JMM Speaking

CYAID Conference – Day Two

// May 14th, 2010 // Awareness, Drinking & Driving, Survivor, burn

Waking up in Regina was nice this morn. I had a bit of quiet time this morning when I woke up so I decide to go through my presentation a few times. Once Brianna woke up we went for a nice breakfast at a local restaurant. After breaky we headed for some Tim Horton’s coffee. With our Timmy’s in hand we headed back to the University and prepped for my presentation at 3pm.

After lunch we saw the “We to Me” presentation with Raymond Ablack, wow what an amazing presentation. Raymond is a very captivating speaker and his story was great. For more on “We to Me” and what they are doing please visit www.wetome.com.

I stepped out of the presentation at 2:30pm for a quick interview with Barbara from the Leader Post. The interview is now online at http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Survivor+deadly+crash+speaks+Canadian+Youth+Against+Impaired+Driving+conference+Regina/3030563/story.html if you’d like to check it out. After the interview the students had started filling out and that was my cue for me to start setting up for my presentation. I entered the auditorium and on stage was a swarm of teenage girls and in the center was Raymond Ablack. Once the girls were finished with Raymond I started getting setup for my presentation.

The presentation started on time and I was introduced by a sweet girl. I have never presented to a more attentive audience and when you have such an attentive audience it makes the presentation that much easier to deliver. After the presentation the students all gave me a warm standing ovation. There were so many great questions from the students. When they ask great question you know the students are listening.  Once the questions were done the students all came up on stage and had their pictures taken with me individually. This was the first time for this for me but it was great to have the students come up after.

We had a nice supper with the students and after supper all the students got on busses and headed for the RCMP Museum. We followed in our rental car and arrived at the RCMP Museum where we watched a short video and then toured the museum.

Once we left the museum we went for a drive around the city of Regina. We stopped at the Casino here and won $100 and decided to leave while we were up. Now we are back at the University and settled in for a quiet night.

Now we are off to bed. Again thanks for reading my blog and please share it with anyone you think should read it. Please come back soon.