Geoff Meggs!

Today i had the amazing fortune of having an interview Geoff Meggs.
Geoff Meggs is a really awesome guy, because of several reasons. First of all he's trying to create a homelessness free Vancouver, is that an inspiring goal or what? Second of all he just a really nice guy in general, and lastly he meet with three students without any benefit, just doing a favor for some random kids. Geoff Meggs is also great in the office, he was elected in 2008 and has been working hard every since. Meggs is a great supporter of the Olympics, but he isn't one of the people who want the games for the money grabbing purposes. Geoff Meggs has always supported the games because all of the amazing achievements by the contestants and how hard the athletes work just to be at the games. Meggs thinks that the Olympics are going to be(in his words)a "remarkable experience" He thinks that the best part about the games will be the spirit of everyone pulling together and the worst part being the humongous amount of advertising going on by all the different companies. Geoff Meggs says it should be more about the the spirit of sport and community.
Geoff Meggs is going to be spending his time during the games meeting dignitaries and and going to different events. Geoff Meggs wants people to see vancouver as a "place with a good future, not a long past"
Geoff Meggs has a blog that has great information about the happenings of vancouver. Once you have finished reading my amazing blog I would suggest taking a look at his blog
The adress is www.geoffmeggs.ca

Thanks for reading :)

Beauty within...

Beauty amidst the chaos of Vancouver:
In Vancouver our whole city is in an uproar, panic and excited state. Some are FURIOUS the Olympic games are allowed in Vancouver! Some are panicking because of a worry about the lack of transportation, the lack of snow, and the enormous amount of traffic promised come February.
On the other hand sometimes it a good idea to step back smell the roses (or in the case the snowdrops) and realize that no matter what happens Vancouver will pull through.

Happy February Vancouver
Emma Djwa

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HEY PEOPLE!
i just wanted to tell you (now that i know) what i am going to do with this blog. I am going to talk a lot(if i can). HOPEFULLY i will be blogging twice a week but being a teenager and all i kinda have a tendency to overbook myself :) (oops)
A piece of advice for those of you who are reading this:
look for me when you are "checking you facebook" :) :) :) Don't we all do that :):):)

Emma

19 years of history...

image and info from
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/athletes/story/2009/12/01/spo-figure-skating-chan.html


Well not quite a history but a very good future......

Nineteen year old Patrick Chan from Toronto hopes to bring home an Olympic medal from Vancouver 2010. Chan was almost out of the running as a small tear in his calf at the end of the summer, caused a major setback in his training. Because of this Chan came away with a saddening 6th place in Skate Canada when he returned.

Chan after his quick rise to stardom said that a win at the olympics would be "icing on the cake." Besides being a world class skater Chan is also fluent in 3 different languages, English, French, and Cantonese.

Patrick Chan is an inspriring hard-worker on ice and though spoken word. I think this guy has a great chance at bringing home a medal.

So i say:
GO PATRICK
WIN IT FOR TORONTO!
Emma

day 1

This is it.
the first day of our work as junior reporters for students Live. We will be reporting through social medias such as BLOGS! But also facebook, twitter... Almost ANY network you can think of. Stay tuned for more reports from ME! (and the other 23 reporters who will also be reporting similarly but not as intriguingly)

MARY CRIST-MAS
Emma