Some comments deserve to be elevated to full-fledged posts. After I posted Three things about Canada, my old J-school pal Martha Muzychka–the first Newfoundlander I ever met way back in 1984–took up the challenge to write about her own backyard. Here’s her excellent list:
(Instructions: Start a note, cut-and-paste this, replace my answers with your own.)
Three names I go by:
1. The Rock (Newfoundland)
2. The Big Land (Labrador)
3. NL
Three places I have worked:
1. The Haunted Hike
2. Royal St. John’s Regatta
3. Woody Point Literary Festival
Three places I have lived:
1. Devon House Craft Centre
2. Anna Templeton Centre
3. Cabot Tower
Three TV shows I watch:
1. Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
2. This Hour has 22 Minutes
3. Land and Sea
Three places I have been:
1. Gros Morne
2. Happy Valley Goose Bay
3. Eastport
Three people who e-mail me:
1. Danny (Williams)
2. Damhnait (Doyle)
3. Michael (Crummey)
Three of my favorite foods:
1. fish and chips
2. tea buns
3. bread pudding
Three things I would like to do:
1. Stop begging
2. Repeat the gold medal win in curling at the 2010 Winter Games
3. Teach people how to dance a jig
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. People stop using the term Newf or Newfie to describe the people of the province
2. The 2010 JUNO Awards
3. Maintaining status as a have province!
Ok, Rest of Canada: your turn…and I promise to give your province or city its very own post too…
March 10, 2009 at 6:29 am
[...] then my old (well, actually not THAT old) Carleton University pal Martha Muzychka weighed in with Three things about Newfoundland and Labrador. And now another Carleton grad–native Ottawan and travel blogging buddy Laura Byrne [...]
March 10, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Hi Julie, greetings from Calgary!
Three names I go by:
1. Cowtown
2. Centre of the Universe (sorry TO!)
3. Gateway to the Rockies
Three TV shows I watch:
1. Dragon’s Den
2. Real Life Housewives of Orange County
3. Til Debt do Us Part
Three places I have been:
1. Cowboys
2. Chinook Centre
3. Mountains
Three people who e-mail me:
1. charities
2. people looking for a job
3. people looking for a deal in the mountains
Three of my favorite foods:
1. Alberta beef
2. sushi – which some of you might find confusing
3. Bernard Callebaut chocolate
Three things I would like to do:
1. Stop defending myself as second fiddle to TO
2. Be known for more than the Calgary Stampede
3. Be known worldwide as the gateway – worthy of a stopover – to the Canadian Rockies
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. Gaining recognition as culinary hotspot of Canada:)
2. Watching Gillian on The Bachelorette shake her Canadian/Albertan bootie on the next season
3. Handing the Olympic torch to Vancouver