Stops 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 - Saskatoon to Halifax
Written by ry on August 27th, 2008
This whole blogging-from-the-road thing is much rougher than I thought it would be. Especially for someone who gets car-sick just looking at the map, so blogging from the passenger seat is out of the question (that’s my mom doing some of the driving).
Anyway, after leaving Edmonton, we sped through Saskatoon and Winnipeg fairly quickly and did a marathon 26 hour drive from Winnipeg into Toronto where we spent a day documenting a community outreach project that’s being carried out almost entirely by youth aged 11-15.
The coordinators of the project are older, but the youth are the ones going out, talking to people, teaching the classes for kids, talking to people about the Baha’i Faith. It’s all pretty amazing.
After Toronto, we continued our eastward journey heading into Quebec for a Baha’i family camp. The focus of these camps is really about training and education, so they’re normally referred to as ’summer schools’ (or ‘winter schools’ depending on the season).
I was told that the topics they were studying here in Quebec are the same that are being studied at other camps that are going on all summer across the country. So if anyone out there was at the summer school in Silvan Lake, Alberta; or Shawnigan Lake, BC; or Winnipeg, Manitoba; you were probably studying the same thing that they were studying in Quebec. But you were probably doing it in english.
Sadly, despite 11 years of studying it in school, my french skills are rather meagre, so I can’t really tell you much more than that, but there was a lot of french study, a lot of french singing and a lot of french laugher.
We’re now in Halifax and, having gone almost as far East as we can, we’ll be turning around tomorrow and heading back to Montreal, where they’re doing more community outreach. I just hope someone there can help with translation…
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