Part I: Day One

Tadoussac, Quebec.
Population: 850.
How did I end up working somewhere even smaller than Ormstown?

My name is Kelly Greig and I'm one of 32 winners of Canada's Greatest Summer Job. Basically, I get to run around a national park all summer making videos of my experiences and actually get paid to do journalism. My first professional job.

How did I get here?
Well, I have broadcast documentary class and a severe boredom to thank. Barry Lazar (my professor extraordinaire) sent out a simple e-mail advertising this job he saw on a message board. How can you ignore the name Canada's Greatest Summer Job. I mean really, it's the greatest freakin' summer job. I digress...
One short questionnaire later (yes, I knew that Wayne Gretzky is the Great One and that Nunavut was created on the first of April 1999) and I was into the second round: make a one-minute video about my favourite topic of all time, me.

A little background into the awesome
So me. Glorious I. Born and raised in Ormstown, Quebec on August 16, 1987. A day that changed the world. Grew up exploring my dad's dairy farm and playing sports (rugby, soccer, basketball and field hockey). When did I want to know I wanted to be a journalist? When I wrote my local papers review of high school sports. Humble, typo-ridden beginnings.


So here I am at the Saguenay St-Lawrence Marine Park in Tadoussac, Quebec. One of the 32 selected Field Units to receive a summer student. Luckily for them, they got me. Get ready Tadoussac, Kelly is rockin' the North Shore.