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Forget classes, the Winter Olympics are coming to town and we have a two week reading break because of it. Actually the break doesn’t start until the weekend and will include an assignment deadline, but lately I’ve not been caring about listening to the lectures (which I still go to). Moving on…

Some events will be at the UBC Thunderbird Arena, that’s literally 2 small blocks directly down the road from me. But I’d like to brave the congested transport and get off campus to see if I can afford anything. There are a load of free music events, top of my list is Dan Mangan who I have loved ever since he played to us UBC Internationals on one of my first ever days in Canada. He’s amazing, the show is on the 19th, for all ages (let’s go floor mates), but is in ‘dangerous Surrey’ which I have yet to venture out to. Let’s go, cause robots need love too!

Apparently most(all?) countries have their own ‘house’ where supporters of their team can drink and eat together, watch their medal winning, and the team/press/sponsors can have meetings. I’d like to go visit a load to check them out. Most of all I’ve heard that Switzerland House is already open and getting wild on Granville Island (art gallery island near down town). This is set in an existing restaurant/bar that looks a bit pricey for me, maybe I’ll just hang outside with people on the veranda. They also have a house in Whistler for fun at the bottom of the slopes.

Secondly I’ve heard the sponsor of Holland Heineken House makes it a fun place to be with cheap drinks and a big warehouse full of bars and large projector screens. This should be a cool house to go to, especially when any game is taking place. I’ll need to round up people with IDs if I’m not to go to this one on my own. Sadly their website fails, I click the UK/English button (which doesn’t change the jjjj to yyyy for year, and from there the Dutch button is a broken link), enter my date of birth, and get a black screen. Thankfully “Tinkerblue” gives me an exciting cgi video of the Holland Heineken House and opening details in simple, standard, text.

After some research I found out that there is even a Canada House. In Whistler which takes too much, time, money, and probably an Olympic ticket/pass to get there (the highway there is heavily patrolled by police & security). But where oh where is the Great Britain House? If anybody knows of one existing and the details then please let me know. If any other countries have a house (and perhaps want to buy the first drink for a poor BritishStudent.ca) then let me know!

Photo pinched from Richmond O Zone.