Day Two Arrival at Waterloo

………….We arrived in the morning to Waterloo University. Upon arrival we were welcomed with open arms by the Tamil Students Association. Knowing the problems they faced in the past, going into this we had a feeling that the question and answer period that followed our teach-in would be intense.

We then decided to take the initiative to go out to the FEDS (the student Union on campus) to drop off a media package, and to formally tell them about our campaign and to invite them to our teach-in. Following that we had also contacted the school newspaper on campus IMPRINT. This was a great success for us because they had assured us that they would write an article about the campaign in the following news publication.

The teach-in was successful, as a couple dozen of students showed up and they were genuinely interested. This time we went through the presentation and split it up into four different parts, and four different people, not only did we finish on time, the audience was more engaged in the presentation. As the presentation was nearing the end, we noticed that many Tamil Students did not know the seriousness of the genocide that was occurring, and many of them pledged to volunteer time for CanadianHART and the Genocide Campaign it self.

Following the teach-in many of the Waterloo students, although in exams, still did what they could to help us out. We split the team up into three, one team went to the MP’s office, the others were leaf-letting, and the final group was doing what they could to meet and network with the other groups on campus.

The day is not done, because they were impressed, the Tamil Students Association asked us to do another teach-in later in the day for the students who could not make it due to the exams that they were doing. Day two was a success and I look forward to tomorrow, until then……………