ABOUT THE TRIP

CHANGE ACTION TEAM 2010

From September 12-20, 2010, Aeroplan Canada will lead Groupe Aeroplan’s second Change Action Team experience in beautiful British Columbia, Canada.

The 2010 Change Action Team is composed of nine Groupe Aeroplan employees: one employee from Aeroplan Canada, three from Groupe Aeroplan-UK, three from Carlson Marketing, one employee from Air Miles Middle East and one from Nectar Italia.

Working with Offsetters, Groupe Aeroplan’s and Aeroplan Canada’s carbon management partner, the Change Action Team will travel to the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Lead by Alden Hadwen, CSR, Groupe Aeroplan, and a representative from Offsetters, employees will spend a week learning about climate change, carbon emissions, carbon offset projects and how local communities are linked with these projects. The CAT will visit clean technology projects in Vancouver, First Nations communities in Tofino and the resort of Whistler in the Coastal Mountains.


Monday, September 13, 2010

Arrival in Vancouver, BC

1st Day in Vancouver! (10th Sept)
Before i get started, finally got access to internet (pretty slow though).....Not much of a blogger :-)
After almost 24 hours on air, i arrived at the Vancouver Intl airport. I was questioned at the immigration on what kind of business visits I’m going to be having....protocol eh! Got out of the airport and the place is AWESOME, the weather is AWESOME...WOW is all i can say. Caught a train to downtown, discovered that I was the only one for the CAT team to reach Vancouver. Anyways i checked in got comfy and got out for a walk. Got back in an hr or two and crashed!

Day Two
Woke up early morning. It was really cold outside, but i must say AWESOME, not something that you feel back in Dubai. Anyways came back and crashed again.....blah blah blah...
Evening, enquired at the reception if any of the other team members arrived, finally one of them was in...Will from Australia. Met Will, went for a drink, met a couple of people. Will introduced me to CC, pretty good whisky ;-) hmmmm 

 PS: Kind of of tired n sleepy now, will continue later on the CAT dinner and Day 1 with the offsetters...

Sanju
Posted by Groupe Aeroplan Change Action Team 2010 at 10:24 PM

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FUN FACTS ABOUT THE TEAM

Jo-Ann: In 2006, I had my head shaved during the Shave to Save campaign to raise funds for the fight against Breast Cancer.

Laura: I recently achieved my personal goal to visit 30 countries before I turned 30 and celebrated with a visit to Brazil at Carnaval.

Will: I hold a private pilot’s licence and have been flying since I was 16 years old.

Jackie: When I was in high school I won a contest to name a ride at a local amusement park – The Flitting Flume of Festal Frenzy! It was a log water ride. I won a $100 savings bond, six case of Coke and a season pass to Valleyfair. Oh, and let's not forget the coverage in the local newspaper...ha!

Brendan:The Metro (London’s free newspaper) once sent me on a blind date to Paris, along with a film crew who normally worked on documentaries in war-zones.

Marcello: I visited Geogia during Russian air raids, Ukraine after Orange Revolution and I’ve just come back from former war countries in Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro. I use my trips as inspiration, writing for newspapers and magazines, I’ve even created a blog: http://www.marcellopeluso.it/. I’ve also published some books…and more are coming! It’s my way to describe the world.

Sanju: My love for animals constantly worries my wife as she isn’t sure what new addition I’ll bring into our home at anytime.

Emma-Lee: I used to work for Bridgeclimb in Sydney. I’ve climbed 1,439 steps to the top of the Sydney harbour bridge over 500 times – that’s 719,500 steps in total! Once I was caught in a freak storm at the top of the bridge with 50 tourists, the winds were over 140Kmph and we were completely exposed to the elements, unable to move until the storm passed.

Majeed:I love to eat - my favourite saying is: “People eat to live, while I live to eat”.