Hi, I’m Olivia!

…is a sentence I’ve said around a hundred times in the past three days.

This is my first post for the UBC Blogsquad so if you’re reading this (and obviously you are) here’s a little bit more about me:

• I’m a first year student at UBC Sauder aka the best faculty in UBC if not the world
• I’m from Hong Kong
• Disneyland is my home away from home
• I play piano and ukulele, albeit very poorly
• I’m living in Vanier so come say hi if you see me!
• I had an amazing time over the weekend at Sauder Frosh 2012.

The three crazy days and two even crazier nights of frosh 2012 are impossible to (coherently) describe. They say what happens at frosh, stays at frosh, so as a new member to the Sauder family with a fairly public blog, I’m not going to give much away – but the one most important thing I took away from frosh is that Sauder is a synonym for spirit. I probably learned 20 cheers in the first day alone, and when Sauderites cheer, we cheer hard. On top of that, each team had its own cheers and costumes (although obviously Team Batman was the best team – HOT DAMN IT’S BATMAN!)

Frosh was an insane blur of incredible energy, ridiculous/fun games and challenges, epic dance parties by day at the field and even more epic dance parties by night, a couple of keynote speakers who were truly the meanest (that’s a compliment), mobbing every single executive/volunteer while chanting “FROSH LOVE!”, and dancing to Gangnam Style, the official unofficial anthem of frosh 2012.

Basically, frosh is a total whirlwind. You get to meet so many people from all over the world and although you might end up losing your voice (or your memory) and it’s something that every student coming into Sauder should experience.

Although be warned: Sauder cheers are extremely catchy and will probably get stuck in your head for hours. (Sauder is hot to go, H-O-T-T-O-G-O!)

Don’t forget to be awesome,

Olivia

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