Bears and Seals

Kahnawake is pronounced as if it was spelled like this in english, Gah-nah-wah-gay.

This is how you count to Ten in the Mohawk language:

enska - 1
tekeni - 2
ahsen - 3
kaie:ri - 4
wisk - 5
ia:iak - 6
tsa:ta - 7
sha'te:kon - 8
tiohton - 9
oie:ri - 10

Just a little video I made from the rock quarry...

IMovie is a very cool program! The first cliff you see me jumping off of is called Bears, then the second is called Seals. If I were to guess Bears is just under 20 feet tall and Seals is about 6 feet taller.

Cyclones

A cyclone is a Popsicle that I am eating right now. It has red, white, and blue swirls, and by the way tastes amazing. This is my second cyclone of the day. After my first cyclone I went downtown with my cousins. We drove to the Metro station and took the Montreal Metro to an underground mall. This mall has 10 miles of store front. It is really weird because every thing here is in French. But then again you dont have to use it cause just about every one knows English. So you just say "what" and they tell you what they said in English. At a store in the mall called StyleExchange I bought a new swimsuit that was more than half off so I got a new suit for $20 dollars. You will see the new suit in a movie I post later. Looking back at the Metro, I think that it is a very smart system of travel. Less traffic in the city and a lot quicker than if you were to drive. The picture on the right shows a map of Montreal's Metro system. We drove accross the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Angrignon Station and parked there. We then used the Metro for $2 per trip, so to get somewhere and back it costs $4. We took the green line Metro from Angrignon to Peel and went to the underground mall. We then went and walked around downtown Montreal and could have very easily gotten on the Metro at a different station but decided to use the same station that we took earlier. The metro was a lot faster and cleaner then I had imagined. From this Metro experience I reconsidered what I think about big cities. Now that I understand the Metro, that is also known as a Subway, I think that it wouldn't be that bad to live in a big city, you can just hop on the Metro and get accross town in no time.

Canadia

Today I am sitting at my cousins house in Kahnawake. Kahnawake is an indian reserve just across the St. Laurence river from Montreal. The people that live here are Mohawk. Over labor day weekend last year we also came here. So while you were in school Thursday morning I was in Kahnawake twelve hours away from home. We left home Wednesday night around 5:45 and arrived here in Kahnawake just before 7:00 on Thursday morning. This long drive led to a long nap as soon as we arrived at my cousins house.
Yesterday, the same day we arrived, we went to an old rock quarry that has since been filled with water. We jumped off of Bears; Bears is a 30 foot cliff into that leads us into the water. From the top of Bears you used to be able to see a sunken car, but since last year the car has been removed. From the top of Bears, I did a backflip, frontflip, headfirst dive and a couple feet first dives. Also at the top of Bears were a couple 12 to 15 year olds smoking a variety of different things. They were amazed at my flips. After we had enough of Bears we all swam to a different part of the rock quarry and found a rope swing that was boring because the rope didn't really let you get that far out into the water. So we swam back to Bears to get our towels and shoes. Overall I'd say that the swim there and back was a total of about 1500 meters.