past green party help

I had attended some of a BC green party event on Vancouver island while there for a university gathering/ vacation. Upon getting onto the ferry for the drive home with my new green party friend Robert Mellalieu, i learned that he volunteered us to host the upcoming green party provincial AGM. He did most of the organizing, but i helped organize entertainment and felt the family of Adam Olsen could use some fun time with the horses. There has to be some perks to being a politicians child when he must be so stressed must of the time! I also last minute offered my home to people that may have wanted to attend but felt the conference pretty pricey. I had no idea that i would get a few musicians staying over and would end up with a lifetime friendship out of one who came from Vernon (she lives out East with her now husband, but we would meet over music events and she would help with some pony rides and other activities with the horses a few times too). The bus system is very limited between Vernon and Kelowna on weekends so Trista would not have been able to attend if she had not had a place to stay Friday night. I was very impressed with her in that she was unemployed at the time because although she had an environmental education background she refused to work for oil companies, which were the only ones she found that were hiring her skill set.

My favorite memory was probably of the young boy Silus when he said something like how he dreamed of riding a horse and that his dream came true. Fittingly, he rode Magic.

I had tried to make a "the buck starts here" theme at the event, meaning fun, so was really happy to get Mr Olsen's family riding Morris, our bucking barrel!

I ran federally in 2015 as a paper candidate in Quebec. On my own accord, I visited the riding i would be a contestant for. Salaberry Suroit is a very beautiful area near the border of Ontario and the United States. I had taken French through out high school but it has been used infrequently since and never on a conversational level. Not living in the riding or being fluently bilingual gave quite the ammo to people not wanting me to have any votes, but the final shot would be reading in a local paper something to the effect "that the green party candidate Silverado Socrates, has probably never set foot in Quebec" while I was sitting in a pub having fun playing pool with a couple of residents that had been speaking English when I arrived there. Both lived there but had lived in the United States too and were very fluent in both languages. I had been sleeping on the couch of a resident i had met when i arrived in the community, so decided the next day to head to Montreal for my final night and stay in a hostel so that i could have a relaxing day and evening before my flight. The evening after the pub experience, i had worked on one of my songs with one of the people i met. She helped me to translate the chorus into French. She also had suggested i record it, but i did not feel it was finished enough. Once a little rested and back home in the Okanagan (and on a proper computer, not a smart phone) i responded to the local paper and told them that i had read the article while in the riding. I also said that i had once raced in Montreal as an athlete. I would get an email back asking how i liked their town. I responded how it was a very nice place and that I had been inspired to record many of my songs in French and English. True facts. Unfortunately, most of my songs are not recorded in English, let alone translated to French. I know many musicians and people in the francophone community but that is a project of passion and time that one cannot expect to be given for free. I do play it sometimes at open mics and often do at least one of the chorus in French. Having more of my songs recorded completely in French as well as English is a goal though. I believe that doing so will make for a great learning tool since many of the songs are geared to fun, holistic living.