{"id":1,"date":"2024-05-22T04:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T04:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-05-23T21:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T04:21:12","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/2024\/05\/22\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Overdue \u201cHello Everyone!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must confess- I\u2019ve been putting off posting this blog. Not because I\u2019ve been ignoring Jon’s polite reminders in the chat, but because I’ve been finding it rather difficult to describe who I am, and properly encompass my excitement about LAST 315 in 500 words.\u00a0 Yet, tonight it must be done. Afterall- there will be plenty more time to share over the next 6 weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

My name is Grace Baker and I am a fourth year Anthropology and Archeology student.\u00a0<\/span>I grew up on an acreage in Elk Island, Alberta. Don\u2019t worry- no one else knows where that is either.<\/span><\/p>\n

In my three years I\u2019ve lived in Vancouver, I\u2019ve synopsized Elk Island to \u201cabout an hour east of Edmonton.\u201d Initially, upon my pursuit to make friends with such well-traveled people at UBC, I was very quick in my attempt to separate myself from where I grew up. My whole youth spent in the middle of nowhere made me feel that there was nothing particularly interesting about myself. However, as I\u2019ve gotten older, I have found my relationship to where I\u2019m from incredibly intertwined with my identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The prairies have a way of making you question your place in it all. The land is vast and often can make one feel small. I feel growing up in this environment instilled in me an inherent curiosity about what existed beyond it. Did you know snow absorbs sound? Where I lived, in the middle of our 8 month winter, you could step outside and hear absolute silence. Nothing but the sound of your own heart beat, and perhaps the echo of a coyote howling miles and miles away. I still have not quite adjusted to the noise of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

Partaking in our class in Peru has made me reflect on the idea of the embodiment of place- something we discuss a lot in Anthropology. Who defines place? How do we decide where its boundaries lie? How does this reflect in how we view ourselves? I think about this a lot when trying to describe where I\u2019m from- especially when my address consists of a series of coordinates rather than a town name. Technically speaking, I don\u2019t even live inside of Elk Island, but rather the range road just outside it. Given I must watch out for deer whilst I drive nonetheless, I consider this distinction futile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am also really looking forward to seeing how a different place expands my understanding of concepts such coloniality and Indigeneity, as these topics were really relevant to my community back home. I\u2019m curious to see how these ideas expand past physical boundaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of all, I\u2019m looking forward to sharing this experience with all of you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must confess- I\u2019ve been putting off posting this blog. Not because I\u2019ve been ignoring Jon’s polite reminders in the chat, but because I’ve been finding it rather difficult to describe who I am, and properly encompass my excitement about LAST 315 in 500 words.\u00a0 Yet, tonight it must be done. Afterall- there will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gracebaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}