well, this long weekend went by uber fast, and i lamely nerded it out at UBC from friday to sunday with ELITE..scratch that, i inhabited UBC for the past couple weeks because of Elite, so i guess it wasnt something that was too out of the blue. as i seemed to tell like everyone (since i was quite proud of myself) i survived the weekend with 3 hours of sleep, pulled my FIRST all nighter and was pretty much running on many Red Bulls and Red Bulls shots (those mofos are LETHAL..i legit thought my heart was going to die.) the weekend consisted of making sure the conference went smoothly, thinking quickly and making sure the kids had fun.
Friday: kids came to UBC, some keeners came like 30 minutes before they shouldve..which should be expected since its a leadership conference. UBC Housing is lame and totally rearranged the room keys and room assignment, which caused distribution of keys to take wayyyyyyy longer than it shouldve. (kudos to Elissia for not exploding from stress with that issue). kids had fun meeting each other, eating their hearts out at the BBQ, as well as watching movies til midnight. sleep? the kids, yes. the leaders, probs not since making sure all kids remained on their floor was a must. Execs..yeah not sleep at all! pulled an all nighter doing last minute final touches to workshops and slideshows for the next day. our brains fail to functions at 5am. passed out in the Commonsblock at Vanier..i tried to but couldnt since some Execs love talking while everyone tries falling asleep and snores when they finally do fall asleep!!
Saturday: day started at 6am, kids had mandatory yoga at 7am..and almost all of them went. i peaced yoga, and instead took a longgggggggggggggggggggg shower, trying to keep myself awake!! the kids had workshops all day, which they really enjoyed! Rick Bains was one of the speakers again this year, and the kids absolutely LOVED him. that man knows how to speak! Amir Javid was another speaker, with VERY controversial topics to speak of..some that we may not have realized he would discuss and had to tone down after doing his first workshop. pizza lunch. more workshops. kids had 1.5 hours to get ready for dinner and dance. dinner at 7:30 I house. dinner was a bit of a nightmare, since there were so many kids to control, and obvs all were hungry. so making sure control was kept at that time was hard. some volunteers seemed to be not so helpful as well, especially when it came to being considerate. students should eat before volunteers, since they are paying to be at the conference. but i guess there will always be those few *face palm* volunteers every year at Elite. kids fed, went Ladha for the dance. us few volunteers remained at I house cleaning the building up..i <3 Shane for singing and bringing up our low spirits at times of need!! with only 20 minutes of the dance left, we brown style packed into a family Caravan, 10 people in all. 3 people in the trunk, with the trunk open and the remaining sitting legally!! 20 minutes of dancing the night away (Ladha looked like an actual club!!) and belting out to Journey (which the h.s. kids did not understand..they lack the whole Dont Stop Believing lovin that us older peeps understand!) ended off our night with the kids. when i should have slept, i instead found my inner brown chick but chillin with the brown leaders, playing brown card games and just being brown in general. bed time 3:30am..
Sunday: wake up at 7am. zombie hcore. Mother Nature decided to be a biatch by raining on the ONE day we needed it to be sunny. Amazing Race was cancelled, adn instead extra workshops were held. lunch of Subway was given, which was a bit of a hiccup. more workshops. closing ceremonies. good byes. SLEEP!
no joke, this weekend was so tiring. too many energy drinks, running around and at times hcore stress. but i must say, well done to the co-chairs of organizing it! first time making Elite 3 days, 2 nights made for more challenges, but we overcome them all. i wont forget all the awesome people i met this year (even though i knew so many already from last years Elite). after having students come up to us saying how much they loved the conference gives motivation to continue the Elite legacy..and apparently the co-chairs have already started some random planning for Elite 2011. all in all, a really good weekend!!
Friday: kids came to UBC, some keeners came like 30 minutes before they shouldve..which should be expected since its a leadership conference. UBC Housing is lame and totally rearranged the room keys and room assignment, which caused distribution of keys to take wayyyyyyy longer than it shouldve. (kudos to Elissia for not exploding from stress with that issue). kids had fun meeting each other, eating their hearts out at the BBQ, as well as watching movies til midnight. sleep? the kids, yes. the leaders, probs not since making sure all kids remained on their floor was a must. Execs..yeah not sleep at all! pulled an all nighter doing last minute final touches to workshops and slideshows for the next day. our brains fail to functions at 5am. passed out in the Commonsblock at Vanier..i tried to but couldnt since some Execs love talking while everyone tries falling asleep and snores when they finally do fall asleep!!
Saturday: day started at 6am, kids had mandatory yoga at 7am..and almost all of them went. i peaced yoga, and instead took a longgggggggggggggggggggg shower, trying to keep myself awake!! the kids had workshops all day, which they really enjoyed! Rick Bains was one of the speakers again this year, and the kids absolutely LOVED him. that man knows how to speak! Amir Javid was another speaker, with VERY controversial topics to speak of..some that we may not have realized he would discuss and had to tone down after doing his first workshop. pizza lunch. more workshops. kids had 1.5 hours to get ready for dinner and dance. dinner at 7:30 I house. dinner was a bit of a nightmare, since there were so many kids to control, and obvs all were hungry. so making sure control was kept at that time was hard. some volunteers seemed to be not so helpful as well, especially when it came to being considerate. students should eat before volunteers, since they are paying to be at the conference. but i guess there will always be those few *face palm* volunteers every year at Elite. kids fed, went Ladha for the dance. us few volunteers remained at I house cleaning the building up..i <3 Shane for singing and bringing up our low spirits at times of need!! with only 20 minutes of the dance left, we brown style packed into a family Caravan, 10 people in all. 3 people in the trunk, with the trunk open and the remaining sitting legally!! 20 minutes of dancing the night away (Ladha looked like an actual club!!) and belting out to Journey (which the h.s. kids did not understand..they lack the whole Dont Stop Believing lovin that us older peeps understand!) ended off our night with the kids. when i should have slept, i instead found my inner brown chick but chillin with the brown leaders, playing brown card games and just being brown in general. bed time 3:30am..
Sunday: wake up at 7am. zombie hcore. Mother Nature decided to be a biatch by raining on the ONE day we needed it to be sunny. Amazing Race was cancelled, adn instead extra workshops were held. lunch of Subway was given, which was a bit of a hiccup. more workshops. closing ceremonies. good byes. SLEEP!
no joke, this weekend was so tiring. too many energy drinks, running around and at times hcore stress. but i must say, well done to the co-chairs of organizing it! first time making Elite 3 days, 2 nights made for more challenges, but we overcome them all. i wont forget all the awesome people i met this year (even though i knew so many already from last years Elite). after having students come up to us saying how much they loved the conference gives motivation to continue the Elite legacy..and apparently the co-chairs have already started some random planning for Elite 2011. all in all, a really good weekend!!
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