Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
Feb 15th 2012, 6:34 am
#16
Banned
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 744
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
roll your left trouser leg up, bare your chest and join the freemasons! you can give a small fortune away with your fellow bretheren. If you are a girl, you can't join.fletch
Feb 15th 2012, 6:54 am
#17
Banned
Joined: Oct 2008
Location: the GTA
Posts: 3,824
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
It has absolutely nothing to do with owing the country of Canada anything. It's to do with how we help our less fortunate fellow human beings. If you don't get that then you are one cold hearted individual, IMO anyway.
Last edited by Auld Yin; Feb 15th 2012 at 6:56 am.
Feb 15th 2012, 7:26 am
#18
ModerĪ±tor Emeritus
Joined: Sep 2003
Location: Upstate South Carolina
Posts: 30,771
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
Feb 15th 2012, 7:53 am
#19
Banned
Joined: Oct 2008
Location: the GTA
Posts: 3,824
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
Whatever you say, Big Chief.
Feb 15th 2012, 7:56 am
#20
ModerĪ±tor Emeritus
Joined: Sep 2003
Location: Upstate South Carolina
Posts: 30,771
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
I'm not the one saying it...
Since I arrived I feel I've been treated really well by all the Canadians I've met plus I've been really lucky in finding a house and work, Canada is treating me very well.
So now I feel like giving something back,
So now I feel like giving something back,
Feb 15th 2012, 10:10 am
#21
BE user by choice
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: A Briton, married to a Canadian, now in Fredericton.
Posts: 4,854
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
I don't know, but I've tried. I did a couple of years at Crisis at Christmas when in the UK, a year in Hebron in the West Bank at a refugee camp and prison visiting, and the last 11 years assisting the mentally handicapped with outings in France. I hope that I can 'maybe' 'do' something in Canada, but it won't be because they are Canadian. I have been given a bloody great bit of life on a plate. A not great start got better and better, I've been incredibly lucky, but like most of us have had a couple of bad patches - there isn't a day I'm not thankful.
Feb 15th 2012, 10:40 am
#22
Island life at last
Joined: Aug 2009
Location: BC
Posts: 2,715
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
Animal Sanctuaries always need volunteers if you are inclined towards the furry and feathered in need of help.
Feb 15th 2012, 10:46 am
#23
.
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 20,185
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
I try and be as informative and encouraging to people from the UK who are thinking about emigrating to Canada.
Feb 15th 2012, 10:50 am
#24
The Brit is back
Joined: Apr 2010
Location: NS, Canada 2007-2013. Now....England!
Posts: 2,211
Feb 15th 2012, 10:56 am
#25
BE user by choice
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: A Briton, married to a Canadian, now in Fredericton.
Posts: 4,854
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
And a great job you do of it too! Thanks to you nobody will arrive with rose coloured vision! I can feel myself breaking out into song.
Feb 15th 2012, 12:25 pm
#28
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Oct 2009
Location: Toronto, ON
Posts: 1,244
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
Since I arrived I feel I've been treated really well by all the Canadians I've met plus I've been really lucky in finding a house and work, Canada is treating me very well.
So now I feel like giving something back, I think I'm going to join the local volunteer fire service and save people from burning buildings and cats from trees.
My wife wants to volunteer for something too but doesn't fancy being a firelady.
Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
So now I feel like giving something back, I think I'm going to join the local volunteer fire service and save people from burning buildings and cats from trees.
My wife wants to volunteer for something too but doesn't fancy being a firelady.
Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
Feb 15th 2012, 1:32 pm
#29
Bitter and twisted
Joined: Dec 2003
Location: Upmarket
Posts: 17,503
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...76#post9888776
Feb 15th 2012, 1:37 pm
#30
Sawdust making harpy
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Alberta
Posts: 11,291
Re: Has anyone else done anything worthwhile?
Indeed...he was living in Chicago until last week at least
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...76#post9888776
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...76#post9888776
