Water Fight

Here we are, cooling off on our green roof. This is the best way to escape the heat of summer!

Paddle the Don

A few weeks ago, Mom and I participated in a fund raising event called Paddle the Don. The Don River flows through Toronto, and the participants canoe 10.5 km through the city. There are a few things to look out for when you are urban canoeing:

1. Large blocks of concrete
2. Man-made waterfalls
3. Low bridges
4. Rusty metal crates
   

Luckily, we managed to avoid all these and made it to the finish without capsizing once, although with a few significant new dents in our canoe! Next year, we will talk Renée and Dad into coming!

Tourists

I am finally visiting New York! We have been so busy the last two days that we have barely spent any time in our hotel, named "The Pod". Since our arrival we have been to the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, walked the Brooklyn Bridge, took a boat trip around Manhattan, walked on the Highline, visited the Museum of Natural History, the folk art gallery and the Frick, rode on the (crazy) subway and shopped. My legs are so worn out from all our wanderings, I wonder if I will ever be able to stand up again.

It's all very intense and exiting, and tomorrow is another busy sight-seeing day!

Birthday

On April 9th, my birthday, I began the day by getting up at 5:30 am (on a weekend!) to drive to Waterloo for the provincial u-14 water-polo tournament. Unfortunately, there was not mutch birthday luck for me, and we finished in last place. Well, I think (hope) we are starting to play better as a team and I had enormous fun playing teams from all over Ontario!

When we got home at 10pm, I opened my presents and ate delicious chocolate cake!


The crazy fire-eater

March Break Wanderings

Here we are, bike riding along the lake during March break. We are in our light coats as the ice slowly floats to shore. The swans are poking around, and spring is in the air!

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.