The past month has been pretty fantastic. After my final exams in December, I was able to go home to Vanderhoof for just over two weeks. There I got to spend time with family and friends, eating delicious turkey dinners and relaxing. It was exactly what I needed after a stressful semester of school.

Since then I have come back to Burnaby and am doing another semester of classes. This is my last semester of picked classes as I plan to do my honours in the fall and next spring. After that I will be done my degree and be able to graduate which I am very excited about. This semester I am taking four courses since they are each more credits and therefore more work than the average class. I am taking a restorative justice course, a women’s studies course of their history in the last 150 years, a qualitative research course and lastly a crime prevention class. So far all my classes are great and I am really enjoying them. I think I will probably enjoy my crime prevention class the most as it is an extension of the environmental criminology class I took last semester and is very interesting in practical ways we can prevent crime. With this course, I will be working in a group to design a community which would be enjoyable to live in and has a decreased amount of crime. This is a project that I think I will really enjoy.

This weekend I am going to Hope, B.C. for a retreat with the university club I am a part of, UCM. I am looking forward to spending the time with friends and enjoying the beautiful scenery that Hope has to offer.

That’s it for now. Until next time,