Last night, after eating some cracking meatballs on our weekly date night, Vic and I tried our hands (or should that be feet) at ice skating. We went to the Oval on the University of Calgary campus, the speed skating rink built for the '88 Olympics. It's a truly awesome venue and felt quite special to be bumbling round this world class facility like new-born giraffes. We weren't very good, but we'll persevere as an ability to move around on frozen water with a pair of knives glued to ski-boots seems to be a national requirement.
While we were there we watched the Chines women's team play an exhibition game of ice-hockey against a local 'midgets' girls team. It's the term used for the 14-15 year old league, not a cruel international form of dwarf Baiting the Chinese were touring. The Chinese were over here getting coaching and training from Canadian experts prior to hosting next year's world cup and were kind enough to only beat the girls 3-0. Even watching young women play it still looked like a fast and aggressive game, but very entertaining. I can almost see why weekend tickets to see the Flames (Calgary's NHL team) play a big rival from the States or Canada go for $300 or more. We will content ourselves with watching the Hitmen, the top amateur team in Calgary, many of whom have been signed to the Flames for next season.
The downside of all this wintriness is that the girls soccer final was cancelled yesterday due there being 2 inches of snow on the pitch. Not being able to see either the white balls or any of the white lines on the pitch is bound to hinder play somewhat, so I guess it was a fair call, so the girls have to get back in game spirit to day. Go Browns!
Off to class for me now. Hope all you teachers back home are enjoying half term. No such break here. This my 9th consecutive week of class and I have 8 more to go. This is now the longest I have ever worked in a stint. I still feel perky, but Christmas seems a long way off. I'll keep you updated and i promise not to moan about holidays for all you non teachers. I understand that we have a sweet deal. Over here the average holiday is 2 weeks per year. Total. I don't know how they do it.
Ciao for now, and please comment. it's always uplifting to know someone really reads this.
R
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I think we all need more holidays. All this work, and for what?. The last time I had a week off was in June of 2006! (YUK) My next holiday is booked for Feburary 2008.
Sounds like the English have it right.
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