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<\/a>The drop-in sports take place at Lansdowne Middle School\u00a0on Tuesdays from 8 to 10 pm and Thursdays from 8:30 to 10:30 pm; basketball, volleyball, badminton, and indoor soccer are currently being offered. Equipment is provided and the drop-in is mostly funded through the monthly $3.36 student recreation fee, which every student pays. For activity classes like yoga, Lambeth says that most of the classes are around $8. While activity classes are not offered this semester due to a lack of interest, Lambeth says that there are possibilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re in a program, and if there\u2019s five of you and you all want to have a break at 8 in the morning for yoga,\u201d says Lambeth, \u201cI\u2019ll find an instructor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Drop-in sports attendant Ben Andrews, who is in Camosun\u2019s Mechanical Engineering Bridge to UVic program, says that maybe half the students who show up come by themselves, so a community gets built around the drop-in sessions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say maybe half the people come alone. So the other half maybe have a friend or two at most. But the whole idea is that there is a very fluid community,\u201d he says. \u201cThere is something there for everyone, and because it is very unstructured and very casual, absolutely people who can come in can just walk right in. That\u2019s the whole point\u2014it\u2019s drop-in. We barely even keep score. It\u2019s very relaxed, it\u2019s just there so people can meet each other and have fun, and get a little bit of exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Due to that gym being in high demand, the drop-in classes take place in the evenings, which Andrews admits is \u201cnot at the best time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the thing that it is convenient for is that it\u2019s right next to Lansdowne campus, which a lot of our students are living close to,\u201d he says. \u201cSo that\u2019s what\u2019s convenient, we get a lot of people who live close by the campus already and dropping in at 8:30 or 8:00 is not so bad.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While Camosun tries to focus on connecting the student body with each other, Ben says that students being able to bring friends to the drop-in sports might happen in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cThis semester, we really tried to focus on the student body,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s making sure that students feel like it\u2019s for them, because it should be. Students shouldn\u2019t feel like they walk in and they see a lot of people they don\u2019t recognize or a lot of people they can\u2019t necessarily relate to, because it\u2019s about building community and making friends.\u201d<\/p>\n Andrews is enthusiastic about volleyball and badminton being offered this year.<\/p>\n