My best shots

I made a video of some of my best pictures and I did it on the wold's most reliable brand MAC, so here it is.



And here is a link to my flickr page "My best shots".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tubeex/sets/72157616299412701/




Nicolas

Jeux de l'Acadie road trip

After a very long year of school summer is finally here. As you know my little brother is on the school's mini hand ball team and at the end of the year there is a chance that our school can go to the "Jeux de l'Acadie".
This year our school made the games in mini hand ball, boys volley ball, girls volley, and track and field. This year the games are in a small village called "Petit Rocher" in New Brunswick Canada.

After the first game the teams were very tiered. I don’t think that they hade a lot of sleep. One of their worse disadvantages was that we hade, was that we were playing in Nigadoo. And Nigadoo has the worst terrain to play on. It is grass. That is probably one of the reasons we lost the game by 2 points.

After the lunch the CDLJ's (Carrfour De La Jeunesse (my school)) was going to play their final game of the first day vs. the “Peninsule Acadienne”.

The “Peninsule Acadienne” was a very good team and the game was very close in first 1/2. I could not take lots of pictures because there as a gate in front of us. At the sound of the 1/2 time buzzer “Peninsule Acadienne” tried to cut our led from 3 to 2, but the goal was not good. Yahoooooooo!!!!!
At 1/2 time the score was 12 to 8 for CDLJ. During the 2e 1/2 we use an old school technique were we fake to shoot the ball in their face and they believed every time. A few minutes in the game we get a penalty shot and score to have a 2 goal lead. Then they get their 2 penalty shot and score again. The score is changing so fast that I can’t type as fast as the game's scores are going...
But in the end we loose by 1 not 2 but 1 point.
So now we have 0 wins and 2 loses after the first day.

Now there is a big rumor that “Atolville” had lost one of their games. “Atolville” is the CDLJ's(Mad Vic) biggest rival. But in the end the rumor was false, they won.

At the end of the 2e game we saw the reporter for the 92.9FM. We also saw the vane for the CBC radio.

At 6:30 we went to the opening celebration. I know the tournament has already begun but this is the way it works. The celebration started with them playing some Acadien music. Wild we waited for the teams.
It was a very good show. We saw the old mascot



and the new one.



What was a big surprised to me was, the Premister of New Brunswick. There was the torch and a few dancing numbers.
At the end the athletes paraded of to the busses.

Now ready for the 3e game CDLJ looked extremely tired again. Will they weir practicing they looked more dead that living. In the last game one of CDLJ's best player can score 15 goals per game but scored 1.

The game started 2 to 0 for “Restgooche” (atolville).
3 to 2 “CDLJ's” goalie makes an amazing save on a penalty shot.
One other of “CDLJ's” disadvantages is that they are in the hardest divisions.
1/2 time 8 to 4 for “Altolville”. CDLJ closing the gap 9 to 12. Now a gap of 2 and now 2 again.
One of “Atoleville” players tripped one of our players and we got a penalty shot and scored and we got a 2 minutes power play.
The girl on our team was ok and played for some of the game.
Finally the game ended 13 to 15 for “Atoleville”.


The night after the 3e game I slept at my cousin's house. We caught 12 crabs in the sea. That night we eat smors beside the campfire.

If you ever go to “Nigadou” near the soccer there is a nice cache so I am told. I could not go, I did not bring my GPS.

Maxime and his team (CDLJ) played their last game and won it 17 to 20 vs. PEI. I could not take notes during the game because my ipod touth stopped working. After the game we eat lunch and then went to see the soccer our team lost 5 to 0 but in the final seconds me came very close to getting a nice goal. Before the game we were told that our goalie dislocated her arm but she played the game.

At the campsite there was a dance and at the “Jeux de l'Acadie”. The band at the camping hade it's first gig that was not in a retirement home, they were very good.

After a good night of sleep, well for me we when to the closing ceremony. We also go news from our soccer teams; the boys were in 2e place and the girls in 3e place.

We arrived at the ceremony, early so we watched the track and field.
At the track and field we met the winner on the high jump, she was from my mom’s school.
Finally we came to the closing of the “Jeux de l'Acadie”. There was no chirring at the ceremony, maybe because most peoples lost their voices at the games.

Then the fog, the wind and the cold came. All of the atlets hade to were shorts.
When the ceremony finally finished we all were extremely happy to go home. We won the sportsmanship flag in mini hand ball.

After an other good night of sleep. That day we set our course to the marine biology center in “Chipagan” (Neer Petit Rocher). On the way we saw a nice family of hawks the mother was keeping an eye on us when we were taking some pictures.



At the biology center there was a lot of fish and marine creatures. You could also take a blue lobster in you hands. There was also a prehistoric fish spices called “stergen”.
On the way to a lighthouse on “Miscou” island (Miscoo is the last island in the east par of New Brunswick).
We saw 2 old schools that were closed because that not many people live in Miscoo.
At “Miscou” there is a bridge like the one to go to PEI. As the lighthouse came into view we took a few shots. It was extremely cold on the beach we saw some of dead crabs and a dead bird, we think that it was a foudebasin. We could not go in the lighthouse because there were some people in the light house fixing it i think.
Maxime did not come, he fell a sleep.
“Lameque” is a small village near “Miscou”. There is not much to do in “Lameque”. In “Lameque“ we think that we saw 3 pelicans near the water. The reason that I did not take any more is because I did not have any more memory for my camera.

Now we are finally going home.


Nicolas