Hmmm, I thought I should write my update while I am still feeling 'inpired' to do so.

The Trillium workshop series is really monopolizing a lot of my time. However, it was great meeting Ian, a gentleman who is really motivated in helping us out and creating a marketing plan that will ensure success for our workshops. Ashley has also joined us in the market aspect of our workshop series.

Welcome Ian and Ashley!!!!

I am already thinking into the future, september, and how to create a successful pool of resources for our next workshop series. I believe TIG is starting to customize their workshop series to these 4 areas: (not excluding new ideas that members would want) a)Connect to Your Career
b)New Media and Web Development c) Self Expression Through the Arts d) Organizational Skills and Leadership Development. Thus, the workshops that we give can go under one of these four categories. From a marketing perspective, we would be able to market TIG and the services that we provide more successfully. It was brought to my attention that Toronto is a real 'user based' city. Meaning, people like to be able to go to an organization and use their services or be referred to another organization for the services they need. Not that we just want to be used as a 'service', but I think this will help in bringing in more specific individuals that match with our organizational goals.

I am in the mist of creating a form for workshop volunteers to fill out. This will help me to get the pertinent information that I need more quickly and accurately.

I am still plugging away at our database, approving and researching.

Our lab is starting to come together bit by bit. Last night we actually had our first workshop under the "Trillium Series". Martin did a great job facilitating, Houshi was great at assisting. I felt completely independent of it, which I believe is a very good sign as far as creating something sustainable is concerned. I would like to get our team to come up with good workshop programs and resource files in order to create a sustainable program. Martin has already taken the lead with the web design workshops.

Today is office clean up day,yay!!!

I started my volunteer job this week. I am volunteering at The Nook Literacy Centre. I got to play with the kids for the first hour and a half, then assisted them with their home work. It was alot of fun!!!!! Great way to release alot of energy.

I will also be volunteering at the ALFA centre, which is an adult literacy program. This entails one on one tutoring a few hours out of the week. I also hope to get involved with their fundraising program. My goal is to get my degree in linguistics, then eventually open up my own schoo. Sooo, I am on my way, each little step helps me to atain my goal.

I believe that is all for now.

Cheers!