I won a contest and was interviewed on the radio

    My college decided to do a Giving Tuesday contest. To win people had to use the hashtag #CDIiskind and post pictures of themselves doing nice things for homeless people and society. I gave money to a homeless person and bought coffee and food for another. I also picked up litter from the ground outside and threw it away in the trash can. 

    I ended up winning on Twitter! There were two rewards to choose from but in my heart and mind I had already decided that donating was the best prize. I just wanted to give back to Canada and to Winnipeg so I chose a charity and asked CDI College to donate the funds there. CDI College loved my choice and decided to donate a thousand dollars to my charity, which is the downtown Salvation Army, Centre of Hope shelter.

    Word got around of my generosity and of the college's great contest reward. 680 CJOB decided to ask me if they could interview me about it and I accepted. I was very nervous but the phone interview was quick and painless. Over the phone radio interviews are actually pretty cool and fun. They connect my voice to what's going on at the radio station and then broadcast everything on the air. I really enjoyed this experience. I thank God and my college and Canada. Their really are angels in the (radio) airwaves.

    To listen to the short interview please click this sentence and once on the website click on "Jenna Bourgoing Donated..."

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My interview was saved here too

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The charity I donated to

The door to the SA shelter

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I filmed and edited a short movie for class

    I've always thought that filming things and editing videos was a cool pastime. I wanted to try it but never had the time, until now. Recently I've been learning how to use Adobe Premiere Pro to edit videos and music for my college class. My final assignment was to produce a video with effects to demonstrate my video editing skills and what I had learned. This was just the task I needed to push my creativity to the next level. I asked my friend Terry Martin if I could interview him. He agreed. Since Terry is blind I thought it would be good to ask questions that helped other people understand what it would be like to be him. Terry didn't have a lot to say but I managed to piece meaningful tidbits together to give people a sense of who he is. I really liked choosing different video transitions and moving clips to make the video flow together better. Choosing the opening and ending music was also so much fun. I ended up with a short film under 5 minutes.

I think I'd enjoy interviewing small businesses and people about their life and work but anything more serious and dangerous like how reporters deal with dialogue during war times would not be for me. Being in a dangerous environment would be too stressful for me. I tend to become connected with the people I open dialogues with. Filming and interviewing someone is sort of intimate. I know it's a great thing to care, but I have to remind myself not to dwell on things I can't control or change. I am doing the best I can with what God has given me. I am working with what I've got and hopefully, eventually, I'll help make the world a little bit better for people.