I remember the few days before my first class how I was nervous and paranoid about the workload that is psychologically attached to the Applied Science program.. Entering UBC‚ I only knew one other person going into the applied science program‚ so I felt alone wanting to go back to my hometown where all my friends were. However‚ on my first day at UBC on Imagine Day my entire orientation group was made up first year engineers just like me. Each and everyone of them were feeling nervous‚ however‚
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a challenging experience. After seeing the other role plays I knew that the topic I would cover would not be an easy one‚ but honestly in life when in life are topics ever easy? For my role play I was a Faith-Based Social Worker that has a client base of social work professionals‚ clergy‚ and women in transition. My client was a young woman who had just found out that a friend had been out running and had been struck by a car and killed. Before the role play Thea (the client) and I decided that we
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I come from a world where the only thing that is constant‚ is change. Changing states‚ changing houses‚ and changing schools. Unlike most other kids‚ I don’t have a childhood home where I made countless memories‚ in fact‚ my earliest memories as a child all consist of cardboard moving boxes‚ along with unimaginably long car rides to foreign places. I don’t have a door marked to show how I’ve grown over the years‚ and I don’t have a bedroom wall thick with paint covering over colors I chose as a child
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always the case. At one point while I was bringing in my first horse I looked down at the legs and everything seemed to be fine. No cuts‚ no scrapes‚ and the horse was walking how he should be. I hear a loud noise coming from down the hall. The horse I was learning and myself jumped out of out skin. I quickly ran and put my horse in a random stall. I slammed the door and here comes a horse running loose down the isle. I turn around and throw my hands in the air. “Wooooo” I shouted sternly. The horse
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Around the age of six‚ I started taking riding lessons. A year later‚ I was surprised with my very first horse. This was the beginning of it all‚ the beginning of a passion that would never die out. Unfortunately‚ when I turned seventeen‚ my riding career came to an abrupt stop. I had torn the tendons in both my hips and had severe damage in my knee. Distraught at this news‚ I realized I had to sell my horse at the time. Over the course of the next year I had two major hip surgeries and a knee
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My First Dog It was a warm sunny‚ Saturday morning. It was also the day we were going to get Kola. My mom said to me‚ “Are you excited to go get Kola?”. I said‚ “I barely slept at all last night because I was so excited”. Kola is a 4 month old bullmastiff. He was born in Argentina. When he was 2 months old he came on a plane to America with his brother‚ Watco. For 2 month they lived in Tennessee. That is were we where going to pick him up. It was a 4 hour drive but‚ it was worth it. The whole
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sports for my whole life‚ cheerleading specifically. I was always with my team‚ staying after school‚ and going to games. After I started high school though things changed cheer became a lot less about your skill level and a lot more about who you knew and how well you could suck up to the coach. The coach of the cheer team hated me she would set me aside from all the other girls and constantly poke fun at me and pick out my short comings. I would go home from practice everyday and cry to my mom. I would
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In Chile‚ my aunt lives in Cerro Argentina‚ a hill above the ocean in Valparaiso. When the sirens signalling a tsunami ring‚ the people that live down below flee to the mountains and my aunt opens her doors to strangers as they watch their homes collapse with heavy water. If I believed in supernatural genes that carry qualities like once believed in the Renaissance‚ I would say that I carry the selfless of my family. I don’t mind giving up my time‚ items‚ or responsibilities in the name of helping
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ago. I was 14 when my brother passed away due to a massive heart attack. He would have been 17 a month after his death. Growing up in a family with three siblings never got boring. When he died‚ my two sisters and I didn’t know how to react. What do you do when someone you just saw a few hours ago dies? My brother’s death has definitely shaped me into the person I am today. In the beginning‚ I was completely crushed. I did not care about what day it was or when i had last eaten. My house was always
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there life. I can speak on experience an event that had happened this past summer. After finals when my school had sent out final report cards‚ it was sad to see that my final average in my US History course did not meet the requirements to continue to the next grade. From there I had two options: to go to summer school and pass so that I may continue school at the academy or transfer schools and repeat my junior year of high school. With these two options I decided that it would be best to go to summer
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