L'écho d'un peuple

This passed week, I have been preforming in «Écho d'un peuple», a play about the history of French Canadians in Ontario. Even if the play itself was a little weird, acting in it was a lot of fun! Yaryna and I, along with the other participants from our school (mostly 7th graders) were early 20th century farmers. We wore long skirts and straw hats and pretended to throw seeds in the crowd. At the end of our scene, we did a dance, which must have looked insane to the crowd, but was fun to preform! The highlights for me where:

1. seeing people I know in the crowd
2. when we jumped and yelled «hey» at the end of our dance and my hat fell over my face
3. twirling in those puffy skirts
4. when Rowan, the only other 8th grader, decided to name her bonnet «Bonnetta» and introduced it to everybody
5. signing in the last act with 400 other actors.
   

Ottawa Weekend

For the Family Day long weekend, RC, Mom, Dad and I went to Ottawa to visit aunt\uncle\cousins Anne, Keith, Emma, and Jeremy. We saw the Museum of Civilisations and the Diefenbunker. The Diefenbunker was the bunker where the Prime minister would have hidden if there had been a nuclear attack during the Cold War. In the end, it was never used and has now been converted into a museum. Here is RC standing in front of a «fat man» nuclear bomb.

Snow Day

Snow days are a rare but wonderful thing. They occur when a there is a too heavy snowfall to keep the schools open, which is only once or twice a year, at most. Snow days allow us to do anything we want on a day where we would usually be trapped inside an overheated school, so everyone celebrates! We went toboganning in Christie Pitts and were truly rebellious by eating ice cream in a snowstorm! I am still waiting for my fingers to thaw completly.

Titan's Cup

Last weekend, the Golden Jets went to Ottawa for the Titan's Cup tournament. This tournament was open to girls and boys under 14 years old, so most of the girls couldn't come. We didn't do so bad, and we won 2 out out of 5 games. In the end, we ranked 6th of 8! Between games, we had snowball fights and went skating on the Rideau Canal. Mom, dad, Renée, Arthur (our goalie) and I skated 12 km in all and stopped for Beaver Tails halfway (yum!). We met up with other team membres Freddi, William, and Cameron and played tag on the ice. Poor Cam had lots of trouble staying on his feet, especially with Freddi and me «helping» him! All in all, lots of good times and I can't wait for our next tournament!



Me (left), Arthur (center), and William (right).

New Year in the Laurentians

For New Year's Eve, we went to the family cottage in the Laurentians, where we met up with uncle Keith, aunt Anne and cousins Emma and Jeremy. We really enjoyed the snow, building a (estimated) 9 foot tall snowman and some speedy toboggan runs. We also initiated Emma, Jeremy, and Anne to cross-country skiing. We stayed up until midnight playing games. We laughed a lot and I look forward to doing it again next year!

Christmas, before and after

We have been so very busy, what with skiing, snowshoeing, fort building, helicopter flying and all those things we do around Christmas, that I have not had time to write! Since une image vaut mille mots, as we say in french, here are some pictures.

Renee as we know her.

I did not push her!

Liliane asks "What do you mean, a box of Christmas dolls? What are Christmas dolls?"

Presents!


Helicopter


The fort, complete with entrance tunnel, escape slide, and snowball stock!

Tournament

Today was my team's first ever water-polo tournament. We lost rather horribly (2-11, 3-15, 3-8, 0-11), but I did learn some very valuable kicking, shoving, elbowing and bathing-suit yanking techniques. From left to right : Léa, Mia, Megan, Nicole, Freddi, Karolina and me. Here are some action pictures!
(I am numbers three and eight)








Sunk! I am the black blob under the water.