Newfoundland: the Friendliest (and cleanest!) Province in the World!
Not that every other province hasn’t been friendly and clean, but really, Newfoundlanders take the cake. Whether it was a 40-strong run club running us into town, news media coming out to meet us on the highway (check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdY1_ob68GI), or just the friendly local who stopped us in the Chapters parking lot and who we bet if we’d asked, would have been our personal chauffeur for our time here.
And did we say CLEAN? Either people are too happy just being here that they don’t have TIME to throw things out the window, or they just take such pride in keeping their roads clean of litter. Besides the strong Adopt a Highway program we have running across our country, we’ve actually seen quite a bit of litter along the Trans-Canada. BUT arriving in Newfoundland was, no pun intended, a breath of fresh air as we have been hard pressed to see even one piece of garbage littering the side of the road.
Our two schools today continued to be amazing, from the 500+ kids cheering us on at Beachy Cove Elementary, to the classroom environment projects that the students at Bishop Field Elementary presented after our show… both of whom continued to educate US on the simplicities of environmental action. Through an unfortunate time schedule, we were not able to run in with the 40-strong enthusiastic cross country team, but never the less they greeted us with so much energy we feel like we’d run around the world to be with them.
We also want to send out a huge thank you to the lovely and talented ladies at Spa at the Monastery & Suites who supported us with their incredible relaxation massages (can you say “ahhhh”), to the sisters at Pippy Park who are supporting our accommodation.
Now off for a couple cold ones with the NL Runners! Stay tuned for stories from the Farmer’s Market and two more green Newffie schools…
HOLY COW!!! Way to go on getting to the end of “Our” world!! Looking good (OK – the same as ever!!!) in the pics Matty! Email us some time and tell us how it’s (really!) going (e.u.danneberg@shaw.ca)
As for the cleanest province in the world….I was just in Beijing fo 10 days – it was VERY clean as well!! Guess Beijing’s not a province, but the greater Hunan Province was VERY clean as well. I went with the US Paralypic team and it was AWESOME!!! Incredible city, venues, games!
Keep well bud and email us more often!
ed & shan
Comment by Ed&Shan — Sunday, September 28, 2008 @ 8:14 pm
Thanks for helping our environment. I met you today at ST. Mary’s Elementary School in St. JOhn’s.
Good luck!
Alison
Comment by alison walsh — Monday, September 29, 2008 @ 4:22 pm