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Tamera Jenkins

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

OTTAWA and BACK FULBRIGHT ORIENTATION

Just got in to Vancouver after a 6 hour flight from Ottawa this morning. I had a wonderful,albeit tightly scheduled time while I was there.The flight on Thursday morning left at 6:00 am so Jim and I got up at 2:45, showered and made the hour and a half drive to the airport. Many thanks go out to all the terrific employees of Canada Air who helped this novice flyer make it to Ottawa and back with relatively little fuss.

After making a connection in Toronto, I arrived at the Lord Elgin Hotel around 4:15. I missed the opening activities which started at 3 and had only enough time to run to my room and quickly throw on the dress that Mom made me for the gala which was held at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.





Mom made my dress and I got quite a few wonderful comments on it from the cleaning lady at the Lord Elgin Hotel to woman from the U.S. State Department




































Friday morning we met for breakfast at 8 and walked a few blocks to Constitution Square for breakfast.Until mid-afternoon the time was spent in meetings and activities that would help us better understand Canadian culture and identity and the nature of the relationship between the U.S. and Canada.

In the afternoon we walked to the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec.



Parliment building






















After our tour of the museum we had just enough time to change our clothes for a reception at the residence of U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson


My roomate Toni Holland




After the reception we enjoyed a lavish dinner at Le Cafe in the National Arts Center.





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In politically correct language I am called a non-traditional student or,as my mother would say, a late-bloomer. For twenty years I was a stay-at-home/home-schooling mom but surprise.. kids grow up. When my son asked me what I was going to do after he left home I told him I was sure it would involve crates of Kleenex, junk food, and a lot of self pity. He suggested college instead and I took him up on it. I graduated in Dec. 09 with a BA in Criminal Justice/Corrections from Park University in Parkville, Mo. Through internships that brought me into contact with both the victims and offenders of violent crime, I have acquired a passion to assist each in addressing issues of accountability and healing through the restorative process of victim-offender mediation. As a 2010-2011 Canada-U.S. Student Fulbright recipient I will travel this fall with my husband and granddaughter, to British Columbia where I will be attending Simon Fraser University's Graduate School of Criminology. With a superb symmetry, Mother, arbitrator of children’s squabbles has progressed to victim-offender mediator.