{"id":1235,"date":"2013-01-16T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:03:36","slug":"kroeger-student-olivia-tran-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/2013\/kroeger-student-olivia-tran-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest we forget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Lest we forget\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Third year PAPM student Olivia Tran is back at Carleton after spending the Fall term in France, working for Veterans Affairs Canada as an interpretive guide at the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and Vimy Ridge National Memorial, the only two Canadian memorial sites not on Canadian soil. &nbsp;&#8220;It was such a great opportunity,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Immersing myself in that work environment, walking the public through trenches untouched since the First World War&#8230;it allowed me to learn so much more about our Canadian history that you just can&#8217;t learn in a classroom.&#8221; &nbsp;Olivia got the opportunity to work as a guide in France through the Federal Work Experience Program (FSWEP), a free job search website that allows students to gain experience in the public service. &nbsp;&#8220;I would recommend it to anyone,&#8221; she says, &#8220;especially since it gave me valuable international travel and work experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third year PAPM student Olivia Tran is back at Carleton after spending the Fall term in France, working for Veterans Affairs Canada as an interpretive guide at the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and Vimy Ridge National Memorial, the only two Canadian memorial sites not on Canadian soil. &nbsp;&#8220;It was such a great opportunity,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Immersing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}