Bravo Group - Day 6

Aug 17, 2013 – Day 06

Today was an exciting day. For those who slept at Monticle, they woke up early this morning, ate bread for breakfast and cleaned up the HQ. For those who slept at the hotel, they woke up early this morning, and had complimentary breakfast before coming to HQ. We were separated into four groups (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta), with two seniors in each group.

Our destination: downtown Toronto.

Our goal: to find six locations and take a group picture each. Some of the pictures will have to include strangers in it.

We started out early (to avoid traffic congestion) and end at a relative good time (with less traffic). We were glad to have Phil (an instructor) to join us today and watch over us (so we don’t get too lost or get into trouble). Many different parts of downtown Toronto were scene. After all the locations were found and pictures were taken, somehow or another most of us ended up in Eaton Centre for lunch and shopping. We arrived back to Monticle HQ for blogs, picture uploads (out of everyone’s personal cameras) and hamburger dinner.

From this day, we learned a lot about basic navigational skills, detailed planning (of the trip and which locations to go to first), transportation (whether on foot, streetcar, or subway), and communication (for travelling in groups and speaking to strangers). Overall it was quite a fun day. Tomorrow, we will be going to Niagara for the second part of today’s lesson.

JJ

Today we had a urban hike in Downtown Toronto. It was long and fairly tiring as I am not feeling good at all. Regularly, this walk, from place to place, would have been fine for me but due to my dizziness, dry throat and head aches, this walk was a bit painful. We, living in HQ, started the day at 0500 when we wake up, packed up and began cleaning the HQ. We finished cleaning the HQ at about 0620. The students living at the hotel finally arrived at 0727, and we finally departed from HQ to downtown at 0748. We finally arrived at downtown at 0815, such a painful 27minute ride. When we arrived, we split into the groups which we were assigned yesterday to begin our picture scavenger hunt. We finally finished this tiring hike at around 1700. Now, we are back at HQ, writing our blogs and packing up for tonight and tomorrows Niagara hike.

Nicola

Today was a tiring and exciting day Mom! I finally went to the eaton center, kekeke! I didn’t shop. I just spent 12dollars on yummy teriyaki rice, haha, and three dollars on frozen yogurt. Worth it! Doris, you’d be jelly! We experienced running man haha. We had to take pictures with strangers in downtown! Such a fun experience, JUST like running man. I learned how to compremise with my group today. At first, we all had different conditions and wishes. We had a hard time getting to one place without complaining. But…. Haha! In the end, we were just like a family we compremised so well, looked after each other, and experienced a memorable day together. Tomorrow…. The challenger continues! We’ll be heading to Niagara Falls no bus transition, nor subway, nor street cars, nor maps. I’m READY! Mom, Dad, Doris, and Yaura, eat full and dress warm. I miss you! I will be back for “Triumph in the skies!” Looking forward to tomorrow! :)

Terry

It is day 6 of the camp. Yes,day 6 we are in the Downtown. We go to Porsche first. Those cars there are so beautiful!! So cool !! Then we saw the PoPo centre just opposite there. (actually PoPo centre is Police HQ). After taking the photos ,we want to grab some bicycles to ride. Poor fact is that we cannot afford for it. So we get on the subway and travel through around the city. Still most of the time we are walking. I am so tired now. Although I can still walk, I don’t even want to move even my finger. Also, thank for Jenn, I don’t have to type TODAY!!!

Tom

今天依旧很高兴，但我发觉在今天的旅程中用得着，不能在一朝一夕中吸收，要慢慢消化，相信再不久的将来，便能运用自如。我还有很大的进步空间，继续努力！Fighting!!

Max

Today is Day 6. We ate breakfast in the hotel. I slept for seven and a half hour. After eating breakfast, we got onto the car and went to downtown. Our position is the Mercedes-Benz World. We have to go to different places from the downtown. Billy gave us the name of the place, the adress, the map to our group, we have to find out the road to get to the places and took a group picture. Our group’s name is “A” for “Alpha”. Our first destination is Ryerson University. Ryerson University was separate into lots of parts but the parts are not stick together, every buildings have a long distance, so we need to walk around the whole area. Those buildings are quite old as the Harvard University. I love this University too. The second destination is Hockey Hall of fame. We saw lots of shops selling hockey masks, suit and sticks, it was quite boring. The third destination is Union Station. Union Station is one of the MTR stop. We use our group’s day pass to take the MTR. Actually we always travel at Union Station to take the MTR to different places. The fourth destination is ST. Lawrence Market. I bought a toronto magnet there. It was a kind of old shopping market. The fifth destination is CTV. CTV was a old building too. A race car was sticking out of CTV. The last destination is University of toronto. I like University of toronto more than Ryerson University. Today, I learn how to study a map, communicate and make a plan with my group, It was a good challenge, we can visit downtown. I am ready for tomorrow mission – Niagara Falls!!!

Calvin

Our Toronto hike was much better than I had expected. My groups navigational skills were adequate and they managed to also visit other sites as well. Now I know that for tomorrow Niagara Falls hike they will have no trouble navigating. I think the most interesting thing they saw was Fort York, where a parade was happening. To me, it seemed like they enjoyed the hike. As far tomorrow the hike is going to be very exciting. They don’t have a map so it’ll be much more interesting. I don’t know the way either so I won’t be able to help them much.

Edwin Cheung

Today, we went to a Adventure to downtown Toronto. We as group. We had Chris, Tom, Kelvin, Terry with me and Jennifer as a team. First, We went down to downtown Porche. We went down and saw show car and take a picture. We Later went to through 3 different place; Should as the Toronto Police center. Moss Pork and Moss park army place. Later, we drive and Long in subway to Queen park rest of markplace. Out team did a job in nevagator.

Bing

今日很累很热，早上0630别人叫醒，其实我0538分就醒了，但是又睡着了。昨天晚上我去吃三文治，超好吃，但是很饱，然后去吃早餐，然后去了六个景点，但我忘记了，我学会了看地图，学会了留心观察，学会了看路标，今天学会了很多知识。

Xuan Zi

今日，我们是自由行，四人一组，拿着Map自己去景点。我们去了很多地方~我们去了shopping，逛了四个小时，脚都疼死了，我买了一些东西……

明天我们还要去一些地方，但我不知道是什么，希望明天是美好的一天。

Shirley

今天绝对是令我难忘的一天。昨天通过抽签，我们分配了六个景点，唯一Billy帮助我们的只有一张多伦多的地图。

当我们走上街道时，发现昨天研究的成果都成白费了，当一张地图上的所有街道，房子，标志，车站都变成了3-D的在我们前面时，所有人都迷失了方向。不过幸运的是，我们“蒙”对了方向，在四面八方的路中我对了路，虽然在地图上来看这些地点之间的距离都是连手指都量得过来，但是，我们忽略了世界上有一个叫“比例尺”的东西存在，而且，这个“比例尺”可大可小…….

很快我们便找到了车站，当我到车站后，一切都变得简单多了！我们不仅找到了车站，还找到了地铁站，Good Job！！

一个小组七个人，有四个人都得带队，另外三个人都跟着，只在非常必要的时候才可以帮助。

Moon是一个非常好的leader，他很沉着冷静，并且在别人找不到路时也帮忙，Max领导我们时有一些乱了阵脚，有一些弄不清方向。但最后我们依然到达了，那就够了！good！Phillip真是一个超级超级好的人！Nice！=）很多时候我问找不到方向或找不到路,车站时，他便不断地引导我们，但他只是引导，而没有直接告诉我们，这是很好的，让我们在事前中锻炼自己，而不是仅仅依靠别人。给别人鱼吃还不容易叫别人捉鱼（大概是这样说的）。

当我们费尽了千辛万苦之后找到了多伦多大学时，看到那几个字亲切的几乎想亲上去。>w<~~

终于，经过了一天的“跌跌爬爬”，我们完成了任务！！

Maggie Tin

-奇幻，木琴，似曾相識

-反鎖，獨舞，煙霧瀰漫

-透盾，頂上，與世無干

-華麗，靇判，吾享其樂 （腦部短路）

Ryan L

今天是在Monticle的第六天。今天我們一早就去到了Toronto的Downtown，我们小组要去五个随机地点在昨天晚上已经讨论好了路线了。我们一开始要去Hospital for sick Children。一进去让人感觉那不是医院，周围都是漂亮的装饰和吃东西的地方，还有一只星空版的米老鼠。哪里让人会顿时感到心情好好，都可以由此看去，Canada对小孩们非常好。之后，我们坐subway去到了Baton Centre. 那是Toronto 非常繁荣的地方，我们有一项任务是和陌生人照相，我们找到了两个陌生人，拍完照就开始按顺序去了City Hall、Old City Hall 和St Micheal Hospital。最后我们去了Roger Centre，而且CN Tower就在那附近，我们便顺便参观了，后来我们回到了Eaton Centre逛了三个小时街就回去了。今天我学到了如何去看地图，如何去看路标、细节，不足之处就是阿Zi参与得太少了。

Alvin Au

今天我們到了Down Town, Toronto,我們的隊伍要到昨天的抽獎的地方，我們的考驗是要找街外人，我和Ryan的Navagatoin的技术过度高超，所以我们12 點正便完成所有考验，我們今次Subway到不同的地方，最後我們還是地Eaton Centre shopping，但是因我12：30便去到而4點集合，二我和Ryan因而走到外面見識一下。今次我覺得Ryan做的非常好。

最後因為時間過多的原因所以我們想[Get lost]最後我們到了一個迷你公園Get lost了。

期待著明天繼續和他合作。

【Ryan Liang 不是橙衫那個】

Christopher

一晚好覺之後有足夠精力去行十個鐘！Thanks Tiffany！今日行downtown借到電腦，then check mail。一直希望可以有一個信仰，但系洗禮嘅事都係遲D再考慮啦！

呢幾日成日都開口埋口“thanks god” 但我知只系一句無聊話。應承左人會老西look去兩個月教會。我會做到！

系度好似乜都吾需要捻，用心做好每一件事就得，其實系做事嘅心態改變左好多。 雖然成日講粗口，但系其實對個人都冇乜太大影響，吾需要擔心我個人會變到靚仔果陣咁，大個了。

行downtown曬黑左，但系學到嘅野系值得嘅，搵人一齊影相，睇地圖搵路，冇google Map下次比張map我就得 :) 路癡始終需要有人帶住嘅！系一個陌生城市做呢D野，都幾5簡單。仲有就系同隊員互相遷就，我一路都係跟住人，該跟人果陣就跟人，因為我知我缺點就系就吾到人，或者吾聽人講。聽日仲會繼續，可能仲耐。所以今晚再訓翻個好覺。

容小姐收吾收到我massage？J完cool魔就好訓啦，ok？

Billy今日講出一個我存在左好耐嘅問題，遲下會搵Billy再傾下呢樣野。一定要改翻！

雖然早訓，但系依然會寫postcard，今日又買左兩張，呢度竟然有張瀑布夜景postcard，好靚<3 span="">

Moon

事实上，今天这节社会沟通时间课意义非常，并且让我受益匪浅，尤其是Billy最后那画龙点睛的一笔，点亮了我心中的那盏灯，顿时，我的内心世界都明亮了。那么，让我述说今天的故事。一早起来，拉开窗帘，看着像彩虹一样的朝阳散步在整个天空，无边无际，这里又少有高楼，苏偶一这样的景象蔚为壮观。既没有少女般的羞涩，也没有战士般的豪迈，平凡的光，照耀着平凡的天空，而在这样的天空下，我们却可以活出非凡的一天——今天，我们要去市中心，去体验城市生活。

等我们长大了，我们终究要飞离巢穴，到别的城市生活，我想，这是我们今天的学习目标之一吧。不过，现在不在中国，除了人生地不熟以外，我们还面对着一个更大的问题——语言。

但是意想不到的是，一开始我们便很顺利，在地图上找到了自己的所在，按着东南西北，顺着路走，很快就到了RU，在门口找了位学生帮忙拍照，顺利得不能再顺利地完成了第一个任务。

之后，我们轮流带路，提前几小时，在未吃午饭的情况下完美地完成了任务。之后，我们去吃午饭，再闲晃了一会儿，便会基地了。

今天的大概我就说到这里，关于细节，只能由读者亲身体验了，虽然我不知道有多少人会来看我的文章。但是，我所能学到的远远超乎我的想象，如何领导团队，如何组织工作，如何询问路人，如何看地图和认路标，很多，很多。

8点多了，这里的太阳终于落山了。

Lemuel

Big day in Toronto. All the students and the leaderships were separated into groups and each had a set amount of locations to visit. Not only that but they were required to have strangers in the pictures. This was to teach them communication skills and navigation in urban environments. Our group was tasked to visit the Sick Kids hospital, St. Michael’s hospital, Eaton Centre, both the current and old City Hall, and the Rogers Centre. However, by 1200, we were able to visit all locations and taken the required pictures. Thus my group decided to spend the rest of the afternoon at the Eaton Centre. Tomorrow is expected to be similar but a little more difficult at Niagara Falls.

Maggie

Today was pretty tiring, but it was pretty exciting as well. We started waking up at about 5:00, with bread for breakfast. When everyone finally arrived, it was about 6:00. Then all the drivers drove everyone out to the Mercedes Benz in downtown. Our team/group (Charlie) was finished taking the pictures at about 12:00, where we met Jen’s group at the CN tower/Rogers Centre. Then we pretty much spent the rest of the time at Eaton Centre. After that, we (Charlie group) took a seat car to the Mercedes Benz, but Alvin said we had time to kill, so he thought we should get lost. After many, many ideas for getting lost, we finally decided to get lost at park. Of course today was tiring, but Eaton Centre was pretty cool, and the places we visited were pretty beautiful.

Kelvin Pan

Today was AMAZING we went all around town

-          Eaton Centre

-          Queen’s Park

-          CN Tower

-          STARBUCKS

-          Timmy’s

-          TTC (Bus, Subway, Street Car)

-          Police Centre

-          Porche Showroom

I also learned TONS of facts that I didn’t even know even though I live in Canada. Can’t wait for tomorrow for Niagra falls

Ryan Hoang

Today is the sixth day of our program. We went to downtown on this day. The students were tasked with basic navigation, communication and mainly walking. Our group went to many interesting places. I also lost a lot of money in a semi-fancy Japanese restaurant. This is because although the place looked nice the food was a lot worse then what I normally eat. Going to downtown I learned there was a really good ramen place to bad though that the students wanted burgers.

Alex

Today, we went to downtown with our group, we have went to lots of places, CN Tower, CNE, Moss Park…. I’ve got lot of fun there!!!

Ava Ho

We went to Downtown, it’s way too sunny but its fun though. Overall, it’s a tiring trip!!!

Rex Lee

Today my friends and I went to Down Town Toronto for site-seeing. To prevent us from getting into a traffic-jam we all drove to the town quite early, on the way I saw many beautiful sites. After Calvin our drove is to the drop-off point, we started our trip-walking in the city. We went to the CN tower, the tallest building in Toronto next we went to the Fort York and Most Park Armary. There was a parad in Fort York to celebrate the veteran Day. After that we went to China Town. Then we Eathen Center to have a late lunch, I ate Japanese food. Finally I spend the next 2hours walking in the mall. Furthermore we road all the public transport n Toronto--- Bus, Street car and the sub way.

                Today was a fun and exciting day. I look forward. I look forward to tomorrow’s adventure in the Niagara Falls.

Edwin Chan

Today was our hiking day in downtown Toronto. The time we had there was 10hours to finish our picture scavenger hunt which was also suppose to take our time to finish. My group finished our hunt by 1200 and they wanted to head back to Eaton Center to shop so we end up spending 3hours there. The locations we got were; The Sick Kids Hospital, St. Michael’s Hospital, Eaton Center, City Hall, Old City Hall and Roger Center. Even though we had 6locations we managed to finish them all in 3-4 hours, the only group we met with on the way was with Delta group at Roger Center when they have CN Tower. It was interesting watching my group navigate round downtown to reach our locations. In the end we have 4hours at Eaton Center and everyone got bored while waiting for the time to pass. Now as we head back Alvin wanted us to “get lost” so we end up getting lost at a park that is about 500m away from our HQ which was at the Downtown Mercedes-Benz.

I hope JJ gets well soon!

Jenn

I’m attempting to quarantine myself. I caught a cold and lost my voice today. I have a craving for Bomb Chicken, thanks Mickey. I was leading Delta Team which consisted of Chris, Kelvin, Terry, Tom, Edwin Cheung, and I. we were given 10 locations yesterday and we had a draw to determine which six locations each team would visit. My team had to take pictures with other wayfarers in downtown Toronto, and they started off pretty shy, but became bolder and more confident as the day went on. We became Team Buddy by the end and now I can say that I’ll enjoy hiking around Niagara Falls with them tomorrow.
My brother has fallen ill and I’m worried about him. It isn’t often that we get sick, so I’m afraid that we’ll both be down. No way! XP