Happy new year everyone!! Can you believe it’s 2024 already?! I feel like this past year, time literally flew by! INTERNeX celebrated new year’s on Grouse Mountain and it was awesome, so let me tell you about it! 🥳
We met around 5pm at Waterfront to go to Grouse Mountain together and public transit was actually free for NYE, which I thought was very helpful and an amazing idea! So, we headed over to Grouse Mountain and went up to the mountaintop with the gondola. At the top, we took a quick look around and got some hot chocolate – they had all kinds of flavours, varying from normal hot chocolate to peppermint, spiked, and Bailey’s hot chocolate! After that we watched the firework show, which was super fun! In Vancouver, there was no public firework, so we were all very glad and happy that we were still able to see some fireworks for NYE!
After that we took a stroll through the Light Walk up on Grouse Mountain and this was sooo beautifully made!! It wasn’t too many lights to the point where you’re blinded when you look around lol, but instead there were super cute fairy lights and little shapes strung up on the trees and throughout the forest! Also there was a reindeer enclosure so we were able to see Santa’s helpers!! Overall, it was a super fun experience and the only downside was the wait on the way back down… but hey, at least we got some candy canes lol!
For midnight we also headed down to Granville Street which was super packed! But we got some quick bites and waited for the countdown with everyone outside and there were even a few more fireworks! ✨
How was your NYE weekend? Did you also celebrate? Did you go out to a bar? Or maybe you just got together with some friends? I’d love to hear about it next Pub Night!
Toodles!
-Talea :))
Me and my fellow students Barbara and Franzi went to the Rocky Mountains this weekend. We did a 4 day tour, so it started on Friday and we came back to Vancouver on Monday. The first day was more or less just the drive to our first hotel in Revelstoke. But the program on Saturday was really eventful. We went to the Emerald Lake, to Lake Louise and to Lake Moraine. I’ve never seen such a blue, clear water. However, Lake Peyto (which we’ve visited on Sunday) was my highlight of all the lakes we saw. When you have a look at the picture, you will understand why.
Even though we arrived a bit later in Vancouver on Monday than we expected, we were still able to see the firework of Canada Day. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
It was the first Baseball match I ever watched and I have to say it took me some time to fully understand the specific rules. But after patient explanations by Billy and Samuel and observing the field, I was able to follow the game. In the end “our team” (the Vancouver Canadians) won. The three hours we spent at the stadium got us freezing and the majority was ready to head home and get some rest. The 50 minute-journey home turned into a nightmare ride of 1.5 hours, because the Skytrain seemed to be experiencing some operational/technical problems. But in the end I arrived safely and happily.
We met at 4.30 pm and watched the life performance by Jojo Mason. I really enjoyed the songs and covers he performed. His attitude was just so positive! And as he sang the national anthem, everything somehow stopped. Nothing but his voice filled the air and you could hear the Vancouverites sing along with pride. It felt as if the world stood still. Just for a moment. I definitely got goosebumps.
It was really beautiful and shapes like smileys and hearts lit up the sky over Coal Harbour. After that, it was a real struggle getting home, because it felt like the entire population of Vancouver was at Canada Place and now tried to get home. The line for the Expo Line was several hundred metres long. But I succeeded and once I got on the train I got home quite quickly.
Yesterday we went for our PuB Night to the Darby’s. We were really lucky and got a big table outside at their roof patio and so we could enjoy the sun for some more time while we had some cool beers. Also their food was pretty good, everything was really fresh and tasted delicious. We also ordered something like a beer tasting, where they gave us 8 small glasses filled with different beers from their menu, domestic and imported. So we had a nice overview about what they’re offering and were able to find out which tasted best for us.
Tomorrow we’re having our PuB Night at the 
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