Sunday, 29 January 2012

What does it meen to have community hours in Canada?

Did you get community hours in Canada?
Before I start this article I want say that I don't have any outstanding charges on me.
I recently got 40 community hours to complete during next 9 months, assigned to me by Court. It happened because I broke bail conditions. I am not supposed to be close to my wife and her relatives closer than N meters. It is a long story, which I described in previous articles.
I was going to my work and accidently got in bus with my wife's sister. Court charged me that I broke bail conditions. By other words they said that I had to jump out of the bus on next bus stop. It happened in June of the 2011. In december of 2011 I had court hearing and in the result 
I got 1 year of probation and 40 hours of community work - stupid, isn't it?

My friends asked me what does it mean. Actually, I had the same question. I went to probation officer and she said that I have to find it by my self or coordinator will assign me to do something. I selected second option and was assigned to one of the community centres.

Staring from this point if you get community hours you have two options: finish it as soon as possible or do it slowly and relaxed. I wanted finish it over asap to spend later more time on weekends with my son. I have just finished it today! so... what did I do? here it is:

clear windows and mirrors:


mop a floor in a party rooms after parties. The Canadian flag is a symbolic here :-)






again - mop a floor in washrooms



Clean corridirors floor - I love this assistant now :-)



Desinfect floor in washrooms:




and ... just kidding:



Not bad at all. My environment and people were very friendly!

What I want say at the end is that I was not doing it alone. There are community centre's employees working there.
They do it from day to day. Every time I was leaving home, they were saying "thank you". One day guy, who works there brought his kid, who was helping us as well.
so.. people, every time you go for swimming or skating to community centre and if you see clean, think that somebody does it for you.
I very respect people who do it for our good life.

P.S.
I am a pro glass cleaner now :-)