Brazilian Memory Book

CANADA
January/February 2012
Santos, Brazil
Jean Piaget
students visit
Truro Junior High
School for 2 weeks,
these are their
memories
WINTER FUN WITH FRIENDS....
We have created this journal to document
have friends in Canada to email and skype to
our Canada-Brazil exchange trip to Truro, Nova
practice our English with.
Scotia, Canada in January 2012.
lifetime and tried to make the most of each and
We had a trip of a
We arrived on January 25th and stayed for
every day. We look forward to meeting again on
2 weeks with our new friends. The following
Brazilian soil and hope that we have made
pages will help create a memory book to serve
lifelong friendships with our English speaking
as a keepsake for years to come.
Canadian families.
Throughout this journal we will tell you
about family life in Canada and the people of
Canada.
We went on many trips throughout
Nova Scotia and had many new experiences
while in Canada.
The weather did not always
cooperate but we got to experience “warm
winter days”, snow days and rain!
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
Until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Canadian
food was quite different than in Brazil.
We
observed a new culture and way of living
compared to Brazil life.
English is now much
easier to speak and understand. We will always
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AT THE AIRPORT....
Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hub of Nova Scotia!
population: 11,765
Average temperature in
February : -1 to -11 oC
without windchill factor!!
Our trip...
At the school....
At the airport, we were feeling happy and at the same time missing
When we arrived at the school, there were lots of foods, sandwiches
our families, but we all know that we are going to spend a really good time
and drinks, so we could charge our energy to play some games, like the
while in the city of Truro in Nova Scotia, Canada.
name game, where everybody needed to say their name and the
The trip was not so easy, we had to take two planes and
food game, where everybody needed to say their favorite food
a school bus, it was a long trip, but after lots of hours we
so our canadian host families could prepare it on our way to
arrived at the Halifax airport, and there we met Jennifer, and
make it better.
our driver, Don Fraser, and after 45 minutes we have arrived
at Truro Junior High.
EVERYDAY SCHOOL LIFE
FAMILY
FOOD
WINTER FUN
WEATHER
Canadian/
Brazil
Families
We have made
lifetime
friends!
Trying new
things
Some food we
liked and
some... not
so much!
Skiing,
snowboarding
and snow fun.
We found out
how slippery
snow and ice
are...
Canada is
cold!
The weather in
Canada is a
bit different
than Brazil.
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So Let’s Ski or Snowboard
This was the one of the most wanted days
by all the students, we were going to Ski
Wentworth, and there we could choose to ski or
snowboard.
We had lessons by the Ski Wentworth
that had to see the doctor but they are doing
great now and still had fun!!
HOSTEL
In the hostel was very cool because we
played a lot of card games and we laughed a lot.
instructors on the small hill called the “bunny
At the night, we had a snow fight and it was
hill”.
really cool. We had a really good lodging. The
Our chaperones and a few Truro Junior
High students and teachers joined us as well!
hotel is like and old and big house and had
After many falls and laughs, we had a nice
different rooms for boys and girls. This hostel is
lunch a the ski loft. We had a couple of people
used as a staying place for many snow boarders
and skiers.
Snowboarders
lesson at Ski
Wentworth
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THE SNOW!!
CANADIAN FOOD
New experiences for us to taste!
The food here is not very different than in
Brazil but there are new things for me here like
waffles and the pancakes that are here are
smaller and for me, better than in Brazil. They
eat more things on breakfast here and chocolate
too! It is very strange because we do not eat
chocolate on breakfast or too much food. But I
liked it very much. One thing that I noticed too,
is they eat “Kraft Dinner”. This is very delicious.
It is like “Miogo”. Actually, I like both foods. It is
not very different.
Truro and
Biblehill MLA
Lenore Zann
TJHS DANCE
Having fun with Truro Junior High Students!
We went to the dance Tuesday
and we danced a lot. We were
very shy in the beginning but
after Ingrid and Grazy started
dancing, we had a lot of fun.
We didn’t have this in Brazil
that’s why we were very shy.
Every song that had there, we
knew it. But one song that we
wanted was “oh, if I catch you”,
a Brazilian song, but they
didn’t play. Everybody knew a
lot of people at the dance and
we knew until today, I think
forever. It was very difficult
for us but after, everybody
danced a lot.
YOGA
Truro Sport Hall of Fame
YOGA
• We saw many Truro Athletes in the sport
hall of fame. They had old jerseys from
hockey teams and lots of photos.
One day we went down town to
exercise our bodies. Some of us didn’t like
the yoga, because it was really difficult. It
Marigold Center Art Show
was funny, because a lot of the students
The art exhibit had painting from local
didn’t complete the activity but it was cool,
artists. All were very nice.
we enjoyed!
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Truro Junior A
Bearcat Game!
SNOW DAYS
2012
We had two snow
days while in Canada
WHEN HAVE STORM, THE
SCHOOL CALL TO ALL THE
STUDENTS SAYING THAT
THE SCHOOL WAS
CANCELLED BECAUSE
WITH THE STORM IS
DANGEROUS FOR THE
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BUS DRIVERS DRIVE AND
WHEN DON’T HAVE
SCHOOL PEOPLE
GENERALLY GO BACK TO
SLEEP AND WAKE MANY
HOURS LATER.
OVERALL, WE LIKED
SNOW DAYS AND HAD A
LOT OF FUN WITH OUR
CANADIAN FAMILIES.
Walk through Victoria Park
LOREM IPSUM
Victoria Park is a trail that goes from the
school (TJHS) to downtown. It a really cold walk
so if you want to go to Victoria Park you should
wear warm clothes. Its a beautiful place where
you can see waterfalls and take some pictures.
In the summer time, it must be even prettier as
the waterfalls won’t be frozen and the sun will
be shinning.
Police Station and a visit with
Constable Keddy.
After we walked too much we arrived in the
police station of Truro. The police officer talked
to us and show us the pictures of their best
dogs. After we entered into the office’s police
station and we met the secretary and we
entered in the jail and we left the station.
Shubenacadie Wildlife Park on
Groundhog’s Day
The Wildlife Park was very cool. We saw a
lot of animals. The Wildlife Park is the most
beautiful park. There are foxes, wolves, deer,
moose... This park is awesome!!!
Truro’s
Historic
Victoria Park
Waterfalls
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Museum of the Atlantic
The Museum of the Atlantic is a two floor
Museum of History
The museum of HIstory was the second
museum where you can find objects related to
museum we saw on this day. It was very nice
the Titanic and learn a little more about it
and had lots of animals and beautiful displays.
besides what you learned and know from the
There was even a set of whale bones put
movie “Titanic”. You can also find a lot of ships
together in the middle. We met “Gus” the turtle
replicas and there is a big display that shows a
and saw him being fed.
big explosion with a ship that happened in
Halifax.
Discovery Center
We started at
The Freak Lunchbox and Freemans
LIttle New York
We had a group supper at Freemans Little
New York after buying some candy at the Freak
the first floor at
Lunchbox. That was one of our favorite stores!
Grossology. It was
We bought lots of funny, yummy candy.
about the human body.
Freemans Little New York had good pizza and
Only the disgusting stuff
bottles of coke!
of the body. The second
floor was about a lot of different things.
Like, illusion, the sound velocity, the bubbles
size and lot of other things. It was very nice.
The third floor was about animals and the
human skeleton.
The Discovery Center was one of our
favorite places we visited! We all had a lot of
fun.
Mooseheads Hockey Game
The first hockey game that we went to was
in a small stadium and was funny, we had a
great time. The second hockey game was
better than the first, it was in Halifax. We were
very noisy and sometimes we can saw us in the
tv. It was very exciting. The Mooseheads won
the game 5-3.
Go Moose Go!!
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FRIDAY FUN DAY
OUR LAST FULL DAY
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Tour
The Nova Scotia Agricultural College is the
University/College in Truro. It mainly educates
students in animal agriculture and plant
sciences. We saw the barns full of sheep,
lambs, calves and cows. We also saw the 2nd
largest rock garden in North America and the
Alumni gardens as well. They were all covered
in snow but very nice. Then we built a snow
man in the Alumni Gardens.
Masstown Market and the
Lighthouse
We had lunch at a popular market in the
country. It was yummy. We did a bit of Nova
Weekends!
Some of us realized that
the canadian weekends are
very exciting because some
people say in house playing
inside or outside and
others go out with their
family, to tourism places
or to shopping malls, we
had snow in almost all the
weekends.
Hamilton’s Sleigh Rides!
We picked the warmest day of the vacation
Scotia souvenier shopping and went on a tour
for the sleigh ride and it was great!!! The two
around a lighthouse. Once on the top, we got a
Clydesdale Horses pulled us around the
nice view of the bay of Fundy and the Nova
beautiful county for about 1 hour then we had
Scotia landscape.
hot chocolate before heading back to Truro
Junior High.
0oC was our
warmest day in
Canada
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
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OUR CANADIAN HOST FAMILIES AND BRAZILIAN STUDENTS
We will all
miss you!
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