One of the greatest experiences that Alberta has to offer is the many farmers’ markets spread around the province. These markets are the best place to do many different actions at the same time – you support local farmers and artisans while also getting some of the best food in Alberta! Last Saturday I visited…
As the weather forecast rolls out sun after sun with 28°c all week, summer break begins and school is (finally) all done. Oh, wait, no it isn’t. At least not for thousands of students who are enrolled in summer school for the month of July in the Calgary area alone. Nationally, there are about a…
Upon entering high school, it may be a bit overwhelming: what courses to take? which clubs to join? With the ever-imposing stress of academia, a few friends and myself at Henry Wise Wood decided to create our own art club.
[youtube ydmE75YAEcE] A Dutch artists duo, Lernert and Sander, created this video with a goal “to apply 365 layers of makeup in one day to see how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one,” and to show that the common myth of ‘Make-Up is beautiful’ isn’t necessarily true. This model in the…
Name of Food: Bacon Sundae Funnel Cake
Where to Buy: Pennsylvania Dutch Funnel Cakes – located by the Saddledome, underneath the foot bridge.
Cost: $8
What makes it worthwhile: What a mouthful! I’m talking about its name…
Name of Food: Red Velvet Funnel Cake
Where to Buy: Next to the Coke stage and super close to the main entrance. The place also sells Elephant Ears!
Cost: $6
What makes it worthwhile: The icing on the deep fried velvet cake.
Name of Food: Loukoumathes – Greek Honey Puffs
Where to Buy: On the Midway, in front of the BMO centre (it’s a small white truck)
Cost: $5 for a small container (imagine the Strofoam ones), $9 for a large one
Name of Food: Pulled Pork Poutine
Where to Buy: Big T’s BBQ (Between the Grandstand Entrance and Nashville North
Cost: $10
What makes it worthwhile: Everybody loves poutine and everybody loves pulled pork.
Ever wonder how “hackers” in Hollywood movies can type so quickly? Behold, the Hacker Typer website! Essentially you can type anything and a bunch of code pops up. Neat, eh? According to their website, “Hacker Typer was developed as a small joke by Duiker101, but soon reached millions of views.” A post from TechWorld created…
So I know you all enjoy reading about anything related to Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling or the non-muggle world. So here is a list of my favourite quotes by my favourite author. Some are from the Harry Potter series, while others are from her Harvard Commencement Speech or other interviews. “It is impossible to…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBI68Il4Zsc Canada is a truly awesome nation – the land of hockey, universal health care, polar bears, and a multitude of other things. As we recently celebrated our nation’s 145th birthday, I figured I would share an… interesting, shall we say, rendition of our national anthem. Enjoy!
It was a drizzly, morose, spring afternoon. Fresh out the exam room, I hobbled along the quescient streets of downtown Calgary. Staring at the pale concrete sidewalk, something orange caught my eye. I looked under the rim of my umbrella, and to my utter astonishment, there, parked across the street, was the illustrious Cheezy Bizness…
So in my last post, I talked about the resort we stayed at — Las Morlas, and visiting the tallest bridge in Cuba (I won’t repeat the name just because I can’t spell it). But now, I’m gonna talk about touring Havana; the capital of Cuba. The drive from Las Morlas to Havana was around…
