Career Day

One of my many secondary projects is working with Avanoa Tutusa which is an NGO started by Peace Corps volunteers that does different projects with youth development. Every year we put on a career day for year 12 and 13 students at the National University of Samoa. We invited businesses and government agencies in Samoa to come and have a booth in order to inform the kids on different career opportunities that are available after graduation. Needless to say, a LOT of work was put into this and thankfully it was, once again, a huge success.

Our fearless Avanoa Tutusa leaders, Tim and Erin. I also like the little girl bathing in the waterfall in the background...everyone is having fun at career day!

Eric's job was to serenade us. His booth was for the music school he works for.

Students checking out a booth

My boys from the Red Cross had a great setup

Tim being interviewed for the paper

Meghan and Miss Samoa! I was so slick after this pic, the only thing I could think to say to her was "I like your sash."...God! Idiot!

Dr. Thomsen! This is the same doctor that helped Dad and I with the 2 different health clinics when Dad visited. He is pretty much the man. We asked him to give the keynote speech for career day, since, like I said, he's the man.

What does 1500 Samoan kids in a fale look like?

Our panel of speakers. That's Tim and Dr. T on the end

The students flooding into the fale for the beginning of career day