Andre Tardiff
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- Gap Year Canadian, eh!
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So the Gap Year is over, but my adventure isn't. I'm currently in Europe. More specifically in the UK enjoying many good nights out, making friends, and catching up with people who worked on the Gap Year project. However I do not own this profile. It belongs to 'The Gap Year' production and I will therefore no longer have acess after December 7th 2008. You can however stay in contact with me at www.bebo.com/gapyear_canadian Feel free to add! - Music
- Anything with a good beat.
- Movies
- City of God, the Indiana Jones Trilogy, Gladiator, Pulp Fiction, Narnia (favorite childhood story book, c'mon is nostalgic), Away from here (Canadian film). Hah i have tons more I just can't think of them right now. I really like epics and not so hollywood ending movies.
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- I like watching Basketball Live, I play Ultimate Frisbee and Soccer. Mt. Biking, Snowboarding, Scuba diving, wake boarding, etc.
- Scared Of
- Heights! But they don't stop me! The most exciting thing I did last summer as a hot air balloon adventure over london Ontario!
- Happiest When
- Meeting new people, having something to look forward to, being in the company of intelligent and good natured people, eating delicious foods, being with friends, sleeping, exercising and playing sports, painting, photography, good tv series, good cartoon series, exploring new things, and anything creative, intelligent, and imaginative, etc etc.
- Books
- "Flower of Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, "Watership Down" by Richard Adams, "Odd Thomas" and "Forever Odd" by Dean Koontz, "To Kill a Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee, "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, "Animal Farm" and "1984" by Geoge Orwell, and "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk.
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Golden Temple
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Chris the Karaoke King
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Andre chillin at the Monk Temple's garden
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Sushi Chef hard at work
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Reflective shot of me travelling
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Golden Temple
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"Gnarly Tree" - HaNoi - Vietnam
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"Narnia" - Ankor Wat outside of Siem Reap - Cambodia
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"Mother of all Temples" Ankot Wat itself, nuff said.
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"Piece of the Pie" Ankot Wat as PD Chris films some cut aways
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"When a window closes a door opens" Side gate to Ankor Wat
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"Gnarly Tree" - HaNoi - Vietnam
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"Frenzy" - Motion shot in HaNoi - Vietnam
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"Drangon 'Ban' Z" - Ban, one of the shelter boys of Saigon City in Vietnam meditates in the
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"Fisherman" - A lone fisherman uses a stepping stone path to advance further into the lake - HaNoi
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"Peace of Phi Phi" - Longbaots of Koh Phi Phi Island - Thailand. A familiar site of the topics
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"Shade" - My Aviators - Bangkok Thailand. The example photo Canon based their reflective contest on.
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"Frenzy" - Motion shot in HaNoi - Vietnam
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This is Good-Bye for this Profile! But add my old profile (www.bebo.com/gapyear_canadian)
It was announced to us that since these profiles are property of the Gap Year, and the gap year is over, we will be returning access to the creators and moving back to our original BEBO profiles. Very sad news. I had planned to keep this one updated with videos, photos, and blogs as I continued my journey around europe and completed my own Gap Year adventure.
So what all this means is the six of us will no longer have access to our Gap Year profiles after the 7th of December! *tear*. The profiles will remain up but we will not be able to respond to comments or mail or anything else for that matter anymore from these profiles. I do believe any messages will be forward to us somehow, not 100% sure on that though.
If you would like to stay in touch with me though I will be returning to my old profile at www.bebo.com/gapyear_canadian eventually. (right now that profile is a mess since I haven't used it in months but I will clean it up)
Its been great. This profile has served me well. I was hoping to keep it but all good things must come to an end as they say.
Keep it touch on my other profile!
-Andre
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Skype!
This morning had a global chat with several Gap Year involved individuals!
For anyone who doesn't know, I've stayed in the UK to visit and travel with Dave the Rave Brett for awhile. Which I should blog about at some point. I've had an AMAZING time in the UK. Probably one of the biggest highlights of my journey.
So we had Dave across from me at the breakfast table (a bit strange because I would hear him talk and then about 1.3 seconds later I'd hear what he just said over skype again).
Then we had the beautiful Amy O'Connor live from her room in Australia,
We also had the hillarious and outrageous Lewis Whaitiri live from his home town in New Zealand.
And lastly a surprise addition to the conversation was the editorially talented Robbie, one of the editors for the Gap Year who had some of the final say in the episodes before they'd be put on Bebo. Robbie was life from L.A. in North America.
Gotta love technology. We had 3 very distant corners of the globe covered and we were all talking away together in a 'conference call'.
Too surreal. Audio only though. Looking forward to the day video can be included in group conversations as well.
P.S. check out this link and do the ANDRE QUIZ
http://www.bebo.com/QuizResult.jsp?R...0 Comments 354 days
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RAF, Mumps, and the first encounters
Last week you saw me working my butt off on the RAF physical conditioning courses to the point where I had to throw in the towel at some point and give up on one of the challenges. It's not like me to give up but I had hit a point where I just couldn't go any further.
Those two days with RAF were the hardest of my Gap Year and it all makes sense as to why now. The first day of RAF was the first stage of coming down with the mumps when symptoms first surfaced that evening. I was physically and mentally exhausted and my body just wasn't giving me the umph it should have and this confused me because at the time I didn't realize the mumps was settling in for a week visit in my body.
On day two of the RAF (when we carried out the mission) I had to struggle the whole day not to collapse out of exhaustion. My body wanted to quit but I just kept at it because as you saw the day before in the RAF video, I get a little hard on myself when I give up and a lot of people were counting on me to finish it the activity. That morning was also the first morning I noticed swelling or the "hampster" face symptom but to a much lesser extent. I had no idea what was wrong though. I associated the swelling around my jaw with getting smacked around by the poles of the 75kg stretcher I had to help carry the day before and the terrible fever and ill feelings all over with over exerting myself on the physical courses. I had no idea it was the mumps until days later.
Once RAF was concluded I spent the weekend in Brighton sleeping 16 hours a day and getting my YES MAN challenge video done whenever I was awake (if you watch the challenge video... it's the first time you can see how badly my face was swelling up). I was in a fever for 3 days, my face was a balloon and I didn't eat the entire time (eating caused quite a bit of pain in my salvitory glands where the mumps virus enflames).
So I went the entire weekend wondering what the heck happened at RAF to cause this much post-agony. Fever for 3 days, inability to eat, and a swollen face. The timing of the mumps left me completely confused but I knew if I just got through the weekend and got my challenge video done everything would be sorted once I got back to London.
Along came Monday and my fever was gone, but as you all saw in the video today the swelling in my face hadn't. I tried to mask it by growing out facial hair and wearing my beaning (so all it looked like was that I gained a bit of weight) but I still wasn't able to eat and this was concerning me. As soon as the HQ staff and PDs saw the condition I was in they whipped into action and arranged me a visit to the Doctors. Bi-lateral swelling, hamster face appearance, fever, loss of appetite... it was all pointing to one thing
An hour later everything made sense as to why I just had the worst weekend ever. I likely had the mumps. It never was confirmed but the symptoms all pointed it's way. There wasn't much else it could have been anyway besides some other random viral infection. It's highly likely I picked it up in Goa India, or Bangkok Thailand. I'm going to go with Goa.
After meeting everyone Monday, which was amazing, I had to go to bed early because I was still exhausted. I managed to eat for the first time in days too so it was time to recover. I felt really bad because I had spent 6 months looking forward to this week only to be stuck in bed while my gap year friends were drinking and bonding. I felt I was letting them down and letting myself down.
I was determined to get better so I could join in the fun. The next day with a little bit more food in me i had a really enjoyable day. I was able to socialize with the others a bit more than the day before, I could eat food easily enough, and my energy was returning. I thought things were looking up, I finally knew what was wrong, it was just a matter of days before I would be better. I thought 'ok, nothing else can go wrong, I know whats wrong s1 Comment 369 days
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83 - Dave and Amy visit part II. Amy's goodbye.
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83 - Dave and Amy visit.
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84 - Goa to England.
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84 - To England
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88 - Australia: Coff's Harbour & Sydney
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89 - New Zealand continued
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89 - New Zealand: Beauty of Rotorua
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90 - Japan - On my Canon PowerShot A610
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90 Japan - Taiwanian friends in Nikko
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90 Japan: Kyoto and visit with Gap Year Guide Kate
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91 Cambodia: Many many Ankor Wat photos
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91 Cambodia: More Ankor Wat than you Want
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92 - Laos - and first week of Vietnam
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Sophie49 weeks agoHey Andre!
Wows you're staying in England?
Didnt miss home too much then?
I'm a London girly myself (:
Looks like you had an AMAZING time,
i couldnt even imagine it!
Shame you got the mumps though
hope you're better!
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Gracey50 weeks agoyou comin to ireland ??? ya'll have to pop in 4 a cuppa
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Stecummins50 weeks agoalri man im in sydney i doen the route 69 tour so much fun
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Klaudia
my teachers use to work STA travel, so we were jst speakin about people like you, well glad u enjoyd it
and good luck for the futre!
whosh i cud do it in the future! xxxxxxx
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Klaudia50 weeks agoheya its klaudia i am jst sepakin about you at college with my teachers, were talkin bout the gap year...and was just wondering if its worth doing...noyiced you done it and it looked like you enjoyed yourself!
xxxxxxxx ps yr hot
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Karly H
Hey Andre, hows it going? U sad it all over now? see a vid wit u havin the mumps, was gutted for ya. Hope your better now. Karly x
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Roy Henry50 weeks agoCheck out Belfast =]
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Kate George
hey andre,
i cant remember if i replied to your message. but japan is cold and busy. got 4 tests this week, the 1st one went well, got speaking and kanji (japanese/chinese characters) tests tomorrow and then a nice big progress test on thursday. and because it's japan and my school is crappy i have class on saturday.
And its december, thats so weird ha? christmas soon and then a brand new year. i head home it two months, which is a totally scary thought. i don't know if i want to go. but i have to finish my degree and then see what happens
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Gemma Murdock
Hey Andre - thanks for the comment
So how are you settling back into the 'real' world?
I actually found after my Gap Year (I was in Australia/NZ for 10 months) that being back home was actually like being on holiday again as I was finally able to slow down a bit - not moving from destination to destination all the time.
Of course, the horrid back-to-earth bit was getting a job - not such fun! -
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Áiney50 weeks agoIm a disgrace
forgive me please
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