Hello out there!
It is the final day of the A!TLC Fall 2013 Semester and we cannot believe it. It has been a pretty epic few months! We have done so many things and feel like a great team. We are also so excited to see what the next semester (starting on January 7, 2014!) will bring. But for now, let's all stop and enjoy our holiday break....
Today the A!TLC will be going off campus to celebrate and to get a little bit festive! :)
We will begin by toasting one another over lunch and then head to the Southland Mall to do some of that Christmas Shopping that we mentioned in our last blog entry. This is Christmas giving in real time - we will have half an hour to seek out the perfect gift for whoever we have been assigned to be a Secret Santa for. Then, everyone will meet up to do the big exchange. As we are a bunch of extremely thoughtful (and modest!) people, this Secret Santa gift exchange is a pretty big deal to us and we are so excite to see the look on our lucky gift recipient's face as they tear into their present! Good vibes all around and a very high note to end the Semester on. Huge thanks to everyone who made this Semester possible, and to our brilliant and ever-so hardworking Student Researchers. It is a beautiful thing to get to work together like this each day.
We would all like to wish you (yes, you!) a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year! HO HO HO!
All the best,
The A!TLC
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Christmas is Coming to A!TLC
Hello Out There!
Christmas is coming to the A!TLC .....on December 19th to be precise! Together we are going to celebrate the holiday season by going out for lunch and then participating in a Secret Santa Exchange. After we have lunch we are going to jaunt over to Southland mall to do our shopping!
Today we drew names for the exchange and then participated in an activity to help our Secret Santa decide what to purchase for each of us.
Kennen:
Top 3 Colours: Orange and Purple
Scented or unscented products: Unscented
Clothing: Shirts (small) & scarves
Top 4 Accessories: Necklaces, hair clips, scarves and PURSES!!!!
Movies Comedy/Action/Romance: No thanks!
Music: Christmas music, itunes card!
Rebekah:
Top 3 Colours: Purple, Purple and Purple
Scented or Unscented products: Scented!!!
Clothing: Shirts (size medium has to be 100% cotton), zip-ups and socks
Top 4 Accessories: Earrings with backs, lip-chap or lipstick , necklaces and rings!
Movies Comedy/Action/Romance: No movies please!
Music: Country preferably Taylor Swift. I have a Ipod so itunes cards are always great!
Kaitlyn
Top 3 Colours: Pink, Green and Blue
Scented or unscented products: Prefers Scented not picky with the type of scent
Clothing: Furry socks, likes scarves (pretty ones),
Top 4 Accessories that you like: nail polish, hair accessories, earrings, anything girly!!!!
Movies Comedy/Action/Romance: anything but horror!
Music: Loves country!!!
Wendy
Top 3 Colours: Blue, Green and Teal
Scented or unscented products: Depends...I like scented candles and body wash I prefer to buy my own perfume :)
Clothing: Gloves (black), scarves & socks (furry)
Top 4 Accessories: earrings, nail polish, & scarves
Movies: any king including horror (I don't like James Bond)
Music: some country mostly rock and rock blues!
Jenna
Top 3 Colours: Blue, Black and Green
Scented or unscented products: Scented please (love vanilla)
Clothing: Scarves, shirt (medium/large)& hoodies,
Top 4 Accessories: Rings, necklaces, shoes, & purses
Movies: Anything with a cute boy in it!
Music: Country!
Sylvia
Top 3 Colours: White, Black and Red
Scented or unscented products: Unscented!
Clothing: Gloves, slippers (size 6), shirt (medium) & scarves
Top 4 Accessories: Earrings!
Movies: Romance
Music: No thanks!
Kelsey:
Top 3 Colours: Pink, purple, and blue
Scented or Unscented Products: Scented!
Clothing: Anything! Medium, pants size 7 or 11
Accessories: Purses, wallets, and any jewelry except earrings
Movies: Comedies, anything with a handsome male lead in it!
Music: Pop, rock, and country
Bonnie:
Top 3 Colours: Black, purple, silver (hates blue!)
Clothing: Scarves, mitts, toques
Accessories: Scarves, earrings, nail polish
Movies: Romance, comedies, or anything Disney
Music: Backstreet Boys
Ella:
Top 3 Colours/Shades: Black, grey, and white
Clothing: tall socks, tights, toques
Accessories: bracelets, rings
Movies: Comedies
Music: Anything!
Christmas is coming to the A!TLC .....on December 19th to be precise! Together we are going to celebrate the holiday season by going out for lunch and then participating in a Secret Santa Exchange. After we have lunch we are going to jaunt over to Southland mall to do our shopping!
Today we drew names for the exchange and then participated in an activity to help our Secret Santa decide what to purchase for each of us.
Kennen:
Top 3 Colours: Orange and Purple
Scented or unscented products: Unscented
Clothing: Shirts (small) & scarves
Top 4 Accessories: Necklaces, hair clips, scarves and PURSES!!!!
Movies Comedy/Action/Romance: No thanks!
Music: Christmas music, itunes card!
Rebekah:
Top 3 Colours: Purple, Purple and Purple
Scented or Unscented products: Scented!!!
Clothing: Shirts (size medium has to be 100% cotton), zip-ups and socks
Top 4 Accessories: Earrings with backs, lip-chap or lipstick , necklaces and rings!
Movies Comedy/Action/Romance: No movies please!
Music: Country preferably Taylor Swift. I have a Ipod so itunes cards are always great!
Kaitlyn
Top 3 Colours: Pink, Green and Blue
Scented or unscented products: Prefers Scented not picky with the type of scent
Clothing: Furry socks, likes scarves (pretty ones),
Top 4 Accessories that you like: nail polish, hair accessories, earrings, anything girly!!!!
Movies Comedy/Action/Romance: anything but horror!
Music: Loves country!!!
*** I also like books!
Wendy
Top 3 Colours: Blue, Green and Teal
Scented or unscented products: Depends...I like scented candles and body wash I prefer to buy my own perfume :)
Clothing: Gloves (black), scarves & socks (furry)
Top 4 Accessories: earrings, nail polish, & scarves
Movies: any king including horror (I don't like James Bond)
Music: some country mostly rock and rock blues!
Jenna
Top 3 Colours: Blue, Black and Green
Scented or unscented products: Scented please (love vanilla)
Clothing: Scarves, shirt (medium/large)& hoodies,
Top 4 Accessories: Rings, necklaces, shoes, & purses
Movies: Anything with a cute boy in it!
Music: Country!
Sylvia
Top 3 Colours: White, Black and Red
Scented or unscented products: Unscented!
Clothing: Gloves, slippers (size 6), shirt (medium) & scarves
Top 4 Accessories: Earrings!
Movies: Romance
Music: No thanks!
Kelsey:
Scented or Unscented Products: Scented!
Clothing: Anything! Medium, pants size 7 or 11
Accessories: Purses, wallets, and any jewelry except earrings
Movies: Comedies, anything with a handsome male lead in it!
Music: Pop, rock, and country
Bonnie:
Top 3 Colours: Black, purple, silver (hates blue!)
Clothing: Scarves, mitts, toques
Accessories: Scarves, earrings, nail polish
Movies: Romance, comedies, or anything Disney
Music: Backstreet Boys
Ella:
Top 3 Colours/Shades: Black, grey, and white
Clothing: tall socks, tights, toques
Accessories: bracelets, rings
Movies: Comedies
Music: Anything!
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Hello out there!
Well....today is the day. The Un International Day of Persons with Disabilities and we at A!TLC are proud to be part of and celebrate the day! The theme for the day is 'Break Barriers, Open Doors: For an Inclusive Society and Development for All!
Over the past two months we have been working with Chelsey and Jenni - two Kinesiology students enrolled in Kin 342 Active Living & Developmental Disabilities to highlight the day! Leading up to today we have been going to various U of R classes to show a ten minute presentation highlighting Astonished! and providing information to students and insturctors on how they can get involved with Astonished!
Today, Tuesday December 3, we have a booth set up in Riddell Centre from 1-4pm. With Jenni and Chelsey we will be handing out Tim Horton's coffee and snacks to those who stop by to learn more about Astonished! To keep things interesting we also have a jar filled with candy and are asking members of the student body to guess how many pieces the jar contains. The person who guesses correctly or is the closet will win the jar! We are also encouraging people to ask us questions about what it is like to live with complex physical disAbility. Throughout the afternoon we will be posting their questions on the blog. Over the next few weeks we will be answering the questions. If you can't make it today ensure you come back to the blog to see the questions that were asked of us and our responses! .......Stay Tuned!
Thanks for Reading!
Well....today is the day. The Un International Day of Persons with Disabilities and we at A!TLC are proud to be part of and celebrate the day! The theme for the day is 'Break Barriers, Open Doors: For an Inclusive Society and Development for All!
Over the past two months we have been working with Chelsey and Jenni - two Kinesiology students enrolled in Kin 342 Active Living & Developmental Disabilities to highlight the day! Leading up to today we have been going to various U of R classes to show a ten minute presentation highlighting Astonished! and providing information to students and insturctors on how they can get involved with Astonished!
Today, Tuesday December 3, we have a booth set up in Riddell Centre from 1-4pm. With Jenni and Chelsey we will be handing out Tim Horton's coffee and snacks to those who stop by to learn more about Astonished! To keep things interesting we also have a jar filled with candy and are asking members of the student body to guess how many pieces the jar contains. The person who guesses correctly or is the closet will win the jar! We are also encouraging people to ask us questions about what it is like to live with complex physical disAbility. Throughout the afternoon we will be posting their questions on the blog. Over the next few weeks we will be answering the questions. If you can't make it today ensure you come back to the blog to see the questions that were asked of us and our responses! .......Stay Tuned!
Thanks for Reading!
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Catching up!
Hello out there!
We have missed blogging for the past few A!TLC sessions and thought that we would throw you a line to get you back in the loop!
If you ever wondered what everyone at the A!TLC looks like wearing red, you can stop wondering now. December 1st is World AIDS Day and Student Researcher Kennen Dorgan snapped this shot (while appearing in the shot herself!) last week as the A!TLC wore red to help raise HIV/AIDS awareness. Following the picture, most everyone returned to GREEN to support our own Riders. ;) WHATTA WIN!
The 26th was our final rendezvous (for now!) with some awesome Douglas Park Students. This last visit (we went to them) had us cooking and crafting and trying out their new sensory room. The room was managed to be extremely stimulating and soothing all at the same time. We at the A!TLC give it a rave review! Thanks again for having us, Douglas Park.
Yesterday, we popped into the CKHS 185 class to join Kin. students Jenny and Chelsea to help them hand out Menchie's flyers - remember that if you head to Menchie's Rochdale next week (Dec 1 - 7) and show the flyer, A! will receive 20% of the proceeds. Win, win, win! We are gearing up for the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities and if you happen to be at the University from 1:00 - 4:00 on December 3rd, swing by the Riddell Centre to pay us a visit. We will have a table set up filled with A! information, coffee, cookies....We will also have a communication book set up for you to (anonymously or not!) record any questions about disability or our organization that YOU may have.
Today is a big day! Not only do we have our favorite, Inclusion cafe, but we have Kennen's PATH celebration. We at the A!TLC are so excited to rally around Kennen as she sets some important goals for herself. It is going to be WONDERFUL!
And, birthdays! We would like to wish the lovely Brenda MacLauchlan a very happy belated birthday (it was yesterday!) and the excellent Jasmine Gerein a very happy early birthday (she turns the wise old age of 23 on Monday!). Good people that we would like to celebrate. Thank you for being born!
That's it for now. We hope that you feel back in the loop and look forward to posting more updates ASAP.
Thanks for reading!
We have missed blogging for the past few A!TLC sessions and thought that we would throw you a line to get you back in the loop!
If you ever wondered what everyone at the A!TLC looks like wearing red, you can stop wondering now. December 1st is World AIDS Day and Student Researcher Kennen Dorgan snapped this shot (while appearing in the shot herself!) last week as the A!TLC wore red to help raise HIV/AIDS awareness. Following the picture, most everyone returned to GREEN to support our own Riders. ;) WHATTA WIN!
The 26th was our final rendezvous (for now!) with some awesome Douglas Park Students. This last visit (we went to them) had us cooking and crafting and trying out their new sensory room. The room was managed to be extremely stimulating and soothing all at the same time. We at the A!TLC give it a rave review! Thanks again for having us, Douglas Park.
Yesterday, we popped into the CKHS 185 class to join Kin. students Jenny and Chelsea to help them hand out Menchie's flyers - remember that if you head to Menchie's Rochdale next week (Dec 1 - 7) and show the flyer, A! will receive 20% of the proceeds. Win, win, win! We are gearing up for the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities and if you happen to be at the University from 1:00 - 4:00 on December 3rd, swing by the Riddell Centre to pay us a visit. We will have a table set up filled with A! information, coffee, cookies....We will also have a communication book set up for you to (anonymously or not!) record any questions about disability or our organization that YOU may have.
Today is a big day! Not only do we have our favorite, Inclusion cafe, but we have Kennen's PATH celebration. We at the A!TLC are so excited to rally around Kennen as she sets some important goals for herself. It is going to be WONDERFUL!
And, birthdays! We would like to wish the lovely Brenda MacLauchlan a very happy belated birthday (it was yesterday!) and the excellent Jasmine Gerein a very happy early birthday (she turns the wise old age of 23 on Monday!). Good people that we would like to celebrate. Thank you for being born!
That's it for now. We hope that you feel back in the loop and look forward to posting more updates ASAP.
Thanks for reading!
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
A Monday-Like Tuesday...
Hello out there!
The long weekend has left us a bit worn out, actually! We were all a little silly and sleepy at today's A!TLC. Oh well. We carried on and got lots of stuff done!
Double presentation this Monday (the 18th) - We will be coming to a SW479 and KIN 120 class near you to present on Barriers and Enablers and to share our sweet Menchies flyers!
Our pages for the One Page Project are nearly ready to share! Stay tuned.
Douglas Park round three is happening and we have some good ideas to share with the students!
And Inclusion Cafe is back this week! See you at the Owl on Thursday at 2:30? SO excited!
Thank you for reading and have a good one!
The long weekend has left us a bit worn out, actually! We were all a little silly and sleepy at today's A!TLC. Oh well. We carried on and got lots of stuff done!
Double presentation this Monday (the 18th) - We will be coming to a SW479 and KIN 120 class near you to present on Barriers and Enablers and to share our sweet Menchies flyers!
Our pages for the One Page Project are nearly ready to share! Stay tuned.
Douglas Park round three is happening and we have some good ideas to share with the students!
And Inclusion Cafe is back this week! See you at the Owl on Thursday at 2:30? SO excited!
Thank you for reading and have a good one!
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Tricks and Treats (mostly treats!)!
Hello out there and Happy Halloween!
First off, here are a few things that our fab Student Researchers like about this spooky day:
Kelsey - I like seeing all the little kids dressed in costumes. It's so cute!
Rebekah - I like getting all dressed up and handing out candy to all of the excited trick or treaters! Kennen - I like making my own creative costume...as long as it is not too hot to wear!
We got some business out of the way so we could get to the fun stuff. Item one - Prep for The UN day coming up on December 3rd - We are excited that Kin students Jenny and Chelsea will be joining us for coffee today to give us our schedule for class presentations leading up to the date!
Item two - Discussion about our final Douglas Park day coming up on November 26.
Now the fun - inspired by Rebekah's mime work yesterday, we played an old fashioned game of (Halloween) charades. We must (modestly) say that our acting skills are pretty great.
If sweet treats are your thing, there was plenty of great food to go around today. Hopefully there are no tooth aches are coming our way.
Rebekah - Hey Mom and Dad! Hope you are having fun! Can't wait to hear about how much fun you had.
Kennen - Sara! Thank you so much for knitting me the great pumpkin hat! I love it.
First off, here are a few things that our fab Student Researchers like about this spooky day:
Kelsey - I like seeing all the little kids dressed in costumes. It's so cute!
Rebekah - I like getting all dressed up and handing out candy to all of the excited trick or treaters! Kennen - I like making my own creative costume...as long as it is not too hot to wear!
We got some business out of the way so we could get to the fun stuff. Item one - Prep for The UN day coming up on December 3rd - We are excited that Kin students Jenny and Chelsea will be joining us for coffee today to give us our schedule for class presentations leading up to the date!
Item two - Discussion about our final Douglas Park day coming up on November 26.
Now the fun - inspired by Rebekah's mime work yesterday, we played an old fashioned game of (Halloween) charades. We must (modestly) say that our acting skills are pretty great.
If sweet treats are your thing, there was plenty of great food to go around today. Hopefully there are no tooth aches are coming our way.
Rebekah - Hey Mom and Dad! Hope you are having fun! Can't wait to hear about how much fun you had.
Kennen - Sara! Thank you so much for knitting me the great pumpkin hat! I love it.
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Flipping the bird!
Hello out there!
Inside joke title...let's just say it was a fabulous and funny day at the ol' A!TLC! We started slow and Avery feared that she might be the only Student Researcher in the room. But then in burst Kaitlyn, Kennen, and Rebekah (we miss you on Wednesdays, Kelsey!) and there were stories and GOOD NEWS (a secret, for now!) and the fun really began. We worked hard on the One Page Project and tried to come up with creative ways to explain "who" we are. Things are looking good and each page will be really, really great (if we do say so ourselves).
Rebekah was so happy to have her very dear friend, Barbara join us for coffee today. Rebekah met Barbara in the Ad Hum Building and showed her the way to coffee - which is a great thing because Barbara said that she might have gotten lost otherwise! :)
Join us, join us, join us for Inclusion Café at the Owl tomorrow! As usual, it will be a very good time indeed.
Inside joke title...let's just say it was a fabulous and funny day at the ol' A!TLC! We started slow and Avery feared that she might be the only Student Researcher in the room. But then in burst Kaitlyn, Kennen, and Rebekah (we miss you on Wednesdays, Kelsey!) and there were stories and GOOD NEWS (a secret, for now!) and the fun really began. We worked hard on the One Page Project and tried to come up with creative ways to explain "who" we are. Things are looking good and each page will be really, really great (if we do say so ourselves).
Rebekah was so happy to have her very dear friend, Barbara join us for coffee today. Rebekah met Barbara in the Ad Hum Building and showed her the way to coffee - which is a great thing because Barbara said that she might have gotten lost otherwise! :)
Join us, join us, join us for Inclusion Café at the Owl tomorrow! As usual, it will be a very good time indeed.
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