... but not fine arts.

And now, a post about things I am NOT good at.

Tonight I went to a junior high fine arts cabaret. Aside from once again being in the school environment, which I really enjoy, the kids were AMAZING! I felt so inferior watching a 13-year-old girl who has been invited to the National Ballet School summer camp doing a ballet piece, listening to a girl play guitar and sing a beautiful practically radio-worthy love song, listening to a very accomplished grade 7 flautist, and more and more and more! The kids were fabulous. (And Trevor's improv team did a great job too...). It makes me wish I had had the opportunity to explore music, dance and art in junior high but then I think, I already have too many interests - I don't need any more! Plus, I tried to learn to play the guitar once and discovered that my fingers and especially left wrist do NOT bend that way. So, I guess I will stick to marveling at talented teenagers.

Being at the school tonight also made me excited to start volunteering with Junior Achievement, facilitating the "Our Business World" seminar with a group of grade 6 students. It should be very interesting to see what they come up with when asked questions like "where do you get the money to start a business?"

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Amazing Race Party!

Last week was the season finale of one of my favourite shows, The Amazing Race. When I was in England a group of us would get together in my dorm room every week to watch the show. Two of the girls live in the city so I invited them and their boys over to watch together. Which, of course, gave me a ready-made excuse to indulge my creativity. I bought some bright red and yellow felt and made replica Race route marker flags to hang on the outside of my house, to mark important areas like the tv room and the bathroom, and to hang on the tv for decoration. I also made a trip to the Freak Lunchbox, an awesome candy store, and bought some “creepy crawlies” to imitate some nasty food the racers had to eat during a previous leg. Some chocolate covered ju jubes served as larvae, served up on a skewer. Gummy spiders, also on skewers, were in place of the crickets and scorpions the racers had been asked to eat. Next door at Pete’s Frootique I bought some cheddar Babybel and a wheel of brie, to serve as miniatures of the huge wheels of cheese the racers had to carry on their backs in the first leg of the race. Along with Cindy’s “Happy Amazing Race Day” cake, it made for quite a feast!