UBC Alumni Affairs
Mariana and Mauricio
Mauricio first spotted me when I was in the line up for the upstairs courtyard at the SUB that is transformed into the “pit” during the first pit night.
Once I was inside, I sat down with three of my friends and we were chatting away when we were approached by two guys. The two guys chatted with us for quite a while. We were all flirting a bit and then we decided to play a game where we had to guess where each of us was from.
One guy was Canadian, the other guy was from Fiji. One girl was Canadian, the other girl was German and then there was me. The guys couldn’t guess where I was from. At this moment Mauricio approached one of the guys and began talking to him (the guy was his good friend). Then Mauricio said to him, “aren’t you going to present me to the girls?” So his friend presented Mauricio to us and told Mauricio that they were trying to guess where I was from. Mauricio turned to me and said “you are Latina,” and I responded “yeah, I am.” Then Mauricio said to me, “are you Brazilian?” and I said, “yeah.”
I was really surprised that he guessed where I am from, but then he told me he had a Brazilian friend and my look resembled that of his friend. Well, it ended up that his Brazilian friend was my friend, too. So we continued chatting the entire night. Mauricio’s friend even gave him a look and said “you stole the girl that I was hitting on.”
The following week Mauricio and I met again at the AMS welcome back BBQ. After the second encounter we started meeting up much more frequently.
UBC was a special place for us because not only we met there but we got to know each other there. Mauricio would wait for me to be done class at the Biology building. We would meet at Koerner’s library to study for exams…we had our study carrels where we would always meet. We used to take naps at the aquatic center and we often hung out at the rose garden. I lived in Thunderbird residence at the time.
When we graduated we had been dating for almost four years. Now we’ve been dating for six years and got engaged in May!
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