back to life!

Hey folks,

I know I've been lazy the last couples of weeks but I have some good excuses. My laptop crashed and since that I'm in big troubles with Dell. I think it gonna take way longer than I prefer to fix this, hence I bought a new Laptop last week.

The last weeks has been really awesome and we spent a lot of time with the germans, scotts and of course the norwegian's.
Actually we are in the middle of our midterm weeks and it's quite a bit of work to get all the stuff managed out but nevertheless I shouldn't complain because our worktime is quite low compared to the civil engineers.

Here I provide some picture:

climbing at the crux... nice 80feet walls (26m)

also thomas likes it big!

nothing is to steep for linn!

todays flames game against Colorado!

banff trip some weeks ago!

game of the Canadian womens hockey team

i won that jersey! signed!

our residence, cascade hall!

Okey the next weeks gonna be really crazy. Have a midterm in two weeks and after this I going to Sunshine for my 5days ski trip! Will be one of the best things I ever did. I try to keep you informed. But now I have to go to bed. Its late!

cu guys!

2x Outdoorfun

Hey, I know I should update my Blog more often but the last two weeks have been quite busy. The last two weeks were very hot, we had temperatures over 30°. The climate reminds me a little bit to the desert. In the month that I'm here we just had one day of rain!

Before two weeks and yesterday I was in Banff, it was really awesome just whatch the pics:

That' it... the next post will explain all a little bit, but I'm in a hurry now!

cheers

Getting high!

Hello again guys, tomorrow is the last day of my first lecture week and it was super cool. The lectures are quite interessting and the labs are not as hard as we thought the would be. The only bad thing, i should say really bad thing are the prices for the textbooks (they are usally over 100$ each).


Yesterday I was at the WingsNight at the Den. We were told it's the meeting point for the international students. It was really funny, we meet some Scottish and German guys and had a great (and long) evening with 10 wings for 2.50$.


Today me and Thomas were at the Calgary Tower because it was quite a good weather and we didn't regret it. Finally we walked a little bit through downtown and made a stop at Subway to grab a sandwich.


Saturday we go to Banff with Thomas and his roommates. We are going to rent a car and drive to the rockies to have a hike and picknick, I think.

Yeah thats it, enjoy the photos. I will post the next blog after this weekend with some pics from our daytrip.


Cheers




Downtown





Sattle dome -Calgary Flames stadion









Where's the money?




Here!

Calgary tower

Go Stampeders!

Saturday we bought tickets for the football derby Calgary Stampeders vs. Edmonton Eskimos. The games took place today in the MacMahon Stadium (35.000 visitors) which is located on the campus (should be property of the UofC). It was a nice game and we demolished Edmonton with 32-8 points.


Actually I'm trying to improve my skills in C++ because unfortunately I will need them for the Data Analysis labs. Tomorrow morning we will have our first lecture. Hydrography at 9am.






Beside we are planning a trip to Banff next weekend with Reuben, Thomas and Micheal. We think about renting a car for Saturday and Sunday. I think that should work probably.

Yahuu Cowboys

Until know it was a really quite week. We decided to not participate on the orientation week for the first year students, quite a little bit too much cultural differences. Haha. Instead we checked out the campus and we were really astonished about the options what you can do beside study.







There are a huge quantity of sport activities beginning with soccer, basketball, climbing, swimming and also a gigantic fitnes center (with a 200m raceway) that are located in the Olympic Oval and the Kinesiology. The best information for us, it's all for free!


So instead of watching crazy canadian first year students jumping arround (like the rabbits here at the campus, a real invasion) we were bouldering and working out in the fitnes center. Maybe I will pass a test to get acces to the climbing walls.

Today was the first orientation for engineering exchange students and we decided to go there. It was quite interessting and for now we know that we are the only exchange students for the geomatics study. Great! A nice girl showed us all the lecture rooms and informated us about our upcoming labs.



Tonight is opening night in The Den, the only bar at the campus. I think I will go there by 9pm. Beside I recognized that there are often a lot of concert. For September and October there will be Silverstein, Dropkick Murphys, Moby, The Black Dahlia Murder and lots more. Really cool.


Tomorrow we have another important orientation for international students in the morning and maybe there will be a day trip the day after tomorrow. We will see.


byebye!

first day in calgary

I packed my bags, said goodbye to my boys, girls and parrents and went to Munich Airport. The destination was Calgary via Amsterdam. I don't know why but I'm not very lucky with AirFrance. Again troubles with the plane engines but at least the mechanicien fixed the problem after 40 minutes and we were ready to go.

After 20 hours of travel I arrived on Calgary International Airport and the nice CISSA-Volunteer brought me to boulding which will be my appartement for the next months, the Cascade Hall. I'm really happy that everything worked good with my bags and the hole transportation.

Now I'm here and just unpacked my stuff and try to pimp my room. There are a lot of things to do but I have enough time because the courses won't start before next Tuesday.

Okay I'm done for know. I'll be back in the evening.

Greets

last days in carinthia

Suddenly the departure date is getting real close! I enjoy my last days here at the lake in carinthia. Wednesday I leave Austria for 7 days. I'm going to visit my grandma at Saint-Jean de Luz near the french/spanian border. Hopefully I'll be able to improve some surfing skills!

When I come back from France I only have one day left for checking my last things and saying Godbye to all my friends!

At this moment my opinions are divided. On the one hand I'm glad to leave the country for an greate adventure but on the other side I'm quite sad to leave my friends here!

Time will show!

bye bye