by Shaneen Robinson
March 17, 2009. Pelican Rapids, MB
Completed 3 – 1 hour presentations with about 20 youth in each group.
Great response – a lot of questions and enjoyed prizes.
Spoke about school, center, culture, volunteering, environment, suicide, hard work, positive life, pride, and NARMP.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Aboriginal Day: Discovering Our Futures and Honouring Our Past
by Ry Moran
March 10, 2009. Dover Bay, Nanaimo, BC
The visit for me began at about 9:30 in the morning when I departed my home in Victoria and headed to Nanaimo. It was a beautiful sunny day and the drive was a pleasure. I arrived at the school about a half hour early giving me plenty of time to set up my powerpoint presentation.
Students began arriving at 12:30, and after a quick introduction, I began my talk.
Since I was speaking to an audience of business students, music students, and aboriginal youth, I tried to blend all of those subjects into the talk. This wasn’t too hard for me to do because I have a real passion for all of those subjects.
During this talk, I tried to get students to think about all of the many options that are out there for them. I also asked questions, that I hope, got them thinking about some of the bigger questions in how they approach their careers.
These question are easy to say – the Why’s and What If’s – but when applied are, in my opinion, quite powerful and motivating.
One challenge for me in this talk was to keep speaking for 40 full minutes. That is quite a bit of time to prepare for. My powerpoint presentation really only took me through 25 minutes of the talk.
Fortunately for me, I can talk for hours on these topics and did so. We talked about Mentors and how to accelerate personal growth through them. A number of students also ask some really great questions that helped the conversation flow well. All and all, I had a lot of fun and I hope the students got some valuable information out of the talk.
March 10, 2009. Dover Bay, Nanaimo, BC
The visit for me began at about 9:30 in the morning when I departed my home in Victoria and headed to Nanaimo. It was a beautiful sunny day and the drive was a pleasure. I arrived at the school about a half hour early giving me plenty of time to set up my powerpoint presentation.
Students began arriving at 12:30, and after a quick introduction, I began my talk.
Since I was speaking to an audience of business students, music students, and aboriginal youth, I tried to blend all of those subjects into the talk. This wasn’t too hard for me to do because I have a real passion for all of those subjects.
During this talk, I tried to get students to think about all of the many options that are out there for them. I also asked questions, that I hope, got them thinking about some of the bigger questions in how they approach their careers.
These question are easy to say – the Why’s and What If’s – but when applied are, in my opinion, quite powerful and motivating.
One challenge for me in this talk was to keep speaking for 40 full minutes. That is quite a bit of time to prepare for. My powerpoint presentation really only took me through 25 minutes of the talk.
Fortunately for me, I can talk for hours on these topics and did so. We talked about Mentors and how to accelerate personal growth through them. A number of students also ask some really great questions that helped the conversation flow well. All and all, I had a lot of fun and I hope the students got some valuable information out of the talk.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Honour Your Health Challenge Community Dinner
by Ry Moran
March 5, 2009. Brentwood Bay, BC
My visit to Brentwood Bay Elementary Honor Your Health Challenge Community Dinner was a wonderful evening.
The evening consisted of a large number of students being recognized for their abitilty to complete and stick to the Provincial Honor Your Health Challenge. Students were asked to make healthy choices, eat well, drink 8 glasses of water per day and so on.
Since it takes a whole family to support a child in this type of challenge, family members were included in the evening.
My presentation consisted of a five minute talk to the kids. This was a challenge as I had to come up with a motivational talk to young people aged kindergarten to grade 4. I think I came up with a couple of themes that tied into their lives – at least I hope I did!
After my talk, a number of the students sang a traditional song. It really warmed my heart to see these traditions incorporated into the public school system. Both aboriginal and non aboriginal students sang together which was really great.
Afterwards we had a great dinner of chicken, potatoes and salad.
A wonderful night for all.
March 5, 2009. Brentwood Bay, BC
My visit to Brentwood Bay Elementary Honor Your Health Challenge Community Dinner was a wonderful evening.
The evening consisted of a large number of students being recognized for their abitilty to complete and stick to the Provincial Honor Your Health Challenge. Students were asked to make healthy choices, eat well, drink 8 glasses of water per day and so on.
Since it takes a whole family to support a child in this type of challenge, family members were included in the evening.
My presentation consisted of a five minute talk to the kids. This was a challenge as I had to come up with a motivational talk to young people aged kindergarten to grade 4. I think I came up with a couple of themes that tied into their lives – at least I hope I did!
After my talk, a number of the students sang a traditional song. It really warmed my heart to see these traditions incorporated into the public school system. Both aboriginal and non aboriginal students sang together which was really great.
Afterwards we had a great dinner of chicken, potatoes and salad.
A wonderful night for all.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Ecole Phoenix Middle School
by Suzette Amaya
March 3, 2009. Campbell River, BC
When I walked into the classroom I was impressed all the students were so attentive and interested! This classroom is AMAZING, I love that this school teaches Kwakwala, I wish I went to your school, you are all so lucky, being that I am also of the Kwakwala Speaking Peoples (GwaSala-Nakwaxda’xw Nation), and seeing the beautiful Art around the class and such a wonderful supportive teachers!
Thank you for having me in your supa sope classroom, I hope to keep in touch with ya’ll and def be seeing ya at a soccer Tournament in your neck of the wood in the summer! HUGZ! Gilakasla!
March 3, 2009. Campbell River, BC
When I walked into the classroom I was impressed all the students were so attentive and interested! This classroom is AMAZING, I love that this school teaches Kwakwala, I wish I went to your school, you are all so lucky, being that I am also of the Kwakwala Speaking Peoples (GwaSala-Nakwaxda’xw Nation), and seeing the beautiful Art around the class and such a wonderful supportive teachers!
Thank you for having me in your supa sope classroom, I hope to keep in touch with ya’ll and def be seeing ya at a soccer Tournament in your neck of the wood in the summer! HUGZ! Gilakasla!
“Footprints Towards the Future” – Aboriginal Spring Career Fair:
by Suzette Amaya
March 3, 2009. Campbell River, BC
Aaawww… Campbell River, such a beautiful community, just a hop skip and jump to my home town in Port Hardy, I was so honoured to be able to come to speak to youth that are apart of the Kwa Kwala speaking People and share my personal story with those I have so much in common with, growing up in the North Island!
This conference was so well organized and I was so happy to see such a great attendance ;) I was so in Aaawww as the audience was captivated and attentive when I spoke that I felt so grateful to be able to be apart of a conference that had so much to offer. I was supa cool to be able to share my experience a one of the National Role Models and sign posters, take photos etc. that I HOPE and ENCOURAGE this Campbell River to nominate a Role Model out of one of their own, cause I can totally sense that there are definitely healthy and positive youth there are future leaders!
Thanks to the guyz who interviewed and filmed me during my presentation, it was so wonderful to see aspiring youth in Media, which is my absolute FAV niche in the Journey towards Aboriginal Peoples sharing their contemporary stories! Thanks Guyz! HUGZ!
Waws also awesome to be introduced by an o’l friend Dale Hunt whom I went to High School with in Port Hardy ayayayay!!! ;) He is DEF a Role Model as well! Thank you Freda for being such a wonderful Host and all the Ladies who were so kind to me and inspire me with their dedication to the community and the youth! Lotsa HUGZ to all of you and DEF be seeing you in the future! Halakasla and Gilakasla!
March 3, 2009. Campbell River, BC
Aaawww… Campbell River, such a beautiful community, just a hop skip and jump to my home town in Port Hardy, I was so honoured to be able to come to speak to youth that are apart of the Kwa Kwala speaking People and share my personal story with those I have so much in common with, growing up in the North Island!
This conference was so well organized and I was so happy to see such a great attendance ;) I was so in Aaawww as the audience was captivated and attentive when I spoke that I felt so grateful to be able to be apart of a conference that had so much to offer. I was supa cool to be able to share my experience a one of the National Role Models and sign posters, take photos etc. that I HOPE and ENCOURAGE this Campbell River to nominate a Role Model out of one of their own, cause I can totally sense that there are definitely healthy and positive youth there are future leaders!
Thanks to the guyz who interviewed and filmed me during my presentation, it was so wonderful to see aspiring youth in Media, which is my absolute FAV niche in the Journey towards Aboriginal Peoples sharing their contemporary stories! Thanks Guyz! HUGZ!
Waws also awesome to be introduced by an o’l friend Dale Hunt whom I went to High School with in Port Hardy ayayayay!!! ;) He is DEF a Role Model as well! Thank you Freda for being such a wonderful Host and all the Ladies who were so kind to me and inspire me with their dedication to the community and the youth! Lotsa HUGZ to all of you and DEF be seeing you in the future! Halakasla and Gilakasla!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Pauktuuti Sexual Health Conference
by Jennifer Williams
February 24 – 27, 2009. Kuujjuaq, QC
I had arrived in Kuujjuaq and met up with a lot of people I had known from previous conferences and had not seen in a long while so that was great! There were also a lot of new faces that I was glad to meet. The area where the conference was being held was very open and great, I was glad they had the tables all put in a very large circle.
The community was very welcoming and the land very beautiful. I met a girl who was wearing a very beautiful caribou fur kamiks and told her I HAD to have a pair like it, so I got her email and name to keep in contact. Later that day I looked at the name and noticed it was “Mesher” which is my Great-Grandfather’s last name. So I asked her where her family was from and she told me Labrador, so we found out that her Grandfather and my Great-Grandfather were brothers and I had a whole lot of cousins who lives in Kuujjuaq that I didn’t even know about!
We cisited the high school as well and that went very good, I seen all of these years role model’s posters laminated, some of the kids recognized me from the poster. The presentations all went very well and I hope to visit Kuujuaq again some time for sure!!
At the conference I gave a 20 min. presentation, first I spoke about who I was, where I am living now and where I am from. I told them about the many travels I have been on and told it all in order from when I started travelling as a teenager. I spoke of the hard way I had to grow up and the many obstacles I had to overcome to get where I am at today and told them it is very possible for them to do the same.
I had a slideshow presentation of photos to show starting from about 5 years ago up to now all in order from the things I have been doing. I played music in the background and also had inspirational quotes in between each phase of what I was doing in the photos. The presentation went very well and everyone was very quiet and concentrated on what I was saying and showing them. There were about 50 or more youth.
I also facilitated the group workshops for the conference. I did a presentation in the high school as well with about 10 students. There were 3 other youth from the conference learning facilitating and helping out to speak. We spoke to the kids about sexual health and playe some games where we asked them questions about sexual health and when they answered I gave them a prize from the NARMP box I had with me.
I explained about the role model program at both presentations and also went to a few other classrooms after my presentation in the high school class to tell the students about the program and to hand out brochures and info, I also dropped off info at the school office to be handed out if anyone wanted it. Everything went very well and it was a successful trip.
I had a lot of positive feedback from the youth at the conference, I was told by them that they did learn a lot and were inspired by what I had to say.
February 24 – 27, 2009. Kuujjuaq, QC
I had arrived in Kuujjuaq and met up with a lot of people I had known from previous conferences and had not seen in a long while so that was great! There were also a lot of new faces that I was glad to meet. The area where the conference was being held was very open and great, I was glad they had the tables all put in a very large circle.
The community was very welcoming and the land very beautiful. I met a girl who was wearing a very beautiful caribou fur kamiks and told her I HAD to have a pair like it, so I got her email and name to keep in contact. Later that day I looked at the name and noticed it was “Mesher” which is my Great-Grandfather’s last name. So I asked her where her family was from and she told me Labrador, so we found out that her Grandfather and my Great-Grandfather were brothers and I had a whole lot of cousins who lives in Kuujjuaq that I didn’t even know about!
We cisited the high school as well and that went very good, I seen all of these years role model’s posters laminated, some of the kids recognized me from the poster. The presentations all went very well and I hope to visit Kuujuaq again some time for sure!!
At the conference I gave a 20 min. presentation, first I spoke about who I was, where I am living now and where I am from. I told them about the many travels I have been on and told it all in order from when I started travelling as a teenager. I spoke of the hard way I had to grow up and the many obstacles I had to overcome to get where I am at today and told them it is very possible for them to do the same.
I had a slideshow presentation of photos to show starting from about 5 years ago up to now all in order from the things I have been doing. I played music in the background and also had inspirational quotes in between each phase of what I was doing in the photos. The presentation went very well and everyone was very quiet and concentrated on what I was saying and showing them. There were about 50 or more youth.
I also facilitated the group workshops for the conference. I did a presentation in the high school as well with about 10 students. There were 3 other youth from the conference learning facilitating and helping out to speak. We spoke to the kids about sexual health and playe some games where we asked them questions about sexual health and when they answered I gave them a prize from the NARMP box I had with me.
I explained about the role model program at both presentations and also went to a few other classrooms after my presentation in the high school class to tell the students about the program and to hand out brochures and info, I also dropped off info at the school office to be handed out if anyone wanted it. Everything went very well and it was a successful trip.
I had a lot of positive feedback from the youth at the conference, I was told by them that they did learn a lot and were inspired by what I had to say.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Middle Years Respect Assembly
by Channing Lavallée
February 6, 2009. Yellowquill School: Portage La Prairie, MB
My visit to Yellowquill School was a very great experience. When I first arrived at the school I was very nervous to be presenting to such a large group of youth.
However my nerves calmed once I got to meet some of the students.
Mrs. Adamson as well as the rest of the Yellowquill faculty and students were very hospitable.
I truly enjoyed presenting to the students and hope that I was able to have a positive influence on them. I look forward to my next community visit.
February 6, 2009. Yellowquill School: Portage La Prairie, MB
My visit to Yellowquill School was a very great experience. When I first arrived at the school I was very nervous to be presenting to such a large group of youth.
However my nerves calmed once I got to meet some of the students.
Mrs. Adamson as well as the rest of the Yellowquill faculty and students were very hospitable.
I truly enjoyed presenting to the students and hope that I was able to have a positive influence on them. I look forward to my next community visit.
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