Off to B.C. On Tuesday July 6 th, plane leaves at 7 am , so off to the airport real early.
Busy, Busy, Very Busy week planned. However what a great week it should be.
Mountains , lakes , the outdoors, I can not wait !!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Leaving for B.C.
Off to B.C. On Tuesday July 6 th, plane leaves at 7 am , so off to the airport real early.
Busy, Busy, Very Busy week planned. However what a great week it should be.
Mountains , lakes , the outdoors, I can not wait !!
Friday, July 2, 2010
Learning Aboriginal History and Culture
With all the reorganizing behind me , I am ready to start a very interesting week.
I am meeting John Bear in Elgin today, and spending the next 4 or 5 days with him, explaining his culture and his family long history in the healing ways of the aboriginals.
John's grand parents were both medicine people and past on their learning and taught him the ways of natural medicine.
Plant identification, herbal remedies are up first. Second day will be fishing and hiking. Third day cleansing and spiritual ways. Fourth day building a fire , Iding of different kind of woods and the uses of the different woods.
I first meant John last year and find him to be a insightful man, a man who shares his knowledge and his love of the land
I believe this will be a week where I will learn allot and come away from it with a better understanding of Aboriginal culture and history.
I am meeting John Bear in Elgin today, and spending the next 4 or 5 days with him, explaining his culture and his family long history in the healing ways of the aboriginals.
John's grand parents were both medicine people and past on their learning and taught him the ways of natural medicine.
Plant identification, herbal remedies are up first. Second day will be fishing and hiking. Third day cleansing and spiritual ways. Fourth day building a fire , Iding of different kind of woods and the uses of the different woods.
I first meant John last year and find him to be a insightful man, a man who shares his knowledge and his love of the land
I believe this will be a week where I will learn allot and come away from it with a better understanding of Aboriginal culture and history.
A turn of events
After arriving home I received a email stating that our trip had to be re booked , our travel plans were changing. I can not believe a week before leaving we got this thrown at us.
I still need to get to travel and will deal with this once up north. What craziness and what bull this has taken on.
I spent Friday June 4, Saturday June 5, and Sunday June 6, in a library and a phone booth trying to reorganize my trip. What a hassle and what a waste of money, this is hard since I have to finance this trip and my research by myself, every cent for the Garfield Weston summer program money is budgeted for and being used and now time to start juggling.
I find it hard to believe this never came up when Ed and I talked to people at the college.
I got my flights changed which ended up costing a extra $200 when all said and done. Rooms were cancelled, thank god I only lost one deposit for a room.
Still in phone booth I had to call each appointment to reschedule this is a very disappointing thing for sure. You could hear disappointment in the voices on the other end of the line too, not just Ed and myself the people that were schedule to be interviewed too.
I ended up losing one interview for sure and maybe one or two more depending on their schedules and free time. The main problem with changing the time frame is that now we will be visiting their locations at the busy time of year instead of before it got busy.
Oh well life throws stuff at you and you deal with it.
I still need to get to travel and will deal with this once up north. What craziness and what bull this has taken on.
I spent Friday June 4, Saturday June 5, and Sunday June 6, in a library and a phone booth trying to reorganize my trip. What a hassle and what a waste of money, this is hard since I have to finance this trip and my research by myself, every cent for the Garfield Weston summer program money is budgeted for and being used and now time to start juggling.
I find it hard to believe this never came up when Ed and I talked to people at the college.
I got my flights changed which ended up costing a extra $200 when all said and done. Rooms were cancelled, thank god I only lost one deposit for a room.
Still in phone booth I had to call each appointment to reschedule this is a very disappointing thing for sure. You could hear disappointment in the voices on the other end of the line too, not just Ed and myself the people that were schedule to be interviewed too.
I ended up losing one interview for sure and maybe one or two more depending on their schedules and free time. The main problem with changing the time frame is that now we will be visiting their locations at the busy time of year instead of before it got busy.
Oh well life throws stuff at you and you deal with it.
Meeting and getting ready for BC
Thursday June 3, 2010 today I have my meeting at Niagara College with Ed, mapped out our travel plans for BC, Confirmed Hotel and car rental bookings.
Reworked a couple of the questions as per changes needed from interviews, had great discussion on my interviews so far. I learn to start to compile the data that has been gathered so far.
Stopped by Jeff Stewards office (head of Department) to pick up some gifts to share with the people I am interviewing in BC.
Very good meeting with Ed, next time we see each other will be in BC at the Kamloops Airport on June 14.
Got some paperwork to get done and be organized to leave for then.
Off to our trailer and then next week spending time with medicine man.
Reworked a couple of the questions as per changes needed from interviews, had great discussion on my interviews so far. I learn to start to compile the data that has been gathered so far.
Stopped by Jeff Stewards office (head of Department) to pick up some gifts to share with the people I am interviewing in BC.
Very good meeting with Ed, next time we see each other will be in BC at the Kamloops Airport on June 14.
Got some paperwork to get done and be organized to leave for then.
Off to our trailer and then next week spending time with medicine man.
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