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Isla Callister's work experience at MHF

28 Jun 2013

Isla performing with tree cassyn at cooish 2012
Isla performing with tree cassyn at cooish 2012

During the last week of June I had a work placement at the Manx Heritage Foundation.  I spent my two weeks work experience surrounded by Manx culture, music and language, as the week before, I went to Bunscoill Ghaelgagh.  I feel that my choices of placement were perfect for me, as the jobs I did were so varied, but all with the theme of Manx culture.  Returning to my old primary school, I had the chance to work with the kids in all the different classes and speak Manx to them all.  I felt that one week would have been enough, and with the limited time I had, I wanted to experience a different environment and different jobs.  This is one of the reasons I chose to go to the MHF.  Being at the MHF showed me the vast variety of work and jobs they do here, whether it’s event management, filming, recording, workshops or Manx lessons.  Both weeks were so enriching and just brilliant and I felt that I learnt so much.  Even though my ideal future would be to become a professional trad musician, it really opened my mind to future possible career paths and showed me that I can combine the two. Helping the music, culture and language of Mann is so important to me.., that is what I want my future to be, and my work experience gave me a great taste of it all.  A big thank you to the teachers at Bunscoill, Breesha, Chloe, Adrian and the MHF for making my work experience yindyssagh!

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