City Hall and rink of dreams

It was a long day, but a good day on all levels. We started the day with some instructions in class, before we headed down to catch the bus on Richmond Road. A quick bus trip got us to the LRT, which we rode down to Parliament Station. The excitement over riding on the bus, I was eclipsed by the excitement over writing on the train for sure, but both of those things were highlights of the day in someways for many of the students. When we talked about etiquette for writing public transit, how to get on and off appropriately, how to make space for others. That was a real learning process for many of the students. All day long, they presented themselves in the most responsible way, and represented the school and our community very well. 

Once downtown, we made a detour up to Parliament Hill to talk about federal government, so that we could compare it with what we were going to learn about municipal at City Hall. We took a photo with the Terry Fox statue, as well as one with the Stanley Cup sculpture down on Sparks Street that was installed to commemorate the hundredth year of the Stanley Cup.  I walk down Elgin through Confederation Park brought us to City Hall, where we met with Jeff Leiper, our local counsellor.  Jeff gave us a great tour of City Hall, introduced us to Mayor Sutcliffe, and sara is down in City Hall chambers where he walked us through how counsel works, and how the municipality is governed.

After our time in City Hall, we went outside for a skate on the rink of dreams, which brought more smiles and good times.  The walk back to the OC transport and our trip back to Churchill went pretty smoothly thanks to the half of all our volunteers and the good spirit of all the students. Again, students represented themselves very well and it was a fantastic day overall!