Vocational Visits & Va-va-voom!

So today was my first vocational visit - Melissa, Olivier and I went to the Public Broadcasting Station in Yreka. Although television is not specifically in my field of interest, I was able to pick up some ideas for one of my passions (making a short film some day)



After this we went to Mount Shasta, which is believed by some to be the path to the centre of the earth - very beautiful!



Our hosts Vinnie and Diane are such good sports in Big Red (our truck) to take us around the place especially with a storm approaching! We had such a lovely day even stopping in a town called Weed! You know we bought a lot of stuff there - postcards and other such souvenirs of course!

The highlight for my trip today though would have to be the Senior Project at Etna High School. I wish we had something like this in the Caribbean. The senior year students had 6-8 months to work on something they had never done before and present it in the school hall. The support by the community who came out tonight was overwhelming. Me, I just got kicks from walking down an American High School Hall (hey, too much Dawson's Creek, Glee, Popular) for me. It was so cool seeing the auditions up on the notice board - just like High School Musical!) Anyways the projects displayed were AMAZING! From gunsmithing, to nail acrylics, to baking, to organising a fun run, to website design! And to hear these students present on their topic...wow wow wow!



This student restored these two guns - on the right is Gary, one of the hosts for Melissa from Trinidad!



This student's project was awarded most ambitious - as she created a show, had rehearsals, wrote a script, and then executed the performance!