Update from the HDC!

Hello everyone,
Robyn here from the HDC boardroom. This week is a very sad week in the boardroom as we will be saying farewell to our dear Kasia. This is her last week here at the HDC and we are sad to see her go. Oh well, life must go on. I'm quite sure Adrienne and I can keep ourselves busy for the next month. We have been busy entering data in the database and updating records. Also this week we will be visiting New Directions, AIDS Saint John and the Refugee Support Centre. We will be getting tours of their organizations and will show them how to work our online community service database. We have a new volunteer at the HDC and her name is Truly. She is the sweetest girl and is such a hard worker! She even brought us a box of cookies yesterday :) We are still enjoying our new paint job in the office and are currently looking for some artwork to display if anyone has anything they care to offer! As you have seen in Adrienne's last entry the colors are a deep orange/red and yellow. So keep that in mind! Well I suppose I should get back to work now. Keep checking with us for more updates!

Ciao
~Robyn~

Hip new office

Hiiiiiii,
It's Adrienne again, on my fifth week here at the HDC. We started off this week a bit differently as our main office has been transformed from dull gray and weird pink colours to vibrant yellows and a deep red. What a huge difference a little paint can make! However, the post-paint day has been filled with moving book shelves, scrubbing desks, organizing papers, etc. It's only 3:15pm and I feel about ready for bed. Anyway, everyone has been doing their share of clean-up work and within the next few days, the place is really going to be looking good. All we need now is more plants, maybe a few vibrant flowers and some nice artwork...haha i might not be around to see all that since I only have 5 more weeks here, but in time I'm sure the rest of the group will continue to get this place looking even better.
In other news, Robyn, Kasia and I have been making a list of various different groups and organizations around the city that we would like to visit and learn more about. Last week we visited the Community Health Centre where we learned all about the services they provide and the excellent Teen Resource Centre that I knew nothing about. Before our time here in the boardroom is through, we hope to get in as many more visits as we can to learn all about the services we strive to get the community connected with.
Well, that's probably all the time I have for now since everyone else seems to be hard at work around here, bye for now!

Peace
Adrienne

Kasia's note

Hi
This is Kasia, I am the third student in this HDC boardroom. I have been here for 6 weeks working on a research project. My project is on child poverty in New Brunswick and Canada. The project is very challenging and frustrating at times since I have to deal with trying to understand some data on poverty rates. Finally, I have gotten past the point of collecting data, making graphs and now I'm on the fun part: the write up and the analysis. My time here ends in 3 weeks so its crunch time getting this report done.
The candy is still flowing in the board room and the girls and I get in some good laughs in between our work.
All in all I have been enjoying my time at the HDC. This summer job has been a great oppertunity as I get to do alot of interesting research in the field that I am interested in. I will also end my time here with a written report -hopefully it will shed some light on the challenges the province is facing and what has to be done to improve the situation.
thanks for checking into the boardroom.
see ya
-Kasia