What I really enjoyed were the Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and Valentines’s parties. Was I ever full at the end of these days! I would really recommend this type of job to those to those individuals who are as wise as my mother, as strong as The Rock, as patient as Job, and as determined as a bull!

Between the various jobs mentioned, I also did volunteer work. I was also a Candy Striper in a nursing home in Birtle, Manitoba. As a Candy Striper my duties included serving supper to the elders, assisting nurses when they needed it, making evening snacks, and doing some cleaning. What I really enjoyed was the company of those elders because of the stories they told. The different committees that I volunteered to be on were the Sports Day Committee and the Pow-wow Committee. The Sports Day Committee had bingos twice a week for which I did the bookkeeping and sold cards. These were held on Wayway First Nation. On the Pow-Wow committee I had various duties that were assigned to me such as hiring security, receiving payments from a number of concessions and craft booths, arranging shifts for the committee canteen, spot checks, selling 50/50 tickets, and distributing prize payouts for every category of dance and drums. I also handled the budget and afterwards cleaned up. These were quite the learning experiences in management.

Carla Ledoux