Goodbye Vancouver, for now

It's a big girl world now

On May 26th, I graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Human Kinetics. These past four years have been so rewarding. I have learned a lot and grown so much more. I've aced and failed, loved and lost, been lost then found, drifted apart from friends, and made life long friends. I just want to thank my parents for giving me this amazing opportunity to come halfway around the world to discover myself and all the new people in my life. UBC definitely made my undergraduate experience like no other. No other school would've allowed me to wake up to this breathtaking scenery. I will cherish all these memories forever.

The girls who got me through classes

Grad dinner with the people I love

Home cookin'

Homemade turkey burgers

Homemade chicken soup. The best for the soul.

Thai chicken with basil on quinoa instead of rice

Stuffed chicken, green beans, and mac n cheese

Banana muffins. Quoting roommate: "There's chocolate in here?? Ohhmmyyyyggggoooddd"

Summertime

Maha

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I went downtown today to do a photoshoot for my dear friend Maha. This view can never get old.

The Olympic torch

Summer domestication

The view from my window

The boys I live with are building a kitchen shelving unit from scratch. The handy thing about living with engineers.

View from Josh's room. 270° panoramic view of pure beauty.

View from Ben's room

I made cupcakes and cookies

The cookies were burnt because the oven wasn't calibrated right but the boys still ate them :)

Any given Sunday

Growing up in a soccer/football nation, EPL and UEFA were acronyms used in daily conversation. Then I moved to Canada and NHL replaced those acronyms. From an outsider's perspective, hockey was basically synonymous with Canadians, and would only come up when the subject is about the latter. After living here for 4 years, it has definitely been a privilege to see how completely different sports can be glorified in different parts of the world. The magnitude of how important they are in these people's lives is insurmountable. On two separate occasions I have heard the soccer pitch and the hockey rink be compared to cathedrals, and the sport a religion. Come this Sunday, the Vancouver Canucks will be playing Game 1 of the third round of the NHL Playoffs; the first time in 17 years that they've reached the Western Conference Finals. To the rest of the world, Sunday may be just another day and hockey a distant thought, but to this Canadian city, the hockey gods will be called upon.

There is a first for everything

As the end of my undergraduate degree nears and summer begins, there is a vast amount of unknowing what my future will look like. This is just the end of the beginning of my life and I thought I might as well start sharing the rest of the story or in the wise words of a friend, "it means I don't have to talk to my parents". So follow me on my journey into becoming an adult, a career woman, and hopefully an instrument for change.