My potentional, my future.

Last night WUSC was responsible for coat check which was a fund-raiser for the student refugee program, a program that brings students studying in camps to come to Canada and study on different campuses. It's a very important cause and something I'm very passionate about and work hard to run on my campus. However the coat check was a real flop for the first year because at one door the ticketers weren't telling people about coat check, and also our signs didn't specify what the money went to. So people just hung up their coats on their chairs and instead of getting a hundred dollars we got about 60 (sixty coats). Myself and the other co-chair of the society were really upset about it and felt like real failures... but we learned from our mistake and managed to enjoy the rest of the night. We're having a few more events this week and we hope those will be more successful.

Anyway today I was begining to reseach for a paper I'm doing on the UN and I started looking into the different sectors of the UN. So I asked myself which one I would be interested in because I always vaguely though the UN would be a good organization for a person to work in since they are government and I would have a better chance of getting paid. So I looked into the UNHCR which also partners with WUSC and I started reading and watching videos and learning about the work they do. I realized that I know quite a bit about refugee camps right now perhaps what I should aim for is a career focus on refugee rights when I graduate. I could apply to intern with the UNHCR (as well as WUSC) and CIDA and probably move to Ottawa or to another centre in another country.

So I looked at their applications for internships and I looked at what I would be interested in- probably
* project management
* research
* water
* public information
* community and social services

I'd like to work teaching skills, like english, or technology or be int he community helping with gender equality, and distribution of goods etc.

What I need is to learn french asap, and volunteer with MISA, develop into a strong, organized and focused leader. This summer I'll get to great our new student and hope to God that WUSC can get things together and have leadership for the following year. Our membership is very low right now and it's very worrying. The group is running on the excutive presently and mostly myself and the other co-chair out of those. It's very hard work, and makes me wonder what we've done to have such little interest in WUSC and how we can change that. I've actually been thinking a lot about how I can advice next year without taking on full leadership and make changes in the way WUSC is run to make events more successful, with a higher profile and awaresness among students and be more origonal with things, and most importantly recruit and increase membership. Also how we can support the sponsered students better, have more fun and raise more money. I want to save halifax's WUSC smaller comitees from demise!! Even though WUSC stresses me out to an unimaginable extent I see it as an open door for me. I want to stay actively involved with it until I graduate, and hopefully be accepted to go on a WUSC trip for the summer of 2010, and then do speaking on my experiences, and be an internship for WUSC someday maybe. I want to make sure more people are able to attend the AGA next year!! I want to be one of those people who stand up at being involved for more then 4 years!! I want to be inspiration to new comittees and new comers to the AGA and WUSC. Maybe some day I'll be helping to plan the AGA!

For now I have to declare my major. Take summer courses and get caught up. Start working hard to learn french. Start saving to go away for the summer of 2010, then apply. Make up a CD or binder of tips and techniques for next years committee of things we've learned, and how to do things. I need to bring up my GPA so I can take honors. I need to see my achedemic adviser and see where I am with my courses. I need to get a part time job. Update my portfolio. Join the IDS society or ASEIC next year to make more connections. Make a list of things I'd like to see WUSC achieve next year. Have a brainstorming meeting with our members on how to make WUSC better. Graduate. Etc etc etc.