Student Exchange Australia: Different Accents and New Experiences!

Posted on November 19, 2013 by admin

Well, where do I begin? The Armidale School has the 2^nd oldest cadets program in Australia, much like our school used to have. Last week the school went on a two-day cadets trip called… well I’m actually not sure what it is called because I can’t really understand what anyone says it because of their accents, but I presume it is something like “bivouac.”

Bivouac is a two-day long program where we trekked 18 kilometres, went abseiling (repelling) and did a river crossing. This was probably the hardest and most physically challenging activity that I have ever done in my life! I am told that what I have experienced is nothing compared to “annual camp” which is six days long, includes a 50-kilometre trek, canyoning (which is abseiling off a canyon), and it’s done three times. I am told the smallest abseil is 50 meters tall!!! Other than that we canoe for about 20 kilometres and do three to four river crossings (in total). I am in for quite the experience!

In other news I went to my exchange partners farm last weekend and I met some of his friends from outside of school. His farm was so much fun. All of the older kids went for three-hour horseback ride, which included me. I was terrified! –Jared Blatt ’16 (LCC exchange student at the Armidale School in Armidale, Australia)

Polar Bear International

Posted on November 15, 2013 by admin

Le 13 Novembre, 2013, j’ai eu la chance de participer à un webinar avec plusieurs écoles du monde et Polar Bear International, un organisme qui fait des recherches sur les aspects variés de la vie de l’ours polaire dans le parc national de Wapuskau au Manitoba. Au cours de la conférence, qui était dirigée par un Webcast live, cinq scientifiques discutaient avec nous des problèmes controversés et répondaient aux questions que les écoles participantes ont posées. Savais-tu que, à cause des déchets qui arrivent dans le grand nord, tous les ours polaires ont environ deux cent formes de contamination dans leur corps?

Vous pouvez vérifier le chaine Youtube pour revoir le webinar.– Andrew Zhang ’17

LCC Stash: Loud and Proud!

Posted on November 14, 2013 by admin

Movember 14, 2013

Day 14 and the Mo’s are loud and proud in the hallways of Lower Canada College. This year’s LCC Stash team, which is comprised of 44 current students, teachers and alum, has raised over $6500 since Movember 1. During the remaining 16 days of this month, the team hopes to surpass the success of last year’s team which finished first in the country raising more money than any other high school in Canada!

As the stashes start to settle in and as the month slowly progresses, donations are coming in more and more quickly. The current team leader for fundraising is Philip Dubrofsky, who has raised an impressive $1,635. For the first time since its launch at LCC, 29 current grade 11 girls have volunteered to be Mo Sistas. The Mo Sistas have volunteered to campaign manage for the boys, raise a minimum of $20 each and most importantly sell the Movember memorabilia which includes Tech Tacts and thin black stash gloves. As a fun bonus, the LCC Stash committee has implemented a new weekly award for the best Stash of the Week. Congratulations to Thomas Boucher-Charest who was this week’s recipient of the award.

At the end of each week, a group photo is taken with all of the Mo Bros and Sistas. Each photo demonstrates a steady improvement of stash growth from the previous week. Looking forward to the remaining 16 days of the month, we can only hope and nonetheless expect great results from such a dedicated group of young men and women who have united in the cause of putting an end to prostate cancer. – Matthew Kaspy ’14 (Student Leader – Movember 2013)

Student Exchange: The Aussie Way

Posted on November 14, 2013 by admin

I reckon that I don’t ever want to leave Australia, it’s heaps of fun (I’ve even picked some Aussie expressions!)!

Last weekend, I went surfing with Mikayla and her friends. It was awesome; I even managed to stand up (before promptly tipping over in surprise).The ocean and beaches in Australia are really beautiful, even though the water is a bit cold. I got to wear a full-body wetsuit for surfing, which was so cool and feels a bit like a very tight snowsuit.

We also celebrated Halloween here, which was really bizarre because it was about 30 degrees and sunny. I enjoyed eating all the different Aussie candies (which they call “lollies”.)

My birthday was really nice and I had some cake, milkshakes, chocolate and presents. My English class sang “Happy Birthday” to me and I was extremely pleased to no longer be the “youngest triplet”. To celebrate, Mikayla and I went to Build-A-Bear where I made a koala and then we went out to dinner.

This weekend, we went Aussie strawberry picking and went to the mall. There’s tons of different stores and food, like Timtams, Milo and Sportsgirl.

This had been amazing so far, and I can’t believe it’s already half gone!

–Kat Gardilcic ’16

A Privileged Visit by Author Alan Gibbons

Posted on November 4, 2013 by admin

It is not every day that one gets to meet a celebrated, world-renown, prize-winning author (though truth be told, it is, at LCC, an annual occurrence – courtesy of our very own librarian and the LCC Reads Committee). It isn’t every day that students are treated to the words and wisdom of a great storyteller, a master at building suspense and at fuelling reflection on social issues. It certainly isn’t every day that students are so privileged as to be taught narrative fiction by a real live author. And yet, it is precisely what LCC students got to do in October, when British author Alan Gibbons came to LCC.

Alan Gibbons is, as all of LCC knows from the chilling summer read, the author of the book Caught in the Crossfire. In front of an assembly Middle and Senior School students, he recounted in his inimitable style, the salient points of his life and career. He shared the story of when he received the Blue Peter Book Award. But Alan Gibbons is also, and perhaps above all, a teacher. He came to the grade 10 PREP class to teach us how, from a variety of known narrative techniques, we can write a story in our own personal style. Appropriately enough, since it was, after all, the month of October, of witches and warlocks and things that go bump in the night, we learned how to use tension to write a great ghost story.

It was, really, a very successful visit. – David Elbaz ’15