hallo ihr Lieben :)

Heute gibt's gleich zwei Posts von mir :)
Nur, damit ihr bescheid wisst, ich schreib hier bald auf Englisch, weil das Umdenken zu Deutsch echt schwierig wird... ist mir schon bei whatsapp aufgefallen ;) Also: Der nächste Post wird Englisch!
Aber sied lieb zu mir, wenn da dann Fehler drin sind ... bin ja schließlich zum Lernen hier :)

Joa, also mein erster Schultag.... war echt cool eigentlich. Die Schule war einfach zu finden, nachdem ich am Sonntag schon meine Tour durch die Stadt gemacht hatte. Isadora(die ander brasilianische Gastschülerin) und ich waren zwar ein bisschen spät, aber das war okay. Also, die Schule ist sehr modern und alle Leute dort sind echt nett.

Nach ner kurzen Einführung gabs erstmal den placement test. Ungefähr 1 1/2 Stunden mussten wir versuchen alle Fragen so gut zu beantworten, wie es nur ging. Hat eigentlich ganz gut geklappt! das Ergebnis gibts aber erst morgen! Jaa, dann haben wir so ne Art vorstellungsrunde gemacht & es kam raus, das in der "Welcome group", also alle Cabridge students, sowohl First certificate als auch advanced, wirklich und wahrhaftig 20 Leute Schweizer waren! Echt krass, hätte mehr Asiaten und Brasilianer erwartet, aber okay! hauptsache sie sind alle nett. Nur blöd, dass sie die ganze zeit noch Schweizerdeutsch reden, dh ich kann sie alle verstehen. Ah und außerdem hab ich dort einen anderen Deutschen kennengelernt, der schon den ganzen Weg mit mir hingeflogen ist und eine Reihe hinter mir saß. Das lustige ist, er ist sogar ganz aus der Nähe, kommt aus Speyer. So klein ist die Welt :D


Ja, danach gabs ne kleine "Führung durch Viertel und ne Mittagspause, auf die der speaking test folgte. Eiegntlich nru ein kurzer Plausch mit einer Lehrerin, die dadurch dein Englischlevel feststellen sollte. Für mich jedenfalls, manche fanden es wohl nicht soooo einfach..

Nach dem Test hab ich nochmal schnell das Wi-fi in der Schule ausgenutzt und dann bin ich mit den Schweizern und dem Deutschen (haha,das klingt so blöd) ein bisschen durch Vancouver gelaufen, hab mich mit einigen unterhalten, manche waren sogar so nett, Englisch mit mir zu sprechen(Schwizerdütsch is nich immer soo einfach zu verstehen! :P)

Joa, das hat echt den rest des Tages gedauert und dabei kamen wir auch durch Chinatown und durch Straßen, die ich lieber nicht gesehen hätte. war teilweise echt beängstigend!!! Gut das ich mit so vielen Jungs unterwegs war!
Danach sind die Jungs in ein Pub und ich bin noch zu London Drugs um mir den Adapter zu kaufen!

Klingt irgendwie alles gar nich soo intressant, wie ich dachte, und ist echt lang geworden jetzt, sorry, aber irgendwie will ich euch immer alles erzählen :P 

Und zum Schluss ein Bild von meinem Mittagessen :P

Mit der Cam hab ich bis jetzt kaum Bilder gemacht, weil heute kein gutes Wetter war, und ich sie gestern, als die Sonne wirklich super lang da war nich mit hatte!
Aber euch segelflieger wrid freuen: hab schon einige Wasserflugzeuge entdeckt und Fliegen sehen und auch einen Heliport gibt es hier :P Da steht aber nur ein Helicopter, bzw der ist meistens nicht da ;P

Immer wieder Sonntags!

Hey there!

So, hier kommt der neue Sonntagspost, auch wenns bei mir schon Montag is und bei euch sicher schon Dienstag.

Ein Hoch auf kanadische Grocery Stores, die wirklich aaaaaaaaaaaaalles haben. Ich kann meinen Laptop nutzen. Dh Skype geht auch, also falls einer von euch mal skypen will, lassts mich wissen!

Daumen hoch für: Die coolsten Freunde der Welt, eine nette Gastfamilie, die schöne Landschaft, neue Freunde

Daumen runter für: Unpünktliche Füge, (=unpünktliche Sina), regnerisches Wetter hier, und Frühling in Deutschland,jeden Tag ewig lang Schule UND Hausaufgaben, (Wer hat sich nochmal die Schule zurückgewünscht? ;P)

Gekauft: Adapter, Essen, Postkarten

Gedacht: "Ich habs geschafft, ich habs echt geschafft. Ich bin endlich da"

Gesucht: Mein Gate, die Schule, die Busstation, eigentlich alles

Entdeckt: Halb vancouver auf einen 6 stündigen Alleinspaziergang durch Vancouver (Downtown, Yaletown, Chinatown, haha :D )

Hörenswert: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat Mary Lambert - Same Love (super Song mit super Message!!!)

Sehenswert: Puuuuh, mhhm, eigentlich alles hier!!

 Gut zitiert: "By the cracks of the skin I climbed to the top
I climbed the tree to see the world
When the gusts came around to blow me down
I held on as tightly as you held onto me"

Letzte Sünde: Eigentlich nichts! Die Familie ernährt sich super gesund und ich selbst kaufe mir nichts zu naschen! Gut für mich. Gut für meine Figur! haha