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My International Guiding Trip to Canada.

My trip to Canada was amazing. We arrived on the Monday and for the first few days we went sight seeing in Toronto. We went on a boat trip, which took us to an island just off Toronto's bay and then after that we went up the CN tower, which is one of the tallest towers in the world. We all had so much fun.

On Wednesday we left for Camp Mosaic in Guelph. It took us about an hour to get there on a yellow school bus. On it we met some girls from Nova Scotia, which is part of Canada. At camp we were in the green village, which meant we had to wear lime green hats all the time. We all looked ace.


We all looked ace in lime green hats!

On Thursday we started our activities, I did lots of great activities over the ten days including: snorkelling, making a mask, scuba diving, dancing and loads more. One of my activities was called "Helping the Needy" which was to try to put smiles on the faces of elderly people as they got their meals on wheels by letting them know that someone was thinking about them. We made little woven patterns and bookmarks.


Flags at the International Camp

I learnt about different cultures because I met girls from all over the world including: Egypt, Tanzania and New Zealand.

The opening ceremony was on the Thursday and it was amazing to see all of us together. There were over two thousand girls there. The evening entertainment was excellent too. One night "Much Music" came which is basically the same as MTV. Then there were also nights called "Discover Canada" and "Discover the World". On "Discover Canada" night each part of Canada had to do a presentation on stage about that place. "Discover the World" night was the same apart from you had to represent which country you came from. We did it and had a lot of fun and we made every one laugh by singing "On Ikley Moor baht hat", which was really good. We also got to learn about different countries and about their way of life and we were also able to teach others about our country.

We left camp on the Friday which was sad because we had to say goodbye to all the friends we had made.


Friends at Camp

We then had to drive three hours to get to our home stay in Canada. I stayed in the Runnells family's house in Peterborough. The family were so lovely. The mum and dad were called Sheri and Rick and they had three children, Kelsey who was 17, Brandon who was 15 and Keenan who was 13. Cool Canadian names! They took me to lots of places locally including the world's largest lock and we went up it in a boat. We had a great time and we are all really good friends and I talk to them all the time on Msn, and by email.

It was sad to leave on the Monday but I still keep in contact with everyone. I had the best trip ever and thank you very much for supporting me in my fundraising earlier in the year and making the trip possible for me!!!

Amy Kaye