Never Give Up!

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I've always been the type of person who never liked giving up. I hated feeling defeated. I always pushed myself to do my best and see everything through. Even if it didn't work out at least I could say I tried.

A friend of mine recently told me that they felt like giving up on their education. They are so close to finishing their first year of Creative Communications. In the short time that I have know Tyler*, I know that this is something that he wants to be doing.

Tyler told me that he wants to get into radio. The Creative Communications program is something that can help him get their. Yes he is struggling to get through first year. First year is hard, second year is even harder. But if this is something that you want to do, push yourself and don't give up.

I've been telling Tyler to go and talk to his teachers, even the other teachers in the program to get help. He's been refusing mine when I've offered to look over his assignments. To me it seems obvious to go and talk to the teachers and get their advice. He won't do it. I'm at the point where I don't know how to help him anymore since he's refusing to help himself.

The last thing I want to do is give up on him, but I don't know how to help him anymore. I feel like he'll be letting himself down if he gives up.

This is essentially what Tyler told me. That he wasn't giving up, that he had just had enough and it wasn't worth putting his health at risk. He told me that he was feeling depressed from the way things were going at school. I felt sick hearing this. I wish he would talk to me but he refuses. Tyler said he will finish out the year but that he won't be coming back to finish his education. That post secondary isn't for him. I hope that he will take this into consideration.

Take A Moment to remember why you started something and keep pushing to see it through. Never Give Up!

*Name has been changed.

Spare Change?

Fundraising for a good cause can make you feel absolutely wonderful.

My Live Television Production class has been working hard to put on a telethon for the Winnipeg Humane Society. 

Bethany, Janessa, Megan and myself make up the fundraising team. It is our job to come up with different ways to raise money to go towards the IAMS' 1001 Donations telethon at the Winnipeg Humane Society. All proceeds from the fundraising and live telethon (on March 16th) is matched by IAMS'.

So far the fundraising team has had a cheesecake sale (cheesecakes from Double D's) and a coffee sale (coffee from San Vito). Today we had a bake sale and on March 7th we will be having a book sale.

To date we have raised $1,213

I could not be happier with the work that we have done to help support the Winnipeg Humane Society. They do so much great work to protect, rescue, and find animals a safe and happy home.

So the next time you have some spare change that you're not sure what to do with, Take A Moment to donate it to your local charity. It's amazing how far spare change can go.