Westcast is awesome.
It was a lot of fun, and nice to meet students from other universities. The sessions, keynote speakers, and social events made for a great week/end. Westcast kicked off with a wine and cheese social which was a ton of fun. The dining room was set up nicely to allow for mingling amongst us educators. The game was a fun - definitely a good way for us to meet people from outside our university. And those bacon wrapped steaks... Yum!!
I was able to attend a few great sessions - Inclusion of Deaf Students in the Classroom, Weaving Magic: Using Music with Special Needs Children, Teamwork will 'Get it Done.' and some great keynote speakers, including the inspriational Hannah Taylor
from the Ladybug Foundation. The speaker I definitely enjoyed was Ian Ross. I used to listen to his 'Joe From Winnipeg' on CBC radio back home. I love how personal he made his speech as I find listening to personal stories can be more interesting than just straight lecture.
Hannah Taylor is definitely an inspirational young girl. It's amazing how much she has accomplished in such a short amount of time. I loved hearing her stories of the homeless men and women she has met in her travels. She has quite the heart to be comfortable interacting with the homeless in the way that she does. I admire her.
I love the group of girls I have classes with, and attending the social events with them was a lot of fun. The bud and spud night on thursday was a lot of fun, and we were lucky to have almost our whole class in attendance (Not sure where all the middle and senior years classes were;)...) Playing the Who Wants to be a Millionaire on Friday night was a lot of fun as well, I even dragged my boyfriend out to meet the girls.
I will definitely be attending next years Westcast in Calgary, and I think we are already making plans to attend with our class!
A HUGE thankyou to everyone who organized the event - it must have taken a lot of extra time and effort to put on such a big event.
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