Ok I have 40 minutes before we (as in Café Sofa) call it a day...let's start...
But before I talk about work let me just say something very cool will happen tomorrow/Sunday/Monday, and I just cannot believe it is happening tomorrow...excursion to Quebec City, à la belle province de Quebec! I am going to see my sister (who is doing a geography exchange program in Sherbrooke and they are having an excursion there also) there too, woohoo! Hopefully I have time to write a blog about it, but we will see...
So our group is leaving Alma very soon (May 28), and I feel I should dedicate a blog on my work before I leave, as a reminder to myself (and perhaps to the "lucky" person who will work here after me...but maybe not). Anyways what can I say about it? I guess I should explain what it is: Café Sofa is opened by La Boite à Bleuets, an organization with a team of dedicated people from all walks of life (doctors, politicians, students) that works hard to attract young people from the Lac St-Jean region to stay in the region. The profits from the cafe then goes to projects and other developement plans that La Boite à Bleuets have. As well, the café itself is pretty cool: it serves as a venue for meetings/entertainment, and it sells fair-trade coffee and other items for third-world aid. The café is one of those totally hip/chill places that is anti-starbucks, where people go there to chill because of its atmosphere and stuff, and they can enjoy the chillax music they play (yay, I even got to play my choice of stuff one day when I worked with Aurelie) and the art/photo exhibits the café has going on (right now it is Aurelie's art...very cool). Unfortunately, because the café is in a small town, not much people go there. But I can guarantee that if it was in Vancouver/Montreal/Toronto, the place would be buzzing...which is a bit unfortunate (but if it is too busy then it would lose that intimacy). And another crappy thing about the cafe - everything is pretty pricey...
...Aw shucks...not enough time due to distractions from my friends. To be continued...after Quebec City...
About Me
- ~*A.n.G.e.L*~
- Well, I am from Vancouver, BC. I finished my first year of college in Capilano College, and did some grueling training this summer with heaping rewards at the end. I am currently doing Katimavik, a 9 month volunteering program where I live with 10 other strange people from all over Canada and we travel to 3 different cities/towns in the country and do volunteer work and "find ourselves". It's interesting. Our group is 34102 - Blind River (Nov - Feb), Alma (Feb - May), then Castlegar (May - Aug). After that it's more schooling for me...