Brain Day 2013: My experience as the Coordinator

I'm honoured to have been the coordinator of this year's Brain Day, a program that's part of Parachute Canada. Parachute is a national, charitable organization with a strong aim of reducing injuries that are preventable. 

Brain Day is an event where university students visit elementary schools and teach about injury prevention, the brain, and the 5 senses through interactive activities. As the coordinator, I recruited elementary schools and volunteers for the event during UBC's Reading Week. This year, we visited Waverley Elementary, General Wolfe Elementary, and Kerrisdale Elementary. We devote a day at the school where we do the presentation and activities with classes for ~2hours. We delivered Brain Day to a total of 12 classes, which is double the number of last year classes!

Brain Jello

Black Ebony and White Ivory Keys

When exam period comes, I always have an urge to play the piano. Regardless of the number of exams and the amount of material that I have to go through, I still played the piano once in a while in between my exams. I'm not sure if I'm trying to avoid studying or if I'm craving the feeling of playing the piano but when I sit at the piano, on the bench that I have sat on for many many hours before, I am reminded of countless memories. Born into a typical Asian family, I started playing the piano at a fairly young age. I've always tried to talk my mom into letting me skip practice for the day. In fact, we even made compromises. One hour of piano for one hour of Neopets. Of course, the piano hour felt like 5 hours while Neopets felt like 5 minutes, especially with dial up internet back then. Soon the compromise became 1 hour of piano for 2 hours of Neopets! :P