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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;">In this episode, you'll meet Meet Diana Maliszewski, teacher librarian, cosplayer, gamer and all round busy person, as she shares her thoughts on literacy, maker spaces, media and the impact of her faith on her social media fast.</span></div>
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In this episode, you'll meet a pot pourri of passionate delegates from the Parliament of World Religions, a week long interfaith event that attracts thousands of attendees every 3 years, kinda like the Olympics. If my energy sounds a bit low, well a week of conference adrenaline'll do that to you. But first off what's a Bee Garden doing at the Parliament?</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Food Sustainability Activism: Jim Embry, Founder <a href="http://sustainlex.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable Communities Network</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Interfaith Food Tours: Elyse Brazel, Education Coordinator, <a href="http://ucalgary.ca/fsc" target="_blank">Faith & Spirituality Centre</a> at University of Calgary</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://marythekayaklady.com/" target="_blank">The Kayak Lady</a>, Mary Shideler</span></span><br />
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In this episode, meet Amrit Kaur Dhaliwal, <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">program coordinator for the secondary school program at Khalsa Community School in Brampton where she has been teaching for over ten years. She loves reading and learning about others; and is passionate about doing equity work in her own community and in solidarity with other marginalized groups in Canada. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">What does it mean to teach to build an understanding of the world around us in a meaningful, authentic way? Can you teach but not preach? What is the role of faith in the public square and why is role play not such a great idea in a World Religions class?</span></span><br />
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Part One - 15 minutes<br />
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/voiced-radio/episode-one-teaching-without-tokenism-or-evangelising-part-two">https://soundcloud.com/voiced-radio/episode-one-teaching-without-tokenism-or-evangelising-part-two</a><br />
Part Two - 39 minutes<br />
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Resources mentioned in the show<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ackland Art Museum Five Faiths Project <a href="https://ackland.org/five-faiths-project/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://ackland.org/five-faiths-project/</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs resources on faith traditions <a href="https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/resources" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/resources</span></a><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (browse other resources as well)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Smithsonian Freer|Sackler -- educational resources <a href="https://www.freersackler.si.edu/learn/for-educators/educator-resources/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.freersackler.si.edu/learn/for-educators/educator-resources/</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Religious Freedom Center in the Newseum Institute Religious freedom center <span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.religiousfreedomcenter.org/resources/publications/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.religiousfreedomcenter.org/resources/publications/</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finding Common Ground<span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> resource guide on teaching about religion in public schools ( </span><a href="http://www.religiousfreedomcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Religion-in-the-Public-School-Curriculum-Questions-and-Answers.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.religiousfreedomcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Religion-in-the-Public-School-Curriculum-Questions-and-Answers.pdf</span></a><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) and links to other primary source material </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.religiousfreedomcenter.org/resources/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.religiousfreedomcenter.org/resources/</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Art of the Quran exhibition resources <a href="https://www.freersackler.si.edu/exhibition/the-art-of-the-quran-educator-resources/">https://www.freersackler.si.edu/exhibition/the-art-of-the-quran-educator-resources/</a></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">'Secular humanism is not a neutral, but rather biased editorial position and should be stated as such'</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> 'Without stating truth claims in a public school classroom you can attribute statements of truth claims to <span style="font-family: inherit;">the</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> teachings, preferably specific teachings, of a given religion' </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">'If you want to be authentic about what a religion believes, you are using their primary sources and you attribute it to them and their sources, so you create a wall of separation.'</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-48488355426324407052016-04-27T12:31:00.002-04:002020-08-24T15:51:26.874-04:00Escape Room Games & Prof. Maryam Mithlemirth's missing artifactSo it all started when our family came across an Escape room on Main St Unionville, Ontario called <a href="http://xscaper.com/markham/">Xscaper Arts</a>.<br />
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Two teams placed in separate rooms but connected by walkie talkie, searching for totems from the movie 'Inception.' We didn't make it, but it didn't matter, it was fun, competitive and immersive.<br />
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Escape room attractions debuted in Asia. They test a team of players to escape a locked room or solve a mystery based on a theme (in our case the movie Inception). They then have to solve a number of puzzles within a time limit to win.<br />
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Turns out the Greater Toronto Area is the epicentre of Escape rooms in North America, with lots to choose from. Just check out reviewers like <a href="http://escroomaddict.com/">this</a> and <a href="https://torontoescapegames.wordpress.com/">this</a> for your type of experience. <br />
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Anyway my teacher spidey senses told me there was more to this gig than entertainment. Recently educators of all types have been tapping into the collaborative, competitive and teachable possibilities of Escape rooms. <a href="http://www.breakoutedu.com/">Breakout Edu</a> is a hugely popular provider of open source educational escape games for the classroom. There is even a <a href="http://scottnicholson.com/">professor</a> of analogue gaming who has written research papers on Escape rooms, game based learning and meaningful gamification.<br />
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As a community educator this opportunity was too good to let go of. I decided to take a risk (hello 21st century learning) and create a Muslim heritage escape room at an annual Muslim women's conference called Being ME.<br />
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With my trusty minions, extended family and sympathetic in laws, we went through the design thinking process.<br />
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It was 4 months of ideation, iterations, reiterations, beta testing (and beti testing).<br />
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I examined many of Breakout edu's beta games, shared by many generous educators. <br />
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Oh and I visited multiple escape rooms including the cheap and cheerful <a href="http://www.esc-it.ca/">esc-it rooms</a>, as well as more high end experiences like <a href="http://www.lookingglassadventures.com/">Looking Glass adventures</a> or <a href="http://freeingcanada.com/toronto/">Freeing Canada Station</a>. This was purely to get a sense of user experience and content delivery (purely for research of course).<br />
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I found that all the escape games and rooms I visited reinforced the importance of collaboration and problem solving. Great for school kids and corporate teams. However it was important to me that the content of the game be a cohesive lesson plan as well. Some educational escape games are experience rich, but content light. Teachers, decide what you want out of your game! I realized that the content needs to be very specific, in a sequential story format that is read/ accessed often enough by the players for it to stick, somewhat.<br />
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Being a Muslim heritage escape room, the backstory was that the professor had a rare biography of the scholar Aisha bint Abi Bakr. The puzzles were all connected to story cards that sequentially related the Tayammum story, an incident from Aisha's life. <br />
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My goal was for players to really get a handle on this story while hunting for the artifact. I made sure that while the story was sequential, the puzzles could be solved out of sequence by any player at any time. I also levelled the playing field by making sure that nobody needed prior knowledge of the story to solve the game.We had to make sure the puzzles could be easily reset and repeated by our volunteers as multiple players would be attempting the game every 45 minutes.<br />
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We staged the professor's apartment in a bazaar booth, figured how to put a roof on top of it and found middle eastern furnishings that would do History Professor Maryam Mithlemirth proud. After all it was her apartment, she was away on a speaking tour and the History bandits were on the loose. <br />
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On game day players were given a 30 minute time limit. They had to go through the Professor's apartment to solve puzzles figuring out lock combinations, word puzzles, logic problems, even Quran references. </div>
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The players were kids, teens, moms, students, even one of the conference speakers.They all left rave reviews and shared what they learned about themselves and about the Tayammum story, a significant moment in Islamic history with lots of lessons.<br />
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More recently, I created a mini 'escape game' icebreaker activity for community events like a fundraiser or volunteer appreciation. In this case the attendees are not locked in a room but have one puzzle per table that each table needs to solve in 5 minutes. My most recent one was about connecting problem solving and collaboration to faith based education.<br />
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Once the game is over, it's not game over, but the debrief. <br />
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Whether it's a 5 minute game or a 30-minute game one of the most important parts of the game is the debrief. Here you are kind of assessing the audience. You ask them what did they feel, what did they enjoy, what did they learn? This part of the experience can be empowering because they get to walk through the puzzles and share how they felt. <br />
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Some people might feel like, well not smart. But you can focus on how working together, taking risks and experiencing failure can make us stronger for that next challenge round the corner. <br />
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And along the way they've learned important content that connects them back to their heritage.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Astronaut Chris Hadfield, aboard the International Space Station, conducts an experiment designed by a pair of Grade 10 students from Nova Scotia! What happens to the surface tension of water in space?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-52210020481776775272012-12-10T11:22:00.003-05:002012-12-10T11:22:42.075-05:00Painting Calligraphy with Light<br />
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Check out the amazing work of this artist at <a href="http://www.emel.com/article?id=80&a_id=2230">Emel Magazine</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-47572594825078464492012-10-16T13:12:00.001-04:002012-10-21T10:15:52.867-04:00Brewing in the Lab. Coming Soon!<div><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Going with the Flow in Turkey: Engineer Extraordinaire Al Jazari and the Science of Fluid Mechanics</span></b><br />
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<b>The Blind Men and The Elephant: Telling the Whole Story Under the Influence of Ethnocentrism</b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-1237497935222217932012-10-13T00:44:00.000-04:002012-10-16T12:44:03.497-04:00What's wrong with our maps?<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-38535262795203367282012-09-11T20:49:00.001-04:002012-10-13T11:33:59.772-04:00African fruit: Brightest Object Known In Nature<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/cell-structure-gives-african-fruit-its-iridescent-hue-1.11379">http://www.nature.com/news/cell-structure-gives-african-fruit-its-iridescent-hue-1.11379</a>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-32870371182327217202012-09-09T23:57:00.001-04:002012-10-13T10:53:24.325-04:00Workshop: Sightseeing in Egypt with Ibn al Haytham<div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px;">Come and explore the exciting </span><b style="font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px;">Science of Light</b><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px;"> as we travel through Medieval Egypt with optics pioneer Ibn al Haytham.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px; text-indent: -0.25in;">Timelining<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> achievements in the ‘Dark Ages' </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">How light travels using a pinhole camera</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px; text-indent: -0.25in;">The Story of the 'Mad Scientist'</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px; text-indent: -0.25in;">'Persistence of vision' by making moving images</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px; text-indent: -0.25in;">Creating light graffiti (where dark facilities available)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px; text-indent: -0.25in;">Using Ibn al Haytham's scientific method to create an object that helps light up shanty towns across South east Asia.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-18321989856511880152012-09-09T23:48:00.003-04:002012-10-13T11:08:17.375-04:00Workshop: Flying Over Spain with Abbas Firnas<div>
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aerofoil shapes to represent the wing shapes that help produce Lift.</span></li>
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paper planes with rudders and elevators to understand the significance of the
tail that Abbas Firnas needed for his glider to succeed.</span></li>
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the contributions of European</span><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> medieval scientists to our present-day lives.</span></li>
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Hands On Heritage is now in its second year of activities. We have fun exploring our local heritage from Multicultural perspectives.<br />
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Here are some of the workshops conducted so far:<br />
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<a href="http://handsonheritage.blogspot.com/2010/04/watch-video-beginnings-of-camera.html"><strong>Ibn al Haytham, Medieval Egypt & the Science of Light</strong></a><br />
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<a href="http://handsonheritage.blogspot.ca/2012/09/workshop-flying-over-spain-with-abbas.html">Abbas Ibn Firnas: Aviation pioneer in Medieval Spain</a><br />
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American Sign Language for kids<br />
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Introduction to Chinese & Muslims in China<br />
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Special Charity Entrepeneurs Day Camp:<br />
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Campers had great fun creating social awareness by producing a radio show, making gifts for their neighbours, scrapbooking, and inventing products for charity fundraisers.<br />
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If your school or community group is interested in hosting any of our elementary level heritage programs, from a faith-based or non-denominational approach, give us a shout at <a href="mailto:HandsOnHeritage@Gmail.com">HandsOnHeritage@Gmail.com</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 'Needs' Twister Game: lose a need, lose your balance</td></tr>
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Wow! 4 Wednesdays of intense activity: we were scrapbooking, making gifts, understanding<br />
physical & spiritual needs, developing a dream charity, making an invention that would fundraise for said charity; recording radio show skits, interviews, stories; learning about the drought crisis in the Horn of Africa and playing a crazy game of twister that teaches you how a lack of needs can throw you off balance!</div>
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Our Ramadan Daze team had a wonderful time with all the kids. The camp proceeds raised $700 for Mercy Mission and the kids' Radio Show CD sales raised over $150 for Horn of Africa relief. We are grateful to the Almighty that we were able to engage in acts of charity ('Sadaqah') during the month of Ramadan and hope to continue the good work throughout the rest of the year as well. </div>
Good job everybody!<br />
Special thanks to Mastermind Toys for donating the door prizes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inventing a 'lung health awareness' board game<br />
to raise funds for their fantasy charity: lung cancer research </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating customizable hats with interchangable visors, logos for a dream charity<br />
that would provide sports shoes to kids in need</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working on a wall hanging, made from paper plates, to collect<br />
donations for their imaginary cause: Charity Homes for the homeless</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We learnt about the synergy of <br />
Salah, Sawm & Sadaqah: Prayer, Fasting & Charity. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handmade flower pens & envelopes made from old calendar pics for the neighbours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Get a taste of Ramadan Daze with our 'Sadaqah Soundwaves'<br />
Radio show: over 25 mins of jam packed fun and inspiration!</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-39572624612716329942011-03-23T12:28:00.014-04:002012-10-13T10:54:34.752-04:00Historic Quebec teaches us so much about Ontario!<div align="center">
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As we careered down steep, narrow, icy roads in a minivan, strolled through colourful 17th century streets named after saints and kings and ordered double doubles in French, our trip to Quebec city taught us so much about a much flatter, newer, more Anglophone- no- more Allophone Toronto.<br />
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We were buzzing on a Francophone high. Even our little one worked up the courage to speak French. After one restaurant meal, she returned triumphantly to the family, waving a styrofoam container. 'Je voudrais des boites' had been her brave request to the lady at the counter for a couple of takeout boxes for leftovers. Now how was I to know that a disposable cup was <em>un verre jetable</em> not <em>une coupe a papier</em> much to the bewilderment of the waitress at the breakfast place?<br />
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It takes time to get used to the idea of winter here. The constant windchill which I guess blows in from the St Lawrence river gives a new meaning to 'it's cold out.' I now understand why the most successful settlers of New France were those who could learn from their aboriginal hosts and survive the winter. They even have an ice hotel here: for fun!<br />
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We snow scared Torontonians simply do not have the same winter smarts. Take the sidewalks for example. Only out-of-province tourists use the sidewalks here during the spring thaw. Locals walk merrily by on the asphalt and you watch helplessly from behind the snow dunes as you sink into ankle deep puddles and rivulets. Hey even their driveways are snowproofed. White tarp like tents offer protection against the laughable idea of actually having to shovel out front. Back sore Torontonians: watch and learn.<br />
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The morning of the race, we arrived bleary eyed and uncoordinated at Union Station to discover teams who showed up in matching outfits from purple stripey legwarmers to colour coded headgear. We and another group of friends formed 2 of the youngest teams there. Our team also had the slight disadvantage that their chaperone (me) aint exactly street savvy when it comes to downtown Toronto. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-90431748563515396702010-06-12T23:30:00.010-04:002012-10-11T22:36:34.970-04:00Host a Workshop!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcuntVXOQFKlaR4fJS9R52pvkY8sQYdIHyDnDxnDC4y6b0u1CKcT3zZOIQY3uMx_hZdVuIEo5p4ZvIkHyhxWhNmmmtF5SzFO31tW-hCb5pPQtJOkbY8A9qv18mlWOw-dHtVtZgU1nIZ7B/s1600/abbas+ibn+firnas+1"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482100145729530914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcuntVXOQFKlaR4fJS9R52pvkY8sQYdIHyDnDxnDC4y6b0u1CKcT3zZOIQY3uMx_hZdVuIEo5p4ZvIkHyhxWhNmmmtF5SzFO31tW-hCb5pPQtJOkbY8A9qv18mlWOw-dHtVtZgU1nIZ7B/s400/abbas+ibn+firnas+1" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 212px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 130%;">We have wrapped up our Armadale workshops for the Spring 2010 season. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333399;">Saturday June 12th 2010 12:45-2:15 pm</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"> (new extended time!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #330099;">Join us for a fun filled session introducing ASL (American Sign Language) to kids. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-14444928453551190132010-04-09T22:18:00.011-04:002012-10-13T11:10:04.729-04:00May 8th: Chinese for kids!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYRZXnVhJO91EJ3eirMxuadsxigsLiUMq-Hno6iXmg41YsOCXMq37GrSgUnffsZmrIcFLl0qJucYmtgwHIAMlKxRbgY7R9U4hdjzxOammqGdRQnhz5Tt4xomF-RzPBdpVD8YOByl-NLL1/s1600/Chinese+Doll.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 345px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 294px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458941150832814626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYRZXnVhJO91EJ3eirMxuadsxigsLiUMq-Hno6iXmg41YsOCXMq37GrSgUnffsZmrIcFLl0qJucYmtgwHIAMlKxRbgY7R9U4hdjzxOammqGdRQnhz5Tt4xomF-RzPBdpVD8YOByl-NLL1/s200/Chinese+Doll.jpg" /></a> <strong>Chinese with a Muslim accent</strong><br /><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Get introduced to the cool languages of Mandarin and Cantonese through games and art. Learn about Muslims in China. Speak to your Chinese neighbours. Impress your friends!<br /><strong>Saturday May 8th 1-2 pm, 2010<br /></strong>Armadale Community Centre, Markham, Ontario</div><br /><div>For boys and girls ages 7 and up<br /><strong>Cost:</strong> $15 First come , first served.</div><br /><br /><div>Want to try your hand at reading Chinese? </div><div>Try this <a href="http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/picturesaswords/index.html">Chinese Pictogram Game</a></div><div>and <a href="http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/writing/challenge/cha_set.html">this one </a>that has you match the word with the picture it originally represented. </div><div>></div><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-577655112013396574.post-3122051418144488552010-04-09T21:31:00.008-04:002012-10-13T11:37:12.621-04:00POSTPONED: Snap! Photography for teen girls<a href="http://smartcanucks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ice-cream-canada.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://smartcanucks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ice-cream-canada.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 309px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 462px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">Your best pics get published on our blog. </span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><em>Camera required, preferably digital for each participant</em>. </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: 85%;"><strong>Date Change: postponed</strong></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"> STAY TUNED FOR NEW DATE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"></span><span style="font-size: 85%;">Ages 12-18 <strong>Girls only</strong></span> <br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Cost: $15 - payable in advance </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Workshops have been selling out fast, so be sure to confirm your spot with advance payment.Limited spots!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Scouts, you can work towards your Photography badge at this session.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Meeting point: parking lot on Carlton Rd between Art gallery and Toogood Pond. </span><br />
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