Continuous Education of Toronto City Hall

Welfare System is one thing I impressed since I came to Canada, especial in public system of Continuous Education. This time, I would like to introduce some public sport courses that held by Toronto City Hall. In fact, I went to two places to gather information, so I would divide the journal into two parts.

I got an assignment from teacher that related to find out some courses information from education institute or public organization. I thought about which kind of course is interesting since I heard the journal, and three answers emerged from my brain; They're ski, photographic, and ball games. That's the way I was going to surf on Internet and tried to find some resources out.

Fortunately, two institutes provided some courses that I was looking for, one is Toronto District School Board (short called for TDSB), and the other one is Toronto City Hall. Seemed TDSB provided lots of interesting activity, for instance Photographic, Skate and some ball games. But the problem is, they only provided the course list of spring period on the Internet. Therefore, I decided to gather further information from their office.

The headquarter of TDSB is located on west side of Toronto (2 Trethewey Drive), not close to downtown. When I arrived the building of TDSB, I was wondering why they only had a few people around there, not as busy as PGIC. Followed the sign, I found the office of continuous education. The secretary seemed a little bit surprised when she saw me. May I help you? She asked. Yes please, I want to know some courses information during summer period of continuous education. I told her the purpose why I came here. I'm sorry, but we only have ESL program during summer time. Unfortunately, the quota of enroll is full, so you've to wait until fall. She said. How about the information about fall period? I just want to get some information. I'm sorry, the plan of fall period isn't finished yet. She answered. I was shocked by the answer, because I couldn't get anything from here but a introduction of ESL program. Had a phone call before you go to a place is the only thing I learned from this school.

After that, I changed the destination to a Community Centre that near my homestay named by Matty Eckler CRC. Maybe I could find out some courses from here that's held by Toronto City Hall. I hope at that time. Entered the Matty Eckler Centre, I walked toward the information counter. Could you please give me some informations of continuous education of this centre? I asked him first. I'm sorry, all the informations are included in FUN GUIDE, but we don't have a copy one for you. What kind of course are you interested in? I could show you right now on Web Site. He explained the problem to me. I want to know Ski, Skate, or some ball games courses. I asked. We don't have Ski or Skate course during summer time because of the weather, but there are some ball game courses you could join. We've Basketball, Badminton, Ball Hockey, etc... He answered. Seemed Hockey and Badminton are interesting, how about the fees and schedules? I wanted to get some further information. Ball Hockey class would be started from 4 July, and Badminton class is scheduled on 7 July. Both of the classes are once a week, and two hours of each time. You just need to pay CA$2.50 per class when you come. If you think you would come to class regularly, you could consider about the following payment options. For example, if you pay CA$150 to buy an one year passport, you could come here whenever you want and no more charges. He described the rules and showed me five kind of payment packages.

Checked the information again, I told him I would consider about that and thanks for him, then I left the Community Centre. It's a pity that they don't offer baseball activity, or I would join them. If I have to make a choice, I would rather choose Ball Hockey class than Badminton. Because Badminton is a popular sport in Taiwan already, but it's not easy to play Hockey in my country. I think that's a chance to learn these kind of sports in North America. However, I was impressed by the Continuous Education they provided. You don't need to pay too much money, then you could learn lots of different things outside from school. If you're interested in these courses, come to get further information as following link.
http://www.toronto.ca/parks/torontofun/index.htm