I made this...

See this is my first own movie.....thi hi

Well, I'm back home now preparing for our team exam two weeks from now. Its very nice to be back - and it will be even better when summer holiday kicks in...

Rainy and fish watching Sunday...

How to spent a boring Sunday in Vancouver? Cause I must say that the Sundays here are not much different than Sundays in DK. (who ever said they would be??)
One of my roomies Kamilla and decided to take the long walk in the rain to go see Vancouver Aquarium, and so we did. It is placed in the middle of Stanly Park, which is a very beautiful natural park.


Since I'm not really in the mood of writing loads right now, I'll upload a few of the pictures for you to enjoy...

This is the Beluga Whale....its very very fat, and looks cute

Sweet and small..

And now I know how it feels like to live in one of these...not really my preferred type of home.


So many beautiful colors under sea..

What is the best way to cheer yourself up on a boring and rainy Sunday....Buy a funny frog umbrella...Got SO many comments on it everywhere I went afterwards....Kinda nice.
All for now...Roger over and out....

Its my party and I.......

I'm still trying to keep my promise on writing here every 2nd day, not managed yet though.
This Friday we finally had our welcome party, and its was a blast!


To start out the party in a new way - and to bless us and our working space during our stay we had invited a native lady. She came and blessed us and each wall in our homebase. She was SO sweet!

The theme where "Kaospilots has landed" This is a theme that needed some kick off cool stewardesses!

We ended up having 180 guests on our door list, and I think all of them came. All of them were people working on cool projects in extremely interesting companies. It was the perfect place to do lots of lots of networking and so we all did.
Every one I talked to offered world internships to who ever was interested. It just feels so good to attend a education that kicks off something inside people. I feel so privileged here, everyone I have spoken to until now are very open and interested in helping or being helped with whatever they do.

Even my friend Will, whom we meet in Whistler when Fanny and I went skiing there the first time came all the way to Vancouver to attend our party.

Yesterday felt like a Sunday, just spent it relaxing and doing nothing at all

...and today in a few minutes Kamilla and I are heating for the very famous Vancouver Aquarium to look at funny fishes and sharks. Off for now...

Time passes quickly and chances are few...

Whew!
It has just been SO difficult to find the time to write in here. Mostly because I experience so many different things each and every day. When I finally have some time to tell about it I simply can't remember all of it. I now promise to be better at updating more often…... - maybe I'll try to do it every 2. day....try that is ;-)


We got our homebase...an empty building in the junkie area! It's amazing junkies and homeless are everywhere here. But if you walk two blocks down its all fancy pancy shops and organic cafes. We managed to create a home filled with offices we now can work in. This we only had 1000 Canadian dollars to do and we did it. Now it is actually a really cool place. Very creative...but we also worked hard for it.



You can’t live in Canada without experiencing an Ice hockey game! I went to one a Friday night and it was amazing. They are passionate about hockey here! I must admit though that I quickly realized that to observe and follow up on a Hockey game takes time to learn. It was very difficult to follow the puck on the ice. In Canada they have different rules…. here they are allowed to fight! And the audiences were screaming for “blood”. And that is what i learned ( Think there might be a few more rules than this one though! But I miss out on them:-)

As you can see we the Kaospilots got a special welcome on the big screen!


I went snowboarding in Whistler! Known to be one of the worlds best ski areas. After my rainy first "go boarding in Canada experience) oh my god! The sun was shining, the view was amazing, and the snow was the purest powder! I simply went to heaven two weekends in a row now - and I love it. Its fantastic! You get on a bus 6.30 am and 8.30 you are rocking the snowy mountains.


Now we have started out on our project and it seems to be really interesting, and real world. If we come up with something good, it will actually be OUR lunch kit people will be eating from at the winter Olympics 2010! Thats a pretty cool thought.

Hmmm what more has happened???? Let me think......ohh yes, when you go out dancing here its so much fun! The Danish "jantelov" doesn't exist here, and people just go crazy on the dance floors.


I moved now. Finally I'm not sharing a one room 10 square meter hostel room anymore with two others anymore. Now we have a great, very old and very cheap apartment in the middle of Downtown! It is really nice to have some more space around us. And as an extra prezzy we got a small pet to take care of while staying here as well. We have a mouse (I like not to think of it as several mice) just one! His name is Stuart and he lives inside our walls. In the evenings we can hear him walking around in there. He don't like to come out (luckily!) because the owners of our flat has placed a not very comfortable bed in the middle of our kitchen floor...for him to sleep in ......forever!
I started looking around here to find him a small pink huttie (just like the ones people bye their dogs now) Well I know....insane! But what you won't do to stop worrying about meeting him in the bathroom one late night!!!!! Bvaadr...

All in all: "our apartment is nice - and so is our mice" ;-)


We also went three days to a beautiful place called Torfino. The nature here is amazing! Its is known to be one of the best surfing areas here. We where a small group that tried to book lessons in wave surfing! that would have been great. But unfortunately nobody had the time....So now I have yet another task that I would love to try out before I leave here!
But i spend hours walking the beaches feeling the wind in my hear and the forests. Walking in nature like this might be some of the best ways to heal - inside and out side...


And I'm doing just fine!!!

Culture shock and lots of rain..

First a beautiful picture taking from the airplane flying over Greenland.

Tree days has now gone, since I arrived in Vancouver B.C. Only tree days and already I have so many stories to tell...
For many years, one of them dreams I carry on my mind has been to go skiing in CANADA!! So when I finally got here I rushed to "Grouse Mountain" and jumped up and down all the way cause I realized that it only takes 30 minutes! You walk out of my hotel placed downtown V.C. take the skytrain and 30 minutes later you rush down a mountain covered in snow! That is just to good to believe. And it was.....imagine one of your dreams coming true - it is all just as you imagined it to be, the snow softer than anywhere else, beautiful view, no people but you on the mountain! It sounds so good - and it would have been, if all these thing weren't caused by THE RAIN!
It was bloody raining all day, but for a ski enthusiast like me a little rain doesn't keep me off the mountain - which is why I never been so soaked after a day on snowboard as I were when we finally went back to our hotel! Not exactly my dream coming true...now I keep thinking about the song "thiiings...can only get betteeer..." And it hopefully will tomorrow when I give it a new go.

The first day I spent with my two lovely new roommates Kamilla and Tone, walking around the city to get a picture of where we are. I had only walked 20 meters, before a man stopped me and aked: "So, when are you gonna finish smoking?" He did it in a friendly tone, but that would never happen at home.
The first thing we had to buy was tree umbrellas. Yes! It was raining the first day as well.. actually we now know that Vancouver is very similar to Bergen in Norway....rainy rainy rainy.
But one thing is for sure, people are extremely friendly, smiling and always helpful. If you are standing looking at a map, they always stop and ask where you are going.

We wanted to end our 12 hour walk in Chinatown and while waiting for the green light to cross the street a man suddenly came to us and said: "there is nothing down there" we explained that we wanted to go to Chinatown and he said: "ok, then you are heading the right way, but do not walk down the street on your left! That's Hastings street, and that's where all the junkies hang around." The best part of this where today, when we got into our "homebase" (the office space where we will be working for the next tree months). Of all places - in a city with apr. 2 mio. inhabitants -the homebase for the danish Kaospilots are of course placed on Hastings st. the only place in V.C were you are surrounded by homeless and drug addicts! But its an experience, and I actually think it will be good learning for all of us. But it is tough watching all these poor destinies. Today I passed a woman walking down the street while injecting her hands with a needle! And another woman taking off all of her close, a man slept all day in front of our main entrance and i could just continue....For the first time I actually got some kind of a culture shock! And I'm counting on more to come...

How to comment.

Just realized that if anyone, not having a blog of their own, wants to comment on my blog just choose anonymous or other and remember to write you name in the comment, then it will be posted without any further questions. Good luck.

Now I finally got my own..

Today is a big day! Or maybe not very special, but it is the first time I created a blog on my own and with the only intension of writiing down my thoughts and experiences.
Very soon I will travel to Vancouver Canada to work on projects in tree months, and this is what this blog is for. To let my friends and family know what I'm doing, how I am and so forth...
So - if you find it interesting - enjoy!