{"id":332,"date":"2013-02-27T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T19:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/?page_id=332"},"modified":"2013-02-27T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T19:36:57","slug":"alyssa-barker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/archive\/womens-week-2013\/alyssa-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/files\/2013\/02\/AlyssaBarker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-427\" alt=\"AlyssaBarker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/files\/2013\/02\/AlyssaBarker-300x258.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>What education have you taken?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I graduated with a French Immersion diploma and International Baccalaureate (IB) certificates in English, Biology and Chemistry from Neelin High School. I\u2019m in my third year at Brandon University, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with a major in French and a minor in English.<\/p>\n<p><b>What accomplishments are you proud of?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m proud of the many scholarships and bursaries that I\u2019ve received such as the Brandon University Centennial Scholarship and the Jean Chase Bursary. I have been placed on the Brandon University Honours List twice, inducted into the Brandon University President\u2019s Honour Society, and am also a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell me about yourself\/ your background\/ your history.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I moved to Brandon from Winnipeg six years ago and I enjoy volunteering and attending community events, which I find a lot easier to do here in Brandon. I started working at a pet store and was able to help a number of animals find homes, including a dog that I adopted myself. I\u2019ve also been working towards getting black belts in both ITF Taekwon-Do and MATA-MA.<\/p>\n<p><b>How did you become interested in your field of study?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been in French Immersion since kindergarten and developed a love of the language at an early age. I realized the importance of communication later on and now value the ability to interact with people who speak different languages.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is your philosophy of life?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pursue what makes you happy and be careful to balance the stress of everyday life.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where do you see yourself in the future?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I would love to travel and learn more languages, but I see myself focusing on finding what I want to do that will make me happiest in the years to come. I would like to become a more confident and stronger person who will act instead of watching things happen around me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Nominator\u2019s Comments<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Barker is exceptional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What education have you taken? I graduated with a French Immersion diploma and International Baccalaureate (IB) certificates in English, Biology and Chemistry from Neelin High School. I\u2019m in my third year at Brandon University, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with a major in French and a minor in English. What accomplishments are you proud of? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694,"parent":760,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-332","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}