Sarah Leishman-Social Worker

Sarah seemed like a really quit, soft spoken individual; but maybe her job needs her to be that way. She told us a lot of what it's like working with different people, and listening to what has happened in their lives. I don't think it's a easy job at all, because you have to listen to some horrible things that some people have had to overcome. She told us how you have to be strong mentally and emotionally, and have a mature attitutde towards everyone. Also, she mentioned that many social workers do not make a lot of money and I was really surprised that they don't. Sarah also bought yarn with her, and each person held on the one piece of it, then threw it to someone else while saying smoeone who is important in their life, and I thought that was  a really neat idea. Personally, I don't think I could be a social worker just because of the emtotional aspect of it all.

Ann Liebau-Midwife

I thought she was really good and interesting! She talked about a lot of different things like the type of education you need, how much the pay is, and she even brought an example of how the baby would come out. Also, I enjoyed how she brought one of the students in training, and she really gave me a good idea of what the job is like, and what it takes to be able to do it. It made me really interested in what they do, and I even considered it as a career after highschool.

Scott Wahl

His talk about RIM and Blackberrys was good, but a little boring in my opinion. Whenever someone asked him a question, he wouldn't directly answer it. He would talk about something else relating to it, but not answer the actual question. For the msot part, I thought he had a lot of interesting things to say.

Jen- Prof of enviromental science

I give her a lot of credit for everything she had done so far. She has gone to school for over 8 years, she has a family to take care of and yet she still finds the time to be a teacher. She had so many interesting things to talk about like her school, and how she got to where she is. Her daughters were a little bit of a distraction, so at times it was hard to focus on everything she was saying. Overall, I really liked how she was talking with us and getting our input on everything instead of just talking to us and us starring at her.

Judith Koeller

Personally, I thought the way she described her job as being a math prof was really boring. I have never wanted to be a teacher, and her explanation about it made me back away from the thought even further. I thought she wasn't that great of a speaker, and she jsut kept me really bored for most of the time she was in the class.

Melissa Durrell

Melissa was a really good speaker and she had a lot of interesting things to say. I have never really thought of a journalist, or a city councillor as a career, but after she talked about them it got me really interested in the idea.I have always enjoyed reading and writing, but I thought of it as more of a hobby to do in my spare time, than do it full time. It definitely opened my eyes more about this field of work and that they really do way more exciting things than just sit and write all day. It seems like ones of those careers where something new happens everyday/

Ken North- Firefighter

Firefighters do a lot more in our communitry than I ever thought they did. All this time, I figured the only thing they do is put out fires, but turns out they do many more things. They rescue people, put out fires and come to different crime scences to keep our city safe and secure. I have gained a lot of respect and appreciation for the jobs they do on a daily basis. They risk their lives everday just to make ours a little better.