As for right now, this is the feeling of awe and amazement that I have chosen the right place that I want to spend four significant years of my life. This is the place to be. This IS <\/em>freaking UBC!<\/strong> (Of course I had to make that last sentence rhyme.) And after a five hour flight this Thunderbird has arrived. <\/p>\n Because we\u2019re all thinking the same fears as move-in day comes. Is it going to be everything I\u2019ve been hoping for? Has everyone lied to me and it\u2019s not as great as they say? Have I lied to everyone and it\u2019s not as amazing as I\u2019ve boasted? Has my memory failed me and those mountains are merely hills and the ocean is only a pond? <\/p>\n Well my friends, I am here to let you know. The view book did not lie. <\/p>\n The last time I came to VanCity was winter of 2007 and I\u2019ll admit even in two and a half years I had forgotten quite a bit of British Columbia\u2019s splendour. Because no tourism brochure can do this place justice as far as I\u2019m concerned. Yup, I\u2019m bias, but if you\u2019re any prospective\/new\/current student\/ alumni\/Vancouverite reading this you\u2019d be pretty bias too.<\/p>\n You know what\u2019s my favourite thing to do right now? Youtube British Columbia tourism videos. If that doesn\u2019t get you pumped up right now, then I have no idea what will. The only problem with this whole place being so beautiful looking, mountain dew smelling, fresh air tasting, bird chirp sounding amazing. Is that it all feels a little too dreamlike. And I\u2019m nervous that I really did have a round-trip ticket and my mother wasted time frowning, believing she had purchased a one-way for nothing. Ha-ha! Fooled ya Mom! I\u2019m really going to U of T! But this vacation was nice\u2026<\/p>\n I mean to say that those angel\/devil Nicole figurines on my shoulder still linger with the feeling that in a few days I could just be going back home to Toronto and that I\u2019m just \u201cvisiting\u201d. Because that\u2019s the big difference between living somewhere and visiting somewhere. I\u2019m still visiting. Having been to Vancouver multiple times before I\u2019m past the \u201ctourist status\u201d of going to Capilano Bridge and seeing the Aquarium. (Two fantastic spots which everyone should go see, if you haven\u2019t already!) I\u2019ve spent my first few days here hanging out with my family, eating lots of delicious food all day and playing cards in the evening. Basically, enjoying the rest of the summer. But I\u2019m not an official habitant here quite yet. I\u2019m in this odd limbo stage of pre-move-in. <\/p>\n To make matters more confusing, I\u2019ve come down to Seattle to visit some more relatives. I feel so lucky that I have this support system here. Though the magic of Facebook I\u2019ve become\u2026acquainted (Is that the politically correct term?) with so many international students coming to UBC and although I\u2019m making a move proportional to what some might call brave, I can\u2019t really comprehend moving out here without any kind of connections. But then again, this is what we\u2019re all here for. I’m here to meet new people and so are you. (Again, I’m just guessing…)<\/p>\n But back to the whole, this place is incredible <\/strong>theme. Before I left Ontario I booked a tour of UBC for Tuesday. Now, this tour was unlike every other university tour I\u2019ve been on. Because before I had to imagine myself in the future if I would like it there. My Dad would always say \u201cCan you picture yourself here, Nicks?\u201d Well let me tell you my friends, I was no longer having difficulty imagining myself here. (Go figure that the largest student orientation day is called \u2018Imagine UBC\u2019). The whole time I was walking on campus all I could think of is “This is where I’m going to walk!” “That’s where I might sit and eat a bagel!” “There’s where I have my class on Wednesdays!” But most importantly I just kept hearing myself over and over in my head like a schizophrenic saying \u201cThis is it!\u201d. <\/p>\n Okay I\u2019m not a schizo, that\u2019s just my conscious. But still. My days of packing my what-my-Mom-calls-bottomless closet is over and I have arrived! (More Ikea and BB&B trips still come though.) <\/p>\n I even got to walk up to the Flag Pole Point just like in all the promotional UBC videos! Thumbs up for cheap thrills? Now I just am extremely excited and pumped and I hope you all are too. You gotta be here.<\/em><\/p>\n Btw, I watched The Trotsky<\/em> on the plane. Good movie I’d recommend to anyone who has taken a history course pertaining to the Russian Revolution, or just like films made in Canada that doesn’t try and pretend to be something it’s not. Plus mentioning Canadian cities is also a movie turn on for me too. Great music though and I plan on looking up the soundtrack immediately once I finish this post.<\/p>\n Which is right about\u2026 now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pretending you’re in a movie is always fun. Continue reading
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