Bravo group Day 9

Bonjour from Montreal, everybody! We’ve finally arrived after a long eight hour drive from Markham, and were greeted by Charlie and a meal of noodles, chicken, and sausages, ready to eat. Since it is currently close to midnight, the students will not be writing blogs today. However, do not fret; we will be sure to have lots to write about tomorrow, that I can assure you.

So let’s start on our day then, we woke up around 7:30, and we had a breakfast of hard-boiled eggs, leftover BBQ, and bread with margarine. We did our traditional clean-up, and then moved on to the social intelligence class. Social intelligence taught at Monticle is a class designed to educate the students on situations that would apply to real life situations, such as a job interview, presentations, and all around communication skills. In addition, the students learned about the importance of body language when communicating. Meanwhile, the senior students were learning how to tie ropes, a useful skill when camping.

We said our goodbyes to Quince, as he left today to return to Hong Kong. He will be missed. While the students were in the S.I. class, the seniors began preparing and cooking a hamburger lunch on the grill outside. We cleaned up HQ, and finally left at 3 in the afternoon.

And our journey starts! It took us until 11:00 pm to get to Montreal, including our half hour stop at an OnRoute. We rotated students in the front passenger seat so that they could learn about navigation, and for the foreign students, to learn about the Canadian roads as well. When we arrived, we were greeted by Billy’s good friend Charlie, who is letting us use his house for our trip. Charlie had already prepared a dinner of chicken drumsticks and noodles, which was much appreciated!

As it’s very late today, we’ll be going to sleep. We’re going urban hiking tomorrow, so goodnight!

P.S. Since it’s late today, we cannot upload pictures tonight, look out for the pictures tomorrow morning!

Peggy

We’re in Montreal ~ Turning back to the beginning of the day, those of us sleeping in the apartment spent nearly a good hour waiting for our ride back to HQ. One good thing was when we’re back there was breakfast waiting for us. After breakfast, the seniors went off and did whatever it is they needed to do while us juniors stayed for Tammy and Kenny’s social intelligence class. We learned time management, impressions, visual- auditory-kinaethetics, postures and positioning, and attention to detail. After that was Quince’s graduation and his leaving for Hong Kong. Then we prepared and packed for the trip to Montreal. I was happy when I finally found my bag of clothes. The trip was long and interesting in a way. Someone would not stop talking. Someone was so tired that he/she cuddled another person and slept.

Jason Wong

This marning we cleaned up HQ. We napped, and get rid of the dust in HQ. After cleaning we waited for the others to come. We played cards but it was weird because they didn’t come so we called Raymond and Kenny then we learned that their cellphones were turned off. Billy came to HQ then went to pick them up. We had a class about social intelligence. While I was gone to get my glasses fixed their packed stuff on the sprinter we headed to Montreal. We stopped and had a pitstop to have snacks and washroom break.

Jonathan

Yesterday, we had a lecture about social intelligence which was presented by Kenny and Tammy. It was a very long lecture. So many things to learn. Also, it way quice’s last day. Billy and Jacky took him to Pearson international airport. After that, we had lunch. It was okay. After lunch, we loaded up our stuff. On the sprinter. We cleaned up after that. Then, we were off and back to Montreal. It was a six or seven hour ride to Montreal. It was tiring. After we arrive, we unloaded the can and had dinner. For tomorrow (that’s Tuesday). I don’t know what we are doing.

Jacky

Today we were delayed because of transportation issue. We then started with breakfast and a 2 hour long social intelligence class. I did not attend it because I was with Quince at the airport. He did not seem to want to leave. We all miss him but life will have to continue. We then ate and left for Montreal. The ride was long and tidious. But in the end we arrived and had a nice dinner.

Calvin

We started our Journey waiting for the bus to pick us up today. We cleaned the office and packed all our gear. For lunch we had burgers. Most of the time I was directing people on what to do. During social intelligence lecture, the leaders learned how to tie ropes. I slept in the sprinter until we reached Quebec.

Alan

Today when I woke up. I want to the HQ we ate breakfast. For breakfast we ate bread and ham and eggs. After eating we cleaned the hq and packed our stuff for going to Montreal. After packing we had lunch and went on the van and went to Montreal. We arrived at 11:00 we ate dinner and went to bed.

Jason Wang

Yesterday we couldn’t write our blogs as we were too tired to write them as we got to Montreal out about 11:00 pa. when we first woke up yesterday the people staying at HQ cleaned up everything then we waited for the other students. It took almost an hour for the other students. It took almost an hour for the other students to get to the HQ as Raymond and Kenny didn’t pick them up. We then had our final goodbyes with Quince and then we had lunch. After lunch we got packed up and left for Montreal.

Edwin Chan

Today our plan was to go to Montreal but before that we students have a class called social intelligence. We learned how to understand people and find out what class people are. When we were finished with the class we ate lunch which was a hamburger. Once we were finished with lunch we all went to pack our stuffs into the car when we started to leave it was around 3:40 pm. Our first pit stop was at around 5 or 6 at an Onroute place (I forgot the name). When we were leaving I was the side passanger. Once we left it took us about 4 hours to cross the Quebec border, the time is 10 pm and we stopped at a gas station for another pit stop. After we all went we were on our way to Billy\s friend’s phouse the time we reached their was around 10:40 pm. We had around 5 minute to lay out our sleeping bag, and we ate dinner at 11. Our dinner were noodles, chicken leg and some sausages.

Edwin Cheung

Today, July, 2012. I woke up at 7:00 am. We ate hamburger for breakfast. Afterword, we start packing and loading our camping package, cooking wear and first aid kit. We wene for a 8 hour drive to charelie house. On the way we have 2 pist stop. The first one, we stop at 7:00 for a nighe snack/ dinner. We had egg tarts and many other snack. The next one is at 9:30 near McDonald. There had a road race car. Then we head to Charlie’s in a high speed. Afterword we head to Charlie house for dinner.

Grace

昨天，好困阿。。。。。

早上，某可爱的小孩毕业离去。。。。。。

下午，我们出发。。。。。

开始，在车上的3个小时，睡了一个小时。。。

之后的两个小时，我坐在前排，很想睡觉，但不能睡。。。。。。。

后面的一点五个小时，我睡着了，。。。。。。

完

Ryan Sun

两件事，一是我们送走了Quince，很不舍，他虽然很小但做什么都很努力、很认真，我很喜欢他。

二是我们坐了将近7个多钟头的车来到了这个曾经的法国殖民地Montreal.

当然我们还做了一件比较有意义的事就是由Tammy给我们上的一堂社交技巧课，她从多方面教我们应该如何与人交流，怎样让他人更容易接受我们所说的话，从而成为一个更好的Leader.

期待在这里的5天！

Cedric

I am writing yesterday’s blog at July 30,morning. It should be yesterday’s job but we spent 7 hours from HQ to Montreal. So we have arrived at Montreal safety at 11:00 pm yesterday night .just because we spent a lot of time on touring ,it doesn’t mean we do not have more free time to do some thing meaningful .昨天早Tammy为我们上了一堂‘社交技巧’课，主要教授一些生活上人与人交流的正确方式（例如 握手，眼神交流，身体语言）应用到人与人之间不同的人际关系，胆气个人来讲，我吸收到最重要的资讯是’time management’.

对于Quince 的离开，又听说他在机场不安的举动，我只能说，无论你在哪里生活或学习，都希望你能够保持你乐观积极的心态去完成每一件事，期待下一次的见面你又能够成长。