Halloween :P

Halloween was celebrated in all the houses with pumpkin carving, ghoulish and fun costumes, apple-bobbing, graveyard cake, pumpkin cake, and silly pranks.
Students fulfilled the Halloween tradition of eating lots of candy!A tradition known throughout North America, nowadays also in many other countries, Halloween was a well celebrated and fun event on the 31st of October.
We carved pumkins, played lots of games in our dayroom and after that I observed all the peculiar costumes of various people running around on the Pearson College Campus.
I personally did not traditionally dress up as a vampire, zombie or witchmaster but instead thought of something more... interesting! ;)
My theme was to seduce people. And so, I went as 'The seduction'. I wouldn't have thought that it would work that well, but apparntly it turned out to be superb.
Whispering this and that into peoples' ears, coming close to them - gleamingly staring and simply.. seducing, made them shiver, run away or run about screaming for quite some time...
(It amazed me how many introverted and also shy people Pearson had.. hihi ^^)

Halloween was lots of fun but it was also quite an effort to take off all the leftover-spiderwebs of the dayroom walls.

Looking forward to next year's halloween (wonder what I shall do then.. perhaps.. 'The rape' ^_^ Just joking.. ;).

Chris

Pearson life!

What about Pearson life?? Apart from our cookie break.. what makes Pearson really Pearson??

Well for one thing the weather is terrible at times!! oO The first month was a lot of sun, I must admit, but from November on.. rain, rain and rain again.. And guess what: no sun in two months!! ^^
Ok, that was too dramatic I suppose.. hehe. I personally love the rain and it doesn't really often rain that heavily. It's really light rain, so to say.
But other than the rain, we've had three black outs in three months!! The first one wasn't so bad; it was just for about 4 hours due to a strong wind storm.
But the second one... omg.. a blizzard!! On Vancouver island!! It rarely snows there and even if it does once or twice a year, it never stays. And we had a blizzard with such heavy snow fall and for 4 whole days we didn't have any power, any warm water or telephone connections.
With -17 degrees (due to wind!) most of us slept in the dayrooms of the houses, since it had a fireplace. I must say it was really nice on one hand, since all the academically stressed people had no chance to work without power and a lot of socialising took place but on the other hand, I personally missed my own privacy and sleeping early.. ^^ And as cold as it was with no power for four days.. Well.. Please never again, I'd say, hehe.. :)
The campus looked very gorgious though with all the snow and ice.

The last power shortage was due to a typhoon on the last day before the winterbreak. Most students who had their flight on Friday had to leave on Thursday evening since they feared that the ferries wouldn't be driving to Vancouver on Friday. Luckily, the ferries operated on Friday nevertheless since the storm seemed to have settled. My flight was on Saturday and I spent 2 lovely days with Anne, my co year from Germany, Quoc, a second yeaer from Vietnam and our self taught teacher Christian. It was really a lot of fun.. :)

Well that was actually just complaining about the weather so far..
One thing which Pearson is probably famous for are its animals! We have a forest on our left side and a bay on the right side you could say. And so, a lot of random animals come to visit us.
In the summer we had lots of cute racoons roaming around. They may look cute (even I thought so.. ;P) but they're nasty little things in reality.. hahaha. If you leave the windows or doors ajar, then you might find the garbage and compost scattered throughout the dayroom floor on the next day.
We even had a racoon mother running around with her two babies and she's so evil!! She opens the lid of the garbage, lets her children jump inside and then closes the lid and runs away!! oO Really funny though, and mostly Pearsonites happen to open the lid and see the babies and then rescue them. ;)
The deers are also something I have never seen before. In Austria, if a deer spots someone from 1 km away for example, they immediately run away.
In Pearson however, deers run around in the evening on the college paths and look for something to nibble on between random gravels. When first I approached it (standing right next to it), I asked myself: 'Don't you want to run away? I'm a human and am standing right next to you...'. The deer stared at me with an expression on its face resembling something like: 'And so...? Buzz off..' ^^
They happen to pass our Maths classroom during the day as well.
In the evening, one can also hear the weird sounds of what I call.. the killer ducks! Seriously, it sounds as if they were monster ducks haunting the bay at night!

Now a funny subject... Pearson food. Hehe.
I talked about Pearson's breakfast which is quite decent (compared to the rest). ^_^
Being a vegetarian, I must say that tofu and/or chick peas do not have to be included in everything... Eg. Italian noodles with.. tofu?? Or burgers with... humus inside??
And in terms of soup, I never ever want to even dream of encountering the Vegetable-Banana-Curry soup again.
Is it just me who is fussy about Canadian caf-food or do other people dislike eating raw vegetables (mushrooms, brocolli and colliflour) which usually are to be eaten cooked? o.O
The food is actually eatable to be honest, but the cyclus of things is so fast that often dishes reoccur very fast and so many things are often seen in one month.

One of the things one learns from Pearson in terms of food is.. Bananas are superb and holy! (since the rest is only apples and mandarines which are not often that tasty), praise bread if ever you get back home and Starbucks is really yummy when you get into town!! :)
It's also common to find people eating noodles or making popcorn in the dayroom and it's also common to find asians running around with their ricecookers (go Asians.. :D Gosh I missed real, eatable rice.. :)

Getting away from complaints again.. ^^
During weekends, most people visit Victoria, mostly on Saturdays to either spend the day shopping in downtown, in Canwest shopping mall, or to simply have a nice time away from Pearson relaxing, etc.

A lot of people encounter stress in Pearson. Personally, I rarely have stress. Why should I after all? It's something I wouldn't voluntarily want.. ^^ (but mind you, I know people who do.. oO)
I'm quite fast at finishing my academical work (and nevertheless maintaining good grades) whereas I often see people working on essays and other things in the library the whole day.
Something you will often hear in Pearson college is the term EE; EE's are Extended Essays and Second Years have to do a 4000 word Extended Essay on a chosen subject and I often encountered (and still do) 2nd years running around moaning and stressing over EE's...
National Day stress is also terrible; I've experienced it already! ^^ During the first National Day (Latin America) I was merely a spectator of the show but during the 2nd one (Afro-Caribean) I participated in 2 dances and had to realise that apart from classes and activities, the day is filled with repetative National Day practices. The magical number is always 5, meaning that if you're in more than 5 acts.. time related.. you can be seen as.. dead.. ^^
For the current National Day (European), I'm soooo stressed out, or rather am going to be.. :S It's up this month and I'm leading 3 acts and probably going to be in 4 or 5 acts all in all. So much stress!! :S But more on that later, when I will be talking about my National Day.

Pearson is really a lovely place. It often happens that one doesn't get enough sleep because you find yourself wanting to go to bed eg. after having have had a wonderful day filled with activities, conversations and a lot of fun just to then encounter another person to talk to for another hour or two and then you end up going to bed at 3 am. It's kind of sad sometimes if you realise you need more than 4 hours of sleep a day, but on the other hand it's really very rewarding and very interesting as well, getting to know other people, their lives, their cultures and their stories.

That was a small attempt to give you an idea of what Pearson is about, but I'm also aware that I'm missing tons and tons of information and details (apart from fussing about weather and caf-food).
It's really hard to understand what a UWC really is all about and you really have to live the UWC life to be able to understand it, but I suppose I tried my best to give you a glimpse into the life of a United World College! ;)
Every UWC is unique and this was my report on life in Pearson College! :)

Chris

Pearson College, Pearson College, hmm..

So all the time you guys hear me talking about Pearson College. But what exactly is Pearson College about and how is Pearson life???

I think I ought to start with the academical part.
The Lester B. Pearson College, United World College of the Pacific is one of the currently 12 United World College's around the world, situated in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It follows the International Baccalaureate programm (IB) and so there are 6 subjects which one chooses out of 6 subject pools. My subjects are:
A1 language: German, Foreign Language: French B Higher, Arts: Music, Social Studies: Philosophy, Science: Environmental Systems and Maths: Maths Standard.
I'm really passionate about my subjects, especially Music and Philosophy which I will be taking both on Higher Level next year (in the second year, students choose which subjects are to be taken on Higher or Standard Level and one must take at least 3 higher levels).
My day pretty much always starts at about 6:30 am. I have half an hour time to take a shower, dress up etc. and then go for breakfast at 7:00 am. We have stuff like toast, jam, brown sugar, various cerials, porrige and Oranges for breakfast. (Breakfast is my personal favourite meal.. hehe)

Then I work out for a while until classes begin, so for about 20-25 minutes.
We usually have 5 classes every day at the highest. It really sounds like little (compared to my 10 hours every day in Austria for example), but the day isn't stressless since activities and things like National Day practices pile up on the time schedule.
And something which contributes to Pearson life... the cookie break!! :D After the first 2 classes, there's 15 minutes of COOKÎE BREAK!! It's what makes Pearsonites.. Pearsonites! ^^ The cafeteria staff cooks lots of cookies or also muffins and the students can then take up to 2 cookies (so that there's enough for everyone else) and especially on chocolate chip cookie day, students turn into zombies screaming: "COOKIE BREEEEAK!!!" :)

Aaaanyhow.. After the next 2 lessons we have lunch break for an hour and then the last lesson.
Students usually have activities after that. The activities are divided into 3 groups: Social activities, outdoor leadership activities and creative activities. Students must take at least one from each group within the 2 years at Pearson College and so most students take 3 activities within one year (2 are the minimum).

I have 5 activities and they are: Ukranian Dance, Special Needs Teens, Choir, Singers and Martial Arts. Sounds like a lot? It is.. ^^ And nevertheless I seem to manage my time well..
Ukranian Dance is a lot of fun, but to be honest.. it's REALLY tiring!! We practice for the big Ukranian Dance act for the One World show in February and the dance is 12 minutes long. If ever you happen to try out Ukranian Dance for the first time, you'll realise that 5 minutes can already be tiring..
Special Needs Teens is a social activity in which we go to Metchosin and do games or activities with teens with special needs. We haven't started this activity yet (looong story.. ^^ has to do with teachers lucking their driving licence.. hehe) but we are supposed to start it this coming 2nd term after the winter break.
The choir is also called the 100 voice choir and is a lot of fun. I especially love the voice practices we do before we start singing our songs. The choir also performs on special events such as Metchosin day, Metchosin Christmas concert or the One World festival.
Singers is similar to choir; it's a smaller choir with about 17-19 people who go through an auditioning. About 50 auditioned this year.
I must say that Singers is a lot of fun, since it's really professional singing and not every voice would be able to sing the songs we sing, but choir and singers are both fun - just in different ways.
My last activity is Martial Arts. It's a student run activity and they teach us the martial arts of Tae Kwon Do. It's a lot of fun, also tiring at times, but the real Tae Kwon Do in a dojo surely is a lot more strict and more tiring.

Activities mostly go till about 4:00-4:30 pm and then there's time for random stuff or academics. Dinner starts at 5:00 pm and is available till 6:30 pm. Basically, there are no obligations after activities, so this 'random stuff' I was talking about earlier could include things like working on academics, socialising with other Pearsonites, checking ones mails or surfing the net, doing sports, going to Metchosin for a coffee or so, etc. etc.
I personally often either socialise with people, but often also go to the Maxbell (our theatre) and play on the grand piano, working on my concert, playing songs I usually like to play or just simply composing.

Apart from activities, every student must also have a 'student job'. These 'jobs' can be carrying compost from the cafetaria to the compost area, tutoring other students in eg. English or being one of the fire fighters. I have 3 student jobs (not different ones though); I tutor students in playing the piano. All three of them have never played the piano before and I must say, they're really into it and can already play stuff like Für Elise or Ballade Pour Adeline.. :) I'm really proud of them, and having half on hour with them once a week is really a lot of fun.

Other than our usual classes, we have special blocks in which we gather in the Maxbell and have mostly 2 people present interesting and important issues. We call this block International Affairs and mostly students do this presentation and after that there's time for questions and discussions. These topics range from economics and poverty in (eg) Latin America up to political issues in Africa for example. Depending on which was the last National Day (currently, the last one was Afro-Caribean National Day), we have people talk about issues from this region.

Also peculiar is our timetable. Other than most timetables people are familar with, we at Pearson have a 11 Day timetable. 'Huh?' Well, let me explain! ;) We start the first (academical) day of the year with Day 1 and so the next day would be Day 2 regardless whether it would be a Tuesday or perhaps even a Wednesday, Thursday, etc.
So when Day 11 arrives, the whole thing starts again from Day 1. I think this is a great idea, since this timetable prevents the feeling of daily routine which does make life seem dull sometimes (in my opinion anyhow)..

Well that's about enough for the academical part I suppose. Next up.. Pearson life! ;)

1st Project Week

(Ok, time to update a lot of stuff, hihi.)
So what exactly is Project week? Well, at Pearson College, there are 2 Project weeks per year in which a student must do at least one project during the 2 years.
The campus closes during these 10 days over project week, and students mostly stay with host families in the area close to where their project is taking place.
My project was the 'Cultural Ambassador' project. The 4 of us - Edwige from Bukinafaso, Stepan from Russia, Andrea from Hong Kong and myself - were to be cultural ambassador at an Elementary school, talking to the kids about our countries and our culture. It was a great project all in all, but with looots of organisational complications which I will, due to nostalgic scars left behind (being a bit overdramatic.. hehe), will not refer to in detail.
In any case, we ended up doing our project in Metchosin instead of Nanoose Bay, also at an Elementary school. Edwige, being a second year and already having done a project in the last year, decided to devote her time to academic work instead of the project.
During the first weekend, the 4 of us stayed with a really lovely host mummy in Metchosin (wonderful Marlene.. :); I was even able to actually cook food for the first time since summer (since Pearson doesn't allow students to have stoves due to fire hazard)!! We all enjoyed my european cuisine of Carrot creme soup and baked chamignon aux sauce tartare.. :D (along with a few of Marlene's great dishes).
After that weekend the 4 of us split up to new host families. Stepan and I stayed with a really nice lady called Irene in Victoria and the other two.. god knows where.. ^^
In any case, working with the children at the Hans Helgensen Elementary school in Metchosin was lots of fun. Stepan and Andrea mostly worked with the elementary students tutoring them in various subjects and I worked with the KG kids during the daytime while I had music lessons with the elementary classes during the afternoon, telling them about my country's worldfamous Mozart, etc. and playing them this and that on the piano.
A lovely week in Metchosin and also a lovely break from Pearson life.
We all ended up hugging each other as soon as we arrived in Pearson College, having have missed everyone. Lots of tears too.. ;P Amazing how one week can turn out to be so long...

That was my report for Project Week Number 1. A couple of photos can be found on the photo link! ;)

Chris

Fun, vibrant and exhilarating, students put together the first National Day on October 7. Celebrating and sharing cultural experiences, students provided us with a wonderful day of interactive workshops, a delicious dinner, and an energetic show.

1 year.. 3 National days.. October 7th 2006: Latin American National Day!!!

The Latin National day started out as a nightmare for me to be honest; the first thing I thought at 8:00 in the morning when I was being woken up by crazy Latin Americans going throughout the houses with carneval whistels, percussions, a lot of screaming and steel drums was.. "Oh my god...".
After that horrific wake up call, I decided, while breakfasting, to kill each and every Latin American in a very painful way. Holding a spoon with cereals in my hand, I thought I'd scoop them to death.
Anyways, other than that the Latin American National Day (to which I will further refer as LA-ND) was quite an enjoyable and vivid day.

Throughout the morning workshops took place with stations such as Salsa Dancing, Food Workshop, Latin American Instruments, Jewelry, El Cafe and various others.
I joined the Carneval and Mask Making workshop, showing how masks are made, look like and are used during Carneval time in Brasil.

Instead of regular Caf-dinner, students had the chance to ask out other students as their dates to go to the LA-ND Dinner (which was in the Latin-like decorated Cafeteria).
The Latin American Dinner included Latin music, food of course (which wasn't really Latin actually) and a lively atmosphere.
The dinner event lasted for a bit over an hour and consisted mainly of having a dinner at a nicely decorated table with your date and taking pictures of others.. :P
(My date, by the way, was my darling Ashley from the Bahamas! ;) *Go Ashley*)

And after the LA-ND dinner, the event of National Days.. The Show.
It consisted of many Latin Danses such as Salsa, Anaconda Dance, Argentinian Tango, El Sanjuanero, Qhebradita, Paraguayan Dance, Jarabe Taptio, Tambores, Merengue, Nicaraguan Dance but also of Latin American songs, poems, a speech about the inequality between nations, from colonial times to the present in Latin America and also the Quebecois having appeared on the wrong National Day and claiming to be Latin...

The show was magnificent and full of spicy salsa and tango. :P Check out the pics on the picture-link to have more insight on the LA-ND.

That was pretty much it of October 7th, Latin American National Day!

Metchosin Day

Finally the report on Metchosin day.. :) Been waiting for October to finally arrive, since I exceeded the permitted amount on uploaded pics on flickr.. But now that the Metchosin Day pics are complete, I can finally write about it too.
Well to start off with, Metchosin Day is an annual event in the nearby town called Metchosin. Pearson Students usually go in their national costumes and walk from the Pearson College to Metchosin. Some don't have a national costume and so they borrow costumes from either other people or wear those left behind by elder generations. So one shouldn't be surprised if you see a Scottish student dressed up in something Thai e.g. :P
Anyhow, I ended up wearing the national costume of the U.A.E.; it was loads of fun, though I must say that I often got asked "Is that what they wear in Austria?!", so that was a lot of explaining to do.. hehe.
Coming back to Metchosin Day, basically there's always a sort of fair there on that day where you can buy various products and get a lot of information on all sorts of organisations.
Performances are also made, and the Pearson College choir performed 3 songs this year as well as something called "Gumboots". It's supposed to 'promote' rubber boots with a cool dance accompanied by a cool stomping and on-the-boots-clapping rythm, thus making them.. sexy.. Haha, well basically that is the promoting idea, and yeah, the dance does seem to make that happen in a way. It definately is entertaining.

Check out the Metchosin Day pics on the pictures-link! ;)

1st week @t Pearson College!!

Pearson College, Pearson College.. Those are the words that swirled around in my head during the whole summer actually. The anxious feeling tingling inside me even got more intense after I had left for the Interrail trip, knowing that when I come back it would be only very few days until I finally fly to Canada.
I spent most of the day (before my flight) packing. I actually was worried, since I had like way too many T’s and other clothes with me (according to the other Austrian scholarship holders I had asked for advice), but in the end (after a – in my eyes- very generous reduction of clothes) it turned out to be that there were people at the Pearson College who had twice as much as I did!
Anyways, I arrived well in Vancouver (after a 13 hour flight from Vienna (stopover in Amsterdam)) and was pretty jet lagged…
José from Mexico met up with me after I had arrived at the airport. We found out that we were both arriving at about the same time and both a day too early (we were supposed to be arriving on the 3rd but instead our flight was booked for the 2nd of September), so we decided to meet each other via chat. Worked out all well.. so far. We tried to look for a place to stay in Vancouver. The information booth only had about 3 places left to stay and they were way too far from the Ferry bay and waaay too expensive so we decided to stay overnight at the Vancouver airport at that point.
We went for a walk outside the airport to have a look at Vancouver city, but had to discover that without any buses it was nearly impossible to do so, as the airport itself was separated on an isolated island. So we walked back to the airport *sigh*.
After a couple of hours we were luckily picked up by Liz, an alumni of the Pearson College, and we were allowed to stay at her house which was situated in Vancouver.
On the following day we travelled to Victoria via Ferry Bay and were picked up at the Swartz Bay Ferry terminal and brought to the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific.
Very ironically I discovered that José is in fact one of my roommates. Each room has 2 1st years and 2 2nd years. My 2 2nd years are Sitraka from Madagascar and Mohammed from Palestine. I couldn’t have been more happy with my roommates I suppose; they’re all really nice (there are 5 houses by the way, and I’m in East house. *Yay, go East house! :)*).
Anyways, I got to know all of the other 1st and 2nd years. In total we’re 200 scholarship holders from 89 different countries.
During the first week, we hiked on the Juan de Fuca Trail which is about 10 km long and camped at the Bear Beach for 2 days. It was really nice to see; lots of greenery, the ocean, the mountains on the other side of the ocean (belonging to the USA) and.. lots of fun with us UWC people!!! =) Check out the pics for a glimpse of our hiking trip (who would have thought I would one day love hiking that much??)

The first week was totally amazing with even more amazing people!! Lots of administrational stuff though, I must admit.
Well, this was about it for my reportage on my first week. Next up: Metchosin day! ;)
Byes, Chris.

Interrail Trip 2006

Hi everyone! I know, it’s been a while since last I updated my blog. Anyways, I’m in Canada already at the Pearson College.
About the Interrail trip; it was loads of fun! I actually got to see more of my abroad-living friends and relatives rather than actual sightseeing, but nevertheless it was a very interesting trip with a lot of new things to see. I started of with Marly to Frankfurt, Germany. There we split up and I went on to Cologne. It was Kermis time, which is an annual festival in Germany. Rides, festival tents and fun-races are made there (as can be seen on the pics). It was really nice to experience.
Then I went went to the Netherlands. I got to visit my sister and my 2 nephews who live in Amsterdam. I stayed there for a few days and got to see the cities Harlem and Amsterdam. Shopping is really fun there.. haha. Loved the boat trip through the canals of Amsterdam too.
Then I travelled back to Germany, to Bochum. Bochum is a neat city in the northwest of Germany. I stayed there for the weekend and toured around the city. There was a wonderful park of which I was so fascinated, that I ended up making so many pictures of it.. :) I also visited an online friend who happened to be in the hospital at that time, but it was a minor thing, so no worries there.
After that I travelled back to Austria to unload a few things and I spent the night there (it actually took me a whole day from Germany to Austria via train!). And then I went to Switzerland, Zürich to be exact. I toured around and unluckily the weather wasn’t too sunny, but fortunately not really rainy either. I met up with old school friends of mine from my days back in the UAE. It was really loads of fun and they showed me around. Finally, I travelled back from Zürich back to Austria which also took me a whole day. I left out Denmark since it was too costly in any case, but that wasn’t such a bad idea in my opinion..
And as short as this column may have been, those were 16 days of Interrail! :) I got to make a couple of pics (just click on the Pictures-link).
But anyways, now a post on my flight to Canada will commence which followed just a couple of days after I had arrived from my Interrail vacation.
Cheers, Chris.

Going for interrail

Hi there!

I'll be starting my interrail trip tomorrow in the morning (or rather today, since it's 3 am.. hehe). I'll be travelling through Germany, Swiss and perhaps also Dennmark (have to see what my mood says along the way.. ^^) from the 12th of August till 26th/27th of August. There's also a possibility to travel to a part of Sweden and also the Netherlands. Can't wait to see where me and my friend Marlene will be travelling.. :)
We'll make our way to Frakfurt, and then straight to Cologne.
Packing was like SO troublesome! Looked for over an hour for the silly sleepingbag!! And my Eastpack bag has like SOOOOOOOOOO much space; my friend never wanted to believe me, whenever I told her I'd be able to put in 7 T's, socks, underwear, towel, stuff for travelling, etc. And now it's as fat as a Christmas turkey! Hope it's not too heavy on the way..
Anyways, I'll be posting the many pics I take along the journey asap! ;)

Greets from Austria,
Chris

Back from Salzburg/Czec Republic!

Hey there!

Finally back from my little holiday to Salzburg (Austria) and the Czec Republic after nearly a week. It was really, really nice though!
First I drove to Salzburg from Upper Austria, and I made a short trip to "Königssee" which is near to the Austrian boarder (in Germany). Unfortunately, all the lovely pics I made from Salzburg and Königssee accidentally got deleted.. X( (How stupid can I be for aciidentally formating my SD card?? -.-)
Anyways, made some pics of the Czec Republic; it was very nice (though very hot..) and we visited quite a few cities and places such as Brno, Znojmo and a few cool sites. Check out the "Photos" links on my flickr account! ;)

Starting about 10th of August I shall be going interrail with a friend of mine, through Germany, Switzerland and also Dennmark; gonna make LOTS of pics, so I can also post them here! ;) And after that, the whole UWC experience is going to commence! :D I'll be flying on the 2nd of September; gonna keep you up to date! ;) Enjoy the pics,

Chris

First post! Hurray!

Hola to everyone!

Ok, Chris goes international once again ^^ This time: Canada!
I've had like quite a few events regarding the UWC here in Austria but even though I always had my digital camera with me, I never seemed to have made any pictures. How unthinkable is that? (Ok, I admit, mostly I mysteriously never took a single picture on those events due to lack of time to concentrate on stuff like that because I was having a great time, but ok at times it was due to empty battery.. ;P)
And unforetunately all the current UWC events for this summer are over here in Austria so I guess I'll have to wait with UWC pics till I arrive at the Pearson College in Vitoria on the 3rd of Sep.
I also decided not to post pics on international stuff of the past (such as Dubai, Austria, etc.) since you can look that up on my space over at msn. Here's the link by the way: http://the0pendoor.spaces.msn.com/ Feel free to add me if you wish to (the_0pen_door@hotmail.com)
And besides, this blog is called Chris in >CANADA< ^^ So I shall be posting pics and posts on anything which has to do with that rather than events of the past which have no connection to it.. ;P Anyhow, my dad's on holiday with his wife for the next two weeks and I'm suppose to drive them around with me having received my driving licence a few weeks ago.. X) And we'll be going to places like Salzburg or also the Czech republic, so I'll probably make more effort to shoot some pics! ;) And after that, I'll be gonig interrail till the end of August, but more on that after two weeks. Well bye then! Chris PS: Oh, and for all who like don't understand anything when "UWC" is mentioned, here's a link: http://www.uwc.org/ Inform yourself about it, in case you haven't! It's really, really intersting and worth experiencing and which goals are really worth living up to!
Basically this blog is based upon my UWC experience which beginning events (the selection here in Austria and some other UWC events in Austria) I was not able to include due to my.. well hehe ^^.. digital camera "problem" but I do intend and yes, could nearly promise, that I shall be updating a lot, a lot, a lot in the future! ;) So chekc out every now and then. Well for now, hasta luego! ;)