Thursday, June 10, 2004

II LOVE Field Trips!!!

Yes, I DO I DO!!! Get me more!!!
It happened today at work, even though just for the like an hour. First though we had a lecture on Housing and the 3 main types of social housing the non-profit and government organizations provide in Toronto. I actually really enjoyed the lecture, because, first, it is so practical, and second, many of the relevant problems to our research were concerned. And the person who gave the lecture was really nice. We sat in a circle, just talking and discussing, so informal, but at the same time really informative and serious discussion and lecture. I wish we could get more of these :D
Then I had to rush through the syntax again, I am getting frustrated with all that shit I do not know how to do, and I had to actually do the Documentation for it, and found out I had to program some of the parts again and edit it and all that crap wow. Anyways. will deal with all that stuff tomorrow all day.
So the Firld Trip was at 2 pm. It actually took us an hour to get to the site, located on St.Claire and West of Ossington. Was so funny, because we were dressed for office work, and the people around us were looking funny and prob thinking where the fuck did we come from wow :D Was really funny to see their expression. And of course the number of the house was worng on our sheet, so we had to call and look around and stuff.
We went into a 3 store housing building, which was a unit of Supportive Housing. The person we talked to, Steven Potter, was about 45-50, white, average height person, kinda dry I guess. He gave us juice which was so nice, because we were already boiling from the heat when we got there. Man, it is way too hot these days! And Claire was with boots OMG!!! SO anyways, he invited us in the common room, which was a little bigger than McCaul's common room, a lot of windows, kinda old dirty couches and chairs and all. SO he told us about the 13 units bachelor appartments, how the building worked, what kind of issues they had and so on. I was so into that! I asked so many questions. And was really interesting, because he talked about the management and the underpayment from the government and all that stuff, which I found very fascinating. I think I really want to go into Management now.
When I walked into the building I expected to see some really dirty place with mentally sick heavy schizophrenic people in their accute phase with delusions and hallucinations, screaming down the hall nad acting all drugged and drunk. But actually, afte just an hour of talking to Steven, I realized that there is no real difference between the Supportive HOusing and the normal appartment building you can see on the streets. just that the rent is really low and flexible, and they have community workers coming few times a week. Otherwise, it is just a normal place where normal people live. That made all the difference to me right there. Oh, btw, Steven is an engineer :) Unknown are the paths or God :D
We finished around 3:30 pm. And then we had to find a washroom, because they did not have a public one around. So Lori and Kenneth were asking around, and since the Coffee Place washrooms were out of order, we ended up in a Bingo Hall with all these middle aged people :D
I liked the field trip also because I got to talk to my co-workers and was really interesting to talk about just anything that came to our minds, even though we did not really know each other that well. And I also found that Christina is another bike riding lover, and we decided to go for a ride when she gets her bike. :D I am definately Looking forward to that.
So we were back at U of T around 4:30, so I decided to go home right away, since I did not have lunch anyways. And because I thought the Info Session was today, cause I believed what George told me! but all there was in UC today were graduating people. 2 more years and I will be one of them :D So yeah, I got back home, and got some more cherry pie mmmmm and went to class.
I really start to like Sociology, you know. Everything makes so much sense, and I probably have more experience with what he is talking about than most people. And i was not even that tired today. And he is a great speaker too :)
yeah, we had a house meeting tonight too. No TV though :( Just norms talk and stuff. Oh, btw, there are these 3 guys living at the end of the hall. They are hot man I tell ya ;) And I got to see one of them in the bathroom today when he was going to take a shower just with boxers... mmmmmm.... Damn, why am I thinking about other guys eh! ts ts I am bad I admit :D Oh, but I saw them last night eating in front of the kitchen, after they cooked their own food. gosh, I am crazy about guys who can make their own food :D I was going just in a towel right in the middle, said hi and stuff ;)
Oh, have you noticed how people look at you differently when you wear short skirt, tight shirt, or short pants? Cause I definately have. The construction guys are not exactly the most descrete people around campus :D
So, my hugest achievemt tonight was reading the first chapter of the SOC book :D I have not read that much in the last like 30 days. Felt good to know I can still do that ;)
Also, friendship stuff. I talked to my lovely angelic favourite friend today (you know who you are girlie),and my heart pains cause of what is up with her, but I am here for her, and fuck guys, they such anyways :D Clubbing Saturday k ;)
And I also got an unexpected e-mail which made things better as well, I hope.
Ok, busy is good, and also, being all chilled down and not stressing over different things is good as well. I need a break from all that stress and emotions :)
Oh, uhmm.... yeah... I did say hi to him and we chatted, because he went around my room like 6 times when my door was open, so then i just could not not notice right ;)
ha ha, ok too much guy talk tonight ;)
Sweet dreams :D

1 Comments:

Blogger Salanth said...

I wish you didn't run on so much, because it makes me dizzy.

It feels like you hardly take a breath!

Heh, your blog is pretty interesting, though. Such an interesting life...

June 10, 2004 at 3:00 AM  

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