Vancouver: Week 3

So by week 3 usually things have begun to quieten down, work starts for real and one begins to do research for the first batch of papers. Hah! Not for an exchange student! Instead it's a steady diet of 21sts, concerts and dragon boat racing!

Why not?!?!

So, this week, on top of classes and the like, we hit Plush Nightclub on Monday for Ali's 21st. Seedy club, very quiet, but as per usual we brought the fun. On top of that Will joined us! That is not a regular occurrence so it was quite special!

Tuesday was a domestic night in - much needed rest!

Wednesday it rained hard, which is something Vancouver is infamous for, so not totally surprising. It was just the first time this had really happened here since we arrived, so kinda disappointing! The stereotypes are true I guess.

What's most hilarious is the absolute presumption by everyone Canadian that that's it - the end of summer has arrived! In fact, it was the only day to rain all week! Yay!

Thursday was spent ogling clubs during UBC's version of O-Week (well at least the clubs component of it). So many clubs, so little time. I joined two: FICUBC (Foundation for International Cooperation at UBC) and the SRC (Singapore Raffles' Club). You can tell where my allegiances lie! Thursday night was Natasha's 19th (she's legal!) and also the Snow Patrol concert. Very very good concert - but the venue felt like a high school gym. Boo too that!

Friday was another uber-domestic night in, watching movies with my roomies and some girls from Australia.

Saturday Nick (from the UK) and I went to see Confetti. This is the film with almost all of our favourite British comedians. A bit hit and miss, well more miss than hit, but overall very pleasant. Love the camp wedding directors - brilliant! We paid a visit to the Aussie store to grab Chris a big Aussie flag for his birthday (and a boxing kangaroo pen) and then headed to his and Laurents' birthdays. Awesome fun - highly debaucherous, especially after we went to the Pit for the "Crime and Punishment" night. As British Tristan said "a night is never complete without arseless chaps!"

Sunday came around far too fast - another week gone! Already I've been here a month and I'm LOVING it!! We had our Longboat training today which was great fun. Basically Longboat is the old UBC tradition that has grown into over 3000 people competing this obstacle course in dragon boats. Our team is 3x USyd, 3x UNSW, 2x German, 1x Swiss and 1x Japanese. We all get along really well and it turns out Lauren (UNSW) is in my 370 class! Small world! Next Saturday we compete! Eeek!!!

Bye for now!