My classes for the semester have finally ended, and I’m now left with a couple of weeks to reflect on another scholastic year gone by, and to decompress before heading into a summer of full-time work. I’ll put it bluntly: The second half of my third year in university was not a four-month period that…
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault It’s been a while since I’ve crossed anything off of my 10-year bucket list. We get so busy, caught up in working towards the big goals in our lives, that the little things seem…
#90 Milk a cow Today I completed one of the more unique items on my 10-year list with a trip to North Vancouver’s Maplewood Farm. When I wrote my list close to a year-and-a-half ago, I had no idea how I was going to pull this one off: Not only did I need to find…
It’s been over a year now since @JSaggau and I decided to procrastinate on some final journalism-related assignment by surfing the Internet in search of some cool things we’d like to do, some time in the next decade. After several hours, both at school and then on our own, we had compiled two similar, yet…
#35 Donate blood Yesterday was a bloody adventure: I went to the blood donation clinic with @JSaggau in Vancouver. I hadn’t donated before, so I was a little bit anxious. I had no idea how I was going to react to seeing my blood being pumped out of me. Over a year ago I’d tried…
#34 Break a world record When I first put this goal on my 10 year list, I had assumed that it would be more of a long-term goal. Lucky for me, it’s the seventh item completed on my list. Josh Dueck, a Paralympic silver medalist, partnered with Worksafe B.C. set out to break the world record…