The sign said “An English talk about Canada will be given by the two Canadian teachers from Waterloo Uni. about her natural beauty, people panticularly young people, family life and life on the campus at 7:00 p,.m.” After realizing that it was not my natural beauty that they wanted me to address, we were faced with the age old question “what do we say?” Fortunately, Nancy’s (my colleague) son was able to pull some pictures for us and send them to us in a PowerPoint presentation.
About 150 students were in attendance and we showed pictures of all the provinces, territories and their capitals and highlighted the landmarks for which they are famous. We showed pictures of our towns, where we worked and of course our families. I am not sure if I was pleased or disturbed that several girls went crazy over the pictures of my two sons. We showed them how Canadians spend their leisure time especially with snow sports. Xiamen has weather like Florida, so the concept of snow is very strange to them. I think the talk went well and I hope that we were able to educate them and maybe even inspire them to expand their horizons, if not their travel plans in the future.
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