Hola! We have arrived safe and sound, with a few minor speed bumps.
Friday started out with an all too familiar ferry ride to Vancouver followed by an unfamiliar ride down to the border crossing and then on to Seattle. From SeaTac we endured a three hour long flight, no movies mind you, to San Diego. […]
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In the past few weeks Mexico has experienced tropical rain storms that have resulted in mass flooding and serious damage. The common site here a couple of weeks ago was flooded roads and collapsed bridges on the main highway, houses swept away in the rush or ‘new’ rivers, and several flooded schools and some makeshift […]
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Well, it was our first week of touring. We had 5 Think Day Presentations at 3 really great schools. For some of us it was our first time speaking and running sound and lights which was quite nerve racking but that is why we had loads of practice time before hand(2 weeks of hard core set […]
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Published by nettie September 12th, 2008
in School of Leadership and Student Stories.
Our first project to help out in the community was at the Living Rock Youth Centre, just a block away from the Absolute offices. We went last Thursday for the initial tour and explanation on how the drop in centre began. We also ended up helping out with breakfast and hanging out with the youth […]
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Well, yesterday was our first show and I thought it went awesome! Set up went smoothly, we were kind of slow but that will improve:)I felt pretty confident, (well sort of,)I had been going over my story (about my Hero Holiday to Mexico last summer) a lot in the past few days, so I […]
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Published by nettie September 9th, 2008
in School of Leadership and Student Stories.
Hollllla!!
So its week two of Absolute and we are having a fabulous time. Things have been very exciting around the office, apartment and the busses : where we will soon call home. Everybody is starting to get adjusted to their new lives and friendships. There are lots of changes being made, not many of […]
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Published by nettie September 4th, 2008
in School of Leadership and Student Stories.
A Note from Kristi: a student in our SOL program,
All of us students arrived between Tuesday and Wednesday, eager and excited as to what was about to handed over to us, and not really knowing what was to be expected in the least. The girls; Nikki, Tara, Teijna, Adele and myself; settled in with […]
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Published by absolute October 15th, 2007
in Testimonials and Hero Holiday.
I battled anxiety for most of my life, but I’ve gotten much better. I have been to the point where I felt like I deserved to feel this way and I should just live with it. I have been to the point where I felt motionless, nothing made me happy and everything made […]
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