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Dum de dum
This is a top pick! Sorry for the uninspiring title, I'm feeling a little uninspired! It's cold and rainy here, and I've been lounging around all afternoon. Not conducive to working or writing! But here goes, just a quick summary of the week- it's all been pretty ...
Merry Christmas everyone!
This is a top pick! ... in before the big reunion with Trix, Rebi, Ancel, Bobby and Heidi. It was so good to see everyone again! In Vancouver, most churches have their Christmas services on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day, so we all went to a candlelit Christmas service ...
Getting into the swing of things
This is a top pick! ... Stanley Park. I tried to get in to a screening of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Heath Ledger's last movie) at the Vancouver International Film Festival but the lineup for reserve tickets was huge, and after an hour and a half of waiting, they said ...
Welcome to DTS!
This is a top pick! ... during the week; classroom stuff, free time, weekends etc etc. For those of you who don’t know, I’m in Vancouver for 6 months (with a 5 week hiatus in Montreal next January), with a Christian organization called Youth With A Mission (YWAM). ...
Into the Paralaralympics!
This is a top pick! ... were 'facilitating the training'- which turned out to mainly just being there. A few of us were on a panel answering questions about Vancouver (since now we're practically locals), and several did an amazing job of cooking for all 40 of us, but other ...
Last week in Vancouver
This is a top pick! ... morning started with a tear (not by me, I may add- I have a heart of stone): Taylor, Jenny & Nathan all left Vancouver for good early in the morning. Taylor and his family were driving back to Colorado Springs(!) a 2 day journey, and Jenny & ...
Home sweet home
This is a top pick! So I found our apartment and met 2 other girls from Switzerland. We're in a 1-bed apartment but have swapped the living room for the bedroom- so have 3 bunk beds in the big room, and a sofa and desk in the smaller one. A little kitchenette, bathroom, ...
Arrival (sorry, no clever titles after no sleep)
This is a top pick! Well just a quick update to remind myself how this thing works- I arrived safely today, flight was fine, Tanya met me at the airport and we got the shiny new SkyTrain downtown, then a bus to her house, where i met Anna, another staff member at DTS. ...
Canada
This is a top pick! ... It's been a while since my first email but I have been holding off until we finished travelling through Canada. Tomorrow we catch a ferry across the water from Vancouver Island and cross the border into the States. It's bye bye Alaska and bye bye Canada. ...
Not so much a 'what' entry more feelings i ...
This is a top pick! ... , cooking dinner for us and their 3 kids, going out with a couple of new friends. Rambling again... But now I'm in Vancouver. Which is a fantastic city if you like the outdoors, which most people here seem to. What a beautiful location, mountains, ...
Don''t look down!
This is a top pick! I pretty much exhausted what Victoria had to offer me on Thursday, so I asked at the front desk where I could go that would occupy me for the day, and was free. They recommended Goldstream provincial park, a couple of bus rides away but a beautiful park ...
First Class Flying
This is a top pick! ... made me cry when she handed me back my passport and with a warm smile said "Welcome home!" I made my way through the Vancouver airport which I know so well and reveled in all the Canadiana. Tim Hortons, Maple Leafs, and it seemed like everyone was ...
Touchdown
This is a top pick! ... next flight so I unraveled my sleeping bag and passed out on the floor by our gate. The next thing I remember, we were in Canada! I was overwhelmed as I stared out the window at my beautiful country on our decent. The tears stung my eyes and I couldnt ...
Note to self: get a car
This is a top pick! ... the ferry between the two islands in New Zealand. In fact, Vancouver itself seems to be a cross between San Francisco and Auckland. Vancouver Island is very green, woody and spaced out- we drove up one boring highway North for a couple of hours to get to ...
That's a wrap- DTS draws to a close
This is a top pick! ... entry' back into our home environment. We also had a few YWAMers come to not-so-subtly inform us about opportunities to serve in Vancouver with them- always on the look out for new recruits! Then on Friday morning we had a meeting with the rest of the ...
I can't wait for the weekend to begin!
This is a top pick! ... shoes (of course) if a little out of my pricerange right now. We continued down Waterstreet, and walked through a film set (this Vancouver, 3rd biggest film centre of the world, remember!) They were filming the TV show Fringe- it was cool to see the ...
Tally hoe, old chap
This is a top pick! ... to be back in a city again after the peace of Quadra and Tofino. I’m glad I came before going straight back to Vancouver though- Victoria really is quite a small city as cities go, downtown can be navigated easily and without too much walking. And ...
Living the Vancouver Life
This is a top pick! ... to church on Sunday morning and did the shopping for a Christmas hamper my small group are putting together for a family in Vancouver affected by AIDS. Went to a coffee shop with Anne, and am currently watching Ancel and Nathan play ice hockey, despite ...
One more day of work...
This is a top pick! Tomorrow is our last day of work for a whole month. For Curtis, that means FEDEXing some prints to a client in New York and finishing arranging assistants for Scott Morgan's shoot (scheduled for the "next sunny weekday" - whenever that will be!) For ...
The Olympics Begin
This is a top pick! ... up for London, if you're thinking that far ahead. That was a long meeting. 1pm to 8pm, largely introducing everyone to Vancouver. Yes, Commercial Drive is a good place to go for coffee. We've been living there for 3 months... we know! They did ...
Road Trip
This is a top pick! ... I suspect it is one of the most photographed places in Canada. Next we hopped back in the car and continued our roadtrip to Vancouver. After leaving the mountains, we stopped at a McDs for lunch as they have veggie burgers that Max has taken a liking to. ...
Right on, dude
This is a top pick! ... review for Good Food, I thought this is it- I'm living the dream. Now all I need to do is convince GF that they need a Vancouver correspondent to try out all the many restaurants over here... I hopped back on my bike a bit later to try and catch the ...
Back at grannies!!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... Its Thursday...... We decided we were gonna head into Sidney to use the internet to book car rental and accomodation for vancouver the following week, after a free 30mins in the library we then proceded to discover every internet cafe in town had closed ...
We're at Grannies!!!!!!! (actually in Sidney)
This is a top pick! ... Can't see any difference between Canada and America so far, except for the abundance of Canadian flags and a little less advertising! In Vancouver jumped off one bus onto another, and then got on a ferry! The ferry crossing was cool, sailing between lots ...
Road Trip - Back on our own again
This is a top pick! ... back on our own. We got the ferry back to the mainland and picked up the bus to take us right into the heart of downtown Vancouver. Had meaty brekkie subs from subway as we were a little early and the headed to the rental place to pick up the car. I ...
My Last Day in Canada
This is a top pick! ... not too late and made our way out for the day. As we drove through the suburbs and over the bridges to get into downtown Vancouver, I spotted the occasional reminder of some random memory from my life here 10 years ago. A mall I would shop at, my first ...
June 29 2008
This is a top pick! ... ; We feel like we wouldn't enjoy Australia to the fullest. So I called the airlines and book a set of flights back to Vancouver. We flew from Krabi to Bangkok, Bangkok to Hong Kong and Hong Kong to Vancouver. The last flight was 12 hours ...
Vancouver
... a little larger audience. We were taken out to dinner both nights and tonight's meal was at one of the best restaurants in Vancouver - and I could actually eat a decent meal tonight - after 13 days of upset tummy its finally starting to heal so I could ...
Booking flight from Melbourne to Sydney
I find the price rising up daily. probably Nov 4 is already the begining of hot season. I have to decide if I would go by Virgin Blue or Jetstar. I hate the fact that Avalon Airport is 40 min away from Melbourne CBD, and their airport shuttle forces you ...
Vancouver Island
We left Westminister this morning and headed to the Ferry ride to Vancouve Island. It was chilly and windy so Matt and I stayed with the luggage inside the ferry. Dustin braved the windy weather and was lucky enough to see 3 ...