Hello everyone!
I know it's been a while, but I am trying to make up for that now!
I know it's been a while, but I am trying to make up for that now!
Actually, one month is not too bad. It
means, I have to more to write about! And actually I do have lots to
tell. :)
One of that is (of course) Christmas! Here in Canada, Christmas Eve is not the important day but Christmas Day (December 25th)! On Christmas Day, I got woken up at 6.15am from my host siblings to take a look in our stockings. My host mum put nice small things in there. She even sewed my own stocking for me! :)
One of that is (of course) Christmas! Here in Canada, Christmas Eve is not the important day but Christmas Day (December 25th)! On Christmas Day, I got woken up at 6.15am from my host siblings to take a look in our stockings. My host mum put nice small things in there. She even sewed my own stocking for me! :)
A few hours later, we had really good
breakfast with homemade cinnamon rolls. Yummy! And then...unwrapping
Christmas presents began. It took us quite a while considering we
were seven people who had to open Christmas presents from each of the
others while everyone was looking. :P I got really nice presents,
thanks to the Bornmans <3
Later on, we did a nice walk outside, had an awesome dinner,
played games, watched movies and sat next to our Christmas tree which
was lightened with real (!) candles. So beautiful!
So Christmas was great! I hope, yours
was as well :)
Only a week later, it was already New
Years Eve. I was at my old hostfamily from four years ago. I have to
say, this New Years Eve was very different to what I am used to : No
firework, no sparkling wine (forgot about it) and we even missed the
countdown. ;) Nontheless, it was a good start in the New Year
2014...with playing card games and learning to play the cup song from
“Pitch Perfect”. :)
If you don't know the song...well, here it is:
If you don't know the song...well, here it is:
And on the first day of the year 2014, we had really good cheese fondue with my current hostfamily. Sorry, no photo for that! ;) But fondue is pretty awesome, you gotta admit that! :P
A few days later, we had chocolate
fondue :D
Haha, I guess, you guys are pretty
annoyed from all my food photos (I just love food phoots...or maybe I
just love food too much, who knows? ;) ). Now to some more important
things that happened in my life.
Most importantly. The other Dutch
intern is back in the Netherlands now (Menno, if you read that: Had a
great time here with you at Abco! :) ), but we have now someone
German here, who is on the visit! :) (You might have seen him in my
last post from our FragMutti-Clip!)
I guess, his first week must have been
really cool for him, because it was also for me!
We visited the set of Uwe Boll's new movie “Rampage 2”. And there might even be a chance that we are in there, because we were extras! I will let you know, if that happens! ;) Anyways, that was a really fun experience and it was good to see how it is on a real film set. I don't know how much I am allowed to say, but I can tell you ...I' saw quite a lot of action scenes that day. ;)
We visited the set of Uwe Boll's new movie “Rampage 2”. And there might even be a chance that we are in there, because we were extras! I will let you know, if that happens! ;) Anyways, that was a really fun experience and it was good to see how it is on a real film set. I don't know how much I am allowed to say, but I can tell you ...I' saw quite a lot of action scenes that day. ;)
Actually, I just saw that teaser and
realized that I did see quite a lot of that live on set! ;) Isn't
that exploding car awesome???
Here, watch the teaser:
Here, watch the teaser:
OMG,
I just realized, you can actually see us in the teaser. :D Well, at
least the others, I am just kind of in the picture...;) Take a look
at 0:44-0:45min! Sorry, but I just saw it and it made my day! ;)
Btw, exactely here, I wanted to show you a picture with me and the main character...but apparently I have deleted the photos. :( I'll search for them though! Ugh, how I hate that..
Anyways, the experience was pretty cool! :)
Btw, did anyone of you make New Years
resolutions? I didn't...cause I don't promise to do something, I
can't break my promises. ;) Nonetheless, I have figured out, that I
live in a city that is having tons of events...but I am not going to
many of them. Well. That changed. :) During the last month, I've been
to quite a lot of events, so...here they are. ;)
No 1: Draw by Night
This is an event that brings people
that like to draw...and then they draw something together – under a
certain topic. January's topic was “The Hand Off” and we were
doing drawing collaborations of incorporate corpses...which is what
you can see in the photo. That was fun! :)
No 2: David Sossa Concert
As I love classical guitar, I went to a
classical guitar concert by Canadian-Colombian guitarist David Sossa.
The Vancouver Public Library has some great events!
No 3: Photo Workshop “Creative
Lightning”
The photohaus (I later figured out that
the owners are German :P ) in Vancouver had open house and offered
free short workshops. I saw one about Creative Lightning and that was
pretty interesting as the photographer did a live photo shooting and
we could see the differences various light sets make.
No 4: Chinese New Year
GONG CI
FAT CAI! I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year! :) Here in
Vancouver was the biggest Chinese New Year parade of Canada! (or even
North America, I am not sure about that)
It was really interesting to
watch...lots of lion dancers and dragons! Really cool! There was also
one group that was really fun and reminded me of the German
“Fasching” :D People dressed up as horses, dancing around,
playing instruments and singing some song about “horse” ;) You
must know, it is the year of the horse now..
No 4: LunarFest
There's more to Chinese New Year in
Vancouver than “just” the Parade. For example, the Lunar Fest I
went to with my friend Ashley! :) We saw among other things a lantern
show which explained traditions of Chinese, Thai and Korean New Year!
:)
So yes, that is happening in my life!
:) Sorry, it took me so long to give you an update :)
Oh, one more thing that is about my
workplace. We moved! Just in the building though. ;) But I really
like our new place and as the “intern room” got finished last
week, we can also finally move our stuff that is all over our office
at the moment...;)
Oh, and yesterday it was pretty cool at the Giants :) It was family day and also pinkshirt day which is an antibullying day and some people did a really cool flashmob! Look at this video someone took!
And here is a nice clip of the Giants :))
And for the end of this post, just some
photos that I'd like to share with you! :) There's not always a need
of a story being told behind photos...:) I can just tell you one
thing: Some of them are from a bike tour through Vancouver and there
is going to be a show sooner or less. ;)
And this is a cute video for you:
So that's it! :) See you next time,
hopefully sooner...but no promise! As you know, I might break it and
you don't want that to happen, right?
Before I say bye, I just wanted to tell you about the changenomination again, because neknomination is still going on and it is just going crazy. I can just say, that some people think it is cool to lie on a frozen lake half naked (where you can see their bare butt!), crawl to a cup of beer and drink it. That is just NOT COOL. So, I would suggest changenomination instead. Here are the links again to my explanation and my actual changenomination video:
And I would like to thank Adrian and
Michaela for spreading the changenomination by doing one and
nominating others! I can already see it spreading the world :)
My third nominated person apparently
didn't do a changenomination, but oh well.. I'll see.
Alright, thanks for being so patient,
for waiting and for reading this long post now!
Ich drücke euch alle aus der Ferne! :)
Nina
PS: Sorry fuer die schlechte Quali der Videos, habs das erste mal auf Blogger gemacht und naja..egal. :P
Ich drücke euch alle aus der Ferne! :)
Nina
PS: Sorry fuer die schlechte Quali der Videos, habs das erste mal auf Blogger gemacht und naja..egal. :P
