Translation of Erfassen

Grammar exercises give the teachers and the students different ideas. We discussed the need for exercises in my previous email, but unfortunately I did not receive any further feedback since then.
I was in Vancouver five years ago. I was living in Toronto in Canada with my wife. We worked together in the same office, and we were new there, and we did not know anybody. I was also in Montreal.
In winter it is a great place because you can ski. In the summer I like being in Paris because it is a very empty city in summer. The people head down to the coast, to Nice, Cannes and similar.