October 12- 19th

It’s been a busy week for me. I started of at a weekend event called Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference. This was in Edmonton at the Grant MacEwan College. It brought together youth from Alberta’s Aboriginal tribes. There were interesting sessions for participants to attend which included: music and dance, story telling, youth empowerment to name a few.

After the event I headed off to Lloydminster to start recruiting in Eastern Alberta. It was a short recruiting week that took me through the beautiful rural Alberta areas of Provost, Wainwright and Vegerville. It is the perfect time for travel as the fall colors are beautiful. One of the coolest things I saw was hay bails set up to say “HI” unfortunately I didn’t have my camera ready. I did many presentations to students during this trip and was able to answer lots of questions about SAIT’s programs, and student services.

I headed back to Edmonton where Jay met me for ELAA’s Annual Counsellor Conference. This was a great opportunity to meet Counsellors and Career Practitioners from all over Alberta. After the event all of the recruiters went to West Edmonton Mall for an evening of bowling. I particularly enjoyed this night as I beat Jay (who claimed to be a competitive bowler) by 12 points.