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#066: Scoping out Imagine Day…and cupcakes.

Currently listening to: “Air” – Hair 2009 New Broadway Cast

I woke up yesterday morning and gazed out of the window of my 13th floor Gage Towers apartment* to see streams of tidily colour-coded first years traipsing across campus trailing behind MUG leaders with aptly-named signs. Then I took a mental moment to silently welcome them to a new adventure – and paused to think, “oh, the little ones!” And then realized that they were probably all taller than me. Nevertheless! I hope everyone had fun- it sure sounds like it, from what I’ve gathered! (Pep rally for the win!)

*We will talk about moving some other time. Suffice to say, I’m in one of the newly-renovated towers, with lovely hardwood floors, and it is all quite lovely indeed. And yes, I did forget a ridiculous amount of assorted items (toothbrush, Mary? Really now?) and did the predicted bus ride back to North Van to retrieve said items. Anyhow.

Kick-starting second year with baking cupcakes for our Imagine Day booth with the rest of the French Club executives was definitely a great way to start the year. We made over 50 mini-cupcakes, decorated prettily with a dollop of icing in the middle, and then covered them liberally with colourful sprinkles allsorts. They were delicious, if we do say so ourselves. The lovely weather yesterday was definitely a nice change from the past few drizzly days…and today’s bout of miserable on-off leaky faucet in the sky rain.

In completely unrelated news!

Jack Layton will be speaking at the SUB Party Room (2nd floor) tomorrow (September 10), so if you’re interested, do come by and take a listen! He’ll also be at the Gallery in the SUB at 7 pm, so that should be cool too.

On to dinner-making; I’d forgotten how much effort cooking for oneself requires. Eggplant and tomato bake, here I come!

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Student Life

#004: Imagine Day!

Currently listening to: “Just Dance” – Lady GaGa feat. Akon

So today’s been an absolute madhouse; I’m still trying to get things straightened out in my head, but we’ll get there eventually. A sea of bright colours greeted me after a decidedly lengthy bus ride (hurrah for public transit, and thank goodness for Les Cowboys Fringants songs playing on loop on my MP3). The Arts students were decked out in purple, while the other faculties were showing their spirit with their appropriately-coloured clothing. After trawling around the Buchanan compound, I managed to find my MUG and joined the motley crew: we were led on campus tours, talks, and other such activities. I’m so thrilled to have met a bunch of my fellow Arts One students; they’re all quite terrific- a real bunch of laughs, from what I’ve seen so far- and the profs are equally entertaining. On a separate note, I can’t stress enough how the weather has an uncanny knack of being particularly finicky, especially on days like this: I’m definitely investing in a pair of wellies much like the ones Paddington Bear dons, as I’ve quite frequently thought of doing. But I digress, as usual- what was I saying before that? Oh yes. The pep rally at the War Memorial Stadium was terribly fun: there’s nothing quite like seeing large colour-blocked bunches of excitable first-year students and MUG leaders waving balloons/feather boas/handkerchiefs and chanting their little lungs out. Most entertaining and rather heartwarming, I daresay.

In other news, I’ve my first class at eleven tomorrow morning. Psych 100! Hurrah!

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