halloween at ubc was… an experience. some things you should probably know:
- professors DO still give out candy! hallelujah!
- don’t eat all the candy in the middle of the night when you have an exam the next day.
- buy your tickets to the parties early
- no, seriously, people will try to sell you last minute tickets for triple the price. not cool.
- if you’re not a party person, hit up some of the club events, like dances, movie showings, game tournaments, or the escape rooms!
- don’t carve your pumpkin too early or it will rOT. AND FALL. AND GO SPLAT. (we are all still mourning our pumpkin, steve-bob-joe, who fell to its tragic death on one thursday morning, sending pumpkin gunk all over the floor. you will be missed. #ripdormpumpkin2k15)
- dress up!! don’t be lazy! be creative!
- please keep in mind that it is cold in vancouver this time of year
- make sure you have a designated driver??
- saying ‘no’ is perfectly fine!
- know your limit in drinking. at the very least, make sure you have a friend who can take care of you during.
- fireworks start going off in the middle of the night like, a week before the 31st
- you’ll pass out with the sound of firecrackers going off alllll night
since parties weren’t my favourite things (i’m all for socializing and giggling with friends, but preferably somewhere quieter, less crowded, less sweaty, less smelly, less expensive…), my friends and i decided to go to the l’escape reality event held by UBCLE and UBCRC. it definitely lived up to its expectations! good puzzles and scary effects, at one point we were even blindfolded and tied up 😮 and even though we didn’t manage to escape in the end, we still had looots of fun! 10/10 would recommend.
say goodbye to the spoopy season, and say hello to wet leaf piles, boots, puddles, warm sweaters, toques, hot cocoa, and the reason why we call this city “raincouver.”
things i am not looking forward to:
- wet socks. wet clothes. wet hair. wet books. wet bags. wet everything.
- cooooold
- getting sick?? please remember to drink lots of water and wear lots of layers!
- exams. deadlines. grades.
- so much greyness
things i AM looking forward to:
- curling up with a mug of hot tea and marathoning studio ghibli films (who’s with me, y’all?)
- an excuse to wear sweaters ALL. THE. TIME.
- getting all these assignments over with, finally
- have i mentioned hot drinks?
my advice for everyone this november is to bundle up in layers! wake up earlier if you have to, even though i know the bed is warm and inviting and soft and waaarm… on second thought, don’t think about the bed. just get up. trust me, it’s better than running for the bus or running through mud to your class because of those extra five minutes spent hovering between dream and wakefulness. (if you doze off in class, make sure to sit behind someone bigger than you??)
ultimate advice for surviving in raincouver: do not. under any circumstances. foRGET YOUR UMBRELLA.
don’t trust the weather forecast. don’t trust the view outside your window. don’t trust the sun peeking from behind the clouds. don’t trust anything or anyone. trust only your umbrella. trust me, as someone that has already made this fatal mistake twice already, and had been drenched from head to toe as a consequence (and i call myself a vancouver native?? i have shamed my umbrella and spare umbrellas).
that’s all for this slow and late update on becky’s adventures at ubc. i hope you all stay healthy and awake for your exams! have a good one, and tune in next time to see if becky survives this perpetual grey vancouver seems to live in half the year.
’til next time~