Category — Pre-UBC

“Take me by the hand, take me somewhere new.”

I got my housing assignment back in late July and I’m proud (after a couple hours of initial disappointment that day) to say I’ll be living in Place Vanier, Okanagan House. At first I really wanted to be in Totem Park. It just seemed to be where all the cool kids were. I figured that’s where I belonged. (No offence to Vanier, it’s probably a really rocking place, or it will be after I arrive.)

So when I got Vanier, it’s safe to say I wasn’t feeling so hot about it. I mean, I got a single room and that in itself was a good thing, but no Totem? I felt gipped. For another few hours at least. I tend to get over things pretty easily. I thought about all the good things I’d heard about Vanier (not that Totem doesn’t rock too) and I figured, “I got what I got for a reason. Now make the best of it.”

Now I’ve decided to stick with it, enjoy it and be so grateful that I have a place to stay. I can’t believe I was complaining when there are people who have no where to stay at all. Well, kids, I’m here to show you just how awesome, cool and nerdy Place Vanier can be, and why it’ll be THE place to be in 2011-2012. Oh yeah! Peace, darlings.

“No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world.”

Where was I when I got the email telling me I was a part of this year’s Blog Squad? Sitting on my bed watching the sixth (and almost final!) season of Gilmore Girls. A pleasant surprise, don’t get me wrong, although I do love my GG…

But of course, being accepted as a First Year blogger, and trying to configure my blog to my freakish satisfaction, got me thinking about how I ended up here. Almost thirteen days away from arriving in an entirely new city, a new land. Ready for new adventures and new friends. I definitely could not stop thinking about how everything has come full circle: from applying to UBC, to being accepted and now counting down the days until I leave home. It’s so crazy. I mean, you work hard to get to where you are, but it still feels so surreal to be actually arriving at your destination, your goal.

The weirdest thing is that I wasn’t nervous before. Not when I was looking through the Viewbook so many times that I could recite it back to you. Not when I sent in my application, or waited anxiously for an acceptance letter. Definitely not when said letter arrived. I was too busy being excited, daydreaming of when I could really start a new chapter of my life. Now, thirteen days before I get on a plane and head toward Vancouver, now is the time when I start to get nervous. It’s not a bad, “OMFG what the heck am I doing?!” nervous, more of a “I hope it’s everything I’ve dreamed of” kind.

The thing is I know I’ll have fun, but I know there will probably be times when I wonder if I made the right decision. If moving across the country and starting over was the right thing for me. Well, my fellow Blog Squaders, potential readers and UBC prospectives, I guess this is the time for you to join me on my journey, as I figure what the heck I’m doing! Welcome to my life.