Harbour City & PA

Bonjour,

So the most recent news thus far is I just returned from the Land of Reason also known as "My home and native land" or Canada for short. As some of you know, my school has its own odd schedule where we have classes for 7 weeks and then take a 1 week break except in the summer and winter where we get an additional 2 weeks added on to the mandatory 1 making three. So last week was one of those highly coveted week off and I spent it helping my parents move from my high school home in Mill Bay to their new home in Nanaimo, it's a nice house, pretty view from the living room, and better still is that it's only 1.5km from my dad's office who had to spend an hour each way in commute for the past 7 years. For those familiar to the highway in Nanaimo it's just off the first jingle pot exit.

Just before I left however, my screenwriting teacher told me about this opportunity that I would really appreciate your opinion on. My teacher, Paul B. Margolis (you can even imdb him) told me about this mini series that is filming in Newfoundland and parts of some gulf islands of Quebec and they are looking for full Canadian citizens (such as myself) to work as a PA or "Production Assistant" for all those who aren't savvy on the lingo of the industry. As of so far I don't know what company is making the mini series, what it's name is, whose making it, how much they pay, or how long they are going to need me; all I know is that they are looking for someone who is a full citizen to work for them at some point in august. This is a very big opportunity for me, I would be working with industry people and getting real experience as well as getting my name out there in the world. However I would be missing a lot of school, since I don't know yet when they start or finish, as well as the fact that they may not pay me enough to make it worth it. But not only that but I would be delaying the last session of film classes in the lower division which is nothing but what the school tells me to do, and the upper devisions we decide whether we were to go into a Feature Film track or a Commercial track, this can obviously be taken later on but still.

So there's all the information I have at the moment people who live in these narrow tubes of the interweb. What do you think I should do? Stay in school and hope another opportunity comes later on, or go to newfoundland and take the time off? Let me know what you think