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Saturday, January 29, 2005

Kicked out of the bomber

The main issue in CLV this weekend has been the rumours about Stefan's and my wednesday night in the bomber, a small club on campus.
After an evening of totally loosing control Stefan was somehow kicked out and banned for one year. They blamed him to have stolen beer.
To make it it clear for everyone and for the last time: A German would never steal canadian beer!

Running out of options to socialize Stefan persuaded his roommates to have a party on Saturday. It turned out to be very good night where I even got to know people from our neighbours Austria and the Netherlands for the first time here.

left: Searching for consolation in the cheap wine. Being banned from the bomber is definetly a hard hit. But unit 26 did a good job in running their party (right: fltr: Stefan, Sarah and me).

left: What's a party without our bunny Allison?
middle: Jörn Marten can hardly decide. Who is dressed better tonight? Phil or Sascha?
right: And then there was Julie, a french girl who told me she met me a long time ago and observed me since then inconspicuously.

Timmi, the first Dutch I met here, had all reason to be appaled: she missed our first date!
By the way: Which round reached Holland in soccer world cup 2002? I've really problems to remember.

posted by FAMOUS SVEN at 29.1.05 | 0 comments

Friday, January 21, 2005

Heaps of snow = Heaps of fun

Tonight we planned to build a snowman but noticed very soon that the snow was too fluffy, so we had to change the plans. Knowing that unit 26 (Stefan and co) was out for dinner it was obvious what to do: "Let's block their door!"

Being just 4 people (right: fltr: Phil, Jörn Marten, me and Sascha) we asked my favourite french girls for help. As they rejected we used their unit as a test area and I gave Delphine a refreshing bath in the -20°C-snow.

We finally managed to get enhancement by the swiss Bea, Thomas and Fabio and collected a whole bunch of shovels...

... and started to work.

We did a good job and have been proud of it.
fltr: Phil, Thomas, me, Fabio, Jörn Marten, Sascha, Bea and and an unknown free rider who wanted to get a bit of the honour.

posted by FAMOUS SVEN at 21.1.05 | 0 comments

Sunday, January 16, 2005

Curling

For this term we decided to try something new and founded a german-swiss-australian-swedish curling team. Every Sunday we compete now against other teams within the curling club. None of us played this sport before and we noticed that the rules are easier than expected.

Lead by the skipper you try to bring the token in the desired position by handling power, direction and spin. (left) Noticing the token is too slow you can try to keep the speed by brushing the ice in front of it. (right)
The goal is having the own tokens closer in the house than the opponent team.

left:our team fltr: Urs, Philip, William and me hoping that the tooken stops soon
right: every millimeter counts, Phil and Urs gave everything

And the best rule is applied after the game: The winner pays the beer for the looser.
It was a great evening and we even had a small fanblock (thanks to Daniela and Martin) . I'm looking forward to the next games.

posted by FAMOUS SVEN at 16.1.05 | 0 comments

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Wintertrip to Niagara Falls

In the silence of the second weekend of the new term we visited the Niagara Falls again. It was quite nice to see them in a winterlandscape since my last trip there has been in the summer.

In the darkness of the evening the Niagara Falls are coloured up by several lights. This leads to a really impressing image.

left: At the canadian side of the falls, also known as "horseshoe-falls" because of their shape, you can see lots of evaporation.
right: The american part is a bit smaller but still impressing.

posted by FAMOUS SVEN at 15.1.05 | 0 comments

Saturday, January 01, 2005

New Year Celebration in Montreal

For the New Year Celebration and the final of our holidays we went to Montreal. New Years Eve we spent in a weird club which seemed to be even more degenerated than the good old Jolly Joker.

left: Paul, Daniela and me; right: Fabio, Daniela, Thomas, William and me

The other day we visited the city again. Unfortunatly lots of shops were closed so that the impressions couldn't reach them in the summer.
Unlike last time we visited the Mont-Royal from where you have a great view of Montreal.

The way to the top of the 234m-hill was long and icy...

...but we have been rewarded with a great view!

On our way back home to Waterloo we visited the olympic parc of 1976 again. The photo shows us in the swimming arena.
(fltr: Lawrence, Delphine, me, David, William)

posted by FAMOUS SVEN at 1.1.05 | 0 comments