Ma Mère
2009明日领袖夏令营中学一年级 Xuejiao Li

Je voudrais vous presenter une personne très importante pour moi qui est aussi une excellente leader. Je vais la décrire physiquement et moralement.

Ma mère est belle mais un peu ronde et elle n’est pas très grande. Ella a les cheveux et les yeux noirs en forme d’amande et belle bouche pulpeuse. Elle porte des lunettes 《Versace》. Ma mère est une personne très fière de sa personne et elle s’habille toujours bien. Elle sait comment coordonner ses vêtements qui sont toujours à lamode.

En Chine, ma mère était infirmière. Elle a travaillé dans sa domaine pendant plus de vingt-cinq ans. Elle était un exemple à suivre pour ses collègues et plusieurs l’ont louangée. Moralement, je vous dirai que ma mère est un exemple à suivre et une inspiration pour tous. Ma mère a beaucoup de qualités. Elle est une excellente cuisinière, mon père et moi avons la chancede nous régler tous les jours. Également, ma mère peut peindre de très beaux tableaux à l’huile. Elle peint des portraits, des choses et parfois, elle vend ses tableaux. Elle m’a enseigné comment dessiner et j’en suis très fier parceque, grâce à elle, j’ai gagné des concours à mon école.

Ma mère est une athlète également. Elle nage très bien et c »est aussi elle qui m’a enseigné comment nager. Ma mère, on pourrait dire, est une personne assez ferme mais aussi douce. Si je me l’écoute pas, elle me regarde et soulève ses sourcils, je sais alors que je dois me redresser. Puisque ma mère sait comment me mo-tiver, je sais que je vais réussir grâce à elle et c’est la raison pour laquelle jel’admire!

Pour moi, elle est une bonne leader pour qu’elle possède toutes les qualités nécessaires!

充满奥运激情的夏令营
陈子赜

今年夏天是一个和往年不同的夏天，因为我来到了一个充满奥运激情的夏令营，我迫不及待的要将夏令营和老师介绍给你们，与大家一起分享我的快乐。

风趣幽默的英语老师Marc常常令同学们笑得前仰后合。在加拿大学过美术创作的Anna老师随笔而就的小动物在黑板上活灵活现，吸引着同学们的眼睛。聪明的数学老师Sylvie将没有意思的数学发着讲解的通俗易懂，每周数学逻辑题，年纪竞赛让同学们争先恐后大显身手。 法语老师Carmen，大家叫他中考专家，她亲切的声音，聚集了大家的注意力，清晰系统的讲解使复杂古板得的法文语法变得一目了然。写作的变得轻松起来了。跟Carmen老师学习考上名校没问题。

丰富多彩的才艺课让我们学的更轻松更有趣，现在我还能清清楚楚的记得每一个人脸上高兴愉快的表情。我最喜欢的一项活动是去参观渥太华的中国大使馆，因为打我踏进的那一刻时，我就感受到了作为一个中国人的骄傲，自豪和对2008年奥运会的期待。在中国大使馆里，我们学到了关于2008年奥运会的一些知识，并且我们了解到了奥运会的流程和现实情况。而且我们都获得了大使馆给我们提供的奥运福娃的纪念品。这些外出活动不仅能让我们轻松快乐的玩耍还能增加我们的课外知识。

文化课程强化提高了我们的英文，法文，中文的阅读写作能力。才艺课陶冶了我们的情操，外出的活动开阔了我们的视野。

参加夏令营增强了我们的自信心，锻炼了我们的意志力，培养了我们的团结友爱精神。地平线是一个在快乐中学习，在学习中进步的夏令营。

Horizon Camp and Myself 
Qing Yin Wang   
Friday, August 1st, 2008       

Horizon camp is a very special place to me. When I was in grade five and I had to take an entrance exam to be able to go to a very good secondary school, I came here to study some more to prepare. Little did I know that I was going to such a wonderful place. When I first came and was assigned to group five-two, there was so much to do, and it all seemed so tiring! However, I quickly realized that I was having a lot of fun learning new things here, even such as how to make my very own website! Later I moved from group five-two to group six because there was more English, which was better suited for me. I learned a lot and I still managed to keep up pretty well. I made some very good friends there, most of whom were i n my grade six class, and we got to know each other pretty well. My favorite class was Drama, and at the 'Final Show', I presented a mini play with the rest of my grade six group. It was so much fun preparing it and practicing!

I was very sad when it was the end of camp and I had to go, but I still knew that the knowledge that I had gained and my memories and experiences would always be there with me! And when I took the entrance exam for the secondary school that I really wanted to go to, I had almost no problems at all in doing it thanks to all that I had learned in camp! In the end, I got an 'early acceptance'! The year after that, when I finally went there, the school was even better than I had imagined! And later on, when we had a very hard and tricky math competition, I realized that the questions were very similar to the ones that I had did in camp! Therefore, I did a lot better than I would have if I didn't know the tricks that wer e in the questions. Even now, I still think of how much Horizon Camp had helped me so much in just two months!

Just before the following Christmas, Horizon Camp gave me the chance to present something for one of their events along with others who also did very well in their entrance exams for secondary that year. I really enjoyed watching my friends and other peers do magic tricks, present plays they made up, sing Christmas songs, and many, many other things as well! I was so entranced! When it came to my turn, I presented a very famous Chinese poem, 'Some People', by my great-grandfather, Zang Ke Jia, both in Chinese and in the English translation. I also presented a speech in French about pet rats. I was so happy that I could present so much in front of others! It also helped me gain some self-confidence. I even won the fi rst prize of 'people's choice'! It made me very proud that I could touch the hearts of others. During Christmas, there was also a party being thrown, and I was invited to go there! I was so excited that I drew a picture and wrote a short poem dedicated to Horizon Camp as thanks to all the opportunities that I had gotten from it! My poem is:

The horizon is the home of the sun.
The sun is us,
And we are your children.

I also brought my friends with me to the party, and we had a lot of fun together all thanks to Horizon Camp! I and somebody else, also from the camp, were even invited to cut the cake that was prepared. What an honor!

Last summer, I wasn't able to come because I was going on a trip to China, and even though I had so much fun there, I still missed coming to this camp. So this year, I came back, and I'm having just as much fun and learning as much, if not more, than I had remembered!  I'm very glad that there is also a secondary class so that I can be with my peers instead of children a lot younger than myself. Not many other places offer something like that! This camp is also very well-organized in pretty much all terms, and the te achers are very experienced in the subjects that they teach, making learning experience even easier and more fun. Also, this camp is very involved and focused on hot topics of the present. This year, of course, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was the main topic. When I came here and saw the Beijing mascots high on the walls, I was very moved because I loved the Olympic Games a lot, especially because this year it was taking place in Beijing! We also go on very fun trips, and many of them are very big. I really enjoyed the trip to Ottawa this year since I moved to Montreal from there, and it brought back many happy memories, but especially because I also discovered something new that I hadn't even experienced from living in Ottawa for more than five years! That is because we went to the Chinese Embassy to watch clips which introduced the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games!

Horizon Camp has played a very big part in my life, and I will never forget the times that I have spent here, how much I have learned, and... everything about it!  Therefore, not only do I want to come back next time, I also want to participate in other extra-curricular activities organized by it during the weekend. Horizon Camp is a place which will forever remain in my heart.

Fin

愉快的夏令营
孙天慧

我今年11岁五年级，我来加拿大已经三年了。五年级是重要的一年，因为面临着中考的压力。参加夏令营的目的是为了迎接中学考试，提高法语的阅读，写作，数学等科目的水平，所以爸爸和妈妈经过商量，为我选择了地平线夏令营。地平线夏令营有许多的特色班级，比如：针对升学的强化补习班，增加文艺修养的才艺舞蹈班，强身健体的功夫班等。我参加了金牌中考强化班 （小五）。

虽然是夏令营，对于五年级每天的课程还是很紧张的。每天都有法语的阅读，写作和语法训练，还有数学的课程。法语老师是有着丰富教学经验的Carmen老师，她在法语方面对我有很大的帮助，每天都有大量的练习题，特别是在法语语法和阅读理解的帮助最大。以前经常混淆的语法关系，经她解释后，变得容易记忆，难以掌握的阅读理解，经过上Carmen老师的课，提高迅速。 现在在阅读文章是可以快速准确的抓住文章的中心意思。

下午是才艺课，比如画画，小提琴，音乐，跳舞和功夫。我最喜欢的课程是音乐和画画。音乐课上我第一次接触小提琴，经田驰老师耐心的讲解示范，我学会了第一首曲子。美术课是我最开心的课，Anna老师叫我们日本漫画，既丰富了我的想象力也提高了我的绘画技巧。

每周五是外出活动，我们参观了天文馆，各类的博物馆，去Oka游泳，去农场采摘红梅。。。。。。每次活动我都是高兴而去，尽兴而归。

我喜欢我的夏令营，在这里我学习有兴趣，与朋友相处愉快，在地平线我度过了一个快乐的夏天！

Why do I love Horizon camp?
Secondary     Helena Chen (陈睿格)
August 8, 2008     

As I remember, the Horizon camp is always as satisfactory as what I had expected. It is so great that I can’t stop asking myself how I am going to express my love and give thanks for this summer camp. More and more Chinese schools and camps are being set up in Montreal these days. I can say, not only with my intuition but also with my experiences that although all these schools and camps are still on the experimental stage, Horizon school did absolutely its best to maintain a well developed relationship with its customers and to keep students enjoying learning and having fun.

So far, I haven’t revealed to you the best qualities of this camp yet. First, here, we teenagers become more and more social. For example: some of us could easily make friends and build deep friendship instead of standing in the shade of solitude, as making friends is a natural instinct in us human beings. We are having no difficulty getting familiar with each other, because we are of the same age and we have common languages. This big family gives us a platform to meet new people.

Secondly, learning new stuff is the main point of the Horizon camp. Its successes today show good organization, a durable relationship and tacit agreement between the administrators, teachers and students. For instance, teachers, with their suitable teaching methods, encourage students to practice more in speaking, listening and reading which help the latter to make steady progress in their learning and acquire basic knowledge.

Thirdly, we are always having fun from both recreational activities and life learning that has been enriching. For example: one day, we went out picking raspberries; the other day, I was laughing at the new nickname “Kung Fu Panda” that we gave to our Chinese teacher. Last week, I just learned to draw Mangas, a kind of Japanese drawings represented by people with big and shiny eyes.

In conclusion, this beautiful memory and these happy days emerge time and again in my mind; they can not vanish into thin air just as time passed without a sound. Even though the Horizon summer camp is touching its end, I believe that it will experience a splendid and successful future.