Time to say goodbye…

Today it’s my last day at the INTERNeX office and I will end my 18-week internship at INTERNeX. Also that’s gonna be my final blog and I want to thank everybody for this awesome time here in Vancouver. During my 18-week internship I did awesome trips and activities but of course I also learned a lot of things, which are useful for my studies back home. That’s why I want to say a big THANK YOU to Tim and Simon. And of course thank you to Alexandra, Ole and well how can I forget him CRAZY Alex, you guys made my days in the office 🙂 

During my time here in Vancouver I saw a lot’s of amazing places such as Whistler, the breathtaking Rockies, the surfer’s paradise Tofino and had an adventure trip to Chilliwack for White Water Rafting. Also the hike’s here around Vancouver are amazing, the Chief, Bowen Island and of course the Grouse Grind, which you have to do while you here in Vancouver.

It will be really strange to leave Vancouver, because right now it’s like a second home for me. All the amazing people I met here made this time one of my best expierences so far.  After my holidays in the USA I will start my last year at the Hochschule Munich but I’m motivated and ready to go for this last year and afterwards of course I start traveling to see more from the world.

I want to say thanks and good-bye to everyone who I met during my stay here, I had one of the best 18-weeks here, THANK YOU!! 

 

Goodbye, Auf wiedersehen, Servus, Pfi’a de 🙂 

Cheers,

Danie

PS: Join me for my last Club & PuB NiGHT at the Cambie tonight!

INTERNeX International Exchange
International Village,
Suite 2077, 2079 – 88 West Pender Street
Vancouver, Canada -V6B 6N9-
Web: http://www.internexcanada.com
Email: pr@internexcanada.com

White Water Rafting Review

What an amazing weekend!! We hope you had so much fun as we had. On Saturday the 7th of June was THE day were our awesome rafting trip started. Our crazy tour guide Lee from WestTrek picked us at 2pm with a sweet van on Waterfront station up and we made our way to Chilliwack. On our way we stopped of course to get some snacks and drinks (a lot of drinks ;)) for the campfire that night.

We arrived in Chilliwack around 4pm and after we setting up our tents (which mostly we girls did!!), close to a big camp fire place, we started playing volleyball, which was pretty fun. Of course we started already drinking, so you can imagine how funny the volleyball match was. At around 6pm our dinner was ready. There was a buffet with good food, we enjoyed the food while sitting outside in the sun. After dinner we went straight back to the volleyball court and had a exiting match agains the yellow team (high school kids) which of course we won ;).

After the beach volleyball match it was time to start the campfire. We all gathered around the campfire. We spend the whole night drinking, kind of singing, looking at the stars and sharing crazy stories and watch crazy Alex falling down 🙂

The next morning we woke up at around 8am in the morning for a great breakfast with pancakes, eggs and coffee. After a safety talk, which made everybody scared as hell, it was finally time to go Rafting!!! They brought us to the river in old retro school busses and we went on the river with 3 boats with in total about 25 people. There were lots of crazy rapids and the surrounding was stunning! After rafting for about an hour we stopped and dragged our boats on shore. We hiked up to an amazing waterfall and walked through the waterfall, it was breath taking! When we got back in our boats and on the river the rapids kept getting bigger and faster. Three hours later we got back to camp, but it was not over yet! For the real Die Hards there was the possibility to go back on the river again and experience the biggest rapids. Of course all the INTERNeX candidates were up for that. We went back on the river, it was insane! The river was super wild, awesome!

After we came back to the camp our lunch was already waiting for us. We had a last volleyball match and than we made our way back to Vancouver. We arrived in Vancouver around 4pm. Of course we have all the picture on Flickr.

I hope you guys had so much fun as we had 🙂

 

 

We hope we will see you on Wednesday at our weekly Pub Night @ the Doolin’s. 

 

INTERNeX International Exchange
International Village,
Suite 2077, 2079 – 88 West Pender Street
Vancouver, Canada -V6B 6N9-
Web: http://www.internexcanada.com
Email: pr@internexcanada.com

 

 

 

upcoming Events

May is already over and June is coming up. We have awesome things planned for you guys this month.

 

White Water Rafting

The first weekend in June we will go for our monthly overnight trip to Chilliwack to practise our white water rafting skills. We will meet on Saturday the 7th of June at 2pm at Waterfront station. We will make our way with our little sweet van to Chilliwack where we have a campfire night and some games going on. The next morning we will go to the wild river for our rafting. After 3-4 hours rafting we will make our way back to Vancouver where we arrive at around 6:30pm.

 

Bike Ride

On Saturday the 14th of June we planned a bike ride trough Stanley Park. Afterwards we can make a rest at one of the nice beaches and see where our night ends.

 

 

 

Germany – Ghana

Finally the World Cup starts for Germany as well. We will support our team on Saturday the 21st of June for their second game against Ghana. The soccer match starts at 12pm so we will meet at a Pub where we can watch this game.

 

PuB & Club Night

The last weekend in June we will end with a Pub & Club Night on Friday the 27th of June. We will start of course as always at the Pub called Cambie and afterwards we will find our way to a club where we go crazy on the dance floor.

 

We hope you all want to join us for this great events 🙂

 

INTERNeX International Exchange
International Village,
Suite 2077, 2079 – 88 West Pender Street
Vancouver, Canada -V6B 6N9-
Web: http://www.internexcanada.com
Email: pr@internexcanada.co

INTERNeX goes White Water Rafting

With the Rockies behind us and Tofino upcoming, we decided to do a bit more action in June. And what is better than going White Water Rafting in Chilliwack with the best guide there is, the one and only Lee! 

Chilliwack is a 90 minutes drive from Vancouver and it’s a tourism destination, which is famous of course for the best spot in British Columbia to do Rafting. INTERNeX goes on the 7th till the 8th of June to this awesome adventure. What is included in this trip?

 

 

– Transportation to and from Chilliwack

– a kick ass Canadian Driver Guide -> Lee

– all Camping Equipment

– Campfire Party Night

– BBQ-Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch on Sunday

– 3-4 hours rafting with professional river guides on Class 3-4 rapids

– area for Volleyball and soccer

 

 

We will make our way to Chilliwack on Saturday the 7th of June at around 2pm with a Van, which Lee is driving. We will spend the day in Chilliwack and on Sunday morning we will do White Water Rafting. We will arriving in Vancouver at around 6:30pm on Sunday. As we had to rent a Van for this trip, the space in the Van is of course limited. So we can only take 12 people with us, that’s why the trip is on the “FIRST PAY, FIRST SERVE” basis. So make sure that you get a spot and pay for the trip asap. The amazing White Water Rafting Trip cost $220 for INTERNeX-members, for NON-INTERNex-members $230. Please keep in mind that we are only accept cash and we only have 12 SEATS on the Van.

We hope you stay tuned for the next Blog Post about the White Water Rafing 🙂

 

INTERNeX International Exchange
International Village,
Suite 2077, 2079 – 88 West Pender Street
Vancouver, Canada -V6B 6N9-
Web: http://www.internexcanada.com
Email: pr@internexcanada.com

INTERNeX Canada: West Trek Tours – Summer Party Gold Sponsor

INTERNeX is happy to introduce our partner and summer party gold sponsor West Trek Tours today! See our Summer Party event page for more information on this party of the summer 2012! Thank you West Trek Tours for supporting this awesome event.

Serving young travelers since 1998 West Trek Tours is Western Canada’s #1 Tour Company! Their tours are specifically designed for YOU, international students and globetrotters. They work closely with language schools and know exactly what students and young tourists want to see and experience in Canada!
The coolest Canadian guides and party experts show you the most exciting Canadian destinations: Victoria and Tofino on Vancouver Island, Seattle and Portland in the US, Banff and Jasper in the Rocky Mountains. And there is more: the tours are combined with social events, sports activities and party party party to give everybody the maximum of fun.

INTERNeX candidates and team themselves experienced the awesomeness of West Trek trips several times! Rafting tours on one of the wildest and craziest rivers in Canada were so much fun. Camping and romantic get-togethers with a campfire added to the perfect adventure feeling these weekends. And it’s happening again! West Trek is organizing another White Water Rafting trip with their best guides and equipment! Winter or summer, the Rocky Mountains West Trek tour will be the best travel experience of your life! Be on the Rockies party bus and you will never forget the roads of Canada. Nearly every INTERNeX candidate enjoyed the incredible nature and parties on the Rockies West Trek trips! The next one is happening on the August long weekend, 3rd to 6th of August!

If you want short adrenaline-filled adventures, West Trek Tours takes you skydiving and offers discounts for a lot of other exciting activities. Having hotels and activity providers as partners West Trek gets you incredible deals on bungee jumping and zip trekking, whale watching and surfing, sightseeing, gondolas and much more. This way you get the best value for your trips and your student wallets!

Wherever you go, the Rockies, the US or Tofino; whatever you do, hiking, sightseeing, or surfing; you will leave a West Trek Tours trip with new friends and amazing memories!

INTERNeX thanks West Trek Tours for all the awesome trips and the support of our summer party! Check out the West Trek Tours website to learn more about their trips.

Happy travelling!

Xenia

INTERNeX International Exchange
Suite 200 – 211 Columbia Street
Vancouver BC -V6A 2R5-
Web: http://www.internexcanada.com
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