USask nursing student focused on homework, health and helping others
Forest Bihun wakes up at 5:30 every morning to get in an early workout before he attends classes at the College of Nursing on the University of Saskatchewan’s Prince Albert campus.
Until he lays his head down on the pillow at night, he uses any spare time he has to study or go to the gym. But even while he is asleep, he is alert for the ring of his telephone.
You see, Bihun is a man with a purpose.
A full-time nursing student who just completed his second year of studies, Bihun trains and competes in national and international weightlifting competitions, holds down a part-time job in retail sales, and is on 24-hour call as a volunteer firefighter in Prince Albert. He trains with firefighters for three hours every Tuesday, and on one Saturday every month he works on search and rescue skills with the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, a civilian division of the militar