By Jaden Barbosa-Phan, Xavier Sutherland, Sophie Komangapik, Siya Ndlela, and Sam Adan
Trip to Alberta
York street kids and supervisors got a chance to go to Alberta and learn how they live and what they do there.
On the early morning of Sunday March 24, around 22 York students with three staff members boarded a bus to the Ottawa airport to go on a plane to Alberta. When all of them left the plane, they went to Toronto then they made it to Calgary. A twin is a student that we paired up with from Alberta. Once they landed, the kids got on the bus going to their twin`s school. Once they got to Crowsnest Pass, they had a potluck and got to know their twins. After the potluck, the families took their kids to their homes and they set their rooms up for the week. The next day, the kids went to their school, CHSS to board their bus and go to the field trips. They went to a museum, one of the teacher`s huge backyard to hike, Frank slide, Banff, Johnson’s canyon, and Buffalo jump. After the school week, they had a free day and this is how they each spent it.
Siya-So on my free day, me and my twin`s family went to a Mining place in BC. When we were there, I had a lot of fun. Then, we went to this place similar to Sky Zone. Then we got something to eat at McDonalds. I had a lot of fun in Alberta I wish I could go back there. It was a lot of fun!!!
Jaden-On my free day, my exchange family and I went to British Columbia for the day. We went to eat lunch at a restaurant and I got to see the trucks the Albertans use for getting resources like oil and coal. Then we walked in the town and I saw one of my friends named Kasaya coincidentally in a chocolate shop.
Xavier-Saturday was the free day, my exchange family went to BC with Sam`s family. We went to a swimming pool from 1:45-4:00. My twin Maya and her dad were on the same team for basketball in the water, it was me, Sam¸ and his twin Cayley on the Sam team. After we went swimming we saw the biggest truck in the world which was over 30 ft. tall and then went home.
Sophie-On the free day, my twin, me and a few others went to her old school and they went inside and left me outside, then I went inside and saw a huge goldfish with chameleon eyes and I was scared of it. My twin, me and two others went to a trampoline park and my twin and her family and me watched the live Dumbo movie.
The next day, they all left from Crowsnest Pass, but they switched the flight so we stayed at a hotel for one more day. We camped at Tim Hortons for 2-3 hours and then we went to a huge mall and the movies. The movie was Captain Marvel. We woke up the next day and ate breakfast but we got split up in two different groups. A delayed flight that also stopped at Toronto and an early flight that went straight to Ottawa but their flight ended up being delayed too. Then we went home a day late, March 14, at around 5:30 for the early group then 7:30 for the delayed flight. We went back to school, and then our parents picked us up from school.