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| This is not how the meal went.... |
Friday, 27 May 2011
Bannock!
Soooooooooooooo, one of the many perks my job has is that every Thursday I get to partake in a lovely lunch time meal with people from Cold Lake here at the Friendship Centre. The meal is very basic but it's probably the highlight of many people's weeks. It is a warm meal in a warm place and you get to visit with many people. Last week I was at a workshop all day (which will eventually be a blog, I'm just working out the details) so I had to miss this wonderful event.
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
First week in Cold Lake
Sorry for the delay everyone; I was busy having a fun old time driving the many roads between Edmonton and Cold Lake grabbing stuff for my convocation on June 5th this past weekend. This blog (and my other blog about Wednesday and Thursday which will come out later in the week) would have had more pictures in it, but the device I took the pictures with (my phone) had and unfortunate accident and is no longer with us.
So Monday was fairly laid back, I was able to meet my community supervisor Agnes. Her official title is executive director of the Cold Lake Friendship Centre, but real title is superwoman.
She unfortunately had a meeting for the majority of the day so I wasn't able to get to the meat and potatoes of the summer quite yet. I took this opportunity to blog last weeks events (check them out, the blogs are pretty sweet). I got to get familiar with building and the lovely little set up this place has. It's modest but the plans for the new Friendship Centre are amazing. I'll post pictures of a rough drawing once I get the ability to. But here is a link to an interesting article of what the Friendship Centre hopes to accomplish. http://www.coldlakesun.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3009476
Tuesday was filled with more of the same thing I did on Monday, I mostly researched and blogged.
Wednesday and Thursday were event filled days, I went to a Residential School workshop. The details of that will be posted later in the week. (It should be longer than this one and filled with a lot of information.)
Friday was another research day. But here is a link to the National Association of Friendship Centre's if you are interested in reading more about Friendship Centre's in general! http://www.nafc.ca/home.htm
Stay tuned for further posts!
G
So Monday was fairly laid back, I was able to meet my community supervisor Agnes. Her official title is executive director of the Cold Lake Friendship Centre, but real title is superwoman.
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| Not an actual image of my supervisor... |
She unfortunately had a meeting for the majority of the day so I wasn't able to get to the meat and potatoes of the summer quite yet. I took this opportunity to blog last weeks events (check them out, the blogs are pretty sweet). I got to get familiar with building and the lovely little set up this place has. It's modest but the plans for the new Friendship Centre are amazing. I'll post pictures of a rough drawing once I get the ability to. But here is a link to an interesting article of what the Friendship Centre hopes to accomplish. http://www.coldlakesun.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3009476
Tuesday was filled with more of the same thing I did on Monday, I mostly researched and blogged.
Wednesday and Thursday were event filled days, I went to a Residential School workshop. The details of that will be posted later in the week. (It should be longer than this one and filled with a lot of information.)
Friday was another research day. But here is a link to the National Association of Friendship Centre's if you are interested in reading more about Friendship Centre's in general! http://www.nafc.ca/home.htm
Stay tuned for further posts!
G
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
My trip to Cold Lake
So on Sunday, May 15th 2011, I made my journey up to Cold Lake. It was a lovely drive as you can see from the map below
325km of open roads and trees
Orientation Week
Orientation week was pretty awesome. We started off the week learning the basics of the job (as basic as basic gets when talking to 13 people with 13 different jobs).
sort of like this I guess....
Monday, 9 May 2011
My First Post
Well people, here it is; my first post on my new blog.
This job is going to be a lot of fun and I cannot wait to get started. For starters, I'll just say a few things about myself. I graduated this past semester from the University of Alberta - Augustana Campus with a Bachelor of Science with a major in Mathematics and Physics with minors in Economics and Physical Education.
For fun, here is a video I made for class!
I hope you all look forward to my future posts!
G.
This job is going to be a lot of fun and I cannot wait to get started. For starters, I'll just say a few things about myself. I graduated this past semester from the University of Alberta - Augustana Campus with a Bachelor of Science with a major in Mathematics and Physics with minors in Economics and Physical Education.
For fun, here is a video I made for class!
I hope you all look forward to my future posts!
G.
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