Ohhh yeahhh.

A typical Totem Park Sunday for Erica:

– UBC REC League soccer game. Team name: Tiger Pants. We’re legit.
– WTFL football game.
– Post soccer game. Trying to get the best shower in the floor bathroom before your other teammates.
– Lunch. Dim Sum Sunday or Belgium  waffles and ice cream? Or the classic scrambled eggs and bacon?
– Laundry. Today I was the cool kid who made their washing machine fill up with bubbles and suds.
– Watching Ferris Bueller’s Day off (The best movie to come out of 1986) on Mega Video. It’s becoming kind of a Sunday afternoon tradition.
– Back to the laundry room. I pay to have my clothes go through the dryer a second time and hope they all are dry by the end of their second round.
– Chocolate milk run. I go for the large carton.
– An attempt at studying is eventually made. Emails are always answered.
– Facebook creeping.
Dinner with my floor mates in the  Dining Hall around 6pm, everyday, like a ritual.
Post-dinner. Random things from my “To Do” list, work on getting things done for the West Coast (Mob)ilizers Program, catch up on more How I Met Your Mother, and pretend I like to read my text books.
– Magda’s trip for some onion rings and candy.
– I go into Megan & Maegan’s room several times to either a) bug them b) tell them a funny story or c) talk really loudly after quiet hours in their room for the purpose of AJ having to close their door.
– Bed. Eventually. But this semester, it’s pretty early compared to what it used to be.

I’ve been thinking of all you high schoolers lately..

Camile posted this to my facebook wall along with the photo- “i think youre in a ubc recruiting email i got! =D”

Yep, that’s me. Second from the right. Even without the reminders that Blog Squad links are sent out to prospective UBC students, I think about you guys (the prospecteeves) most likely on a daily basis. When I was applying to UBC, I read all of Phoebe’s Blog from beginning to end. I began dreaming of being on Blog Squad and making the most amazing and interesting resource for you guys, the prospecteeves, to get to know UBC without actually visiting campus. I never saw Vancouver or campus before move in day in Totem Park. Blog Squad, facebook creeping, twitter searching, ubc.ca lurking, googling and many YouTube searches lead me to the decision that this school was right for me. And you know what? UBC- It’s all I dreamed of and more. It’s never disappointed me and I don’t ever want to leave.

So, my dear prosepcteeves, since you are sent here to learn about what life at UBC is like, I’m going to be posting more content related to you. It is my personal goal to communicate just how wicked-awesome UBC life is and for you to feel the same passion I have just by reading my blog posts. I hope that I will become your Phoebe and that if you want to know more about something that you will leave me a comment. I’ve already had some prospecteeves email me and we are meeting up next Friday for lunch when they are here visiting from Ontario! How cool is that?

So, as I finish this blog post before I head off to Buchanan for French 102, I want all of you to know that Pizza Pizza from Pacific Spirit Place in the SUB makes amazing cheese-less pizza (I’m lactose, okay?) and that Vancouver is the most beautiful place I have ever come across in Canada.

You give Erica a credit card and this is what happens..

I may have spent a small fortune on origami paper through an online retailer just a few minutes ago, BUT it is going to be such a new and cool hobby to have covering my dorm room as soon as it arrives. Why? Look at the AWESOME things I ordered!

Warabe Ningyo Doll Kit– “This kit includes all the materials to make 2 girls in long sleeve kimonos and two boys in half length coats. Instructions are provided in English and Japanese.”

Sushi, Challenge Origami “Instructions: This package includes instructions to make 10 different Sushi items pictured on the front of the package. Illustrations provided, text is Japanese.”

Ontario never had cool stuff like this

I love Vancouver

The next thing I need to try- Pocky.

But for now, I need to go to my 6pm lecture. I thought some Starbucks would wake me up, but still all I want to do is sleep. Another way BC owns (or dare I say pwns) Ontario is how we have trees in full bloom and Niagara Falls has a snow storm. I can’t wear my TOMS in that kind of weather now can I. Vancouver 459578 – Ontario Maybe 4


obama-weather.com says that Saturday is going to be +13 and Sunny. Wreck Beach anyone?

Finally.. Music Monday

I know. I’ve disappeared again. The Olympics and time spent building forts have swallowed me up. But I’m back and running around like crazy to get everything done before the semester ends. This week’s Music Monday should be the Coca Cola “Open Happiness” song since I can’t get it out of my head after numerous visits to their Happiness House, but instead I’m going to showcase something a little less Olympic.

Flume- Bon Iver

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Btw. This weekend, I’ve learned that cool things are from Islands.

Blogdiggity.

I’ve made a few promises I must fulfill.

Kevin. Kevin. Kevin. Kevin.
Scott. Scott. Scott. Scott.

Done!

I have the highest level of fan-mania towards Mukmuk that I never thought I could ever have for a Vancouver 2010 mascot.

Positive about the Olympics: You get to do and see lots of cool stuff, including a lot of it being free.

Olympic Bummer: The time you need to spend waiting in line and how I have absolutely no free time for myself during the entire Olympic break.

Next thing to do: Go zip lining across Robson with Scott on Friday!

What I wish I had time to do: Visit all of the different houses and pavilions that have been set up for the Olympics and go to the BC Streets project in the Richmond O Zone.

My favorite souvenirs: All of the pins I’m trading with tourists that I meet when I volunteer and my Mukmuk who has mini red mittens knitted on to his hands!

Random find: The green men from the Canucks games and the Vancouver 2010 Historica Encounters trip!

Greetings, from the UBC Visitors Centre

Whuddup my small group of blog readers since I have not posted in a few decades. Okay, that is stretching the truth a little bit, but none the less it feels like decades have gone by since the Olympics arrived. I can’t even picture in my mind what Vancouver looks like without swirls of blue and green all over the place and what Granville looks like without men in Canada hockey jerseys trying to rip trees out of the ground. True Story.

This is me telling the truth. It’s not stretched. The Olympics has turned Vancouver into a house party out of a terrible music video on Much Music. I’ve found one UBC Ski and Board Club shirt, one million Canada hockey jerseys, one man with barely no clothing dancing on Granville, four opportunties to take a photo with punks for $2,  several dedicated Denmark curling fans, the Green Men from the Canucks games and I have found no Olympic protestors.

The lines to get onto a train at any Canada Line or SkyTrain station are ridiculous. The wait for a twenty second ride on the zip line that is set up in Robson Square is five hours. To get into the Vancouver Art Gallery, it is a 2 hour wait. The wait to get into The Bay to buy red mittens- upwards of five hours as well. I want to experience the Olympics but I feel unable to do anything unless I want to commit several hours for a 30 second experience. VANOC should of adapted the Disney World FastPass system because this is just getting silly.

It’s been a week since Opening Ceremonies, so in brief, here is how wicked-awesome my Vancouver 2010 experience has been. I watched the Opening Ceremonies dress rehersal, got turned away for the Alexisonfire show which was shortly after cancelled, attened womens curling which had more enthusiastic fans than mens hockey at Canada Hockey Place had, cheered on China as they played Russia at UBC Thunderbird Arena, welcomed the world with intereactive art exhibits for CODE Live and the Cultural Olympiad, visited friends in Toronto at a national conference that brought together my entire scholarship class, ate two crepes, spent $70 on one meal in Cactus Club, bought several candy apples from Rocky Mountain, saw Stars live in concert, watched Canadian Luge athletes speed past me in Whistler, and welcomed guests on to UBC campus at the Visitors Centre- where you can find me right now as I write this blgo post.

I cannot stess enough how amazing it is to have the Olympics here in Vancouver. So many exciting things are happening which compliments all the other exciting things in my life that are curently happening as well.

I really want to get back on track with communicating to the people who stumble across my blog, including the people who type in “Daniel Magder UBC” into Google and end up here (Yes, Google Analytics tells me that) and all of the potentional new students who are given the Blog Squad link when the apply.

Love you all, stay classy, and attend a few free concerts for me. Girl Talk next week anyone?