Canada’s Olympic hockey win spawned an epic street party on Dundas Square last night. If anyone needed more proof that Hockey is Canada’s game, look no further. I don’t think this kind of party (plus street hockey on Yonge Street!) will ever happen again… maybe unless the Leafs can win a Stanley Cup.
EDIT (May 7, 7:03 PM): For those of you looking for NYC photos… give me a day or two – I’m sorting through a combined 1000 photos from the trip… I’ll post a link once I get them all sorted and uploaded.
Wow… time indeed does fly when you’re having fun. Before we knew it, it [...]
Wow, today was an exciting day – a lot better than we expected from the planned stuff on the itinerary.
First up on the list was a concert at an inner-city school called (rather blandly) “P.S. 129″ – it was located in the middle of Harlem, and it was actually fairly intimidating – all the windows [...]
Our first full day at New York – a nice, easy going day to get us into the New Yorkin’ mood.
We got up early on our first day to perform a concert at some public school or other… we were supposed to get there at 9:00 for a 9:30 performance, but the bus driver, James, [...]
Heya folks, it seems I have free internet down here in New York (of course I have free internet… if not in NY, where else?) so I’m going to keep some sort of daily blog while I’m here. Well, that’s the plan anyway.
New York: Day 1
Not much happened because it was a long bus ride [...]
What is the point of homework? We all hate it, despite it, yell at it, get mad at it, and yet we are always crushed by mountains of it. So they (some random teachers at my sorry excuse of a high school) tell me that homework is for ‘practice’ and ‘understanding’ – to prove that [...]
In the age of universal education, a new problem has appeared before us. With so many students, and so much pressure from parents and teachers, students have been driven to competition like never before. The focus in the classroom has shifted from learning to ‘getting high marks’. So much so that in fact, students no [...]