Boundless School Blog
Update #1; Session 2 – Making Gold from Straw
Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely. Always a blessing when that happens. This ridiculously fantastic weather is getting kind of eerie. I went to Toronto for two days, and when I returned this morning, everything that was once green has turned into...
Session One Final Update – The Norwester Brings Relief and Glory
Dear Boundless Families: On Friday, when the heat wave released its grip, and a cool Norwester blew relief into our deer-fly bitten bodies, I encountered the Goonies at their Lac Robinson campsite on the Dumoine River. They don’t really use the identity of Goonies...
Session 1; Update #3 – Woodsworth and Emmerson Aint Got Nothing on us
Dear Boundless Families: The poets Woodsworth and Emmerson couldn't begin to describe how gorgeous it is up here, this Thursday morning. Like your teenagers, the Canadian Shield and the Boreal Forest are in their splendour and oozing with potency. The combined...
Session 1; Update # 2 – Listen Up You Maggots
Dear Boundless Families: We have 21 English students who are somehow managing to focus in this insane heat. Their swim regimen is like a newborn's breastfeeding schedule. If not every 2-3 hours, they get cranky. Joking around with a bunch of students at dinnertime,...
Session 1 (2018); Update #1 – Goonies and Rasputin
Dear Boundless Families: All arrived safely. Thanks for everyone's efforts on the swift getaway. As if on cue, the sun started shining early afternoon, revealing a dogged heat that will surely be part of this session's narrative. It's good to live by a river,...
Session 4, Final Update – RESPECT, YO
Dear Boundless Families: All 61 kids are in varying states of frolic and exhaustion. Some are contemplative. A bunch are huddled together, amazingly calm as they try to complete their written assignments on time. But everyone is home. A relief to this old man. Both...
Session 4, Update #3 – Same Face; Different People
Happy Saturday Afternoon: I am a little lazy today - perhaps the privilege of having both outdoor cohorts deep in the Quebec wilderness helps. Those lovely mugs of yours are long gone, and the Satellite phone hasn't rung. The English crews are on auto-drive, back...
Session 4, Update # 2 – Eyesight Remains Keen
Dear Boundless Families: So much is happening so I'll get right to it. I can happily confirm your kids have retained their eyesight. The whole eclipse, we strategized, should be rather understated. The outdoor cohorts would be on the river and the english crews'...
Session #4; Update # 1 – Absence of Attitude
Dear Boundless Families: All arrived safely on this exquisite sunny day. It is so beautiful that it makes you wonder how giddy big-bang atoms could ever coalesce into something so magnificent as the Ottawa valley in late August. Which is an interesting irony...
Session #3; Final Update – Homeless Shelter for Mosquitos
Dear Boundless Families: On Tuesday night I encountered the older outdoor cohort in their native habitat, so ideal for adolescent primates - Lac Robinson on the Dumoine River in Quebec (google it), a piece of paradise that greeted the kids with one of the nicest...