Showing posts with label Ontario. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ontario. Show all posts
Thursday, June 28, 2012
I wish I had something more exciting to post
I know it's been over a month since I last posted anything & I was really trying to be good & write a lot, & actually go out and do stuff. I really do wish I was off for something exciting, but really nothing much was going on except trying to get government funding for school in Sept. I'm glad to say I did get the funding I needed, not as much as I would like but that's not too surprising. I'm going to be going back to college in Sept for International Business Management, it's a year course with an intern-ship at the end. I'm getting funding through a program called Second Career through the Ontario government, it covers your tuition, book, transportation, and some living expenses, which is nice. However qualifying for it can be such a pain, especially if the worker who's supposed to be helping you isn't really. My worker was going through being supportive & then suddenly coming up with new stuff I needed to do. Super stressful. Now I just have to get a part-time job so I can afford to actually do stuff while I'm at college, this is a new stressful. I can only work 20 hrs a week, and I did retail for 10 years & my back and feet suffered from it & my sainty suffer too so I'm trying to keep at least my sanity in tact. I'm not sure how to find an office job for nights & weekends & most of the call centre jobs are mostly about selling & I suck at that! So that's what I'll be doing for the most part in July.
Friday, April 13, 2012
The Green Living Show
Today I went with my mom & aunt to the Green Living Show here in Toronto. It was at the Direct Energy Centre & it was apperenlty where every school in the city had sent their kids today. When we were walking by the parking lot we spotted the busses, I didn't think they would be there, but I should know better. Other than the massive amount of young ones I smacked in the head with my bag today it was a good day. One of my favorite parts was the 'Fresh Food Market'. There were about 10 vendors with mini samples of local and organic foods that they were selling, salads, soups, & some desserts. For $10.00 you got 5 vouchers to use. My aunt got some organic coffee, myself & my mom split our food between us, we had a peanut bean sprot salad, a 'Ontario' salad, which all the differnt things in the salad were from Ontario, also we had an apple crisp with local apples & sweet potato donuts, which were my favorite. Along with the food we paid for we got a lot of samples, greek yogurt, pasta sauce, pesto, organic milk, homemade pop, bread, and more stuff than I can remember. Along with all the food there were a lot of beauty prodcuts avalible and a lot of ways to improve your house to keep your power bills down. It was a little strange to see things like Porche & Lexus right next to the people selling organic fair trade coffee. With the size of this show you can see how popular that the green movement is. The fact that there are little home grown companies right next to the big ones & both are looking for your money and the little compines are usually winning out in this kinds of places shows that there are a lot of things that the larger companies have to fix & with how scarce everyones' money is these days consumers are getting pickier & doing way more research into where they're going to spend the money. All and all a good day, so tired now.
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