After breakfast, my unit went to the Friendship Game at the X-centre. When we got there, we were each given blue booklets containing ten questions about Canada, such as "What is the world's longest paved roadway?". We had to seek out Scouts from across Canada to get the answers to the questions which we did not know the answers to. Finally we were also supposed to obtain names, addresses, and e-mail addresses from two of the Scouts which we met. I remember meeting two Scouts here. One was a boy named Jason from near Toronto. The other was a girl named Joannie from near Montreal. She only knew French, so I had fun practising my French with her, as I still knew some French back then from school. I gave my booklet to one of her leaders (who also only knew French) so that it could be taken in to be validated. Validated booklets could be used to get some time in the video games tent, but I don't think anybody in my unit took that opportunity.
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That afternoon our unit went to the Hike-Canoe. This was a two-part event. The first part for us involved several activities involving a canoe. One of them consisted of one of us standing in the canoe, while twirling a hula-hoop around our waist. I didn't do the hula-hoop part! The challenge in this activity was the razor clam shells in the water. One of our Scouts fell out of his canoe and cut his leg on one of these shells. The Halifax troop with the pretty girls was there, and one of them said 'hi' to me a couple times. After that, we went over to the Cabot Park beach to do the hike part. We took off our day packs and put them aside, while some of our gear went into a special "dry bag", which was placed in the centre of an inner tube. Holding onto the inner tube, we had to hike through chest-deep water to another shore. Luckily, our unit did this activity during low tide. Apparently one of the other units in my troop did the same activity this morning during high tide, and the water was so high they had to swim. After this part we had to do an activity involving throwing a lifeline out to a piece of plywood representing a drowning person. We then made a miniature Inukshuk with PEI rocks at the base of one of PEI's red cliffs. We had a picture taken of our unit standing in front of the cliff. We watched the Zip Line event, which was right next to where we were. That looked so fun, but our unit wasn't signed up for it.
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