This week I would like to start off by saying that the guest
speaker we had, was the best one that I have ever seen, I could not take my
eyes off him when he was speaking, I found him very interesting.
Before Mondays class I had no idea that there was “different
types” of natives. I only ever heard of first nations and assumed that every
native was of first nations decent until Monday. It surprised me when he said
that the Inuit pay income tax, I had no idea that they had to sign a treaty not
to pay income tax. I thought that all natives had a tax exempt card and didn’t
have to pay taxes. When I was younger I used to think that it was unfair that
they had tax cards and “we” didn’t, but then I thought who cares? Because I
would take one if I was native saving the taxes on everything is a lot of money,
and the fact that I get a carton of cigarettes for 50$ less than anywhere in
the city is awesome.
When Andrew went on to talk about being up on a reserve,
secluded in the eastern part of Canada, it really exited me, it exited me to
know that I might be able to do this kind of thing in the future, after I graduate that it. Helping out
children in those kind of situations that he talked about is what I want to do, its what I'm passionate about, if there's one reason I'm here its to help children and youth.
I made a career choice on Monday as to where I would like to go when I'm done school, and that is to find a job working on a
reserve up north either in Quebec or Nunavut doing what Andy does or did. I figure
that I don’t have a lot of “ties” here in Belleville, I mean I’ve got a couple
of great friends, a good family (for the most part) but no girl friend, so
there’s really nothing keeping me here. Going up north for 6 or 10 months would also be a great experience, I've only been away from "life" for 4 months this summer when I was at camp, and their was tons of people up there and parties going on and everything. I would love to get an opportunity to
go up to a reserve I think I would do great. I hope he was serious when he said to call him for a beer or coffee, because I would love to sit for a couple of hours and pick his brain. The talk with Andy also really
exited me about going to Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on October 14th,
I can’t wait to see what it’s like, and I want to see who they are as a
culture. I visit the reserve every week, and I hardly know anything about it. I
have never been their just for a “visit” witch on October 14, I will step out
of my comfort zone and start learning a few things about the culture itself.
I can’t wait to start on my group presentation, my
presentation topic is European family’s. I am very excited to learn about the
European culture since I don’t really know anything about it, I know that they
have high speed trains, and that they use trains for transportation a lot more
than we do in Canada, and that they have very fast cars like the McLaren
MP4-12c with its 3.8 litre V8 twin turbo engine which kicks out 592 horse
power, it gets the job done. I’m going to have to do some more research but I
found something interesting that said that the borders in Europe refer to social
cultural boundaries. I don’t know if that is true or not, you can bet if it is
I will be putting it in our presentation in a few weeks.
Not to mention 90% of the music that I listen to comes from Europe. Bands like Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest, also possibly the greatest rock band in the world: The Beatles. I've been wanting to add music to a presentation for 2 years now, and who knows I might just do it. I can't ruin the surprise though you'll have to wait and see.
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