OUR OWN LITTLE BOOK OF AWESOME

OUR OWN LITTLE BOOK OF “AWESOME”

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There are Aha! Moments and then there are AWE-ha! moments.

Here are a few awesome (amazing, remarkable, breathtaking) ones

from two of my students in the conversation group.

They have also contributed in the past so once more,

here is what they would like to share.

It’s like our own little book of AWESOME!

∎ A little note before you start reading, remember that we are in Québec and very often some of the most astonishing moments are the ones when we encounter wild life!

A GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK

By Marielle Jobin

Last September, my friend and I decided to go hiking in the Gaspé region’s provincial park. At the information center, I told the guide that I wanted to see some moose. He suggested that we go on the Ernest Laporte mountain trail where hikers had recently seen a few.

We had been walking for two hours when we reached the shelter at the top of the mountain. There, we delighted in the beauty of the landscape, and using ours binoculars we were expecting to see the beast, the king of the forest. But after one hour of observation, nothing! No moose! The weather started to get cold and windy. ¨Let’s go back down”, said my friend.

As we were making our way back down the mountain, of course, the wind died down and the sun appeared. Despairing, I was sure I had missed something. But, when we arrived in the parking lot… SURPRISE! A lady moose was there: huge, proud and calm.

After this game of hide-and seek, did I see a smile on her face? My friend whispered ¸¨Take a picture, take a picture¨. Too excited, by the time I had prepared my camera, the moose was making its way back to the forest.

What an encounter! But although so much was happening at the same time, I still managed to get a picture of… a big brown pair of buttocks!

                                                                        

A GREAT MOMENT AND THE BEGINNING 

OF A WONDERFUL TIME  --- by Carole Lemonde

It was in 1999 and it was the end of summer.  My husband and I were looking for a cottage up North. We looked around by ourselves for a few months but we didn’t find what suited our needs.  So we decided to call up a real-estate agent working for an agency in the Laurentians. 

We gave him an overview of our needs and he scheduled four visits for us on the following week end. After we had visited three cottages, we were a little bit discouraged about what we could expect to get for the money we were willing to spend.

Finally we headed towards the last cottage on the list.  We fell in love with the house as soon as we saw it.  It was cosy but not luxurious, by a small lake and it had a lot of land.  The price was too high but we saw that the owners really expected to sell before the winter season.

On our way back, near the cottage, we met two deer crossing the road, a couple of partridge on the side and a family of fox on a big rock.  All that… within five minutes.  We were really flabbergasted!!!!!! 

We looked at the agent and laughed, telling him that it so looked like a staging developed by him to influence our decision into buying that cottage.

Finally, we negotiated a good price and bought that cottage.  The following years spent there were unforgettable moments until we divorced in 2004. 

 I could almost say they were the five of the best years of my life, sharing family pleasure with nature…

Thanks to both of you for first writing about

this memorable time in your lives and

letting me post them here for all to read!

Keep on writing, it comes naturally from you. GREAT JOB!

Your very PROUD teacher,

SUZANNE

??? WHY am I a proud teacher, you ask?

Because both Marielle and Carole have mastered

VERB FLOW in their anecdotes. BRAVO!

Not an easy accomplishment.