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Today, I'll tell you about a normal day at school. I still have to go to school until the end of the month of June.  My school specializes in music and presents concerts here and also outside of Canada.

I walk to school with my friends. It takes us ten minutes to get there. Classes start at 8:30 am. At this moment all students are very excited because this is the last month of school, but also the time for exams. I have four classes of 75 minutes and between each class a break of 15 minutes.

During lunch time I eat at the cafeteria and have fun with my friends in the park around the school. School ends at 3:15 pm. I walk back home were I do my homework and I relax. I often take the subway to go to the library Plateau-Mont-Royal were my mother is chief librarian. We have dinner together and then I go to my fencing class. The library is in downtown. I like to go in that part of the city, where it's full of people and very buzzy.


The swimming pool will open soon!

Recently, I went to see a Canadian punk band, Billy Talent from Toronto, at Bell Centre (a concert hall and the hockey stadium).  I loved the concert and I discovered that Ben, the singer, was born in Pierrefonds borough of Montréal.

In Montréal there are many festivals in both summer and winter. Popular summer festivals are the Montréal International Jazz Festival, a comedy festival called Just for Laughs, the Francofolies, and the World Film Festival.


 

During the 2 weeks of the Olympics, I enjoyed many amazing events, experienced downtown Vancouver which had lots of Olympic attractions, and spent time with my family going to The Royal Canadian Mint Pavilion, the Holland/Heineken House (a Holland-themed "house" with activities from Holland/Winter Olympics and interactive technology), to see the Olympic Cauldron, and more (see the photos I took in the video I made).

Ski jumping is where a skier goes down a ramp and jumps 393 feet (120 meters) off the end. They may go as far as 475 feet (145 meters). I really liked ski jumping because they go really high in the air.

The jumpers are flying about 62 miles per hour (100 km per hour), which is amazing! And then they would land without falling! It must be hard landing!