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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
retreat
Sunday was a long tiring day, but fun nonetheless. We met in school for the ISC retreat for Coordinators of the new semester. It was the first time I would be attending such a meeting and seeing the gang, consisting of 14 Coordinators including me. Rundown:
Me (Marketing)
My brother and Tina (Events)
Flora (Van-Go!)
Beth and Philip (Volunteers)
Alex and Maggie (Coffee Night)
Mnason and Jerry (Buddy Program)
Jaclyn and Jingjing (English Conversation Program)
Haipeng (Workshops)
Mike (Special Events)
I thought we would be going out for some activity, but we stayed in for a meeting-style retreat. We actually made use of UTSC's Council of Chambers (sounds so Harry Potter-ish eh?), which is the actual boardroom where the Directors and VIPs of the school make important, or stupid, decisions. Impressive!
The main entrance and the high ceiling. Donald Trump, eat your heart out!
I'm the one in grey sweater and yellow hoodie.
Lights on as the outside darkens.
These are the only few pictures I have. I wasn't much into the picture-taking mood, though Alex was. If I get the pictures that show actual humans from him, I'll post them up. Anyway, the day consisted of introduction, pizza as lunch, and lots of discussion on our goals, successes and problems of past events, improvements, future events, etc. We ended the meeting with a much needed Chinese buffet dinner outside the campus by rides of 3 cars to transport the whole gang. Some were interesting in heading for a karaoke session, but everyone went home due to exhaustion and partly because the end of Sunday meant the start of Monday, and school/work for all of us.
I got really freaked out after the whole 'retreat'. Marketing is a MAJOR issue in everyone's "Problems" section. In fact, I just made a new poster for ECP that was needed by Thursday. Phew for that. Even worse is that Tina booked a booth in the Student Centre for tomorrow to publicize a Montreal trip (very cool, but more on that much later). Frustratingly, she could only confirm the details today, which basically means less than a day to do those display boards. I thought that would be bad, but till now she hasn't passed me any detailed information to 'publicize', noting it's 11.50pm on a Tuesday night! I've done the heading which reads in large words "MONTREAL", but a huge chunk is missing. Now I don't even know if I'm going to bring the huge board Nora kindly bought for me today to school and I have a Statistics quiz tomorrow. If I decide not to bother, good luck to Tina in setting up the information-less booth. I am at my wits end even though it's not much of my business now..
On a sort-of gleeful last note, I got a call for an interview on Thursday, 2pm at the Scarborough Campus Student Union's office regarding my application for their Spring Election Polling Clerk. I'm so excited! One of my first interviews for an actual paying job. I need to read up on the Roles and Responsibilities, and brush up on my knowledge on the SCSU. Here's to a successful job interview!
PS I succumbed to peer pressure to create a Facebook account.
Me (Marketing)
My brother and Tina (Events)
Flora (Van-Go!)
Beth and Philip (Volunteers)
Alex and Maggie (Coffee Night)
Mnason and Jerry (Buddy Program)
Jaclyn and Jingjing (English Conversation Program)
Haipeng (Workshops)
Mike (Special Events)
I thought we would be going out for some activity, but we stayed in for a meeting-style retreat. We actually made use of UTSC's Council of Chambers (sounds so Harry Potter-ish eh?), which is the actual boardroom where the Directors and VIPs of the school make important, or stupid, decisions. Impressive!
The main entrance and the high ceiling. Donald Trump, eat your heart out!
I'm the one in grey sweater and yellow hoodie.
Lights on as the outside darkens.
These are the only few pictures I have. I wasn't much into the picture-taking mood, though Alex was. If I get the pictures that show actual humans from him, I'll post them up. Anyway, the day consisted of introduction, pizza as lunch, and lots of discussion on our goals, successes and problems of past events, improvements, future events, etc. We ended the meeting with a much needed Chinese buffet dinner outside the campus by rides of 3 cars to transport the whole gang. Some were interesting in heading for a karaoke session, but everyone went home due to exhaustion and partly because the end of Sunday meant the start of Monday, and school/work for all of us.
I got really freaked out after the whole 'retreat'. Marketing is a MAJOR issue in everyone's "Problems" section. In fact, I just made a new poster for ECP that was needed by Thursday. Phew for that. Even worse is that Tina booked a booth in the Student Centre for tomorrow to publicize a Montreal trip (very cool, but more on that much later). Frustratingly, she could only confirm the details today, which basically means less than a day to do those display boards. I thought that would be bad, but till now she hasn't passed me any detailed information to 'publicize', noting it's 11.50pm on a Tuesday night! I've done the heading which reads in large words "MONTREAL", but a huge chunk is missing. Now I don't even know if I'm going to bring the huge board Nora kindly bought for me today to school and I have a Statistics quiz tomorrow. If I decide not to bother, good luck to Tina in setting up the information-less booth. I am at my wits end even though it's not much of my business now..
On a sort-of gleeful last note, I got a call for an interview on Thursday, 2pm at the Scarborough Campus Student Union's office regarding my application for their Spring Election Polling Clerk. I'm so excited! One of my first interviews for an actual paying job. I need to read up on the Roles and Responsibilities, and brush up on my knowledge on the SCSU. Here's to a successful job interview!
PS I succumbed to peer pressure to create a Facebook account.