Hello.

Let this post be known as my very first blog relating my thoughts and observations concerning my time spent at CDI, taking the addictions counselor course. Considering how I like to make things pretty, you can expect this blog to get more elaborate than it right now, so if it seems a little plain now, just give it some time ;-). I have every intention to update this blog daily, especially since blogging is something I actually rather enjoy.

Let me start off by introducing myself and letting you all know a little bit more about me, and why I have chosen to take this course in the first place. My name is R.Marcus Gaudry. Yes, you will note I use my middle name, and just for fun, I challenge you to take a guess as to what the first initial stands for. I live in Port Coquitlam, and get around mostly by walking, or transit. This is for "political" reasons as well as "therapeutic" reasons. I am an addict in recovery-on the day I write this it is just a little over six years. Walking and transit allows for exercises and takes out the road rage factor for stress management. This is part of my recovery. Also, a significant, if not essential, component for my recovery is to help others in their recovery as well. What I have learned very clearly over the past six years is to keep the recovery I have, I have to give it away. Which is the main reason why I am taking this course.

I should add now that in recovery, I have been called into a relationship with Jesus Christ, and in that calling I have been called to share what I have with others, especially the homeless. I ask that you take this on faith, as I have. Therefore, much of this blog will probably relate in someone with the ever growing homelessness and poverty situation in the Lower Mainland, and quite possibly in the Tri-City area. After all, these are the people I feel the strongest passion to help.

There. Now you know who I am. Pleased to meet you. Please feel free to introduce yourself.

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