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Friday, May 26, 2006Japan, a country with over 10,000 years of history has become my single most beloved country outside my home country of Canada. Japan is a truly enchanting country with an incredible amount of culture, unparelled kindness, generosity and flair that beams their influence across the planet. I had the opportunity to be part of a Japanese exchange that sent me to southern Japan including Osaka, Hiroshima, Kyoto and many other traditional and thriving towns. I spent 2 weeks in September 2004 and absolutely adored the country. I then hosted a Japanese girl when she visited Ontario & Quebec, Canada on my side of the globe. I want to return in not so long for an extended trip to Japan and in the future would like to spend at least a year living over there teaching English. Combining my passion of international travel, culture and how people relate and work together in life, I have long been a major fan of CBS's The Amazing Race hosted by the globe trotter Phil Keoghan. The series just came to a dramatic conclusion as 11 teams raced to 12 countries around the world with best friends BJ & Tyler MacNiven. The race took the teams across South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia with their final country abroad being in and around one of the world's largest cities, Tokyo. Here the teams had to do many activities from finding clues inside the trademark capsule hotel, finding clues in a giant amusement park alongside Mount Fuji, carrying a Japanese woman to a traditional tea house and much more. In the end Tyler MacNiven and his best friend BJ crossed the finish line first back where the race began one month earlier in Denver, USA. They won the million dollar prize and claimed victory. I was extremely proud of them as they had played hard througout the race, and have a good solid humour spirit.  Tyler's 2000 mile trek across Japan
Teague Neal blogged on 10:38 PM
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006Want to learn on your own schedule? Tired of hearing teachers tell you off for wanting to go to the bathroom in the middle of class? Do you just want the flexibility to fit the puzzle piece of going to school into your daily puzzle as you see fit? This is a reality in the Halton district just outside of Toronto, Canada. This groundbreaking alternative program really engages students to complete credits or school time in a more inviting atmosphere. Operated by Burlington, Ontario based Gary Allan High School that runs a wide number of alternative programs in the area. Five sites across the Halton district run simultaneously from morning till night. Open from roughly 8am-8pm the sites are to be found in Oakville, Burlington, Milton, Georgetown and Halton Hills, Ontario. Each site has several classroom spaces and computer lab space. The teachers are on a rotating schedule but each teacher will be there almost all the time or someone else with similar skills will be happy to help you. Your Self Reliant day starts whenever you like as you go in and sign in the time on a calendar sheet in a sign in book that each teacher has. You complete your work and write down the sign out time in the box for that day as well. As long as you have a minimum of 6 hours a week you are perfect, if you have a day job or a night job you can customize your schedule accordingly. I do go in each weekday to ensure I will go through to graduation as I'm almost closing the curtain on high school, but you can arrange this however you wish.  The courses follow the same guidelines as the rest of the Ontario secondary school curriculum with some adjustments that's up to the teacher. There's a wide variety of courses from Travel & Tourism, computers, digital photography to Social sciences, History, English and an assortment of other courses. Each time you arrive your assignments will be given to you in packages by the teacher. Computer courses have their courses online on the Gary Allan website via a portal which you can access from anywhere at anytime with your student login. Computer assistants mill about the computer lab answering all your technical queries just as teachers do about the classroom answering your questions about the assignments. You progress your way through the packages which tend to be larger than the usual smaller assignments you would get in a traditional classroom setting, as you are in the room longer for the most part doing your work. You choose when you leave, whether you make up extra time on a certain evening and when you take breaks. As with all alternative learning which Canada particularly the province of Ontario is on the cutting edge with you have a number of liberties that are part of your education experience. With this does come responsibility and as with the namesake of the program you must be self reliant.  I for one have no interest in abusing alcohol, hearing sex stories or the like that no not always but most often comes with teenage group. Teenagers don't like to admit it but it has been proven time and time again that they are one of the most conservative groups on the planet. If you think about it it's truly not hard to believe, they all want to do as the other one does. They all talk about being drunk, going to drinking parties. For some strange reason they all love the same bands, movies, shows and have the same often very poor values. You are appreciated and part of the club if you swear incessantly. I for one see through this plastic mask as flimsy and thin and artificial as plastic itself. Not having this nonsense and spending time with more mature teens and adults I absolutely adore and wouldn't take back for a minute. There are no deadlines on any of the packages or assignments at anytime aside from exams and tests. Even then within a certain period of time these dates are arranged through the teacher and yourself. I have seen countless students who I remember from my regular high school who have no immersed themselves in Self Reliant. I believe that it's very important for students to have this option of being able to plan their own schedule and have all the concrete rules of the traditional system crumble away while being able to obtain their credits and learn. Don't take it from me take it from others and read this article written by a teenager age student recently published in The Oakville Beaver all about Self Reliant Learning. A truly worthy option for many of all ages with a different flair, far different than that of the traditional confines of a high school classroom. Teague Neal blogged on 9:46 PM
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Sunday, May 07, 2006 Myself in front of the skyline of Edmonton on my recent visit in April -Following 11 months of decision and deliberation at 3 large scale Canadian cities in addition to several smaller scale ones that began in February 2005. Towards the end of January 2006 my chosen Canadian college city was chosen. Edmonton, Alberta the major metropolis and Canada's fifth largest city Edmonton, Alberta. -  The downtown core with the pyramids of Muttart Consevatory in front, each with its own tropical biome a sight to behold. Edmonton is a highly dynamic city and area with a true flavor of it's own that cannot be compared to the rest of Canada or the world. The individual flair that Edmonton maintains is its own only. Situated in northern Alberta Edmonton has a booming economic centre for commerce both finance at home, with the US and abroad, a major arts, recreation and tourism side attracting people from across the world. Cutting edge education, research and environmental strategies are also major strengths of Edmonton. The provincial parliament of Alberta resides in Edmonton where Alberta affairs are managed and decided upon. Alberta has so much extra money that each citizen has gotten 2 sets of $400 cheques for each Alberta citizen over the age of 14. People spend huge amounts of money at restaurants, stores and a huge portion of the city has season tickets for sports and arts. The first settlers lived in the area now Edmonton approximately 10,000 B.C. as the ice caps moved away from the area. The natural abundance of lumber, water and animals made this a prime spot to settle. In 1794 the Hudsons Bay Company began opening posts in the present Fort Saskatchewan and the downtown core of Edmonton. Around 1898 it was a major stop off point and began home for many gold seekers who headed to the Klondike region of the Yukon during the gold rush. From then on forth following the discovery of oil in 1905 in Leduc just south of the city, Edmonton has continued to expand.  A aerial view of the University of Alberta's main campus on the south side of the city Edmonton's diverse population of 675,000 in the city with a total of 1.1 million in the Greater Edmonton Region continues to grow and expand. My chosen college The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology or NAIT with 7000 students in the city campuses and 135,000 in appreticships it's a chosen college of many. Its focus is on technical trades a major need in the world. Grant Macewan College with 6000 students is a large scale community college with a wide range of programs. University of Alberta is Canada’s 3rd largest university after University of Toronto and University of British Columbia. A massive research centre and educational nucleus with upwards of 137,000 students U of A has a bright past, present and future. More than 2000 acres of Edmonton is U of A property educating students from 121 nations. A collection of smaller colleges compliments Edmonton's educational enterprise.  The new ulta modern HP Centre on the main campus of NAIT, with one of the countless glass bridges in Edmonton sheltering you from the sometimes bitter cold  Another section of NAIT towers to the sky Alberta is booming beyond belief, and it just doesn't stop. With the world's second largest oil reserve, only smaller than Saudi Arabia the bundles of cash emitted from the oil and gas industry if unfathomable. More than 7 billion dollars in 2005 of this went into the Edmonton economy. Banks, major companies make their home here including countless call centres. A 120 million dollar research park houses 35 medical and research companies immensely involved in the emerging field of nanotechnology. Other research areas across the city research state of the art medicine, computers, processing, petroleum and gas.  The site of the the first discovery of oil in Alberta, which has nome become the world's second largest deposit of oil on earth in Leduc,Alberta just south of Edmonton  A common scene in the Alberta countryside with thousands of oil rigs pumping out the province's black gold  The world's largest indoor waterpark in West Edmonton Mall with 14 massive slides including the planet's biggest indoor one, and the biggest wave pool, a true water fantasy!  The Olympic size rink in the Ice Palace at West Edmonton Europa Boulevard, one of several themed streets in the Mall including a New Orelans one aptly called Bourbon Street, a Chinatown, amongst others Edmonton has a huge tourism market from across Canada and around the world. Americans flock to the city like nothing else. Over 2000 restaurants of all world cultures are to be found in Edmonton. The world's largest mall West Edmonton Mall in the west end with 850 stories, 110 restaurants is a truly sensational entertainment centre. Visiting this year I was completely in awe at the diversity and depth of the mall. In addition you can play hard in the arcades, casino and the world's largest indoor waterpark. With 14 towering slides including the biggest indoor slide and wave pool you will never be bored. Feeling like a tropical resort there's a pagoda serving tropical drinks and you can wear summer clothes in the 35 degree weather equivalent to that of Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. It's such a blast, with just so much to do. An Olympic sized skating rink, 2 mini golf courses, a lake with a pirate ship, bumper boats and a submarine it truly has it all. To have it all truly stayed on the western, artic, Hollywood or truck driver floor of the Mall's Fantasyland Hotel attached to the mall. Each floor and most of the rooms have a theme with the walls, elevators and even the beds joining in for example an igloo bed in the Artic rooms. Spanning 46 city blocks the mall has more than you could ever want. Exclusive European, Asian and American stores are in the mall not found elsewhere in Canada or North America. The historic Alberta Legistature Building, home of Alberta's provincial parliament  One of many funky restaurants lining the one of a kind Whyte Avenue  A whimsical retro car dealership on Whyte  Fun restaurants and shoppes line this famed street, a major gathering place for Edmontonians and tourists alike Other shopping abounds with unique international stores along the Avenue of Nations with stores spotlighting the wares of more than 15 nations. Two China towns are in the city, the original smaller one and one near Avenue of Nations. Whyte Avenue or 82nd Ave has an amazing array of shops of all sorts. Some I went in included Scottish shops which could be a fine store in Dublin, a store with all clothes for dogs and cats and many others varies stores and the funniest restaurants. Whyte is where the city gathers during and after games. Edmonton is home to the National Hockey League Team the Edmonton Oilers who play at their Rexall Centre. They are hugely popular with Edmonton having a major hockey culture, a outdoor store owner saying Edmonton is mental about hockey. It's very true. They have won four Stanley Cups including 3 in a row when Wayne Gretzkey was playing for them. Also home to the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos who won the Grey Cup the top honor for Canadian football in 2005. They play at the mammoth Commonwealth Stadium, built for when Edmonton hosted the Commonwealth Games back in 1978.  Commonwealth Stadium opened in 1978 as the main stadium for when Edmonton hosted the Commonwealth Games, now the home of the CFL team the Edmonton Eskimos winners of the 2005 Grey Cup Edmonton is a major green hotspot with a strong understanding and acknowledgement of the environment. The people of Edmonton greatly enjoy and appreciate the environment. They certainly have countless ways to do this. The city has a series of parks alongside the banks of the North Saskatchewan River that divide the city roughly in half. The north side has the city centre airport, the colleges, West Edmonton Mall and the downtown core. The south side the smaller of the two has the University of Alberta, the funky artsy Whyte Avenue, the international airport, the research park and many residential areas. The river valley is one of Edmonton's very best features. The large downtown and commercial core of the city is just in front of the massive River Valley area. More than 2000 acres of parks, green space and a new Chinese garden celebrating the sister city relationship with Harbin, China. This area is filled with natural beauty and has many walking paths, parks of varying sizes in an area 12 times the size of New York's Central Park. Volunteers run clean ups of the River Valley throughout the year.    Sections of the more than 2000 acres of River Parks around the downtown core  The city also runs a program where volunteers sign up to keep a block clean called "adopt a block". The volunteer is given a kit with bags, gloves and the like and keeps this area meticulous throughout the year. It works when I visited the city I noticed overall it's an extremely clean city. The waste that Edmonton produces is reduced by 60% due to their environmental practices. Edmonton has North America's largest composting facility spanning the area of 8 football fields. Even the landfill though it still needs it, the city has adjustments to make it as environmentally friendly as possible. A thick layer of clay prevents the garbage from leaching into the soil below. In addition a gas collection station in the landfill collects the gas that rises and otherwise pollutes the earth and produces electricity from it. They use this electricity to power 4,400 of the city's houses. Once the landfill is filled to capacity, a comprehensive regeneration program will start to improve the area of the landfill. This is largest plan of this kind for a landfill in the world.  Edmonton is a sea of sparkling light come nightfall on a cold winter's night -Having spent a week in Edmonton & Jasper towards the end of April setting things up, seeing around and experiencing the city I'm excited. Extremely excited because I have selected the perfect place I want to spend tour years studying and pursuing my career of dreams one in the world's largest industry; travel and hospitality. I cannot wait for my return to Edmonton, Alberta in August. Ensure you spend solid time deciding if you do go out of province or state. It's an experience and you will gain so much more than just living in the same culture and place, you have done all your life. Life is not a job, it's something special and spectacular. -
Teague Neal blogged on 10:03 AM
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Saturday, May 06, 2006 After 12 months of deciding and deliberation on over 30 colleges spanning 8 of Canada's 10 provinces from coast to coast I have made my official decision. The lifelong decision that will lead me down many paths, I have been accepted and chosen to accept my place at The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology or NAIT as it's most commonly called in Edmonton, Alberta. In western Canada I will be enrolled in their sensational 2 year Hospitality Management program. The courses covering all subjects spanning the ever expanding world of hospitality and international tourism including hotel management, restauarant management, banquet and event logistics, international tourism patterns, hospitality law and much more. The program is extremely hands-on with many options to become part of the program that are available to its students. The small size nature of NAIT allows the creative college to devote a solid amount of attention to each student, giving them the time and to experience education. Main Campus Tower at NAIT Founded in 1963 NAIT has become one of Canada's most innovative and cutting edge Canadian colleges. NAIT offers over 200 programs encapsulating all areas of the trades, food, tourism, medical practice and technology. NAIT offers top notch programming laced with experience and igenuity NAIT offers a sesnational something for all interested in these vital fields. Over 7000 full time students attend NAIT with over 14, 000 further students engaged in NAIT's award winning and widely prized apprenticship programs. NAIT has: 3 campuses in each corner of the city in Edmonton and the northern Alberta communities of High Level, Peace River and St. Albert in the centre of Canada's oilfields and expanding energy might. NAIT is investing over 50 million dollars into the future constructing a campus adding to its presence in northern Alberta in Grand Prarie with further technological based courses. A brand new centre focusing on steel and steel technologies will hold it's grand opening this coming summer 2006, new business centre offering diplomas in business in Edmonton, a newly refreshed building also on Main Campus in Edmonton to accomodate a new Building and Environmental Systems Technology program. Fuelled by Alberta's powerful and thriving economy NAIT contines to construct a rapid pace that will allow the college to train over 200,000 further students to enter the workforce across Alberta, Canada and the world by 2010. NAIT serves its students with a wide variety of hands on based programming, that allows them to see and do as they learn. Not simply learning by the book by any means, NAIT students have a literal world of ways to learn available to them. As part of the Hospitality Management program I will have classes in their reservation and hotel systems lab. Employing the latest and most widely used systems that hotels and travel agents around the world use I will learn the latest and practice making flight and hotel bookings. In addition one of the most important facilities that attracted me to NAIT is there highly extensive hospitality campus called the Hokanson Centre for Culinary Arts that has just undergone a massive 3.25 million dollar refurbishment and redo. John and Susan Hokanson gave 1 million dollars, the single biggest donation the college has ever received, with the belief that it will create a bright future for the hundreds of students who go throught NAIT's culinary, baking and hospitality courses annually. They include state of the art cooking and baking kitchens complete with computerised ovens and digital teaching tools. The crown jewel and most important for my two years at NAIT is there 4 1/2 star student led restaurant ERNESTS The formal restaurant allows hospitality students to work in conjunction with Culinary Arts & Baking students to successfully manage and operate the service side of things. Whether it be manning the reservations desk taking phone and email reservations to waiting on and bussing tables and managing food and beverage service to becoming part of a special event, there is so much to learn! The restaurant frequently will host special events of up to 120 guests which hospitality students play an intergral role in. This becomes part of the curiculum where we will show what we have learned about the operations, logistics, set up and service of large scale events from company parties to birthday bashs. ERNESTS has become an award winning highly rated downtown Edmonton restaurant that has received rave reviews from locals and tourists alike. There's more than just this spectacular restaurant if that's even possible! Hospitality students also help to run The Club Five Star. The HP Computer Commons, NAIT's public student computer lab open 24/7 with 110 computers with all nessecary software  The rolling hills of Tuscany, Italy Cooking courses including Indian can be taken through NAIT's part time learning department as nightschool courses. COOP placements are part of the program and can be done locally in Edmonton, nearby major ski and environmental tourism destination Jasper and further south closer to Calgary Banff, Lake Louise, Canmore and Rocky Mountain House. NAIT suggests services and companies and leads you to making the right choices if study abroad is the choice you want to make. For my personal interests I can choose to work at the student led restaurant/hang out for NAIT students called The Nest if I choose. I can also join the Curling team, write for the campus newspaper, and utilize the swimming pool,exercise facilities and more. NAIT also has student led trips including cruises within North America and abroad. I'm extremely excited to potentially visit Edmonton and see NAIT in person this coming Spring and to spend 2 years at this one of a kind college. I am confident NAIT will prepare me immensely and show me the right direction through experience, hands-on learning and lectures! I will register in August and start working towards my diploma in September 2006! The breathtaking scenery of nearby Jasper, Alberta that draws millions of tourists from across the globe annually
Teague Neal blogged on 3:04 PM
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Thursday, May 04, 2006The team at Google who masterminded the Internet giant's fresh new take on instant messaging programs runs a blog about the program. The Google Talk Blog is updated regularly with tips, hints, new features and much more. Google Talk came out several months ago and its popularity has exploded across the Internet around the world. All these aspects are put into this extremely easy to use program that can be downloaded for free from the main Google Talk site To launch this simply click on your desktop or a the envelope symbol of Google Talk will appear in the bottom right-hand corner of your desktop. Gmail users have all the names from their email, everyone they have ever emailed with automatically loaded onto the clean white list that makes up the Google Talk box. As the majority of users will have a small sea of names, to zero in on specific people swimming around, you use a search box. Just the same as in Gmail, you type in keywords or the first few letters of the person's first name and their name instantly migrates to the top of the list. For those who have microphones attatched to their PC, a green call button will display on the right-hand side of the talk window. Flip your speakers on and click this. The sound of a phone ringing will resound, just as with anwsering a phone the user on the other end picks up by clicking on a red button that is fired at them to accept the call. They can then talk to you for as long as you wish for free, and if you both have mikes then it's made that much more enjoyable. The add pazazz to your account, just added you can know tint the colour of your talk boxes, main box and import online pictures or digital files from your computer. Though other instant message programs such as AOL and MSN have features to save and store conversations, Google as always does it differently and is one step ahead of the rest. All conversations are automatically saved in your Gmail account. A new link called Chat can be found on the top left-hand side of your inbox. Clicking on this pulls up all the conversations that you have ever had, their length listed and who it was listed along the bar, just as if it was a traditional email. Google Talk is an excellent program that I have greatly enjoyed talking to those across North America and across the globe on over the past couple months. Google Talk is still in beta, and as such Google is taking suggestions to make the program better and better for all. After brainstorming different ways and what was working and what was not over in California the software egineers and product designers came up with a suggestion site .On it you can click through different boxes, highlighting what your comment is. You can them use a email form at the bottom to send your inquiry.On the Google Talk site recently I came across a cool post the editor of the blog posted. A funky story on how Google Talk let her realize her dream of going to Fiji! Her South Pacific vacation was nearly cancelled. Check it out!  Walking the Talk Did you know that some airlines still issue paper tickets? Well, they do, and I received some in the mail about two months ago after I planned a trip to Fiji. Now, fast-forward to this morning, one day before departing, when I realized my ticket was nowhere to be found... Thinking this was no big deal, I dialed the airline and smiled to myself when the operator answered the phone with a cheerful "Bula!" I politely explained my situation, and was horrified to hear that, because my flight was set to depart less than three days from today, the minimum fee to replace the ticket would be over $1000 USD. Wait, I thought the man said, 'Bula,' not 'Moola! I then called the booking agency since I have (or had!) a multi-carrier ticket, and was given more bad news: Travel Agent: "Ms. Lane, we're sorry, but you'll have to buy a whole new ticket." Me: not worth repeating :o) Travel Agent: "Yes, we understand that you have a confirmation number and itinerary, but..." Try telling someone that works for a tech company that a new ticket is necessary, when the whole transaction took place online! How could this be? And then the tears came. Lots of them. Spending an additional $1K+ is a big price to pay for such a little mistake. I held the phone line, blotting mascara from my eyes with a Kleenex, and waiting for the travel agent to return so we could book another ticket. I signed in to Google Talk to see if anyone was online to help me curse the travel gods! And then my other line began to ring. I wasn't able to answer since I was still on hold. Then it rang again. Finally, my computer started ringing – it was my mom on Google Talk. My mom! She'd found my tickets, and couldn't get through on the phone to tell me!!! Thank goodness for Google Talk without it, I might not have had two seats to Fiji ! Heather Lane Editor Teague Neal blogged on 8:45 PM
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006The constant globetrotter and host of The Amazing Race Phil Keoghan maintains a new feature of the homepage of The Amazing Race 9. Whilst in each of the twelve countries on six continents across the world Phil Keoghan provides an engaging post on his own personal blog, that will now be part of each race homepage. In these posts he provides perspective into what it is like to run the race behind the scenes, what he thinks of the sights, sounds, tastes and traditions of the cities and country's they are landing in. As well as most importantly what his own thoughts are concerning the politics of the players and the antics of the relations of the racers. He also goes into significant detail in the glamourous and not so glamourous parts of his highly unique job. He captures the foreign flavours in captivating posts and each Thursday I simply can't wait to see Phil's blog updated. You will hear about his extreme lack of sleep, his adventure and so much more check it out! Here's his post from the sixth country that took them to one of my most favourite countries they have ever been to, incredibly enchanting! I promise myself I will go there, an absolutely enriching experience. Make a sensational trip to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates & head into Oman. Located in the Middle East just south of Iran and east of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.  The swirling sands of the Omani desert  The colourful minarets of the Grande Mosque in Muscat, Oman's capital Missed our flight out as I had to get two shows from season 8 voiced and FedExed back to LA. Very excited about our next location, never been to Oman. Very old country, civilization going back 5,000 years, oil rich and I understand very clean. Hot of course being in that part of the world. Our connection is through Dubai. What an airport. If you've never been just imagine a huge shopping mall with planes coming and going 24 hours bring your credit card. It's a very popularly plastic transaction place. Forgot to mention how tough it was for BJ & Tyler last night having to wait out the penalty I dished out when they checked in. Those guys have consistently finished near the front and watching them sweat it out was interesting. They are passionate about staying in this race, as illustrated by their decision to kiss me when they found out they were still in with a chance. Try and imagine what they smell like at this point, OK. There are lots of kids around. There is a huge sand dune right next to us and the kids are climbing to the top and then screaming all the way to the bottom. This time we are really ahead of things. A this point nothing has been set up, so we're going to have to wait before we shoot. There really is nowhere to get away from the heat, so I'm going to climb the hill with the kids. I can't believe how fit these kids are I'm exhausted. The view at the top was awesome. Of course, now I am drenched with sweat. I don't think they are used to seeing an adult behaving like me. I'm not sure if they were laughing with me or at me! We had fun though and I got a great work out. The people are great here. One of the locals just offered for us to use some power at his house so we can steam my shirt. When we got over to his place he offered us tea. Very nice gesture, but I have to say drinking something hot is the last thing on my mind right now. The dates he brought out, however, are spectacular. Really good. I've never been a big date fan, but these are awesome. Three hours later. I just about cooked in the car waiting for everything to arrive so we can set things up and shoot. A lot of effort for a few seconds of television, but it was worth it. We have a long drive ahead, so we're rushing to get the Detour shot before dark. The Roadblock was really tough for the teams. After catching up, BJ & Tyler are going through a Lena & Kristy experience. BJ is exhausted in the heat; luck is just not going their way right now. Good thing is they are apparently keeping a sense of humor through it all. Great finish today. Loved being able to hand out a prize to Fran & Barry, who have worked so hard to stay in this Race. Teague Neal blogged on 8:00 PM
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