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Okay so I am going to have to go and do some digging for pictures to show you what I did when I started university! I didn& #39;t get the grades I needed to get in to my top choice! So I was offered a place in what is called the foundation year @FBMH_UoM
It also was not called Biology, Medicine and Health when I went there haha! In the foundation year we did biology, chemistry and maths...turns out I actually wasn& #39;t as bad at chemistry as I thought and I got a B compared to the D I got in my a-level chem class!!
Sometimes it truly is about the teacher as much as the subject matter! So if you think you& #39;re bad at something it& #39;s very possible it isn& #39;t you!
After my foundation year I took the money I had saved up and went travelling for the first time as an adult! Things definitely did not go as I had planned them but alas I still survived 3 months in British Columbia by myself at 19!!
Here& #39;s me in the Lynn Valley Canyon looking super stoked!
A marmot in my friends yard in Penticton!
I rode horses, I learnt to shoot and I saw lots of wildlife!!
This is me in Sidney!! AirCanada screwed up my flights so this is where I ended up before Vancouver! My first, but not my last trip to the puget sound area!
I visited the rockies for the first time ever! This was a lifelong dream of mine so I was super stoked and also ofc more than excited to see all the wildlife! I saw bighorn, coyotes and lots of chipmunks!
Aside from my upbringing in Australia I really credit this trip to BC with where I have ended up today! It was pivotal in my development as a human and as a scientist!
Oh yeah and I also went bear watching! How could I forget this crucial fact!
