Junior Team Canada!
May. 8th, 2002 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cherryGot back from Junior Team Canada today. Two days surrounded by the best and the brightest in our province, sleeping in Res at the University, speakers who are just amazing, and inspirational. We learned a little bit about just about everything, heard success stories from Saskatchewan and around the world.
We learned about international trade, and what it takes for a business to make it. We found out so much about Canada's (and Saskatchewan's) role in the world today, about globalization and how it will affect the world in the future. We learned what skills we're likely going to need for the future, and made contacts that could be incredibly useful. We learned to market, both ourselves and a product.
I also now know how the Synchrotron that's going up at the U of S is going to work. Those things are absolutely fascinating.
We had a networking lunch today, before we left, with various important figures from the local business community. I met some of the most awesome people. They really, really seemed to care about youth, and they had the best stories to tell. Paul Martin (The Saskatchewan one, not the Federal one) was at my table for lunch.
It wasn't just the speakers, and the presentations, and the mock situations, or the practice with development and marketing. The other students there were just as incredible. There was this group of us, just sitting in one of the rooms in Res, just talking about everything and anything. Not just the joking-barbs-funny-stories that my friends and I often do, but real, serious issues that affect the world around us. I mean, we joked and stuff too, and we laughed our heads off, but we also talked about the world around us, and had meaningful discussion.
They even fed us well.
Of course, that staying up late and talking had its drawbacks. I slept through wake up call. I think I must have, because I know I'm horrible at getting up, so a couple of people had promised to come knock at my door.
I wake up. I get up and pad on down to the shower. I figure I'm up early, because no one's around. I'm about half way there when I meet a couple of guys from the program. They're fully dressed, and I start to get this funny feeling in my stomach, so I stop them and ask them what time it is.
9:15, they tell me.
Breakfast started at 7:30.
At which point, I turn around, run back to my room, throw on my clothes, and rush back down to the Arts building. Only to get lost. Luckily, the nice lady pointed me in the right direction, and instead of being annoyed that I was late, the program coordinator was embarrassed that I'd been left to sleep.
I threw my resume in the pile for the JTC Economic Mission to China this summer, as well. 50 Youth from across the country will be selected. I know that I don't really have a chance, but if I hadn't put it in, I would have had no chance at all.
I can't express enough just how amazing the entire experience was. I really can't.
We learned about international trade, and what it takes for a business to make it. We found out so much about Canada's (and Saskatchewan's) role in the world today, about globalization and how it will affect the world in the future. We learned what skills we're likely going to need for the future, and made contacts that could be incredibly useful. We learned to market, both ourselves and a product.
I also now know how the Synchrotron that's going up at the U of S is going to work. Those things are absolutely fascinating.
We had a networking lunch today, before we left, with various important figures from the local business community. I met some of the most awesome people. They really, really seemed to care about youth, and they had the best stories to tell. Paul Martin (The Saskatchewan one, not the Federal one) was at my table for lunch.
It wasn't just the speakers, and the presentations, and the mock situations, or the practice with development and marketing. The other students there were just as incredible. There was this group of us, just sitting in one of the rooms in Res, just talking about everything and anything. Not just the joking-barbs-funny-stories that my friends and I often do, but real, serious issues that affect the world around us. I mean, we joked and stuff too, and we laughed our heads off, but we also talked about the world around us, and had meaningful discussion.
They even fed us well.
Of course, that staying up late and talking had its drawbacks. I slept through wake up call. I think I must have, because I know I'm horrible at getting up, so a couple of people had promised to come knock at my door.
I wake up. I get up and pad on down to the shower. I figure I'm up early, because no one's around. I'm about half way there when I meet a couple of guys from the program. They're fully dressed, and I start to get this funny feeling in my stomach, so I stop them and ask them what time it is.
9:15, they tell me.
Breakfast started at 7:30.
At which point, I turn around, run back to my room, throw on my clothes, and rush back down to the Arts building. Only to get lost. Luckily, the nice lady pointed me in the right direction, and instead of being annoyed that I was late, the program coordinator was embarrassed that I'd been left to sleep.
I threw my resume in the pile for the JTC Economic Mission to China this summer, as well. 50 Youth from across the country will be selected. I know that I don't really have a chance, but if I hadn't put it in, I would have had no chance at all.
I can't express enough just how amazing the entire experience was. I really can't.
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