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On the VE tour
- Metroland Durham Region Media Group reporter Crystal Crimi and photographer/videographer Sabrina Byrnes will be following the students as they make their way across the Netherlands May 1-8, 2010.
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05/28/2010
05/09/2010
Back Home
It was a very long flight home. The flight was delayed for two hours because of volcanic ash from the volcano in Iceland, about an hour was added to the flight plan so we could fly around the volcano, a very turbulent landing in Washington, and a dash to baggage claim to so we could grab our luggage to make our connecting flight to Toronto. Luckily the airline held the flight for all those making the transfer. By the time we landed in Toronto it was around 2:15 am in Amsterdam, which meant we had been awake for almost 24 hours. We were exhausted. Including the several students from Barrie who were on our same flight.
While glad to be home, it was a wonderful week. A week I'm sure all the students from Canada will always remember.
Crystal and I really enjoyed documenting their experiences and from what I've gathered by talking to some of the students, most of them are taking home a renewed Canadian pride.
Here are some more images from the military tattoo on the students last night in the Netherlands.
05/08/2010
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Voorthuizen Military Band Tattoo -- about to begin
Canadian students are just now making their way into the Voorthuizen
Military Band Tattoo where they will enjoy the last big event of their week-long Victory in Europe celebratory tour.
The students are participating in the opening of the tattoo, carrying the Peace Tower flag and their own school “Hands Across the Generations" memorial flag quilts.
Jewish Historical Museum
After a remembrance ceremony with Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday, many of the kids took a tour of the Jewish Historical Museum in a holocaust-related program. Crystal and I met up with a group from Port Perry and Perth, Ontario, and joined them as they entered the Hollandsche Schouwburg deportation centre. What was once a movie theatre before the war, is now an official war memorial, including a memorial chapel with a wall listing the names of the 104,000 Dutch Jews who lost their lives. One student mentioned that his great-grandfather served in the war and was involved with the liberation of the Netherlands. He also said that he had names of his ancestors on that wall.
As the students made their way through the building they were asked to write down what they were feeling, or their hopes and dreams, which they hung outside on the wall. It was very clear that the students were affected by what they were experiencing.
We also met up with a group from Collingwood back at the museum. Here are some images from the day.
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