WWW- World Heritage Project Day 1

Monday Dec. 14th 2009

I went to the World Heritage building on Spadina with a group of people from my school to work on an assignment the World Heritage Project gave us.
"You will listen to a woman's story and then portray it using different mediums of art."
That is when I met Joy. She's a 60+ woman originally from Kingston Jamaica. She became a Canadian citizen after her mother was employed by a Jewish family in Toronto (and they wanted to keep her for more than two years). Joy grew up and went to public school in Toronto and got a job as a dishwasher. As she got older, she studied law and was married twice and divorced, giving birth to eight boys, and they all lived together in Regent Park with her mother. Then she left her job in a clerk's office and got into a relationship with the wrong man. They travelled all over the US together and she later found out he was a drug dealer. Then one day he invited her to go to London with him, and she said yes, only to later be ditched by him in the airport when they landed. Security found drugs stashed in her bag and she was sentenced to eight years in prison in the U.K. The whole time, her children had no idea where she was. After three years of working hard and head chef in prison, the Canadian embassy finally found out where she was and she was brought back to Toronto. She later got a job at a restaurant and is currently head chef (<-Just a summary of her life).

Her youngest son, Clifford, was also there with her and has had a succesful career for someone who has grown up in Regent Park. He started his own record label company, which can be found on Youtube (tiltrocktv) and his band's name is Point Blank (a band made up his seven brothers - he produces the music) and was nominated for a Juno Award for his music video Born and Raised in the Ghetto.

The goal for the group was to listen to her (I filmed it) and we were to put something together to portray her life and raise awareness. So I decided to make a video using photos and clips of Toronto, clips from Joy's speech and her son's song Born and Raised in the Ghetto playing in the background. Work period on Tuesday.

- Weather was terrible, arrived home late and got in trouble. Haha.

Ah Star Trek 2011 and more!

Only one more school to apply to wow! I can't believe I've made it this far.

So Buckman just informed me that the sequel (haha squeakwel - Alvin) is coming out in 2011 and he said, even if I'm in Quebec and he's in Toronto we're still going to meet up to see the movie. OMG.

New topic, since I am so Star Trek obsessed, you're probably tired of hearing that. And I'm no good at regular blogging (as you can tell...) but yeahhh.

We had our first snowfall two days ago (record!). It has taken so long for the snow to get here! And now it's just damn cold.

I have been sooo tired lately. Probably because school is ending next week and they aren't giving me a damn break. I have to keep my average up too so that I can be a top scholar this year, so I can't slack off, or I will cry. You can bet on it. I've had to preform in two concerts (vocal) and an improv competition and I am wiped! But a good, relaxing weekend is up ahead!

What do I have to do this weekend?

• Finish my English Essay
• Finish my Play for Writer's Craft
• Draw a Christmas card for the following people: Mom, Dad, Gramma, Gramma (2), Calum, Buckman, Keiko, Dakota, Liz (?), Sam, Spencer, Mr. Biggar, Shem, and Ms. Churchman...I don't know if I'm going to do ALL of those... but I deffinetly HAVE to do ones for: Churchman, Biggar, Buckman, Keiko, Dakota, Sam, Shem and Spencer - the other five can wait.
• Go Christmas shopping for: Dakota, Buckman, Spencer, Keiko, Shem, Mom and Dad (I have presents for Biggar and Churchman)
• See my horse.
• Get a haircut
• Finish my webcomic 2009 page for MLS ( - Is sooo late.)
• Get pumped for WWW (see below)
• Sleeeeeep. Zzzzz...Zzzzz...

Well aside from the Star Trek excitement I think I'm pretty chill this weekend.

WWW- WWW means Week Without Walls. I don't know a ton of the info but I plan to post my adventures every day for the three days that I will be filming in Toronto -tahtah.

- Mel.