practicality: (Tax Seaon // Evil!Tatsumi)
There was a fire in my house, three floors straight up from me - dunno what caused it, and if it spread at all. The end result is that we spent two hours sitting around the commonsblock, mostly because the sprinklers had flooded the stairwells and probably all of fifth (I'm on second). My room is okay, although the carpet outside (by the stairwell) has a huge wet patch, and I suspect the girl on fourth in this stack of rooms is probably royally screwed. As is the guy on fifth who started it, if only because we may all gang up and kill him after we sleep. Seriously, I was about to go to bed when the fire alarm went off at midnight; a couple people on my floor were in bed already.

Haaate. So much haaaate.

Date: 2006-09-30 02:53 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_9109 (from dreamwidth.org)
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*

Date: 2006-09-30 03:31 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_20422 (from dreamwidth.org)
... did you go for the second term?

Date: 2006-09-30 06:40 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Ouch. Yeah, we were lucky and it hasn't started raining yet. We had a burnt popcorn incident the first week, but the sprinklers didn't go off, so we were only outside for half an hour or so.

Incidently, it seems like all the Australian exchange students come here for Law - dunno _why_, but all of the ones I've met are.

Date: 2006-10-01 01:03 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_9109 (from dreamwidth.org)
That's because there's a limited number of countries (read: jurisdictions) Australian law students can go to and study stuff that will be relevant. Canada's legal system is one of the ones that resembles us the closest, hence the popularity.

Date: 2006-10-01 01:22 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Ahh, that makes sense. And given that UBC is one of the big-names within Canada in general...

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