Tonight sees St Francis host its annual Brown's Ball, so called because the school nickname is "The Browns." Letterheads read "St Francis; Home of the Browns" and the various sporting teams are all known as "The Browns." Of our 1600 students nearly 1000 will be in attendance tonight, on their very best behaviour and dressed up to the nines in all their finest regalia. I am assured it is always a grand event much enjoyed by everyone. Unlike the Grad Ball in June the Brown's Ball is open to students of all years, so grades 10, 11 and 12 will all be represented. There will be dancing, food and soft drinks, and I presume, heartache and joy in equal measure. Vic and I will be helping supervise tonight and I look forward to observing the mating rituals of the adolescent human making both tentative and confidant steps towards (hopefully) mature relationships. I wish them all the best of luck. I remember the whole process from my own distant youth and recall it as a tense, melodramatic agonising torment with much effort expended for little reward. If only there had been an effective manual of textbook a geek like me could have read up on to help. I guess we all learn by trial and error eventually.
Let the trials begin...
Tonight also sees Vic and I head off for our Friday pint. While not coming close to the homeliness and camra-approved beer quality of the Abbey Inn, Bramley, we have found a certain pubby-goodness at the Wild Rose brewery in Calgary, by the Farmers Market, so whenever we are in town on a Friday afternoon ( a rare event as we are off touring Alberta most weekends, it seems) we head down there for a swift beer and a relaxed start to the weekend. It puts a nice bookend to the working week and gets that weekend feeling started for real. They also wheel out a cask of real ale at four O'clock every Friday, a welcome break from the carbonated fizz I am grudgingly coming to like over here. After that we'll be Brown's Balling and then off to Canmore to go skiing at Sunshine Village this Saturday where they have had almost a meter of snow this week. Sunday morning sees Vic performing with the choir at church, so I'll be sure to blog again on Sunday to let you all know how it went.
Ciao for now,
R
Quote of the day:
If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance.
(Derek Bok)
1 comment:
As usual thats all very interesting.Your xmas gift of Rams n Ewe's arrived as did b'day card.sounds like a good name for a band! Mant thanks. My efforts to aquire all your xmas gifts in one place in time to catch thw xmas post are being thwarted by inefficiency in several quarters(I guess that should be 4 not several),so you either get one parcel with what I have intime for xmas and one with what should be here and aint later or you'll get it all later,havent made up my mind yet,but at least you know my intentions were honourable.L O L Papa n Tina
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