I remember my second night at UBC ... got woken up at around 2a.m. when the fire alarm went off and sent rushing outside in my pjs in the middle of winter with snow falling and had to stand outside for the better part of an hour whilst the fire trucks came around and investigated ... only to find out that some idiot had left the kettle on in the kitchen.

And I re-emphasise the middle-of-winter-snowing part, because as I said, second night at UBC, second night in Canada coming from a country of near-eternal sunshine.

*completely understands the haaaaaaaate*