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Hello Patti and the students at Delmar Elementary School.
We would like to share some information with you about our-selves. We divided our class into subjects so we could tell you some things about us.
We are grade 7 students living in Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada. We are a first Nations community.
Mount Currie has two parts; the old Reserve in the valley is the original community, and the Xit'olacw Site is a newer community on a ridge above the old Reserve. Mount Currie is about 30 km north and east of Whistler and 150 km north of Vancouver. Vancouver will host the 2010 Winter Olympics and many of the events will be in Whistler. Many of us have family and friends in Vancouver, Lillooet and we all travel to the city several times each year.
The province of British Columbia is one of 13 provinces and territories that make up Canada. Canada has five time zones. Canada is the second largest country in the world. It is bordered by three oceans (Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic) and by the U.S.A. to the south. Since it is such a large country, we have many different regions; the mountains of British Columbia, the prairies of Central Canada, the hills and coast of the Atlantic Provinces, the snow and tundra of the Arctic.
By: Ruby
SCHOOL
Our school is called Xit'olacw Community School and I think it is a good school. Our school is a native school. We learn about different places.
In our school there's Nursery, Kindergarten, and Grades 1 to 12. We learn Ucwalmicwts with Gloria. We do swimming and skiing lessons to learn how to swim and learn to go down hills on skis on snow.
Last year we went to Science World. The year before, we went to Watermania. This year we hope to go to the Planetarium.
In Xit'olacw Community School, we learn about different places, we do Ucwalmicwts, we go swimming and skiing, our classes are Nursery, Kindergarten, and Grades 1 to 12, and we go to different places for our field trips.
By Roxie
Foods
We eat several different types of food such as traditional foods, at restaurants, and take-out. Our traditional foods are fish, bannock, deer meat, and moose meat. We eat take-out food such as McDonalds, Tim Horton's doughnuts, Wendy's hamburgers, and Chinese food. When we are at school the elementary students eat their lunch at 12:00 and the high school students eat their lunch at 12:15. Some people go home for lunch and some people go to the store for lunch.
By Dallas
Shopping
There are many places that people go to shop for groceries, clothes and toys. Pemberton is the closest but it is a small town. Some people go to Whistler for shopping or movies. There's a good toy store called Great Games and Toys. When people want to go to a mall they go north to Kamloops or south to Vancouver. As Mt. Currie only has 1 corner store and 1 gas station people tend to travel to buy what they want and need. I like to go to Vancouver for things other than shopping.
By Kaylon
Games
Most kids in our class are on a soccer team, Lil'wat youth soccer. The age groups for soccer are 5-7 for Rugrats, 8-11 are for Rascals, 11-13 for Little Wolf Pack and 14-16 for Big Wolf Pack. The colour of our uniforms is black and blue stripes.
Most adults play bingo every night. Bingo starts at 7:00 and ends at 1:00the latest. This is how people fund raise for clubs, floor hockey, soccer, powwow and graduation and this is how people support them.
We play Soccer, American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Bingo, Card games, Hockey, board games and Nintendo 64.
By Randi
MOVIES
We like to watch action movies such as Enough and Lord of the Rings. We like to watch funny movies like Scary Movie 1 & 2 and Daddy Day Care and we like to watch scary movies such as Jeepers Creepers and Freddy vs. Jason. That's all the movies we like to watch.
TV SHOWS
We like to watch lots of TV shows but I am only writing 4 out of a whole bunch so they are Friends, CSI, the Simpson's, and Lizzie McGuire. Those are the main TV shows we like to watch so moving on.
MUSIC
The music we like to listen to would be TLC, Mary J. Blige, and Pink. We also like to listen to our own music. It's called Pow wow music. You are most likely wondering how it sounds. Well I'll describe it for you. It's like this. There is a group of people around a big drum singing in our language.
By Maggie
Holidays and Celebrations
We have several holidays and celebrations that take place in our school. Every year we have things that are fun in our school and in our town we do a lot of holidays and celebrations like birthdays. We do stuff like celebrate it at our school then that same day or another day we go to that persons house if we're invited to his or her birthday. We bring presents or money for that person and before or after we eat or play then it's cake time. We sing for the birthday boy or girl. After we sing we eat cake, Jell-O, ice cream, and pie. Some of the people go home, some sleep over if they're allowed to. There's a thing we do every year our whole school goes down to a place called Lil'wat place.
We eat fish down there and sometimes go swimming but this year we didn't because there were leeches in the water. Last week on the tenth we had a Thanksgiving powwow. It was fun watching the dancers dance. When they dance they dance for their family, Elders, and themselves .There's a holiday everybody likes it's Halloween. On Halloween we dress up give away candy to kids dressed up to get their candy they say trick or treat some people have fireworks too. On Christmas but before Christmas we decorate our trees for the presents that our family and Santa gives to us and after we open the presents and eat Christmas dinner we have fireworks. On the end of December is New Years Eve.
On New Years Eve we have a powwow for the end of the year 2003 at midnight its going to be 2004 and we also have fireworks.
Done by Renee.
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