Canoe trip offers school credit
Create: 08/15/2017 - 02:14
Given the option to complete a high school credit in ten days on a canoe trip, two sisters from Webequie thought it would be easy.
“I thought it was going to be, not hard, but it's hard - really hard," said Deena Whitehead-Begg when she returned from the trip.
"I thought it'd be easy, but it wasn't. It was hard portaging, and having to unpack and pack up again every day,” said her sister Evalina.
Either way the two said it was fun, and they’d do it again if given the chance.
“It was fun and dope, we made new friends,” said Evalina.
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