{"id":603,"date":"2010-01-14T21:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/?p=603"},"modified":"2010-01-14T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:38:35","slug":"im-on-a-ubc-student-involvement-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/2010\/01\/14\/im-on-a-ubc-student-involvement-high\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m on a UBC Student Involvement High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Things are really blossoming this semster when it comes to my level of invovlement in the UBC community. <\/strong>Last semester I still belonged to clubs, blogged, supported <em>Magda&#8217;s<\/em> with my candy addiction, attended events, and did as much as I could to be involved in campus life. I&#8217;m less than 2 weeks into Term Deux and already I&#8217;ve attended SLC, joined a teaching prize selection committee as the Arts undergrad rep, became an art history rep at AUS meetings, met exciting new people who want me to join their cause (which I will), I joined my floor&#8217;s WTFL flag football team and my friend&#8217;s Rec soccer team. That&#8217;s just a little sliver of the entire cake!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been so pumped about everything that I get to be a part of. UBC is so big that everyday I learn of something that is out there that I had no idea about. Like today for example, <strong>I was sitting in the Sub Art Gallery while I was volunteering for AHSA &amp; VASA and I met a super awesome individual who runs a campus publication about women in politics! <\/strong>That&#8217;s right up my alley! That&#8217;s something I love about UBC. 1) It&#8217;s so big that it can offer over a million different things to the student body. 2) You&#8217;re always learning something new and it never feels dull.<\/p>\n<p>As I blogged about over the winter break, I have a new toy- my iPod Nano. It&#8217;s my new tool to blog to you guys with videos of UBC and residence life. Here is my first video where I&#8217;m testing out the technology &amp; showing you <strong>residence life here in Totem Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=00res9Dgu9E[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, here is a clip I shot from the very front row of <strong>SLC<\/strong> of the opening part of <strong>Romeo Dallaire&#8217;s keynote address.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ue8fgkAfGDI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, <strong>please donate to help those in Haiti.<\/strong> My high school has sponsored a school in Haiti that was hit so hard by the hurricane that happened last year that the children couldn&#8217;t go to school for months. The worst part is that school is where they get their food for the day. Without school they don&#8217;t eat. Haiti still had not recovered from the hurricane so imagine what it is like now after the earthquake. As a Vancouver Mob-Lead,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freethechildren.com\/donate\/haiti-earthquake-relief-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\"> here is a link to Free The Children to donate to help Haiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for today. <strong>Hopefully I see some blog readers tomorrow in the Norm Theatre inside the SUB for the town hall meeting with Michael Ignatieff. <\/strong>It&#8217;s at 3pm &amp; It&#8217;s going to be a blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are really blossoming this semster when it comes to my level of invovlement in the UBC community. Last semester I still belonged to clubs, blogged, supported Magda&#8217;s with my candy addiction, attended events, and did as much as I could to be involved in campus life. 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