Sunday, November 9, 2014

In regard to future applicants!

Hey there!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog. It's such a pleasure to hear from all sorts of people interested in applying for the Legislative Page Program, and asking for suggestions on their essay.
I'm more than happy to help you with your/your child's essay. To make it a little simpler than a long chain of comments on my posts, I'll give you an email here.

If you are interested to get in contact with me so I can give you advice on your essay, tips on studying, or anything else, you can contact me at daniellaemik@gmail.com
Just note that I'm in high school now, so sometimes it take a little bit to respond to you. It may be a good idea to email me with questions a little MORE than two or three days before the application due date.
While I am happy to look at your/your child's essay and give you suggestions, I will not edit and shorten it. I do not have a lot of extra time, given the fact that I am still in school. If you'd like to me give my opinion on what to add, what not to mention, how to begin it, how to conclude, etc, I can give advice. Only if I have some extra time will I edit.

I would like to stress that I will not send you my essay to compare yours to. The Legislative Page Program recently posted a rubric which you can use to see what to include on your essay. The file is on the bottom of this page.

Please don't hesitate to email me! It's just easier for me to respond via there, instead of in the comments on this blog.

Good luck on applications, and any other endeavors!

-Daniella

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Updates, over a year later.

Hi again,
Long time no talk. I've been occasionally monitoring this blog and checking in, but by no means have I been to active. It's been over a year since I finished the page program, and a lot has happened since. I figured that since election day is today and soon a new batch of pages will be working, I'll wrap up the last 16 months.

In April 2013, an article was posted about me by the CJN, a small newspaper company in my area. Read it here!

During the summer, some of the pages from my group got together in Niagara Falls for a meet-up. An article was published about that in the local Niagara news, and we met up with the Kim Craitor, who has since stepped down from the Legislature. Nonetheless, we had an awesome time!

We've had a few meetups on top of that- a meetup at Wonderland, and just last week we met up downtown and visited the Legislature. To anybody who does get accepted/has already served, make sure to arrange as many meet ups as you can! It's been awesome hanging out with my page friends again :)

I just wanted to speak about one last thing: I've been receiving a lot of requests from people for me to send them my essay. I understand that you want help on your application, but I don't really feel comfortable continuing to do this. For that reason, I'm going to stop doing this. 
If you ever need any other help on your essay, I'll be more than happy to help out with that! I'm willing to answer questions, give suggestions, or even read over your essay (as long as it isn't around exam times, it gets really stressful at this time of year). 
If you need any help, feel free to email me at daniellaemik@gmail.com

The due date for the next session of pages is coming up soon, good luck to all the future pages applying!

-Daniella