…Especially since moving to Vancouver. Like pole dancing lessons through the UBC AMS Mini School, learning to longboard, starting my own company, and joining a UBC REC soccer league.

The newest thing I’ve done is learn how to snowboard. Every weekend in March I went to Grouse Mountain on the North Shore and learned how to board with a small group of women and our instructor Chris. I had never been down a mountain before, or even lived near mountains in the suburbs of Ontario, and I have to say that moving to the west coast was the greatest thing I’ve ever done.

I could easily reach the mountain through public transit here on campus so if you’ve never learned to snowboard and you are coming to UBC in the fall you can experience the sport too. Check out some photos that my friend Magda from our snow school group took last weekend as we took our final lesson together. Fun fact: Magda is a production assistant on Twilight. Super cool, right? PS. Thanks to all my friends (Katie, Megan, and Lauren all get big shout outs) for supporting me in obtaining my goal through lending me a lot of their equipment and my mom for believing in me too (super cheesy but she did).