Category Archives: Fun Happenings

BIOL 121 Field Trip – I Planted Trees

This afternoon I had to venture into the forest of Pacific Spirit Park for a Biology 121 field trip. Honestly I didn’t expect there to be field trips involved in my first year of uni, but it happened anyways~

Our job was to help plant local plant species into an area that was cleared of invasive plants. We were put into pairs, handed fluorescent yellow gloves and a shovel, and off we went.

I learned today that I don’t function well in intense rain. I also don’t really know how to operate a shovel effectively. I would make a wonderful botanist.

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(this looks hella blurry I now realise, woops)

We planted baby Douglas Firs, Bitter Cherry trees, and nearly got to plant a Hawthorne, which looked very threatening with all its borderline dark red thorns.

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After much struggle, my friend and I managed to plant 8 trees over the span of 2.5 hours, which was pretty impressive in my book. There were rocks and plant roots EVERYWHERE, and that made our lives so much harder. Being in the rain and being surrounded by dirt, I quickly gave up trying to keep my new raincoat clean (much to my mother’s dismay) and just watched as my black coat/leggings and rain boots got attacked by mud. Somehow I even got dirt on my shoulders, I have no idea how that happened.

Despite the gross weather, I quite enjoyed this field trip. It took 3 hours out of my Saturday, when I really should be studying for my 4 upcoming midterms (HA RIP ME), but it was a new, fun experience. There was a satisfaction I got after my friend and I finished planting a tree (honestly I think she did more work than me, you da best), and it was also kind of fun to have an excuse to play around with dirt and use a pickaxe (rocks and tree roots are annoooyyyiinngggg). We even got brownies and chocolate for a snack. That is always welcome.

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After I finish washing myself in a washing machine, I better go back to prepping for midterms.

IMAGINUS Poster Sale (aka The Week I Feared for my Wallet)

Last Monday, a huge maze of poster boards welcomed me at the Nest:

2016-09-17-12-17-28Honestly, I had already walked up to the second (third?) floor before I even noticed what was happening below; my observation skills are great.

20160912_171828Turns out there was a poster sale going on for the whole week.

My first thought: Ohhhhhhhh no.

I have a fascination for posters, postcards, stickers, buttons etc etc.. Basically any form of decor you can collect endlessly.  My self restraint was at risk here -.-

After classes ended on Monday, I went straight to the Nest, and delved into the tall rows of posters that surrounded me. It was really fun walking among the posters, it was like I was in a jungle with trees made out of aesthetic posters that I really really wanted to buy.

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The Quest for Free Pizza (success)

For AMS First Week (Sept 6~ Sept 16 to be exact), AMS has this thing on snapchat (@ams_ubc) where they post to their story about different food stores in the Nest giving out free food at random times. If you show them a screenshot of the snap, tadaa you get free food!

It was kind of like trying to catch pokemon…

“WILD FREE BUBBLE TEA @ 3 PM HAS APPEARED.” “OH TOO LATE, WILD FREE CHICKEN WRAPS @ 5PM HAVE RUN AWAY!”

My friends and I tried sooooo hard to at least succeed in going to one of these events. For the first week, we failed miserably. Either none of us were at the Nest or we just didn’t get there in time. Once I was five people away to getting free fries when they ran out. I was sad.

However, today, this fateful Wednesday, things took a surprising turn.

At about 4:40pm, I was at the Nest, deciding to take an internet break after suffering through doing physics homework for too long. Immediately after I turned my internet on, I received two notifications.

“KATIE ARE YOU STILL AT THE NEST THERE’S FREE PIZZA”

The second one was from messenger, and it turned out to be a screenshot

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