UBC - the first mass mails

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On this page, I accumulated the massmails I sent before starting with the journal.

Hi Ihrs, ich bin jetzt genau eine Woche hier in Vancouver und hab es letztendlich doch fertiggebracht, einen Internet - account zu bekommen.
Ich weiss jetzt nicht, ob ich alle erreiche, oder viel besser: ich weiss, dass ich nicht alle erreiche, denn ohne Frage hat sich garantiert wieder irgendjemand aus meinem Adressbuch geschlichen. Vielleicht hat sich auch jemand hineingeschlichen, der gar keine rundmails aus Kanada bekommen will, weil es ihn nervt, was ich für ein Zeug schreibe. In beiden Fällen empfiehlt es sich, mir eine email zu schreiben, denn ansonsten gehen alle folgenden mails an dieselben Personen...

So, erstmal einen kurzen Überblick:
Chaos am Flughafen, Flieger fällt aus, andere Route, andere Fluggesellschaft, Übernachtung in New York, einen Tag später hier, nicht schlimm. Absolut genialer Campus, einer der schönsten Fleckchen Erde der Welt, dann der gefürchtete Vancouver-Regen für 3 Tage, viel organisatorisches Zeug, Jugendherberge für 2 Wochen, Pubs & Co, Filme auf Video, die bei uns im Kino laufen, alles recht teuer, total nette Leute.

Eine (hoffentlich nicht allzu schlimme) Nachricht muss ich noch loswerden: Als wir hier waren sind wir dazu übergegangen, auch untereinander Englisch zu sprechen, weil wir gemerkt haben, dass immer, wenn wir Deutsch miteinader geredet haben das Englisch erstmal wieder total schwer war.
Dadurch wurde es auch gleich (etwas) besser mit dem Englisch, weil man es gewohnt war. Als ich an einem Morgen ein paar mails auf Deutsch gelesen und beantwortet habe, hat mich Andy abends gefragt, was denn los wäre, ich wüßte bei jedem zweiten Wort nicht, wie es auf Englisch heißt - nur weil ich ein paar emails auf Deutsch geschrieben hab war ich schon wieder voll raus ! Deswegen möchte ich gerne meine rundmails auch auf Englisch schreiben, ich denke, den meisten von Euch macht das nicht zuviel aus; ich denke, ich kenne auch ein paar, die sich über ein bisschen Training freuen :-)

Wie dem auch sei, we are going to switch NOW!
As you will see, I'm not that good at English right now. Thus there will eventually be lots of mistakes, misused terms ans so on; don't hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong...
I think I can't tell you about everything. There are so many impressions and it's just been one week! Most fascinating about Vancouver is its beauty. There are almost two million people living in this city and nevertheless the air is better than in Darmstadt. There are lots of parks around, small fountains (Springbrunnen) are distributed all around the city and there is still plenty of place available. By the way, people smoke only occasionally and in most public places, pubs and bars it is prohibited.
Well, I can't really describe this. You should come here and look for yourself :-)

I have already taken lots and lots of pictures. I bought one of those digital cameras right before leaving Germany and I got 64 MB of pictures till now. I will try to put these on a webpage in Darmstadt, it makes no sense to send pictures with the emails for many people have limited accounts and slow connections to the internet. Thus I will do my very best to publish the pictures in the web and let you know when I was successful :-)

Tonight we gonna go to Granville street in downtown, Andy (one of the two germans who are here with me) has been there with a friend last week and told me that it's really cool. He is currently staying in West-Vancouver. In Germany he told a friend of him that he will be in Vancouver two weeks before we can move to the dormitories on campus, so this friend phoned a friend here, Mike, and Andy now is staying at his place. After five days Mike and his girlfriend had to leave for a conference for some time so right now Andy is staying at Mike's place alone; Mike even allowed him to wear his clothes (raingear and so on) and to invitate Stefan and me for a night. There are REALLY relaxed and friendly people around here...

Two days ago we watched "Snatch" and "Crouching tiger, hidden dragon" at Mike's place, the next store is a video store, just next to a grocery store :-) Alcohol is quite expensive here ( :-( ), but well, we are on a kind of vacation right now. Things have to change when we move to the dorm, less fastfood and so on... Computer science seems to be quite good here, though we haven't seen much of it so far; it's summer break right now and there are not that many people around here. I hope you've got a good first impression, I do !!!

At least some pictures from my farewell party are available now. I haven't found any possibilty to put about 40 MB ( strongly increasing ) of data to the web until now, but I think I will manage to...
Check out http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~hutterf for now, hopefully this will change for more space...

This week we spent lots of time for partying (dozens of international students around here :-)), sightseeing and hyking, there are so beautiful places around here. In case you have not taken a look yet there are lots of pictures on my homepage: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hutter

There is also a link to the homepage of Andy, one of the two German guys accompanying me. He does not write mass mails like this one but writes a journal on his webpage, so everybody who wants to know about what he is doing can do this. This way he is sure not to get on somebody's nerves, he doesn't force on the people. I also debated about doing this though it takes him a lot of time. However, it's something that lasts... (if you want to get an impression how it would look like, see http://www.nealen.com. I would like you to comment on this.
Do you want me to go on writing mass mails or a journal? Unfortunately I can't handle writing everybody personal emails, even less once my courses start. Still, when you write me I gonna write back for sure (and if you definitively don't want to you need not write in English). Stuff I would like to tell everybody about could find its place in a journal though. So please write back, I will do what the majority asks me to do...

After two weeks of youth hostel I finally moved into the dorm yesterday, my room is quite cool and I have a beautiful sight. My roommates seem to be real nice guys (all 3 are male - too bad, but they are quite orderly though). One guy is from Ontario in Canada, studying human kinetics. He is in his second year, plays football and knows about every party :-) Two guys are from Mexico, mere chance that they stay in the same house, they don't know each other and are also really ok, one of them likes cooking :-).

Tonight there will be a party on the beach, supposed to be big fun!! Courses will start on Monday and I probably will do a reserach assistantship, so I will have much less time then. Keep up the contact (and comment on that journal-stuff)

Hi, after some time I managed to scale the pictures on my webpage. Now it should be faster, so have another look at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hutter/private/new_pics/pictures.html.
The pictures from my farewell party are still quite large for I took them with a higher quality...
By the way, I have got an address:
Frank Hutter
2715-3 Fairview Crescent (the original mail said 2517-3, but that's wrong!)
V6T2B8 Vancouver, B.C.
Canada