BUSU is on Reading Week right now, so I’ve taken the opportunity to migrate across the country to that big sporting event captivating the world’s attention. I’m at the Olympics, and right now blogging on my return trip from Cypress Mountain and the women’s ski-cross race.
I type because I can’t speak, there’s no voice left. I’m proud to say that the first ever women’s ski-cross gold medal, won by Ashleigh McIvor, happened due to a combination of training, hard work, dedication, and me wearing my OUSA hoodie underneath my Canada jersey to the event.
Media sources tell me that if I would have worn my OUSA hoodie to the ladies 1500m speedskating on Sunday, my first event, that we would have come away with a gold instead of silver. My other event so far, our womens hockey victory over Finland in the semifinals, also guaranteed us a medal. So far I’m 3 for 3 in the medal count. I don’t want to predict anything, but watch out for bobsleigh Wednesday, Short Track Friday and Curling gold Saturday.
I also had a media interview out here. My first non-PSE interview in quite awhile. 680 News radio station out of Toronto found me by the Olympic cauldron to ask some of my thoughts as a tourist.
I have kept up the education theme, however. I’ve been to campuses of Kwantlen, Simon Fraser, UBC and Capilano already. Does that mean I can write this trip off as a business expense???
Either way, Go Canada Go! I’ll be back in Ontario refreshed and ready to lobby after my last (and best ever) Reading Week finishes up.
Rob Lanteigne
Vice President University Affairs
Brock University Students’ Union
