Strike Aftermath

STRIKE AFTERMATH

YSDN SADDLE ISSUE 06 / MAR ‘15

K AWAII HORSE - HANNAH LEE

CONTENTS ON STRIKE

X – 01

table of contents

02 – 03

Nathan Grimberg

04 – 05

Carter Pryor

06 – 07

Amy Chiu

08 – 09

Aaron Thadathil

10 – 11

Angelina Tjhung

12 – 13

Cristian Miranda Luque

14 – 15

Joanne Vongphachan

16 – X

The end of strike / Utopian education Read the Saddle online at issuu.com/ysdnsaddle Visit and contact the horse at facebook.com/ysdnsaddle ysdnsaddle@gmail.com K AWAII - HANNAH LEE

CARTER PRYOR

ANGELINA TJHUNG

on purgator y

Ever since school started, time is marked by the levels of guilt, shame, and desperation that comes with leaving things off until the day before it’s due. If there’s a mad rush of timebased and typeface in the air, that must mean it’s Sunday night. If I’m getting lost in quartz composer noodles, it must mean it’s Thursday night. I know that for a lot of people in YSDN, time stood still when the strike began. To celebrate, I ate pizza and played video games.

Nothing moved in the village but the tumble weed in the form of Tim Hortons cups, discarded newspapers, and plastic bags—finally freed from their snowy prisons and left to wander. The flashing red lights looming in the distance of TEL were no longer a threat, but a lonely memento.

Even so, I got out, watched lots of movies, caught up on some readings. I even went for a walk or two.

The ones where you don’t know where you’ll end up.

Yeah, time had stopped, but it felt great. I was like a rich housewife with nothing to do! Yorkdale was my vacation home! The village was my Versailles!

All I got from this experience is that I want to be old and retired already.

Kodama sightings in purgatory!!!

I stole this idea from Jinah lol hi bb go work on ur editorial

NATHAN GRIMBERG - HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE STRIKE When the strike started, I’m not going to lie I was feeling pretty righteous, “How dare they strike! This strike is costing me money! I should be in class!”

After about 30 minutes of malingering right after the announcement, it hit me ... I don’t LIKE class, I’m one of those people who works better on their own, suddenly this strike wasn’t so bad anymore, it actually started to look more like an opportunity!

By the second day of the strike I was really enjoying myself. I have 8 hours of class on Tuesday. I sit in the same chair all day. Now I get to sit in a chair AT HOME and play video-games, do some work, eat some macaroni, heck I could spin in my chair all day.

Suddenly I had an abundance of free time, time to hang out with my friends catch up on some books (I read 3 books over the course of the strike!), write some stories, or laugh at the people freaking out about it on the Facebook group.

I want to go to every member of CUPE 3903 still bravely manning the picket lines and tell them that I support their struggle. “Don’t give up! show those fascists at York who’s boss!” In the end the strike was good for me, probably one of the best things that could have happened to me to be honest.

A: Things Done Reading Video Games Walking Eating Portfolio Dev

B: Things Learned Letting Go JS

Maybe if you think about it you’ll begin to realize that it wasn’t all that bad for you either, if you need people breathing down your neck to stay productive or if you’re prone to freaking out when the proverbial rug/ academic safety blanket gets pulled out from under you, the lesson you need to take from this strike: let go it’s going to be fine.

Here’s some more things that are going to be fine: your career, your life, your internships, your projects, grad show, the world, the future, your siblings, your parents, the economy (probably). And for you guys in CUPE 3903 things can only get better from here, keep up the good fight!

C: Things to Bring

Alternative Recreation

Literature

Movies (For those without Netflix) @ApocalypseYork

Canned Nutrition

Sporting Equipment

Good Tunes

JOANNE VONGPHACHAN I got pretty lucky with having Editorial at Sheridan but I was screwed over for design placement and all of my elective courses that involved T.As and tutorials.

During the two weeks I had time to go to interviews for design placement. I landed a huge opportunity but I wasn’t able to confirm on the spot because of the strike; not knowing when it would end or if it overlaps summer plans. For the past two weeks I was stressing out going “Why York, why YU do this to me?”.

T H I S

W A S

my life

“Why York, why YU do this to me?”

AARON THADATHIL I kinda just relaxed during the strike. I took it as a vacation. I went skating for the first time. Because my skates were freshly sharpened, I slid around on the ice.

I fell down a few times, but I didn’t really hurt myself.

I played video games and hung out with friends. I got some more exercise and I had more time to cook delicious meals. I even baked a batch of cookies and also tried my hand at chocolate cheesecake brownies, which rendered my exercise useless. I worked more, and took on freelance projects.

Generally my quality of life went up.

AMY CHIU During the strike, I learned how to play the ukulele, spent my late nights playing Birth by Sleep on the PS3 with my friend, mastered the art of xiao long bao making (also known as soup dumplings) and drank a lot of Krounenbourg and soju. Every morning I would wake up to the beautiful sounds of people chanting and cars honking at the Sentinel Rd. picket line. The strike break was all fun and games until you realized that it needs to be over so everybody can move on with their lives again. People need to graduate, do internships and I need to know whether if I can make it for Wonderland’s opening day in May because The Bat is an amazing ride.

CRISTIAN MIRANDA LUQUE STRIKEEEEE!! yea it sucks, it sucks so bad to have no classes and get to sleep in everyday, sucks I have more time to work on stuff, and who wants to be home all the time and spend time with thier parents, amirie?

On the plus side when I do try to work on stuff and commute to york I have to walk an extra 20 minutes so I got that going for me, which is nice.

In all seriousness I have to confess that the strike didn’t scare me or phase me at all really, or at least for the first week or so. I was surprised how calm this protest was, back in Chile they usually burn at least one car when protesting, but moving on.

What really amazed me and what I continue to love about this program is the awesome sense of community that we have. Both in our own respective years and in our crazy YSDN family, we were updating and helping each other in this time of confusion. Nothing brings people together like collective disappointment!

You go guys!

JACOB COLOSI

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Read the Saddle online at issuu.com/ysdnsaddle Visit and contact the horse at facebook.com/ysdnsaddle ysdnsaddle@gmail.com K AWAII - HANNAH LEE

CARTER PRYOR ANGELINA TJHUNG NATHAN GRIMBERG JOANNE VONGPHACHAN AARON THADATHIL AMY CHIU CRISTIAN MIRANDA LUQUE JACOB COLOSI HANNAH LEE

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