Experiences at X-Fest Calgary 2012!

Thanks to Youth Central and Kids Up Front, I had the wonderful opportunity of attending X-Fest Calgary with two complementary tickets for myself and a friend. X-Fest was AMAZING! Although it was my first time at the event and that most of the bands were totally new to me, I had a great time. It…

Music Centre Canada – Summer Jam Camp

So this August, I was fortunate enough to be selected as a participant in a beginner’s guitar camp with 9 other students for a week.  Music Centre Canada was gracious enough to provide us with guitars, picks, tuners and the works, free of charge. We were ready to conquer the week with our awesome instructor Danny…

Africa Blog! – Day 3!

Leaving off from day 2, I’ll start with day 3! The third day was when everything started to get exciting! Just jokes! On the third day we made a trip to St.Elizabeth Hospital for a workshop on HIV and HIV caused Tuberculosis. The workshop was slightly boring, but still interesting. Everyone was dying for a…

What makes a great hotel?

Though I’m not exactly the most frequent of travelers, I decided to explore what exactly made a great hotel great and came up with a few of the most important parts of a hotel which help to make one’s stay as comfortable as possible. 1. Remembering your Preferences Something that some hotels do which can change the…

Africa Blog! – Day 2

Mambo Everyone! There wasn’t much excitement on day 2. Basically, on the second day, we visited the local Projects Abroad office, did some paperwork for a work permit, exchanged money(Currency was around $1USD=1570TSH), and had “The Talk”, which was mostly about some rules and how things are going to work for the next 2 weeks.…

Release your Creativity with Clay

As a camp leader, i sometimes find crafts can be frustrating with extensive planning, preparation, instructions and clean-up. When I was digging in the camp shed one day trying to design a craft for my campers, i found some tiny little blocks of clay that looks like this…. This is the most creative and simple…

The New York Diaries – Part 1

So I just back from a trip to New York (New York, how original, I know). But it was amazing nonetheless, and not to mention incredibly sweaty. I’m the kind of person that begins to wither as soon as the temperature starts to simmer above the 20 degree mark… yeah, sad. Maybe I’m suited for life in…

A photo tour of Vancouver’s Stanley Park

Probably one of North America’s most beautiful urban parks, Vancouver‘s Stanley Park draws an estimated 8 million visitors a year. The park’s primary forms of recreation include walking, inline skating, biking, and running. The most popular place to run is along the seawall; especially at dawn and dusk when the lighting on the water is…