Resident Adviser

Shortly after I arrived in Canada, I met my fellow Resident Advisers (RA). They are a delightful bunch. In my residence of about 350 students, there are 4 full-time RA's and 2 part-time RA's. The part-time RA's are in the animation program. They keep them very busy in that program (the school is ranked #1 in the world for animation). The others are from film and advertising.

We were sent to a different campus for about 1.5 weeks of RA training. It was 'conference style', and there were about 15 or so schools and over 150 RA's in attendance. We covered many topics such as SAFE talk, customer service, hazardous materials, drugs, alcohol, sexual assault, and suicide. 

There were a lot of social events, too. One of the highlights of the event was the Lip Sync Competition, literally. Each school had to choreograph a dance, rehearse it, and perform it while Lip Syncing to a song of our choice. It's really competitive. One of the schools held the title for two years running, and they took it very seriously.

My team did The Rocky Horror Picture Show song "Time Warp". Luckily we had two very talented girls (one of whom was a dancer and cheerleader for years and years) in our team to choreograph it.  We spent hours practicing and were all pretty rockin' in the end. 

The competition was pretty tough - there were some really good entries this year. Also, the winners were voted upon by all the RA's (each person votes on his top 3 teams, not including his own school). Amazingly, we took home First Place at this year's competition, making our school and our management team super proud.

I was so happy at how well we worked together as a team and how much fun we had!

Let's do the Time Warp again!!

When we got back, it was time for Early Move-In at residence for people who signed up to move into school a week earlier and get involved in different orientation activities. Stay tuned!