Science Fair May 3rd...busy busy BUSY!!!!
Still running...ouch!
Phone maybe soon? Lines are coming.
Cable, no sign of.
Internet only at school. Where I am still. 8:00 pm Sunday. Ugh.
Honda running...yay!
Weather cold.
Me, cranky.
That's all.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Good News!
We got some good news, my poor tired running girls and I...we have been approved by Sports and Recreation Nunavut as an official club, and that comes with an activity grant of $10,000.00 to take the kids to some competitions! Woohoo! So, I have done some shopping around and the 5-ish Fun Run in Winnipeg on June 3rd is calling our names. So four girls and I will be winging our way south to take on our first real run. We plan to leave on May 30th (just in case Kivalliq is delayed, and then we can get out on Friday). We will return home on Monday, June 4th. The girls will get a free lunch and a race T-shirt for their effort. Me, I get a pain in the hip, LOL! Whatever I injured in January has never fully healed. Likely a pulled ligament. I can run, but I have trouble walking, and trying to cross my right leg over my left to put on a sock? Almost impossible! I empathize more and more with my Mom and her hips every day!
I also have a few guys who are interested in joining running, so I may have some competition for the spots in October. On the brighter side, I may have found my marathon group! I hope that next year we can do a 10K, and the two years after are for some 20K half-marathons. The big goal is for July of 2016 and the Arctic Bay Midnight Sun Marathon in Nunavut, at the top of Baffin Island.
So, if I can train and stay healthy, and my leg doesnt get mad at me and fall off or something, will any of my family journey up to see me run my tushie into the ground? That would be worth the cost of the airfare, I'm sure! Any takers to laugh at my misery? Heck, go cheap and just head to Winnipeg, I'll be limping around enough there and you can laugh for less, LOL!
Still no phone, cable or internet, so I'm living at the school. Of course, this is nothing new. I have my big fundraising auction tomorrow night, so I have been preparing my list of items and baking like crazy. We got an Air Inuit ticket to auction, and I will have a plant in the crowd to bid for me. We should raise close to $2000 for the event, hurray! And a big Music Night on the 27th, and Movie Nights each Saturday along with our practices...I need to be two more of me! Of course, then I'd just irritate the heck out of myself, always giving myself advice that I didn't want to hear, so I'd just wind up shooting the spare me's anyhow...oh well. I can relax when I retire...
TTFN!
Terri
I also have a few guys who are interested in joining running, so I may have some competition for the spots in October. On the brighter side, I may have found my marathon group! I hope that next year we can do a 10K, and the two years after are for some 20K half-marathons. The big goal is for July of 2016 and the Arctic Bay Midnight Sun Marathon in Nunavut, at the top of Baffin Island.
So, if I can train and stay healthy, and my leg doesnt get mad at me and fall off or something, will any of my family journey up to see me run my tushie into the ground? That would be worth the cost of the airfare, I'm sure! Any takers to laugh at my misery? Heck, go cheap and just head to Winnipeg, I'll be limping around enough there and you can laugh for less, LOL!
Still no phone, cable or internet, so I'm living at the school. Of course, this is nothing new. I have my big fundraising auction tomorrow night, so I have been preparing my list of items and baking like crazy. We got an Air Inuit ticket to auction, and I will have a plant in the crowd to bid for me. We should raise close to $2000 for the event, hurray! And a big Music Night on the 27th, and Movie Nights each Saturday along with our practices...I need to be two more of me! Of course, then I'd just irritate the heck out of myself, always giving myself advice that I didn't want to hear, so I'd just wind up shooting the spare me's anyhow...oh well. I can relax when I retire...
TTFN!
Terri
Friday, April 6, 2012
A couple of pics from the scavenger hunt...
Just a few pics, nothing fancy, but the kids having some fun.
Here the kids in one group are getting sorted. They had to line up from tallest to smallest
and take their team photo.
Almost done, just doing a final height check....
They had to take a photo of a team member inside a locker.
Diane is inside, Mina is checking for the camera.
We hauled the gym mats into the lobby so they could build a six-person human pyramid.
And they had to find Marilyn (near the right in the back, wearing a red sweater) and have
their team photo taken with her.
It was fun, and kept them running for a full hour!
We ended the Carnival with a music night from 8:30 to midnight. We had a loonie admission for juniors and a toonie for seniors. With the canteen, we raised almost $350.00 for my running club. We had six $10.00 gift certificates donated by the Co-op and the Northern for prizes. There was a hip-hop dance off, several spot dances, and a stick dance. The stick dance is like a frenetic version of musical chairs: a hockey stick or other type of stick is tossed into teh circle. You have to hand it off to someone and if you're holding it when the music stops, you're out. After a couple of rounds, another stick is tossed in, and then another, and then another. At this point kids are running everywhere trying to escape the sticks someone is trying to give them while trying to chase someone else down to pass off their stick. It's a riot! But oi, considering I was up at 5:00 am to help cook the pancake breakfast for the last day of the carnival, it was a VERY long day! But the kids had such a good time it was worth every tiring minute of it.
Running club tomorrow, and the Movie Night. We're showing the cartoon, "Hop", just in time for Easter, and then Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill". Next week we're showing "Despicable Me" and then "The Sixth Sense". Love that movie! Creepy! And the kids are all about the ghost movies here.
So TTFN, I'm off to bed, and Sunday we move into our new unit. Sadly, the phone will be out for a while, and the cable too, but I will be glad of the reprieve from CSI Miami (gag...what a horrid show...)
Terri
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Fun and the Games!
Our belated Winter Festival aka Carnival is finally underway! It has been delayed by snow days, report cards, an unexpected sports tournament and then a respiratory virus that is sweeping the community. But we had our first day of fun today, and what a great day it has been!
We started off with four teams. Two teams came into my room and went on a scavenger hunt, in and around the schools. They had to find a pop can that was NOT a Coke or Pepsi can (a hard task indeed, LOL!); they had to find a certain teacher and get a photo with her after asking for her birth onth; they had to get the phone number from teh fuel tank and a photo; they had to build a six-person human pyramid; they had to make a poster that said, "Paatsaali Rocks!" and put it up on our display board, and take a photo of everyone pointing at it; they had to take a photo of one team member in a locker; and all sorts of other fun shenanigans like that. They had a blast!
Meanwhile, in the gym, the other two teams faced off for Keep-away, a sort of dodge-ball form of soccer. Tomorrow the two teams switch places. After recess, we had mini fun games. Some students had to take toilet paper and wrap team members up like mummies. Others had to blow a ping-pong ball across the floor with a straw. (Deb, do you remember 'Survivor' and the frozen peas? Guess where this idea came from, LOL!) Then we had a ball relay where you had to run with the ball between your knees. There was a variation of beer pong with only the pong part as a tournament. There was a frisbee target toss. And so on. A lot of laughter, a lot of cheering, a lot of fun.
In teh afternoon the elementary school came over and we had nine teams build cardboard qamutiik (sleds) which we then took out and raced as a relay. 3 pullers took 2 riders from Nuiyak to Paatsaali, and then 3 other pullers took 2 different riders back to Nuiyak. We only lost one qamutiik, so it went well! Into the gym for a quick frisbee dodgeball game, hot dogs and hot chocolate, and home. The kids were exhausted but all smiling when they left. Everyone had such a good time.
Tomorrow we have the same first activity, as mentioned, and then Inuit games with a stick pull, a one-foot kick, knee jumps, and so on. Then in the afternoon we join schools again to skate, toboggan, or play hockey. The night caps off with a fundraiser with my running girls. We're having a music night, a time of spot dances, a hip-hop contest, a broom dance, and acouple of other games with some gift certificates generously donated by the Northern Store and the Mitiq Co-op. Our canteen will be open and we are charging admission, so it should be a good night for the club. We raised over $800.00 in March alone, excellent for this area! So there may be a trip in June for a race. Our application with Sport Nunavut is currently under consideration for funding and I am keeping my fingers crossed. Oh, and if anyone ares to donate some thing to our auction, if you mail them fast they could arrive in time, LOL! Hint, hint! Box 202...hint, hint! And there are four lovely miniature paintings that I just KNOW someone will want to bid on, say maybe $200.00? Hint! Hint!
And somewhere in all this, we have to move to our new unit, which is lovely and has a HUGE storage area. Huzzah! Well, I can sleep all summer, I guess...catch up on my downtime then. Oh, and four weeks until the Science Fair! Oi vey...
TTFN!
Terri
We started off with four teams. Two teams came into my room and went on a scavenger hunt, in and around the schools. They had to find a pop can that was NOT a Coke or Pepsi can (a hard task indeed, LOL!); they had to find a certain teacher and get a photo with her after asking for her birth onth; they had to get the phone number from teh fuel tank and a photo; they had to build a six-person human pyramid; they had to make a poster that said, "Paatsaali Rocks!" and put it up on our display board, and take a photo of everyone pointing at it; they had to take a photo of one team member in a locker; and all sorts of other fun shenanigans like that. They had a blast!
Meanwhile, in the gym, the other two teams faced off for Keep-away, a sort of dodge-ball form of soccer. Tomorrow the two teams switch places. After recess, we had mini fun games. Some students had to take toilet paper and wrap team members up like mummies. Others had to blow a ping-pong ball across the floor with a straw. (Deb, do you remember 'Survivor' and the frozen peas? Guess where this idea came from, LOL!) Then we had a ball relay where you had to run with the ball between your knees. There was a variation of beer pong with only the pong part as a tournament. There was a frisbee target toss. And so on. A lot of laughter, a lot of cheering, a lot of fun.
In teh afternoon the elementary school came over and we had nine teams build cardboard qamutiik (sleds) which we then took out and raced as a relay. 3 pullers took 2 riders from Nuiyak to Paatsaali, and then 3 other pullers took 2 different riders back to Nuiyak. We only lost one qamutiik, so it went well! Into the gym for a quick frisbee dodgeball game, hot dogs and hot chocolate, and home. The kids were exhausted but all smiling when they left. Everyone had such a good time.
Tomorrow we have the same first activity, as mentioned, and then Inuit games with a stick pull, a one-foot kick, knee jumps, and so on. Then in the afternoon we join schools again to skate, toboggan, or play hockey. The night caps off with a fundraiser with my running girls. We're having a music night, a time of spot dances, a hip-hop contest, a broom dance, and acouple of other games with some gift certificates generously donated by the Northern Store and the Mitiq Co-op. Our canteen will be open and we are charging admission, so it should be a good night for the club. We raised over $800.00 in March alone, excellent for this area! So there may be a trip in June for a race. Our application with Sport Nunavut is currently under consideration for funding and I am keeping my fingers crossed. Oh, and if anyone ares to donate some thing to our auction, if you mail them fast they could arrive in time, LOL! Hint, hint! Box 202...hint, hint! And there are four lovely miniature paintings that I just KNOW someone will want to bid on, say maybe $200.00? Hint! Hint!
And somewhere in all this, we have to move to our new unit, which is lovely and has a HUGE storage area. Huzzah! Well, I can sleep all summer, I guess...catch up on my downtime then. Oh, and four weeks until the Science Fair! Oi vey...
TTFN!
Terri
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