Where I would love to travel:
-Australia, New Zealand
-England, France & Italy
-The Bahamas & Castaway Cay (Cruise)
-Cuba
-Jamaica
Africa - Mission Trip
Mexico
I absolutely love to travel, I've only been to the states and to other Canadian provinces.
I've wanted to go to Australia and New Zealand for the longest time and will plan to do both at the same time since it is a long flight! I would like to be in the Queensland area on the coast, as well as Sydney. I'm hoping to go there before the Great Barrier Reef closes down. New Zealand, I would like to go to Auckland, as well as the Bay of Islands
England, France, and Italy because the environment there is so different, I've heard so many great things about these places such as the Eiffel Tower, Euro Disney, Westminster Abbey, Colosseum in Rome, Leaning Tower of Pisa and many other places.
Bahamas & Castaway Cay looks so beautiful and relaxing! Castaway Cay is a private island only open to the cruise line, which I think would be neat to go and see! I've had so many dreams about going to the Bahamas and want it to come true one day!
Same with Cuba and Jamaica. As well as Mexico. Plus the hot weather where I can go just to relax on the beach and get a tan!
Africa is another place that would be neat to go and a great experience!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Discrimination
It is very sad that we still see discrimination happen in todays world, even prejudice!
I ran into that today when I went for my practicum interview at woods homes.
First of all, My teacher found out the placement I wanted to go was no longer taking practicum students so she said she might've found another place for me to go, but had to go for an interview. She mentioned to them that I was hearing impaired, then the lady on the phone said due to the environment they are working in, she was not sure if I would be suitable for them due to my "hearing" disability.
So I called this place on Wednesday and when I was on the phone with them to set up an interview time which was Friday, I chatted with this one lady about setting up an interview and she said yes your instructor gave you the time, I said no she only gave me the address so she said Friday at 10am, I said that will work out fine. Then she said that I am NOT guaranteed that I will get this position but it is a maybe. She also said that I was told that you have a hearing disability, and I said yes, and she said so can you hear? I was SHOCKED when she asked me this! I just said yes I can hear, then she said see you on friday and I said see you on Friday as well and then hung up.
Like If I couldn't hear then I wouldn't be talking on the phone!
I felt like I didn't even want to go to this interview, I'd much rather attend class than to miss it, but no I wanted to prove to them that there is nothing wrong with having a deaf person working in their environment and it will not stop me! There's nothing I can do, I was born that way. Just like everyone, we are born differently, the world would be a boring place if we were all the same.
My interview today- the person who was supposed to interview me was away so someone else interviewed me, he asked me a bunch of questions and I thought it went pretty well. He said he will talk to the lady and we will call you on monday.
Few hours later I got a call from this place saying that I didn't get the placement since the environment isn't suitable for me! I was not very happy to hear this. It was also fishy because he said I wouldn't hear until monday and I got this call so quickly! He had to call this lady and chat with her when she was away. My guess was they already made a decision before the interview! This is prejudice! You don't judge a person until you met them in person! this means FACE to FACE! not PHONE to PHONE! especially in a professional environment!
I emailed my practicum teacher about not getting the placement and how I felt since I was in tears that this I have not run into discrimination like this before, my hearing has never held me back.
She told me it was because of my age, since I would be working with older clients and I wouldn't be a good fit! which I think is BULLSHIT! At first they weren't sure because of my disability now they say its because of my age! Like come on!
She replied saying There is no room for discrimination in our lives, and this will look badly on their agency for future placements, however this isn’t the end all, be all Kiera.
One question they asked in my interview was how do you handle feedback? I said I handle it pretty well, I just want an honest answer. And then they tell me that it was my age which is just a load of crap! they just don't want to get into trouble for not taking a person because she's deaf as it is illegal to do so.
There is nothing I can do about my hearing impairment, its just like people with different skin color. It's just sad that these days people are still treat others like this. Especially in this group home! People need to be treated equally and with respect!
I am not going to allow my hearing disability hold me back, I can prove to these people that there is nothing wrong with being hearing impaired. I did my practicum at Calgary Young Offender Centre last semester and they had no problem with me having a hearing disability, so I don't get why this place should!
When I told my parents about this they were not very happy about it, even my mom told her coworkers they were pissed. I even told few of my classmates then they passed it along to my other classmates since I wasn't at school today and they all thought it was bullshit. Even my friends said the same thing, that its not right. They just say whoa! she's deaf, and go on and on.
**Sorry I did not want to use any names in here so I just used he, she, him, her, etc...**
I ran into that today when I went for my practicum interview at woods homes.
First of all, My teacher found out the placement I wanted to go was no longer taking practicum students so she said she might've found another place for me to go, but had to go for an interview. She mentioned to them that I was hearing impaired, then the lady on the phone said due to the environment they are working in, she was not sure if I would be suitable for them due to my "hearing" disability.
So I called this place on Wednesday and when I was on the phone with them to set up an interview time which was Friday, I chatted with this one lady about setting up an interview and she said yes your instructor gave you the time, I said no she only gave me the address so she said Friday at 10am, I said that will work out fine. Then she said that I am NOT guaranteed that I will get this position but it is a maybe. She also said that I was told that you have a hearing disability, and I said yes, and she said so can you hear? I was SHOCKED when she asked me this! I just said yes I can hear, then she said see you on friday and I said see you on Friday as well and then hung up.
Like If I couldn't hear then I wouldn't be talking on the phone!
I felt like I didn't even want to go to this interview, I'd much rather attend class than to miss it, but no I wanted to prove to them that there is nothing wrong with having a deaf person working in their environment and it will not stop me! There's nothing I can do, I was born that way. Just like everyone, we are born differently, the world would be a boring place if we were all the same.
My interview today- the person who was supposed to interview me was away so someone else interviewed me, he asked me a bunch of questions and I thought it went pretty well. He said he will talk to the lady and we will call you on monday.
Few hours later I got a call from this place saying that I didn't get the placement since the environment isn't suitable for me! I was not very happy to hear this. It was also fishy because he said I wouldn't hear until monday and I got this call so quickly! He had to call this lady and chat with her when she was away. My guess was they already made a decision before the interview! This is prejudice! You don't judge a person until you met them in person! this means FACE to FACE! not PHONE to PHONE! especially in a professional environment!
I emailed my practicum teacher about not getting the placement and how I felt since I was in tears that this I have not run into discrimination like this before, my hearing has never held me back.
She told me it was because of my age, since I would be working with older clients and I wouldn't be a good fit! which I think is BULLSHIT! At first they weren't sure because of my disability now they say its because of my age! Like come on!
She replied saying There is no room for discrimination in our lives, and this will look badly on their agency for future placements, however this isn’t the end all, be all Kiera.
One question they asked in my interview was how do you handle feedback? I said I handle it pretty well, I just want an honest answer. And then they tell me that it was my age which is just a load of crap! they just don't want to get into trouble for not taking a person because she's deaf as it is illegal to do so.
There is nothing I can do about my hearing impairment, its just like people with different skin color. It's just sad that these days people are still treat others like this. Especially in this group home! People need to be treated equally and with respect!
I am not going to allow my hearing disability hold me back, I can prove to these people that there is nothing wrong with being hearing impaired. I did my practicum at Calgary Young Offender Centre last semester and they had no problem with me having a hearing disability, so I don't get why this place should!
When I told my parents about this they were not very happy about it, even my mom told her coworkers they were pissed. I even told few of my classmates then they passed it along to my other classmates since I wasn't at school today and they all thought it was bullshit. Even my friends said the same thing, that its not right. They just say whoa! she's deaf, and go on and on.
**Sorry I did not want to use any names in here so I just used he, she, him, her, etc...**
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Aloha
Its been a while since i've blogged!
My laptop was in getting fixed, so i was laptopless on my vacation!
I just got back from a wonderful two week vacation in Kailua-Kona Hawaii! Which is on the Big Island.
Minus my luggage! My parents luggage made it but mine didnt :(.
Last night the plane from Kona-Vancouver was a lot heavier than they thought so they had to fill it up with more gas! LOL
Our flight was a hour late which caused us to have a tight connection this morning of only 50 mins in Vancouver, we had to go through customs, get our bags, drop them off, go through security then run like a cheetah to our gate! There was about 25 people who's luggage didn't make it when they got into Calgary! But mine should come tonight, hopefully!!
4th time to Hawaii, but 1st time to the Big Island! Oahu twice and Maui once!
It was an awesome vacation, nice to get away from the cold weather. I went with my mom and dad, we were there for both Christmas and New Years!
We got there on the 18th, checked into our condo, went for dinner (i had fish and chips!), went to get groceries then called it a night since we were up extremely early! Plus its 3 hours behind from Calgary.
Most of the time we were there was well spent on the beach sun tanning and playing in the waves. Some days the waves would reach up to 9 feet. On our last day they were up to 15 feet and very strong and powerful!!! There was lots of action for the lifeguards telling people to stay close to shore and not to go out too far. Also told those with kids to stay close to shore or go to another beach which was a mile down the road. One lady took her little baby into the water and a big wave came, strong enough to push her out to the ocean that the lifeguard had to go out and help them back to shore! It was not good to see this but glad that they both were okay.
I also went boogie boarding, but had to do it first thing in the morning when the waves weren't as strong, but man it still was strong! On the last day one huge wave came, and just pushed me under the water!
I almost lost my bottoms when a powerful wave came on the last day!
While we were there we did some shopping, there isnt much shopping on this island, which is fine with me since I HATE shopping! LOL. If you want to shop in Hawaii then Oahu is the island for you! This island is more of rest and relax :)
One day we did went around the island, when u get to the other side of the island its 100% different! they get lots of rainfall so its very green. We went to Hilo the same day to shop there which was pretty lame! Hilo is the 2nd largest city in hawaii after Honolulu. We did see some beautiful waterfalls on the way!
Another day we went to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park! Which was really neat! You can drive through this park and stop at places such as steam vents, lava tubes, lava rocks! I wanted to see lava which we didnt :(. The weather was very different in parts of the park, some parts were rainy and as u got to the coast it was hot and humid!
We also went whale watching which was totally worth it!! We also saw spinner dolphins which was a bonus!!
Even from our beach we could see the whales and spinner dolphins :) Also some turtles swam close to the shore :)
Another place we had to go is Tex Drive in where they have Portuguese Malasadas! It is some kind of pastry and its delicious!! =P. We stopped twice. lol. We were going to on the way to the airport but it was closed =(
As you can see it was pretty much a lazy vacation! A perfect lazy vacation on the beach!
I was very sad to be leaving Hawaii
I sure miss being on the beach, sand between my toes, swimming in the ocean :( But all good things have to come to an end eventually :(
Back to reality and lotion will be my best friend for a while! Dry skin from all the sun lol.
Mahalo :)
My laptop was in getting fixed, so i was laptopless on my vacation!
I just got back from a wonderful two week vacation in Kailua-Kona Hawaii! Which is on the Big Island.
Minus my luggage! My parents luggage made it but mine didnt :(.
Last night the plane from Kona-Vancouver was a lot heavier than they thought so they had to fill it up with more gas! LOL
Our flight was a hour late which caused us to have a tight connection this morning of only 50 mins in Vancouver, we had to go through customs, get our bags, drop them off, go through security then run like a cheetah to our gate! There was about 25 people who's luggage didn't make it when they got into Calgary! But mine should come tonight, hopefully!!
4th time to Hawaii, but 1st time to the Big Island! Oahu twice and Maui once!
It was an awesome vacation, nice to get away from the cold weather. I went with my mom and dad, we were there for both Christmas and New Years!
We got there on the 18th, checked into our condo, went for dinner (i had fish and chips!), went to get groceries then called it a night since we were up extremely early! Plus its 3 hours behind from Calgary.
Most of the time we were there was well spent on the beach sun tanning and playing in the waves. Some days the waves would reach up to 9 feet. On our last day they were up to 15 feet and very strong and powerful!!! There was lots of action for the lifeguards telling people to stay close to shore and not to go out too far. Also told those with kids to stay close to shore or go to another beach which was a mile down the road. One lady took her little baby into the water and a big wave came, strong enough to push her out to the ocean that the lifeguard had to go out and help them back to shore! It was not good to see this but glad that they both were okay.
I also went boogie boarding, but had to do it first thing in the morning when the waves weren't as strong, but man it still was strong! On the last day one huge wave came, and just pushed me under the water!
I almost lost my bottoms when a powerful wave came on the last day!
While we were there we did some shopping, there isnt much shopping on this island, which is fine with me since I HATE shopping! LOL. If you want to shop in Hawaii then Oahu is the island for you! This island is more of rest and relax :)
One day we did went around the island, when u get to the other side of the island its 100% different! they get lots of rainfall so its very green. We went to Hilo the same day to shop there which was pretty lame! Hilo is the 2nd largest city in hawaii after Honolulu. We did see some beautiful waterfalls on the way!
Another day we went to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park! Which was really neat! You can drive through this park and stop at places such as steam vents, lava tubes, lava rocks! I wanted to see lava which we didnt :(. The weather was very different in parts of the park, some parts were rainy and as u got to the coast it was hot and humid!
We also went whale watching which was totally worth it!! We also saw spinner dolphins which was a bonus!!
Even from our beach we could see the whales and spinner dolphins :) Also some turtles swam close to the shore :)
Another place we had to go is Tex Drive in where they have Portuguese Malasadas! It is some kind of pastry and its delicious!! =P. We stopped twice. lol. We were going to on the way to the airport but it was closed =(
As you can see it was pretty much a lazy vacation! A perfect lazy vacation on the beach!
I was very sad to be leaving Hawaii
I sure miss being on the beach, sand between my toes, swimming in the ocean :( But all good things have to come to an end eventually :(
Back to reality and lotion will be my best friend for a while! Dry skin from all the sun lol.
Mahalo :)
Happy New Years!!
Wish you all the best in 2011!!
My new years resolution is to continue to work hard in school!
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