imagine

So it took me a while to get back. A lot of stuff happened between then and now, and it's almost, again, one of those situations where by this time I can say "yadda yadda yadda shit happened but it's okay now".

I don't know if it's okay now, in my life.
Sometimes I think it is, that I'm calm and happy and all that business. But looking around my apartment, and especially in my sink, it definitely doesn't look like it. And sometimes it still does reflect some inner turmoil, and I wish I could just get that shit back together. It would have been nice to have kept riding that calm right up to when school started so I can just start adding more things to balance, instead of starting from scratch.

But what can ya do, right? Gotta work with what you have.


In other news, I absolutely LOVE everything about school having started.

Imagine UBC Day was such an interesting experience to observe! It was one of those days that I've heard about at so many different schools: different faculties dress in their colour and chant things about how awesome they are when they encounter other faculty groups. If you follow my twitter, you might have also seen a whole bunch of engineers playing some game with a 5 foot tall soccer ball. Insanity.

My Imagine UBC Day was exactly what I wanted my UBC experience to be.

The morning was spent giving out bookmarks to students, encouraging them to drink lemonade, and advertising for the UBC Trek Program. I LOVE working at tables. I got to interact with so many different UBC students; I was funny, energetic, flirty even. In other words, I leadershipped the shit out of it! It was an amazing feeling :). After that I headed to the Career Services Table and started all over again. The goal here wasn't lemonade but was to get people over to the table, at which the most exciting part was they could dress up as their future career (be it a doctor or bear) and take a picture. I really enjoyed the challenge of it all - it's a lot harder to get people to do goofy stuff than drink lemonade, and it worked :). I love doing those things SO much, and I don't even know why. It's exhausting and, for the most part, annoys people. I guess what I love about it is the challenge to do it effectively WITHOUT annoying people. If it were a career, I would have a really stacked resumé for it.

The FINAL part of the day was the obvious: my class!

That was a rush too! (despite my INTENSE exhaustion by this point). It was a nice course to start my Masters career with: Review of Research in Early Childhood Education. I was able to contribute intelligently, was enthusiastic about participating (probably left over from all the enthusiasm of the day), and made a good connection with the prof and some classmates ("colleagues" is what they call them). In fact, I might have even recruited someone for Imagine That haha! In general, though, I'm just so excited to have made it here. In my VERY first month of Brock, my Don did a goals program, which caused me to write on a die-cut shape "MA in ECE at UBC" and stick in on her wall. There's nothing about me that can believe that I actually made it here from that bright-eyed first year goal.

All in all, the coolest thing I've got from being a Masters student, is everybody's emphasis on how we're becoming strong leaders in the ECE field... working towards being "experts" in the field (especially if we continue to PhD). It's such an awesome feeling, I don't feel like I'm in over my head and I don't feel out of place alongside people a lot older than me. I can't wait to keep learning :).

Man, I love it.

SO MUCH.