It’s 6AM and I roll off my latest air mattress in a dark basement. I couldn’t tell you what city I’m in. I wash my face and begin my day. A beautiful thing about life that I’ve noticed is that it seems no matter where you go in Canada, when provided with cereal by any […]
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No Big Deal
Published by March 2nd, 2011 in FB, School of Leadership, Think Day, Team 2, Student Zone and Other Sites. ClosedTeam One Checking In
Published by March 2nd, 2011 in School of Leadership, Billeting, FB, Think Day, Student Zone, Team 1 and Other Sites. ClosedTeam One checking in. We have been in BC and loving it. The schools have been amazing and each of our billets have been great. One host family even took the whole team out whale watching in Ucluelet. (I must admit the team agreed they have never been more cold!). We went out in this […]
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Published by September 24th, 2010 in School of Leadership, Think Day, Team 1, Road Team Blogs and Student Zone. ClosedSeptember 22nd, 2010, our first arrival in Quebec! A good long nine or so more hours of driving. Finally arriving in a town called “La Tuque”. When we first got there we were welcomed by the teachers and slowly started to unload our gear into the gym and get ready for tomorrows performance, […]
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Published by September 12th, 2010 in FB, Think Day, Team 1, Student Zone and Other Sites. ClosedSeptember 10, 2010
We are team one, and because there are ten of us and our road team leaders are Shane and Katie, we have dubbed ourselves, “Shane and Kate Plus Eight”
Today we had to be up and out the door at 6:20am. SOO EARLY. One of our neighbors wasn’t too pleased to wake up to […]
Staying with Strangers
Published by May 15th, 2010 in School of Leadership, Think Day, Team 2, Road Team Blogs and Student Zone. ClosedA stranger is a person that you see on the street, on the bus or in a coffee shop. Unfortunately you don’t get the chance to really get to know them, and its easy to just overlook a person and judge them for who and what you think they might be. Though these strangers look […]
...continue readingEight weeks worth of fun…and still going!
Published by May 14th, 2010 in Think Day, Team 1, Road Team Blogs and Student Zone. ClosedDoing something that is designed to inspire or teach has a funny way of returning the favour.
As we are getting closer to the summer, the number of performances we have left start to look smaller every day. Looking back to the start of the four months and hundreds of events that were scheduled, I remember feeling […]
Of Flat Land and Epic Battles
Published by May 6th, 2010 in Think Day, FB, Team 2, Road Team Blogs, Student Zone and Other Sites. ClosedHey everybody!
Just for those who are wondering (because I get asked about 200 times daily) my name is actually Hammer and I do indeed have two of the best parents ever. DJ thought I was insane (inside joke - see The Whole Nine Yards) when I told him how excited I […]
Team 2 is back on the road!
Published by April 19th, 2010 in Think Day, Staff Blogs, Team 2, Road Team Blogs and Student Zone. ClosedIt’s a beautiful evening for driving, as the sun is setting over the tree tops of northern Michigan and we cruise west on US Highway 2. Team 2 is a little under half way through the two thousand and some odd kilometer trip from our home base in Hamilton, ON to the prairie province of […]
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Published by April 17th, 2010 in Think Day, Staff Blogs, Team 1, Road Team Blogs and Student Zone. ClosedWhat could be cooler than visiting the town of Banff and spending an evening in the Hot Springs? How about hitting up one of the biggest malls in North America, West Edmonton Mall? Or maybe snowboarding the mountains of Whistler?… let us pause here for a moment of silence as I reminisce carving […]
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Published by March 29th, 2010 in School of Leadership, Think Day, Team 2, Road Team Blogs and Student Zone. ClosedThe past couple weeks have been really busy touring all the high school/ Jr high doing our Think Day presentations. Besides staying in amazing billets, we have been visiting some tourist hot spots like Peggy’s Cove, Hopewell rocks, grand falls and old Montreal. I was amazed on how beautiful Peggy’s Cove […]
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