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Welcome back to my life, Ultimate.

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Carmela + Team Kaba Highlighters, if you’re reading this, this is for you :)

Picture is yet again in colour to highlight my post. Get it? Haha. Yes I know I’m lame.

In my last post I talked about a club that I joined, in this post I will talk about the UBC REC Ultimate team that I joined.

A little about my playing history, I first picked up the sport way back in Grade 7. I would play Ultimate literally every recess and lunch, rain or shine, even in the snow. I loved the sport, but unfortunately I stopped playing when I hit high school. It wasn’t until Grade 10 when I picked up the sport for real. I started to take it more intensely. I had a great season with my high school team. We didn’t have many wins, but ask anyone on the team and they will tell you we had many great memories together. I changed high schools in Grade 11, and though I did join the school team there, I was not able to find the same type of chemistry. I tried VUL Hat League, Summer League, JVUL, but I wasn’t able to find chemistry anywhere. Attending games and practices felt like a chore and I eventually decided to take a break from ultimate.

I was not involved in with the sport at all until I entered UBC and was approached by a friend from my Grade 10 team. She asked me if I was interested in playing Ultimate again. I jumped at the opportunity as I was looking to start up the sport again. I am glad to say that though I’ve only been to three practices with my new team, I feel the chemistry already. Even though my classes end at 12, and I have to stay on campus until 5 for practices, I don’t mind at all. I’m always pumped and excited for practices, and totally refreshed after sweating through an entire tshirt.

So ya,  a super warm welcome back to my life, Ultimate. I promised I won’t ditch you again…at least not for a while :)

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September 28th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

First Days

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Yes, the sunglasses in my picture were given at Science Frosh 2010. I was one of the lucky 300 that registered within the first 20 minutes. I owe it all to being in Shanghai when the registration opened. I don’t think that I would’ve been able to wake up at 9:00AM just to register for Frosh. Frosh was amazing. Though we were all wet from the rain, it was a fun filled day for sure. Of course, the cupcake buffet topped it off perfectly.

I suppose the first few days of university life went by really smoothly for me. The fact that I’ve been on the UBC campus numerous times before, finding my classes was not a problem at all. It was also a pleasant surprise to see the familiar faces of my high school friends in a lot of my lectures.

The transition from high school to university was not bad for me. The only real difference I noticed was the increase in class sizes. Coming into university the classes of 30 multiplied to classes of 250. Even with such a large class, I didn’t find it intimidating at all as I was immersed in the lectures and amazed by the amount of technology that each room had, math is an exception with its chalkboards.

A major change in studying habits would be that prereading changed from being something I do to stay ahead to being a must. I found out quite quickly that the lectures fly by really quickly and that you will not be able to understand the material that is being taught thoroughly. When I didn’t understand the material that was being taught, I found my mind wander and start daydreaming.

As you can guess, I haven’t been updating because I’ve been drowning under all the reading that I’ve had to do for my classes. Thankfully I was able to climb back up, and hopefully I’ll be able to stay out of that hole and update more frequently!

Written by Renee

September 15th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

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