Mittwoch, 31. August 2011
Wreck Beach and home party at Granville/Broadway
canadiantour, 08:02h
Aug 29 (Monday)
I got up at 4.30 am (!) to get to work for morning shift at 06 am. What, however, happened when I got there? They told me that I dont have to work at all! These unreliable folks of Canadians didnt send me the schedule and told me last week to be in the office at 6 am on Monday. As they changed the schedule but didnt send it to me, i didnt know that of course... so I went home and to bed again x) and slept a bit more from 7.30 till 09.00 am.
Actually I wanted to relax a bit on Wreck Beach this day, the weather wasnt THAT good for it, however.
At around noon Steffi and I went to Delaney's to get (hopefully) her schedule for her first work days at this coffee shop. She was fortunately lucky! =)
We went to the SWAP office to get our SIN cards and headed then for the Greyhound Bus station to inform ourselves a bit about further travel possibilites (to Portland and Tofino, Van Island).
After that we werent sure at start what we should do next. We were just thinking about it, standing at the skytrain station, when someone dropped his bag close to us and spoke to us in German...
It took me a few seconds to realize who it was. It was Malte, a guy from Germany with whom Steffi and I had contact for a long time already. It has already been in Canada since mid-June.
Steffi and I were invited to a „party“ at 7 pm and we arranged that Malte just came with us.
He took off to get settled in Samesun and Steffi and I decided to go to Wreck Beach despite the cool weather - just to have a look at the beach which is supposed to be very beautiful.
We took the sky-train to downtown and then the UBC-bus to UBC (University of British Columbia). A 10-minute walk and we were down at Wreck Beach, which was a really nice place.
We didnt go swimming, though, just relaxing and listening to music in the few sun rays =)
At around 5.30 pm we went back and met Malte at Granville/Broadway, where the home party was supposed to be. I was invited by Andy and Pierre, two guys i met during fundraising for UNICEF.
At their place there were a lot of other people (mainly francophone) to get to know. They were cooking dinner for us. As we were more people than they have expected, however, it took them quite long to get enough food for all of us... so dinner wasnt ready until 10 pm x) . When it was finally ready, however, it was great: Vegetarian Quiche, lentils, ratatouille and pan-fried bananas – delicious =D
It was a really nice evening with lots of good talks and –
We went home at around 11 pm and arrived finally there somewhen around midnight. Thank god that I dont have to get up at 4 am again next day xD
I got up at 4.30 am (!) to get to work for morning shift at 06 am. What, however, happened when I got there? They told me that I dont have to work at all! These unreliable folks of Canadians didnt send me the schedule and told me last week to be in the office at 6 am on Monday. As they changed the schedule but didnt send it to me, i didnt know that of course... so I went home and to bed again x) and slept a bit more from 7.30 till 09.00 am.
Actually I wanted to relax a bit on Wreck Beach this day, the weather wasnt THAT good for it, however.
At around noon Steffi and I went to Delaney's to get (hopefully) her schedule for her first work days at this coffee shop. She was fortunately lucky! =)
We went to the SWAP office to get our SIN cards and headed then for the Greyhound Bus station to inform ourselves a bit about further travel possibilites (to Portland and Tofino, Van Island).
After that we werent sure at start what we should do next. We were just thinking about it, standing at the skytrain station, when someone dropped his bag close to us and spoke to us in German...
It took me a few seconds to realize who it was. It was Malte, a guy from Germany with whom Steffi and I had contact for a long time already. It has already been in Canada since mid-June.
Steffi and I were invited to a „party“ at 7 pm and we arranged that Malte just came with us.
He took off to get settled in Samesun and Steffi and I decided to go to Wreck Beach despite the cool weather - just to have a look at the beach which is supposed to be very beautiful.
We took the sky-train to downtown and then the UBC-bus to UBC (University of British Columbia). A 10-minute walk and we were down at Wreck Beach, which was a really nice place.
We didnt go swimming, though, just relaxing and listening to music in the few sun rays =)
At around 5.30 pm we went back and met Malte at Granville/Broadway, where the home party was supposed to be. I was invited by Andy and Pierre, two guys i met during fundraising for UNICEF.
At their place there were a lot of other people (mainly francophone) to get to know. They were cooking dinner for us. As we were more people than they have expected, however, it took them quite long to get enough food for all of us... so dinner wasnt ready until 10 pm x) . When it was finally ready, however, it was great: Vegetarian Quiche, lentils, ratatouille and pan-fried bananas – delicious =D
It was a really nice evening with lots of good talks and –
We went home at around 11 pm and arrived finally there somewhen around midnight. Thank god that I dont have to get up at 4 am again next day xD
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