Wow Langara students, that was a pretty dick thing to do

A J-school friend of mine recently asked me why I chose to go to the school I did and not one of the other ones that I got accepted to. Today, I'm glad I didn't go to Langara College.

My multimedia class was tasked with photographing the Olympic torch relay today.

We were split into different groups and sent off on our merry way.

My group split up along the last leg of the relay in South Vancouver.

I took the area near 49th Avenue and Oak Street, ending up at Langara College.

I showed up early to see what was happening at the campus, take in some of the festivities and stake out my spot for photo taking.

After picking out my spot, I took the opportunity to chat with some of the people around me.

One of the people that I talked with was an older lady named Lucille.

She told me about how her son was recently in Haiti helping with the relief effort.

Anyways, we waited patiently for the torch relay to reach Langara and then finally, the Coca-Cola and RBC party buses showed up heralding the imminent arrival of the torch.

As the torch approached, traffic caught along 49th Avenue heading east when the torch made its way towards Langara was stopped.

Unfortunately, that traffic blocked the view of some of the people on the campus side of the street.

Suddenly, a bunch of Langara students decided that they were going to cross the street to get a better view.

More accurately, they thought they would cross the street and take the view of people who had been waiting across the street from them for about an hour or so.

Before I could wade through the crowd, that had suddenly appeared in front of me, the RCMP came along and forced the crowd back as the torch bearer was quickly approaching.

In the confusion not only did I lose my spot, but I got shuffled back near the back of the crowd.

To my disgust, the Langara students had pushed Lucille to the back of the crowd too.

She voiced her opinion that what they had done was unfair, but her comments fell on deaf ears.

I did my best to get my obligatory photo of the torch bearer, but to no avail.

And while, I am extremely disappointed that I didn't get a chance to see the torch bearer, I felt even worse that Lucille lost her prime viewing spot to a bunch of selfish jerks.

Having thought about what happened outside Langara today, I'm glad that I'm leaving Vancouver during the Olympics.

Sure, I'm going to Hong Kong during Chinese New Year, where there are going to be more people than in Vancouver and where the people are, well, ruder than people are here.

But, I expect that kind of rudeness and selfishness there. Not here.

If this is how Vancouverites are going to act for the Olympics, I'd rather be anywhere but here.

I'm honoured

It's a double entendre. It seems that Kwantlen has place me on the Dean's Honour Roll for my academic achievements for last semester. It's just kinda cool is all.

The Runner

My first article for the Runner has been published. They also used one of my photos for another story.

That's good news?

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