NACI French class takes in the Voyageur life
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- Published on Friday, February 26, 2016
Submitted photo. One can never be too old for a field trip. The NACI senior high French class got to take one to Winnipeg to spend a day at Festival du Voyageur on Thursday, Feb. 18.
Submitted by Nora Heschuk
Neepawa Area Collegiate
On Thursday, Feb. 18, 30 Neepawa Area Collegiate (NACI) high school French students experienced the 鈥淛oie de Vivre鈥� at the Festival du Voyageur 鈥� 鈥渢he largest winter festival in western Canada鈥�. The students attended a variety of fun and informative activities related to 水果视频鈥檚 history, with emphasis on Voyageur, M茅tis and First Nations histories.
This was the first time that these students experienced the high school program at the Festival du Voyageur, which offers learning opportunities geared towards this older age group.
The students began the day watching a historical play featuring two funny characters who dramatized the Red River Conflicts that led to the amalgamation of the two fur trade companies in the Red River region in the early 1800s. Students also enjoyed a brief history lesson in the Maison Bourgeoise (the big house) inside the reconstructed Fort Gibraltar. They then learned a French-Canadian folk dance with the Ensemble folklorique de la Rivi猫re-Rouge, which gave the students some insight into how people got together and amused themselves before the age of the Internet, cell phones and Netflix. Finally, students enjoyed their lunches while listening to 鈥淣icolas Pellerin et les Grands hurleurs鈥�, which is one of the most popular francophone traditional music groups on Canadian and European stages. Free time was also scheduled into the day so that students could enjoy traditional cuisine, sensational snow sculptures and interacting with the many volunteers dressed in traditional costumes.
