"The library I was working from is a private library, and was not funded by the government – there were so many different cracks we fell into, but there is never ever a place that we landed and thought, this is a place where we could get some money!”

"I have more energy then I probably will as I get older. I’m sure I would love to get paid, but at the same time I enjoy what I’m doing, and I think I get things from it, and experiences and lessons learned from it that you can’t put a monetary value on."

"We did a scale – you know, because it’s usually excellent, good, satisfactory, poor? Instead, we did, ‘brap, brap’; ‘dope’; ‘aiiit”, and ‘wack’! They really responded well to that."

"I think a lot of them, when they come to our program, because we create that safe environment for their after school, it makes a lot of sense that they come and they want to unload all this stuff."

"One of the things that I thought was really fun was um, one of the tasks was to compare the garbage collection system in Montreal and Cairo - which would be a lot of fun if you had a clue where Cairo was. It's that type of thing that doesn't seem to translate into our particular environment. But it's a great idea on paper."