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Life Crap
Well let's see here. I have lived in Calgary since I was 2 months old,
when we moved from Nanaimo, B.C. I'm 20 years old and I have 2 sisters,
Nicole (22), and Laura (18). I also have 2 stepsisters, Trish (24) and
Lara (26), who each have kids. My Mom has her own day home, my Dad is
the owner of Bell Davidson Insurance Brokers, and my Step-Dad works for
B.J. Services. At home we have 5 (yes, five) cats, and mine is the
adorable calico, Georgie, who can do no wrong.
Click the image for the City
of Calgary site (I know, exciting!)
So you have heard about family, now for friends!!! I have quite a few
friends from work and school and stuff (yeah, I'm super cool popular.
You know it!). My 2 best freinds are Dan and Jocelyn. Dan, I have known
for basically our whole lives, and we can go for weeks without seeig
each other and then act like no time at all. We went to school
together, and until very recently worked together too. I met Jocelyn at
work about 3 years ago, and she always reminds me of the first
conversation we had (which I SWEAR I don't remember). She heard a
Beatles song and said "I love the Beatles!", and I apparrently "glared"
at her and replied "I hate them," and walked away. Ahhh, best friends,
eh? But now we are practically inseperable. Lisa, one of my closest
friends from school, is in Education with me, and we are planning on
doing the whole thing together! It is great fun! Sara and Joce were
best friends (until I came into the picture! Nyuk nyuk nyuk!), and now
we are an evil, unfortunately disfunctional trio. It's great! Paul
lives across the street from me and I have been friends with him almost
as long as Dan. Shannon and I also work together and she and Joce and I
do the charity at our store together, and there are many many others
who would take up way too much room, and are just not important
enough!!! (KIDDING!!!)
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Work Crap
I have worked at Shawnessy Safeway ("Slaveway") since February of 2001.
When I started there I was a courtesy clerk (read: bag boy), which was
probably the most slack job in the entire world. Then it became winter
again at the end of the year, and pushing buggies sucked a lot in the
snow, so I became a cashier. It is the general consensus around the
store that cashier is the crappiest job there, because we are the ones
that have to deal with irate customers the most, but for the most part
I don't mind it!
I am also in charge of the Because We Care charity at my store for the
second year running, and it is one of the most fun "jobs" ever. The
deal is that each year (from September to June), each store chooses a
charity to represent and they raise money for that charity all year.
This year we are doing the Canadian Cancer Society (links page), and
have raised more than ten thousand dollars so far.
Click the image above for the BWC site
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School Crap
I am currently attending Mount
Royal College
in Calgary, Alberta,
where I am in the Bachelor of Education, University Transfer program. I
am in my third year here and I love the school so freaking much that it
will hurt me to leave at the end of this semester! After the summer, I
will be attending (I hope) the University
of Calgary.
I want to be a High School English teacher when I am finished getting
my degree. I have taken a LOT of English courses and would love to
teach it. My Teaching Language class made me realize just how important
it is to have a command of language, and I want to help students with
that as well as myself.
I think the main reason I want to teach is because I love to learn. If
I could be paid to be a student here I would be in heaven! To sit
in a class full of my peers and just talk about the last novel we read,
or to watch someone's presentation and find out their point of view on
an issue, or to hear what questions a professor has of us is fun for
me, and I want to make sure it is fun for all of my students as well. I
think that someone with a passion for learning should be a teacher,
because I have had that kind of teacher. That is the kind that really
makes a difference.
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