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drkalbi
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:16 am Post subject: How did you celebrate Canada Day? |
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Me? Forgetting it was Canada Day.  |
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gangwonbound
Joined: 27 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:21 am Post subject: |
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Country Music fest down at Woodbine Park in Toronto...
It was meant to rain yesterday but not a drop in sight...
It was good fun...
Actually Toronto was pretty poor for Canada day...Most people I saw were not wearing red or celebrating it at all...
I hear Ottawa is the place to be for Canada day...Next year i'll be there... |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| Jazz Fest and CeleFete at Montreal. It was certainly packed downtown. Good fun. Didn't get a chance to see the fireworks though. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| I spent the day talking with students about universal healthcare, multiculturalism, maple leaves, beavers, Canadian Geese, moose, polar bears, the CFL, ice hockey, curling, snow mobiles, the Inuit, the Quebecois, Summer & Winter Olympics, canoeing, lakes, back bacon, beer, nanaimo bars, butter tarts, coffee crisp, Tim Horton's, Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Terry Fox, Niagara Falls, saying sorry when someone hits you in a crowd, snowbirding in Arizona and Florida, the Rocky Mountains, the TransCanada Highway, the CBC, the Northern Lights, loonies, toonies, salmon, eh? and 6/49. |
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AgentM
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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Here in Victoria I hung out with friends down by the Legislature, where we watched a crappy concert on the lawn, then watched the fireworks down by the Inner Harbour. There were thousands of people cramming the Inner Harbour area, it was nuts. On the way out we saw cops break up a fight among drunken girls, and further down the street cops pinning some person with no pants on to the street.
I feel sorry for cops on Canada Day! |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:20 am Post subject: |
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| i celebrated the 8.7% unemployment rate in Ontario. |
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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I bought fireworks to celebrate Independence Day.  |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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I pretended my Hite was a Kokanee.  |
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drkalbi
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I forgot. I watched Global National. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| I spent the day talking with students about universal healthcare, multiculturalism, maple leaves, beavers, Canadian Geese, moose, polar bears, the CFL, ice hockey, curling, snow mobiles, the Inuit, the Quebecois, Summer & Winter Olympics, canoeing, lakes, back bacon, beer, nanaimo bars, butter tarts, coffee crisp, Tim Horton's, Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Terry Fox, Niagara Falls, saying sorry when someone hits you in a crowd, snowbirding in Arizona and Florida, the Rocky Mountains, the TransCanada Highway, the CBC, the Northern Lights, loonies, toonies, salmon, eh? and 6/49. |
I'll bet they loved it! Nothing more students love than listening to teachers go on and on about their countries.
Canada Day is a day off to go fishing, camping, canoeing or have a pool party or whatever. For me, anyway. Because it's a long weekend. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
| I pretended my Hite was a Kokanee. |
Kokanee's kind of gross. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| VanIslander wrote: |
| I spent the day talking with students about universal healthcare, multiculturalism, maple leaves, beavers, Canadian Geese, moose, polar bears, the CFL, ice hockey, curling, snow mobiles, the Inuit, the Quebecois, Summer & Winter Olympics, canoeing, lakes, back bacon, beer, nanaimo bars, butter tarts, coffee crisp, Tim Horton's, Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Terry Fox, Niagara Falls, saying sorry when someone hits you in a crowd, snowbirding in Arizona and Florida, the Rocky Mountains, the TransCanada Highway, the CBC, the Northern Lights, loonies, toonies, salmon, eh? and 6/49. |
I'll bet they loved it! Nothing more students love than listening to teachers go on and on about their countries. |
Actually, they did love it... but no, I don't teach by babbling on and on. (Anyone who's done the CELTA doesn't bore students by expecting them to be passive listeners in class.)
I made a game of it, having the students guess 'the Top-100 Reasons Canadians love Canada' from a msn online news story I printed off, the students getting more points the closer their guess is to the top of the list, the winning teams getting stickers from Canada (maple leaves mostly, some mounties and beavers) and I had my family send over maple candy as prizes. I gave hints at times and when a team guessed right I threw in a sentence or two. Bonus point for answering a question I threw in here and there. Everyone was on the edge of their seats. It was a fun day for everyone. |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| E_athlete wrote: |
| i celebrated the 8.7% unemployment rate in Ontario. |
That isn't too awful right?
I also celebrated by forgetting about it.  |
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gangwonbound
Joined: 27 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| cruisemonkey wrote: |
| I pretended my Hite was a Kokanee. |
Kokanee's kind of gross. |
I kind of agree...It's nothing special...It's just from BC and everyone things BC is cool so they drink a beer from there...Plently of better Canadian beers around |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: Re: How did you celebrate Canada Day? |
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| drkalbi wrote: |
| Me? Forgetting it was Canada Day. |
haha, same!! I didn't remember until it was Canada Day in Canada and all my relatives back home had Canada Day status updates on Facebook, which was July 2 for me. |
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