What's your Fanshawe story? Jenny Rensby - Recreation and Leisure Studies
Jenny Rensby is a teenager
trapped inside a 49-year-old body.
A mature student minus the mature
part, she is on a mission to call bingo
numbers and kick elders’ butts in
cribbage.
On a more serious note, Rensby has a devotion to helping others.
Everyone has that one hobby that drives and defines them: sports, dancing, gaming. Rensby’s calling is a bit more humanistic: Helping people of any age is her ecstasy. And she plans on turning this passion into a full time gig with the help of Fanshawe College’s Recreation and Leisure Services program.
The program offers students the ability to develop exciting skills in program and special event planning, recreational facility operations, sports and games leadership, therapeutic recreation and favoured field – music rehab/therapy.
“I initially chose Fanshawe simply for the location,” she said. “I live in London. But the more I read about the school and its quality of programs, and job success rates after school, the more excited I became about being a student there.”
She knew it was the program for her.
“After two days in this program, I came home and looked in the mirror and said, ‘This is so the right place for me right now.’”
With social work experience scattered throughout her resumé, Rensby’s relationship with the field has put her in a state of flux with both feelings of reward and heartbreak. That has, however, not stopped her from pursuing her end goal of helping others and having fun doing it. Rensby has also garnered initiative from her family.
“My son is 23, working and doing his thing. My daughter is 20 and in third year at Guelph University, and my husband travels for work,” she said. “It’s my time. My whole family is supportive and very excited for me.”
“Fanshawe will help me find right livelihood – the ability to work at something I will totally love.”
One of the favoured traits of the Rec and Leisure diploma at Fanshawe is the amount of openness you are given to play with once you graduate.
Rensby has her eyes on multiple doors including the private, public or non-profit sector, such as Budweiser Gardens, City of London Rec. and the Boys and Girls Club, to name a few. Rensby’s next big career decision will come in year two, where she will decide on a work placement that is offered through the course.
On a more serious note, Rensby has a devotion to helping others.
Everyone has that one hobby that drives and defines them: sports, dancing, gaming. Rensby’s calling is a bit more humanistic: Helping people of any age is her ecstasy. And she plans on turning this passion into a full time gig with the help of Fanshawe College’s Recreation and Leisure Services program.
The program offers students the ability to develop exciting skills in program and special event planning, recreational facility operations, sports and games leadership, therapeutic recreation and favoured field – music rehab/therapy.
“I initially chose Fanshawe simply for the location,” she said. “I live in London. But the more I read about the school and its quality of programs, and job success rates after school, the more excited I became about being a student there.”
She knew it was the program for her.
“After two days in this program, I came home and looked in the mirror and said, ‘This is so the right place for me right now.’”
With social work experience scattered throughout her resumé, Rensby’s relationship with the field has put her in a state of flux with both feelings of reward and heartbreak. That has, however, not stopped her from pursuing her end goal of helping others and having fun doing it. Rensby has also garnered initiative from her family.
“My son is 23, working and doing his thing. My daughter is 20 and in third year at Guelph University, and my husband travels for work,” she said. “It’s my time. My whole family is supportive and very excited for me.”
“Fanshawe will help me find right livelihood – the ability to work at something I will totally love.”
One of the favoured traits of the Rec and Leisure diploma at Fanshawe is the amount of openness you are given to play with once you graduate.
Rensby has her eyes on multiple doors including the private, public or non-profit sector, such as Budweiser Gardens, City of London Rec. and the Boys and Girls Club, to name a few. Rensby’s next big career decision will come in year two, where she will decide on a work placement that is offered through the course.
