On the second day of our March Break Events at Antibes Community Center we ordered some pizza fro the group and had a discussion on the ANC project, the QuickStart Fund and the QSF application process. We had many of the same young men from the Slam- O Rama from the day before attend, which was great to see. We also had a few young ladies come out as well. Also in attendance was Benoit Tardif, Antibes Youth Outreach Worker; Sajjad and Tamia, two college placement students working with Benoit; and myself, Chilombo and Behrang.

We started off with introductions and a quick ice-breaker. We then did a brief presentation on the ANC project and our work in the neighbourhood. We then got into the Quick Start Fund and had the youth brainstorm and come up with 3 ideas each. They then filled out a survey/questionnaire that related to ideas for programs or events they wanted in the community center. We also had a discussion that followed.

We still had a few prizes left over from the basketball competitions so we decided to raffle them off before we got to the pizza. Two of the young ladies won baseball hats and quickly gave them back to us; they said they would never wear them. We promised to deliver some appropriate prizes for them in the near future. Everyone got into the pizza and just relaxed and had some jokes and a good time.

The main success that came out of this second day was that most of the boys (grade 7-10) were complaining about how the older youth (ages 18 – late 20's) dominated the free gym time at Antibes on Mondays and Wednesdays. Open gym time runs from 6pm – 11pm on those nights and the older youth basically dominate the whole 5 hours. I was able to speak with some of the youth staff and they agreed to have the gym only for the junior youth between the hours of 6pm – 8pm. And the senior youth could use the gym from 8pm – 11pm. They really appreciated this and I think this will show them that the process of voicing your request can result in positive action. We will also work with them on some of their ideas for Quick Start.