HIW and Welcome to the Wards
HIW is a charity banquet put on every year to raise money for a charity related
to interdisciplinary health. Its goal is to not only raise awareness and money
for the charity of choice, but to encourage interdisciplinary work between the
different faculties at the University of Alberta.
This year, HIW took place on September 21st and was held at the Fantasyland
Hotel. The charity of choice was the Alberta Association for Community Living
and the Health is Wealth representative was Carl Rodriguez.
The many talented musicians within the Medical and Dentistry Faculty provided
entertainment. As the first formal of the year, HIW attracted the many
students who loved dressing up. One of our plans was to wander from table
to table getting pictures of the different people
at the tables, unfortunately dinner ended and everyone dispersed - especially
after the speech by Dr. Raffath Sayeed, which upon a hundred or so girls disappeared
promptly. We did manage to get the teacher table
though. Another problem was that some tables didn't want pictures taken, saying
they were too boring (their words not mine), or looked odd since they didn't
have a girl at the table (they actually phrased it a different way, but it's
politically incorrect).
Some highlights included: the guest speaker, Dr. Raffath
Sayeed who also happened to also be an active member of the Alberta Association
for Community Living, the Jazz band's performance,
as well as the dinner music which featured Shauna Hollingshead, a duet
with Michael van Manen and Andrew Marks, and Karen
Chu. There was also a wonderful duet with Shauna
Hollingshead and Stephanie Anderson as well as a sultry vocal solo with
Jennifer Minsos (no picture of this here as we headed off to Welcome to the
Wards). Andrew Marks put on quite a show as the conductor - I've never seen
him so intense and his arms seemed to get a good workout.
Also showing up to HIW were some elusive 3rd years,
which I promptly captured on film along with Arun. After this, Thomas and I
went off to Welcome to the Wards to look for the even more elusive 4th year,
missing out on the majority of the Jazz Band's performance. I heard them during
rehearsal when I went to help set up though, and they were amazing then, so
I'm sure they were incredible later.
At Welcome to the Wards, we looked around for the 4th years, but of course
we didn't know any of them since we'd never seen them in our 1st year. I guess
that was pretty stupid of us - looking to photograph ppl even though we had
no clue what they looked like. Being the resourceful (or perhaps just lucky)
medical students that we were, we found a 2nd year dentist who happened to know
the 3rd years who happened to point us in the direction of the 4th years. Yay!
So we took some pictures of both the elusive 3rd years and the even rarer 4th
years. Since we were still dressed up from Health is Wealth and don't drink,
we left early at about 11:15 so we didn't get anyone who came past that time.
After that misadventure, we promptly went home and fell asleep.
Home
