Street Hockey: Canada House vs USA House Thank goodness my fever broke after a full 20 hours of sleep! I woke up on Day 6 to a message from a friend letting me know about a street hockey game between Canada Olympic House and USA Olympic House that was supposed to begin ...
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After an incredible day of women’s semifinal hockey and Canada qualifying for the Gold Medal round (yay!), despite several invitations to celebrate Canada’s win at Swiss House, I headed straight back to the hotel to get some sleep before the next day’s trek to the mountains. I woke up early ...
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I woke up on Day 4 with bruised knees and a hovering flu, and I tried my best to ignore both as I prepared for a day of hockey. I was about to leave the hotel when there was a knock on the door and there stood Evgeny from the front ...
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My first solo travel adventure was a 3-month backpacking trip around Europe when I was 21. I set my budget goal and worked hard to meet it, and within 6 months I was on a plane. It was the craziest (and scariest) thing I had ever done and it felt ...
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I had heard from a few people about the Sochi Flu when I arrived, and when I woke up on Day 3 I was not impressed to feel a bit of a tickle in my throat. I was relieved when it went away in the first few hours of the day, ...
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After piling down to the mountain village after the ladies snowboard cross event, a group of us (Canadian fans) headed to Austria House for some food and drink before heading to our next events. Surprisingly, this was the first place any of us found vodka during our time in Russia ...
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This week I headed into Amsterdam with my aunt and cousin to check out the Anne Frank Huis and do some walking around the city. Anne Frank Huis The Anne Frank Huis was an emotional experience for me. I read the Diary of Anne Frank years ago in high school, but ...
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I’m starting to think that I may be cursed when it comes to air travel, as it seems something interesting always seems to happen. Haha! My journey from Sochi to Amsterdam was no exception. Sochi to Istanbul I taxied to the airport at 2am for my 5:20am flight. It was ...
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I haven’t posted much since I’ve been in Russia, thanks to a nasty flu, so I thought I would record a bit of a wrap-up video before I leave Russia early tomorrow morning. So here’s a little message from the shores of the Black Sea in Russia:
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Train Ride! Day 3 had me super excited for my first day in the Mountain Cluster for snowboarding and bobsleigh events! Although the train had been advertised to take only 40 minutes to get to the mountains, I had been told to give myself at least two hours. The reasoning ...
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