Hi,
welcome on my Vancouver blog! I made a new blog especially for my Vancouver
experience so I had more space left for pictures and it’s a whole new
adventure. I will probably also update my ski blog every now and then but that
will be more about my training in Vancouver and Whistler.
As of
today I have 5 weeks left before I go to Vancouver.
A lot of
things have been taken care of all ready, I have a place to live, a really nice
apartment on the UBC campus. I have booked my flight yesterday, my flight is Friday
May 3rth on at 2.55 PM from Schiphol I'll fly with Britisch airways to Heatrow and
transfer there to my flight to Vancouver I’ll arrive in Vancouver on May 3rth
at 6.20pm. I will fly home on September 1st and arrive at Schiphol
on September 2nd somewhere around 6pm.
My internship in which I’ll study certain aspects of grow factors in
Neuroblastoma, a very aggressive pediatric tumor, is official. I still have to read a lot on
that subject but it’s all very interesting.
I had
sent my passport to the HR person of the hospital to see if I needed a permit
or visa, yesterday I got the respons that as a citizen of Germany….. I didn’t
need a permit or visa since my internship is unpaid and I’ll leave within six
months, luckily the same rules applies for citizens of the Netherlands, but it
is really funny that those mistakes keep on happening and made me think of this
video.
So more
on my room I’ll live at 5755 Dalhousie Rd, Vancouver BC V6T 2J2. I saw pictures of the apartment and it looks
amazing.
I had
replied to some craiglist adds and got some replies back, but the hard part was
how to choose when you can’t meet your roommates or the people renting the room.
So I struggled a bit with that. Meanwhile I tried to sublet my own apartment, I
was screening a facebook page for international students in Leiden, when I saw
a post of a Canadian girl, curious as I was I checked here profile and it said
she was from UBC, what a coincidence. So
I decided to message her to see if I could get some tips. The next day we met
and she helped me out great, all my questions answered she wrote a lot of stuff
down that will help me start up. And she also had a room, it looked good and
felt good especially since we could meet in person. So that’s all taken care
of. The whole internship is really happening! After 7 months of planning and
emailing.
For the
next 5 weeks there still is a lot to do, I need to sublet my own awesome apartment
I need
to pack and mostly decide what not to take with me ;)
And I
still have a few exams. That’s it for now I’ll check back when I have more news
to share.
