NODA wrap up and off to ATLANTA!

Post Type: Picture Book

So NODA was done, as of Sunday morning.

The actual talks themselves were pretty meh, standard leadership stuff that seemed almost very irrelevant. I heard there were some good talks, but apparently I picked the bad sessions so whatever.

The speaker Arel Moodie on Saturday was very cheerful and upbeat, really like that one. He came in in a bright pink shirt BOO YEA math! (Oh no, I didn't get a picture of him)

Later on, there were a bunch of sessions, details omitting, and since we got up at 6:30am, by the time the session started we were already getting tired and the first session was pretty boring- which everything was going well until I fell asleep and some muddafakka woman beside me decided to tell me that it's disrespectful to the presenters- like I don't know. And when I murmured to myself "it's so bad" AFTER I'd left the session, she decided to catch up to me and lecture me, says she's one of the conference hosts and follow up on me to the university that I came from- (not allowed to swear on this blog) wow, holy, bleep lady, this is a conference for goodness sake, I'm a frigging conference delegate. Sheesh, I can sleep in the hotel all day if I wanted, gosh, it's really not her beeswax.


So after she screwed over my expectation for the next 4 sessions, and I'm pretty sure I ruined her day by telling her it's really not her business in a confrontational way- omg I love confrontations- I zombied through the remaining sessions until dinner. (Behind these guys is a real botanic plant waterfall grown on the wall 3 floors high, it's amazing)


We had pasta dinner with not much sausage in there, but it was ok, not much to expect for a conference of pipsqueak importance like this to feed 200+ delegates.

Noticed some election going on at UG-Humber, with a lot of Mario themed stuff taped around...



Then there was the Safe Haven Charity talk, the boys are wheelchaired with speech/movement impairment and gave a tear-jerker talk, and everybody, in the spirit of the happy day was like, YEAH! AWESOME! OH MY GOD! Standing ovation. etc. Bah, seen too many of these to feel the sentimentality. We made them 4 panels of coloured papered hearts taped onto a wood-strapped canvas.



The game show after dinner was pretty fun, our "team" (I'm not officially in a team, but hung out with a couple buddies here and were rooting for this american boys + our own Jenny team of 5). We lost. Oh well.



We went back to the hotel and I fell asleep even though I wanted to go hangout with ppl in the other rooms. Apparently I missed some interesting after drinking stories. =[ oh well.



Then next morning we were gone. We took that photo before everybody left (I think Amanda left before the photo was taken). I have a shiny chest.

I bused back to Mississauga on a bus that I don't usually take. Namely route 3. It goes on Bloor, I used to live there 8 years ago. A short 20 minutes of awake time on the bus turned out to be more reflection that the whole weekend at NODA- but that's a story for another blog post.



And now... onto the next post about packing, leaving and getting excited for ATLANTA!