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…
