Well, its official folks. I am no longer a teenager as of 4:20 a.m yesterday morning. With a new decade of my life starting, I though I would make some new goals and do some new things.
First things first, I must "rename" my blog-. I have decided to leave the same URL (to avoid making new business cards), but change the title. The second thing was to give my blog a facelift. I kept the same concept, just changed some font and color choices. I think it looks a tad more sophisticated :)
I also thought I could take a moment and look back on my life, see what I have accomplished and maybe make a few new goals for this upcoming decade, or a "Bucket list" of sorts.
So a few things I have accomplished in my first 19 years of life:
-Won Grand Champion Steer at a cattle show.
- Finalist in Alberta 4-H Provincal Public Speaking
-Travelled to Japan for a month on my own.
-Travelled to Italy and Vatican City.
- Won a selections trip from Alberta 4-H (National Citizenship Seminar 2011)
- Accepted (and soon to complete) an agricultural diploma. (Animal Science)
- Travelled to Nashville, TN, and went to the Grand Ole Opry.
- Attended the National Western Stock Show in Denver, CO.
- Became an agvocate, and started a blog.
-Achieved my Platinum Award of Excellence with Alberta 4-H.
-Accepted to the University of Lethbridge to complete my degree.
-Elected as the President for the Lakeland College Students' Association-Vermilion campus.
-Accepted to interview for the Cattlemens Young Leaders mentorship program.
Wow, when you put it down on paper it seems like so much more. So this has got me thinking about some things I would like to complete in the future:
- Be accepted into the Cattlemens Young Leaders mentorship program.
-Apply to University of Calgary to get my Vetrenarian Medicine degree.
-Travel to Costa Rica to do a Vet Tech program.
-Go on an Alaskian Cruise.
- Become a Professional Agrologist with the Alberta Insitute of Agrologists
-Attend a championship sports event (Grey Cup, Stanley Cup, etc).
- Gain my 3 and 5 year leader pins with Alberta 4-H.
- Get $20,000 in scholarships (already at $18,350- not much more to go!!!!!!!)
I am very happy with the first 2 decades of my life, and I can not wait to see what this next decade has in store for me.
Showing posts with label Nashville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nashville. Show all posts
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
NashVegas Pt 2
Sorry I have not tending to my blog in a longggggg time- everything with school and extra-cirricular stuff is just hectic!
I have not forgotten about you! I just needed some breathing time!
So here is my second part to my Nashville adventures!
The theme of the conference with my fellow AgNerds was an interesting one. Beyond the Choir- we are trying to educate the people who have never been on a farm to learn about agriculture!
We had so many differnet and amazing speakers fit into the two day conference, it was so much to take in- but well wortht it!
Jennifer Dahm came and spoke to us regarding what consumer research has told us about agriculture. Consumers individually think farmers are great, research shows they have concerns how we do our business, how we raise the food. Which really got us thinking about how we need to market ourselves.
We then had a pannel of Mommy bloggers come in and share with us what they feel consumers are fearing in the processing of their food. Rachel came and spoke to us regarding feeding a family with food allergies. Shanna gave us a great opinion from a mothers perspective, and was joined by Lindsay.
We also had alot of great speakers helping us on specific needs for our posts- like pictures and how to format links. As well as a few roundtable discussions about what we feel is an issue in our area and how we can all call on each other to help when we have someone fighting the ag community.
The AgChat Foundation put on an excellent conference on how to effectively use social media for agricultural advocacy- or Agvocacy.
If you have a chance to attend- I would highly recommend it, as you learn alot of invaluable skills.
I have not forgotten about you! I just needed some breathing time!
So here is my second part to my Nashville adventures!
The theme of the conference with my fellow AgNerds was an interesting one. Beyond the Choir- we are trying to educate the people who have never been on a farm to learn about agriculture!
We were asked to think of our A-Ha! moment- the time that we realized that we wanted to become Agvocates. Some of you may have already read my A-Ha! moment in a previous post that I did.
We had so many differnet and amazing speakers fit into the two day conference, it was so much to take in- but well wortht it!
Jennifer Dahm came and spoke to us regarding what consumer research has told us about agriculture. Consumers individually think farmers are great, research shows they have concerns how we do our business, how we raise the food. Which really got us thinking about how we need to market ourselves.
We then had a pannel of Mommy bloggers come in and share with us what they feel consumers are fearing in the processing of their food. Rachel came and spoke to us regarding feeding a family with food allergies. Shanna gave us a great opinion from a mothers perspective, and was joined by Lindsay.
We also had alot of great speakers helping us on specific needs for our posts- like pictures and how to format links. As well as a few roundtable discussions about what we feel is an issue in our area and how we can all call on each other to help when we have someone fighting the ag community.
The AgChat Foundation put on an excellent conference on how to effectively use social media for agricultural advocacy- or Agvocacy.
If you have a chance to attend- I would highly recommend it, as you learn alot of invaluable skills.
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