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My small business in oil paintings

I ran my small business in oil paintings in Canada for two years ago, and I closed it right now.

At the end of 2007, a friend's husband talked with me about running a business together in oil paintings. Because I had an art and sales background, he thought I would be a good partner. I didn't think over it much and just join him. I invested money and worked 6 days a week. After the store was opened after one month, he changed his mind and just gave me a 40% bonus, and keeot the rest. I thought it was unfair. I talked with him, but he would not want give me any more. Actually, we were not partners, but he was my boss, I thought.

Then I quit that business. I was lucky that I didn't loss too much money, except my labour and time. But his behaviour irritated me. I decided to run the business by myself.

I researched on the Internet for finding a supplier in China and gave it some pictures to paint as oil paintings. I went back to China and saw the paintings. They didn't finish them all at that time, so I just saw the parts of them. When I went back to Canada, they shipped the paintings to me. I was so upset when I opened the boxes with the paintings, because the paintings are different from what I saw in China. I called them and asked them what was wrong there. They said they didn't know what happened, and if I wasn't satisfied with the paintings I could ship them back. Oh, my God.

It is easy to set up a business in Canada, but it is hard to run a business here. Finally, I chose to close my business. It was a bad investment.

What should I do and what I can do

Yesterday, we had a chance to meet with RBC volunteers, who wanted to help us modify the resume, and introduce some skills about interview.

STRUUUGGGGLED

I have been so struggled recently.

I joined a Career Exploration Program last month. It is a two-weeks program. In the first week, I did lots of tests for skills, such as language, numeracy, problem-solving.

I am good at some skills, but my English has some problems. I don't know the meaning of a lot of vocabulary. Even though the mathematics questions were so easy, I still needed some time to read and make sure of the meaning. So I run out of time to finish all the questions. I felt upset.

Most of my classmates in that program are native speakers or have been in Canada more than 20 years. They also have Canadian working experience and are on EI. I am different from them. I had never worked in Canada. Of course, I have no Canadian working experience. What I can do? In those two weeks, I thought of these questions and asked myself everyday. I think I need to make my heart stronger and not give up.

The facilitator gave us one word every morning. It was to encourage people to be positive. I like one of them, which says "It is the best time whenever you get starting."

I should start now.

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Look, the lady's necklace

This nice lady is so cute because when we want taking a picture with her, she gave us a professional pose. She showed of her necklace.

What kind of material is her necklace made from? Guess...

They are the bones of turkeys' necks. How she did make that, and how many turkeys' necks are needed?

When I was in ROM II

When I stepped in the area of animals section in ROM, I saw this scene----a raccoon reaches a garbage bin.


Various of plant specimens were shown there. I took a picture for Alphia. Because she was dressed in a red shirt on that day, and when she stood in the front of the screen, there were a beautiful picture over there. I will post that nice picture when I confirm with her if I could or she likes it.

The Butterfly is my favorite part of the insect specimens. They are so colourful, and different kinds of shapes of their wings. Every time I see a butterfly, I always imagine that it is a spirit.

See, there is a squirrel on the tree. It is so lifelike. It really likes eating things.