PHOTOS

OK I finally have had the time to put these photos up. Enjoy!

Campus

This is the Gage apartment towers, one of the residences on campus. My apartment is on the 8th floor of the South tower which is the one on the left:



Here is a view from my bedroom window before the snow started. My apartment faces North so this view shows English Bay with the mountains behind:



If I look to the North East I can see the North Shore of Vancouver and onto Cypress Mountain, where you can ski only half an hour from downtown!:



Here if the view from my window after the snow. And don't ask about the red car - I don't know why it has no snow on it!:



This is the main library mall on a weekend with the Buchanan Arts building on the left:



The campus has two libraries, the main library which is a grand old building currently undergoing renovations. It has a massive clock tower in front:



The other library is the Koerner library. It is newer and supposed to look like an open book. I can't see it...



The north end of campus looks out onto the Strait of Georgia and toward Bowen Island and Vancouver Island. There is a rose garden just behind me but its covered in snow!:



International House (where I take the Salsa class):



The Commerce classes are in the Angus building:



This is a very grand building off the main mall - I don't know whats in it, perhaps Chemistry?



My Apartment - South 8C

My roommates like to smoke. Here is a table with some of the accessories - the tall things are called sheesha. You suck flavoured tobacco through a tube. They say its harmless but I just googled to get the spelling and apparently 1 sheesha is equivalent to 18 cigarettes. I am yet to try it!



This is a bud buster. Its actually a coffee grinder but not many Vancouverites use it for coffee... figure the rest out yourself...



Dylan (one of my roommates) and I prefer to stick to alcohol... this is Dylan's grog collection.... I am yet to build mine...



Here is an ad for a frat party I found in our tower. Clearly I'm not welcome but $5 for all you can drink...! Damn...



People

Here is a picture of Dylan one of my roommates and a friend of his Kim, who is a dancer =)



The next few photos are from our Japanese dinner for Rina's 21st. This first one is me with Nash, one of the Mexican girls:



Here is Rina (from UNSW) and Daniel from Mexico:



Me with French girl Margo who lives opposite me in Gage:



Marie (from France), Rina and Nash - roommates from Fairview, another of the residences



VEGEMITE!!

I bought some Vegemite in Sydney airport before I left, thinking I wouldn't be able to buy it here - look what I found in Safeway (shelf completely full!)



I have given it to most of my roommates as a deal for trying some weed. They hated it and I felt nothing! Here is Daniel and Nash trying some Vegemite:



Whistler

Here are a couple of photos from my first day at Whistler last weekend. I went again this weekend but stupidly left my camera battery in the charger. So these photos are just from the Village and are not all that good - stay tuned for more!





Snow cock

OK I left these sexually explicit photos for the bottom so you don't have to scroll down =). With all the snow on campus a 'snow cock' competition amoungst the college kids started happening - this is one we found (and destroyed) on the carpark rooftop



Oops:



Isn't this the ugliest snowman you have every seen?



OK that's it for a pretty long post. Hope you enjoyed the photos and stay tuned for more!