Gregory Mayer

From July 4 to July 18 2010, I will be volunteering in Veles, Macedonia, for Habitat for Humanity. I’ve set-up a separate blog to let people know how my preparations and adventures in Macedonia go. I'll be blogging my updates on my experiences as a Habitat for Humanity volunteer.

I'm volunteering in Macedonia because I’m interested in learning more about that area of the world. I had a very successful trip last summer in Hungary, and decided that I wanted to go on another Habitat trip in a nearby country to learn more about Eastern Europe.

I climbed the CN Tower stairs yesterday for the WWF in about 21 minutes. It was my third time participating for the annual event, and hope to take part in it again next year. Maybe it was just that it was the 20th anniversary of the WWF climb, but it was very well organized and I felt great the whole time I was there.

Thankfully, after a busy few months at the end of 2009, I've been able to get back into volunteer website design in my spare time over the winter. The first website I've completed since last summer was just finished. Check out http://lindyledohowski.com/

I recently completed a website for the Student Life Centre at the University of Waterloo:

http://www.slc.uwaterloo.ca

I was given all the content for the site, and used the university CLF template, which made my job of arranging all the content very easy. I did most of the work for this project with Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

I attended my convocation ceremony last Friday morning (June 12, 2009). I was glad I attended the event, despite having to hobble around on my crutches (I fractured a few bones in my left foot playing squash a few weeks ago). It was especially nice to have gone, as I was unable to attend my undergraduate and masters convocation ceremonies. But last Friday was a perfect, sunny day, and my mother was overjoyed to be there.