Long weekend

Happy Easter at all!

Hope you all enjoy the good weather in Germany ;-) I think I make some people jealous with this post.

Friday

I started my long easter weekend on friday 8 o'clock (with sun). 

Michael (Weinig employee) and me drove to Tofino. It was a really beautiful weather, 15 degrees, blue sky and sunshine everywhere .... 

After a 3 hour drive and nice areas on our trip we reached Tofino unfortunately without sunshine. It is common that this area is always cloudy. It's because of the rainforest (check this-i do it for you)

After arriving we walked through the little village. I went in the first surf shop where I asked for a surfing lesson. But this shop told me that I missed the lesson but fortunately there are some more surf shops. At the second shop I had luck. 3 o'clock I could start my lesson with six other guys. 

After a short introduction we went into the water. Because of the suit it was not so cold as I thought. It was a lot of fun but really hard. I guess I've caught only three or four times a wave but it was a enchanted feeling. 

After three hours surfing we drove back into the sun. At home...

Saturday

On Saturday I brought Michael to the Nanaimo Airport. 

Afterward I drove to the BC ferry in Nanaimo to get vancouver.

It is very expensive to come over by ferry with a car. Almost 70 $ for one way. But it is interesting to drive with such a big ferry. I think these are one of biggest ferries of the world.

After a more than two hours drive and a good breakfast at the ferry I drove 40 minutes until vancouver downtown. The first hold was Stanley Park.

Afterward I visited downtown. I parked my car in an underground parking. I went by feet through the streets and visited the Pacific centre. I think almost 90 % are asian people in Vancouver.

At 4:45 PM I drove back to the ferry to come over back to Nanaimo. In summary it was a stressful but beautiful day. 

Sunday

Yeah... and today I went into the outdoors with Braden to look for some bears. Unfortunately we didn't see bears but we heard a bear very close. Too close. So we went back to the car :-) Next week we will go again ...

Here some pictures of that fantastic day... 

Tomorrow we'll start our next work week. I'm excited what gonna happen. i take you in loop.

ByE ChriS

Short workweek

This short working week was pretty good. I've learned a lot of things in the program which I should optimize in future but I still have a lot to learn. Braden taught me in many topics but he also knows not everything. There is a Hotline for the program but not easy to reach because of a time difference. As we reached the Hotline they couldn't help us. Most of the time we need to figure it out. At the beginning of this week I've prepared a mind map or ERM about the companies working process. This will be helpfully in the future to do some decision about the work with the new program. Yesterday, Micheal (conturex technician) showed us the functions of the machine during he changed some parts.

Today we went to Victoria for a delivery. Our Company delivers only to re-salers but today for easter we did a special delivery to the customers house ;-) . And it was not a bad one... Take a look!

Have a nice and good long weekend !!!

Chris

First Weekend

Hello again!

just a short report of my fantastic first weekend in canada - last saturday we went to the "mount washington" (almost 2 hours driving from Duncan) into the deep snow. Just arrived we've met our snowmobile guide :-). After a really short instruction we started our awesome ride throw the mountains. We could used the best requirements. The guide just called it "hero snow". 

At the beginning it was really hard to drive but after few hours driving we became pros. The guide told us that we are the best beginners at all but also a group with a series of accidents :-)

It was a really nice day!!! After almost 5 hours snowmobiling we went back. We stopped at "cathedral grove" for a short time to visit the "Big tree". It was really fantastic... Check that out!

Next morning, my body hurts but we have a lot to do because it's crabing day :-) 

We went out to the ocean with some other friends of Braden. It was new for me but really awesome. I like crabing really much!

Pictures are telling the story..

Yammi Yammi...