One. The sheep let their hair grow long, but that is generally the extent of their cooperation at the North American Sheap Shearing Challenge at Calgary Stampede on July 09-19, 2010. Successful shearers must therefore perfect the viselike leg clamp that keeps the animal in one place. At Agrium Ag-tivity in the City. Two. Blacksmith…
Here is a video about Hiroyuki Suzuki, the winner of ” Yo-yo God Tournament of 2005″: Hiroyuki Suzuki 1. Gleb, when did you start yo-yoing? 2. Since March of this year. 1. What is it? How did it happen? Where did you see yo-yo for the first time? 2. At school. The neighboring class mates,…
Summer in Calgary is very unusual : twenty times a day the weather is changing: a rainy morning, in an hour everything dried out, the sun showed up, the air is dry and clean, we are situated at 1500 meters above the sea level, the mountain ridge is on the horizon. It seems that they…
My workshop lately is full of young blood reps: competition in better painting of figurines and tanks, making different costumes for dolls. The night we had visited the ballet performance “The Snow White’, which was mentioned in our “Social Club” category before. The idea to design new costumes came up all of a sudden during…
One. Students in a Nia class fly like butterflies, bend like flowers, tickle the air and leave embarrassment at the door. It draws from nine well-established forms of mind-body exercise from the three categories of martial, dance and healing arts: tae kwon do, Tai Chi and aikodo; jazz, modern and Duncan dance (from Isadora); Feldenkrais,…
Everybody knows that night dreams are a reflection of the days’ activities. It’s definitely, yes. And definitely, no. Liza’s night dream was lately a replay of the day. About her house on the fourteenth floor hanging somewhere in the air. She saw herself and her Mom, sitting at her kitchen table and talking. All of…
“Between us it happened all: And happiness, and sadness, And long talks at evening fall…” Happy Birthday, my only beloved Mom, To-day’s talk I am engaged in from far away from you, from Canada, Happy Birthday to you, Mommy! First of all, I wish you happiness, love and all the best! Secondly, I would like…
“Gee’d up, Gleb! Sun is out!”, with such words Robin, our neighbor’s daughter, addressed Gleb, inviting him and Liza for a bike ride in our Park. Vacation time is flying so quickly unlike school time. Teenagers’ social calendar is pretty busy: making new friends, meeting with the old ones, participating in birthday parties and simply…
“Thou art fairer than all, Lady Queen, But more beautiful still is Snow White, as I ween ” ( I believe) Watch video “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (in Russian) :Snow White The brothers Grimm’s fairy tale about Snow White and 7 Dwarfs came alive at the School of Alberta Ballet on Saturday June…
“Chinook” is a Pacific Indian word meaning “snow-eater” as a strong Chinook can make snow one foot deep almost vanish in one way. The snow partly melts and partly evaporates in the dry wind. To the left is a photo-diagram of a Chinook formation, to the right the photo of a Chinook in Denver, Colorado,…