A Look into Volunteering: Part Two

The escapades of today were largely centered around the pilgrimage to the last work partners. On these journeys we visited four different volunteer places, mostly environmental organizations. While we wondered through Ville-Emard ( which must be HUGE because we walked and took the bus and the metro, and we never left Ville-Emard) I saw all kind of intriguing art. So I have a couple of my favourites here to show you:

On to the projects! We visited another Eco-Quartier location at the YMCA which was working on making a green alleyway in the community. Of course they're still a long way off actually planting it, which comes in spring, so for now it's about design and asking the residence what they want to see. The whole concept of the project is urban gardening.

Then we took the metro to McGill, same road as the Yellow Door, was the CKUT radio station. It's a not for profit independent radio station, they play up coming unknown artist and provide an alternative view for everything. The volunteer would be categorizing music, present shows, and doing pre record shows. Yeah, a chance to be on the radio, pretty cool, right?

Then we went to another environmental project which is not Eco-Quartier, but is working on some of the same projects. This organization is assisting in the Concordia Green Roof project, they're working on a different roof than Eco-Quartier. I don't remember the name of the organization because they didn't over use the name (as many of the others did). This project was interesting because they will actually be starting the seeding process in the greenhouse in only a few weeks! While the organization is "bilingual" currently all but one (bilingual) are francophones, so it's a good opportunity to learn French.

The last one we visited was another (another other) Eco-Quartier! This one was focused more on Recycling. They had me at "Dumpster Diving", they go dumpster diving to make examples of, get this, recycled crafts! Soooo Niki....

Lasagna for dinner with Pascal, very tasty. I also managed to snag some butter chicken for lunch while we were in the food court. Now were preparing for tomorrows interviews. Mum prepare to panic, I'm going to NINE interviews!