Confessions from an international traveller
Hello everyone! Last week I had my last exam of the term (YAY!) and I also started my big trip back home to the...
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Geocaching 101: The Hunt for Tupperware
Geocaching: “An outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a GPS receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called...
How To Save Money During The Holidays
With December being well and truly on its way, this means the Holidays are more or less around the corner. For some this could...
A Bibliophile’s Guide to Victoria
Philip Pullman, Sylvia Plath, Rupi Kaur, Mitchell Sturhann, and JRR Tolkein; some of my favorite authors and names you might recognize if you love...
Fall Reading Break in Seattle
Here is a little vid showing my trip to Seattle for Fall Reading Break. Thank you to my friends for hosting me and for...
Galey Farms vs. Vancouver Island Corn Maze
October has come and gone and as we move into November I want to look back at two adventures I went on: Galey Farms...
Breaking Up With Netflix
I believe many students can relate when I say “my relationship with Netflix has gotten a little too serious”. From “Friends” to “The Office”, the...
10 Reasons Animals are the Ultimate Stress Relievers
Owning a dog, or cat (ferret, chinchilla, frog, monkey, whatever), is definitely not easy work. You have to pay for them, feed them, bathe...
New York City: That’s a wrap! Thanks from the big apple!
And then I was off to my final destination: New York City. After 121 hours on the train (which equals 5 days and 1...
How to Make Friends at UVic
Whether you’re coming from your parents’ basement in our local municipality of Saanich, or the other side of the planet, you’re going to need...
Montréal: Suddenly Everything’s French
After my time in Toronto, seeing Montréal felt like a relief. It’s still a big city but it seemed so much more playful, colourful,...
Winnipeg (Part 1): Happy Folk Fest!
Imagine you’re lying in the grass, the sun is shining in your face, the greatest people around you, and beautiful live music is playing...
Taking UVic across the country
Coming to UVic from Germany, I had a picture in mind of the typical Canada and its people. But Victoria directly challenged that: People...
5 Tips for a Weekend Trip to Portland, OR
Sometimes you have a long weekend or the next reading break coming up and you just want to get out of town, see something new,...
My most memorable course at UVic : Theatre 150
School’s over, and I finally have some time to be introspective about my undergraduate years. After 46 courses and four work terms, I can...
How to Talk Like a First Year UVic Student
Coming to UVic from another place, it can be hard to find your community on campus. However, it is always a good first step...
UVic Law Bonspiel 2016
UVic Law has an awesome tradition of holding a student curling tournament, or “bonspiel,” every year. I recently participated in this year’s tournament and it...
UVic Red Tape Bouldering Competition (Video)
A bunch of people get together in a room and touch rocks – it is a lot of fun! This is a short video recap...
UVic Water Polo Donates Blood (video)
Can’t make the on-campus clinic on February 1st? Check out the Canadian Blood Services clinic in Victoria, across from Uptown Shopping Centre (3449 Saanich...
What to do with your Reading Break? (Video of Jasper & Banff)
January is half over, the new semester has truly arrived and everything starts to get stressful again – that means it’s Reading Break soon!...