Event - Shabusen

Although Shabusen was a all-you-can-eat restaurant, the dished were just so-so for me. We ate a lot of the meat, sushi, sashimi, soup...ect. But that was just my opinion, my friend, Masaki, said it's delicious.

Today's Arochi's last day so that's why I created this event. We were all the classmates in Think in English. I knew this restaurant because of Yuya's recommendation. Thanks for his advice, we had a good time in this restaurant. 

We played a game to punish the loser to eat leftovers. We were all very very full. So indeed it's punishment. The last run of this game was the most terrible one.

Bravo Nick. He ate the sushi with a lot of mustard sauce (Sashimi).

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To celebrate the last week of this month.

To celebrate some friends' last day in VEC.

To celebrate CANADA DAY.

The food in this restaurant is unlimited.

Cuisine :

Korean Food, Japanese Food, Buffet, BBQ

Event - UBC

UBC

Beautiful university in Vancouver. I went to visit the garden and wreck beach there with Taiwanese friends. And ate chinese food after that.
What a fulfilled day!

Attention, don't photo towards people on Wreck Beach. That's very impolite.

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Where we meet : Granville Stn Entrance by Granville St.

It's a beautiful school with a beach inside. Let's go to look around there !

(optional) We can eat dinner outside after the trip.

Event - Farewell Party

We prepared a lot of snacks, cookies and sodas here, playing balls, Frisbee. I tried to teach them how to play 火鍋拳 but they thought that's difficult. =.=

Sorry I couldn't find BBQ set so it wasn't very fun actually. And I didn't know why I felt unhappy today. Even when we left here and ate in a Korean restaurant together. I still had long face.

Anyway, hope you have good life here and in Japanese. Tomoyo.

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NOTICE:

We'll meet everybody at 2:30pm in front of a London Drug store near Granville Stn. on this Sunday.

Please bring an umbrella and ID with you.

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We'll have a party in English Bay.
Sodas
Cookies
Frisbee
And ?

Estimate 20 people will join. And if you want to invite your friend, ask tomoyo pls. She is our boss.

We're gonna have a good time !

Volunteer

Korean Church, Central Presbyterian Church, in the Thurlow St.

2 of my roommates and me, we were happy volunteers cus we helped the church staffs to serve homeless people food for free. There were around 200 homeless came to the church. I think they were all satisfied with today cus the breakfast and the coffee were so nice ! Seriously, compare to the breakfast in my homestay, this is like a food in the dream.

Anyway, thanks for Jungbae's information.

Event - Vancouver Downtown Jazz Festival

2012 Downtown Jazz Weekend.

My friends and me went to eat Korean food first in SULA and then joined the Jazz Festival in Robson Square. I was so lucky to have delicious food and interesting activities in a day.

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update :

Eat Korean food (Jang Mo Jib Restaurant) on Robson Street at lunch time around 12:00 on Saturday. And then go to join Towntown Jazz weekend.

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The place we meet : The Entrance of Granville Stn on Granville St. at 12:00 pm.
Jazz Location : 800 Robson Street Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7

Jazz Schedule : http://www.coastaljazz.ca/series/downtown_jazz_weekend

Portland & Seattle

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Day 1

第一天出發陰雨綿綿，果然就發生慘劇，我們的團員Sunny因為無法持學生簽，與本次觀光目的迥異，被機車美國海關檔下，然後，一個人孤零零回家了，沒旅行社協助跟補償，她的朋友跟我後來都跟旅行社大戰好多回，還是無補償跟折扣...。

第一晚必須長途跋涉到波特蘭，中途經過很多休息站，也在波特蘭downtown待90分鐘左右，最後終於抵達飯店。但大伙兒把握時間，先到附近的Macy's Mall買東西，這裡是免稅的！

我只買了一副Oakley太陽眼鏡，要價快$200，怎免稅還是這麼貴!? 另外一個團員買了超多某某牌子的衣服(H開頭的，袋子有美國猛男的那牌)，買到最後一分鐘店家關了，太厲害了。

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Day 2

(The Grotto)

(Multnomah Falls)

抵達瘋狂購物中心WoodBurn之前，我們經過莊嚴的The Grotto露天大教堂跟壯觀的Multnomah Falls瀑布，此行唯一的人文景點與大自然景觀。然後剩下就通通是瞎拚了 XD

WoodBurn品牌工廠，太扯了，我們在這裡待5個小時！而且還不夠用！

很多女生買Coach包包，男生則著重運動品牌。我也在這裡亂買一堆，像是Columbia刷毛保暖外套、冷水壺，American Eagle皮包、帽子，GUESS皮帶、T-Shirt，NIKE運動褲、襪子，Clark休閒鞋，花了快$500吧，天殺的，要不是考慮行李箱塞不下，應該會買更多。 XD

FRYS電子商城, 很多電子跟電器用品都很便宜, 這個耳機是幫Home家的R.J.買的, 他說要送給他姐姐, 好像只有$7左右。

因為今天是飯店最後一晚，所以我跟iiiwen、Sharon去飯店內的酒爸喝酒，好喝，也互挖一些八卦，希望大家未來都過的好。

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Day 3

非常非常好吃的早餐, 鬆餅, 水果, 柳橙純汁...。

西雅圖Premium Outlet，我們在這裡沒有逛很久，因為前一天在波特蘭大家已經掃得差不多了，所以今天好像就大概1個半小時而已，把一些東西補一補。這裡雖然要8%的稅，但因為很多東西都先打個5折了，所以還是很便宜的啦！

入境回加拿大之前，再買罐Vodka，跟很多巧克力，kkk
運氣很好，海關並沒有一一檢查大家的伴手禮，因為不能超過$800，但一堆人其實都超過了。海關也沒問我什麼，就入境了...

行程結束，回到溫哥華，台灣人一起到Metrotown的阿里山餐廳吃晚餐，很羨慕他們一家人都移居在加拿大，然後每年「回台灣觀光」，享清福。

他們是很nice的家庭，還有我的團員也是很nice，都很開朗的!

~The End~

Event - Night Market

It's expensive but still had so much fun here. I recommended every friend comes here at least once. But just once is enough...

Today's number of members was the most in all of the events I created. I thought it's more than 20 for sure. We didn't have time to know each other. However that didn't matter cus today's purpose was to enjoy the food with good friends, making new friends was optional.

Unfortunately, the food wasn't so nice.

Event - Grouse Mountain

Hello bears. We guys felt cold and tired after 2 hours hiking to go up to the top of Grouse Mt. But we lost a 4 friends on the halfway, 2 Koreans and 2 Brazilians. This trail was really too tough. Even though I was kinda good at hiking, I didn't do it very well.

At 10:00pm I saw very beautiful night views of north Vancouver and downtown by Gondola. It's awesome!

I really enjoyed the moment with my friends !

(Before)

(After)

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NOTICE:

We'll meet at 2:45 pm in front of Starbucks inside the Waterfront station.

Welcome to invite your friend.

Prepare your WATER, CLOTHES and FOOD before you go !!

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Go to grouse mountain after Saturday lunch.

We'll go to Grouse Mountain, go up by hiking (2 hours) and stay there to see night views of Vancouver. Then go down by gondola charges $10 and go home at almost 10:00pm.

So we'll eat dinner on the mountain.
Anyone have interests to join can have your own choice like
1.Buy round-trip gondola and probably it costs $10 X 2.
2.Go home earlier whenever you want to go home then just take gondola to go down.

(optional) If you want to hike with me, please prepare enough water. It'll save your money but need you more energy to go up the mountain........ @O@

(optional) If you want to see night views with me, please have some food with you for dinner and overcoat because it'll be very cold. @O@

Event - Firday Lunch - Jang Mo Jib

Oh my god, on the way to this Korean restaurant, Jang Mo Jib, it's raining ! So I lent my umbrella to Finia. Hope she liked it.

Finally, we arrived. However the food here was just so-so. There was only 1 dish on our table which was delicious. That's beef. We shared to each other ourselves dish. The seafood pancake was a little bit oily.

Good news was today had only member of 8 so we could talk more to each other rather than just say 'hello' or 'where are you from'...something like that. Nice feeling.

The price was not cheap, btw.

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Hello, same as before, if we have too many people then there'll have some people wait outside. But it doesn't matter.

JUST WAIT !

I invite key person first and then you can invite your friend freely. (click Invite button on the top)
But it's better to post how many friends you want to invite before Thursday.

Going list :
Shiori
Wako
Finia
Kyle
Shun
Mika
Gunner

Jang Mo Jib

(seafood pancake)

Jang Mo Jib Korean Restaurant.

Thought it rained a lot in lunch time, we still had a good time to eat Korean food. But I think it's a little bit expensive......

Y2K Hair Studio

Y2K Hair Studio, Mrs. Huang & Sooki.

This is my favorite barber shop. The barber, Sooki, is Korean, so sometimes Mrs. Huang will translate for us between Mandarin and Korean languages.

I ate dinner in a Japanese restaurant with Mrs. Huang and it was her treat.
She's a really nice elder sister.
I always call her "黃姐" and she likes this name.

Event - Lynn Canyon Park (hiking tour)

I insisted that created this event even though the weather wouldn't good for sure. Thankfully, we guys still could enjoy and it's a wonderful trip to talk and hang out with so many friends. Even better, it's sunny after lunch time. So we all took a lot of photos.

After went back to downtown, we kept talking in English in Tim Horton's. It was so much fun.

It's a good day.

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NOTICE :

● (9:30) Don't know how to go ?
>> Go to Joyce Skytrain at 9:30 (before) and take the #28 bus together.

● (10:40) Already know how to go or your home is very far from Joyce Skytrain ?
>> Sorry, go to the park directly. We'll meet you on Peters Rd (very very close to the Park) at 10:40. I suggest that use google map or give me your home address so I can help you if needed.

● (11:00) Enter the park. Please bring your lunch and umbrella with you. Don't worry, Saturday is supposed to be sunny.

If u have any question, please feel free to call me : 604 - 616 - 0551

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Going list (8) :

Kevin x 2 (Paul)
Shiori x 4 (Wako, Mika, Shun)
A-min x 2
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It's a beautiful and nature park. You'll see waterfalls, the suspension bridge, wind animals there.

Moreover, you can see other info/pictures on the website :http://lynncanyon.ca/

Very far away from your home ?
Actually, it's very easy to go to the park. Use google map to arrive there. Your destination is Lynn Canyon Park and almost every bus from your home needs transfer once on the Phibbs Exchange in north Vancouver. I'll wait for my friends near this park. (get off the bus on the Peters Rd).

See you all at 10:40 am on Saturday. ^_^

Event - Samurai

We had too many friends came here today. So we need more time to wait until enough table and chairs. Eventually we separated into 2 group. Lady first for sure. Frankly, I couldn't enjoy this time cus I could feel everybody was hungry. And we didn't speak English very often.

I ordered カツ丼, the pork was nice but the rice was not as delicious as pork. Hope that every friend invited by me could enjoy the food and this meet up.

More than worse, there was only one friend went to Queen Elizabeth with me, Masaki. And it drizzles a little. I meant the weather was bad.

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Going list(13):
Hiroyuki x 3
Shiori x 4 (Wako, Tomoyo, Mika)
Kevin x 4 (Kyle, Masaki, Shiori Namba)
GukHwa
Yuya
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Restaurant Name : Samurai Japanese Restaurant (or Sushi Osaka if Samurai is full)
I've eaten in this restaurant on the last weekend. In my opinion, it's delicious, price-reasonable.

Same as before, pls tell me how many people do u (including of ur friends) will join before Thursday.

I'll go to Queen Elizabeth Park which is near this restaurant after that lunch or go anywhere if anyone has other good idea.