Vancouver: Week 6

After my family left, the rest of the week went by fairly quietly. I had booked a trip to the Rockies for this coming weekend, and after seeing everyone’s photos of Jasper and Banff I was really looking forward to going!

Tuesday night was Nick’s Birthday and we had drinks for him at the Gallery, which was great fun. On Wednesday I saw Uganda Rising with Julian and Jainita. It’s a really great film and definitely worth seeing – it’s about the plight of Ugandan refugees in their war-torn part of the world. What kinda spoilt it for us, however, was the interview with the filmmakers afterwards. Instead of being the noble activists that we were expecting, they were just normal filmmakers, with very little personal interest in their topic. Ah well, one can’t have everything I guess.

Thursday meant UBC Rec’s Urban Challenge competition. Essentially a combination of the Amazing Race and Survivor, each team of 2 or 6 had to go through and complete as many challenges as possible in the allocated time. The challenges included finding tags in a small wood on campus, cross dressing and swimming for ducks (that one was combined!), blind frisbee-ing, and boot camp. I even managed a bit of pole dancing, although that wasn’t really part of the game!

The goal was 9 challenges, however most teams only got between 6-8 done. We managed to get 8 done, but we went over the time limit, so we were the last ones back, which sucked because had we come back earlier we would’ve been able to slide down the soap-sud slide! Ah well, our team (Claire, Lauren, Maybelle, Carl, Daniel and I) kicked arse, and it was SO much fun! The best part was it really isn’t something I’d too back home!