Our+Friends+In+Woodstock,+New+Brunswick,+Canada

Dear Latvian Friends, We are a group of high school students who live in Woodstock, New Brunswick, the only legally bilingual province in Canada. Our class consists of 9 boys and 12 girls. Our town's population is roughly 5000 people. Rurally our population is close to 12,000 people. Woodstock serves as a hub for many small surrounding communities. We also have a Maliseet Native reserve that has a population of roughly 250 first nations people. They are the original inhabitants of the land, otherwise known as Aboriginals or Natives. We have several First Nations students in this class.

We have 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school and 1 high school. We have a police department and fire department.

Our main street consists of several large franchises.

Our town isn't that violent. We rarely have serious crimes occur. We just celebrated Woodstock being 150 years old. We are the first town in New Brunswick. In the summer we have a fair that is called Old Home Week. There are rides, shows, concerts, booths, craft fairs and lots of food. Many people from New York, Boston, Montréal, and Toronto come as tourists and visit during the summer months. Our area is known for its good fishing, beautiful lakes, forests, and landscape. In the winter many people come to Canada for our winter sports. Many people come to our region to ski or snowboard we are within 6 hours of 4 major mountain resorts. We also have two local ski hills within 30 minutes( Crabbe Mountain [|www.crabbemountain.com] and Big Rock [|www.bigrockmaine.com])

With our province we have the world’s longest covered bridge, the world’s biggest axe, and the highest tides in the world.

We have 3 Tim Horton's, which is a major coffee and donut, franchise in Canada. Our school has around 700 students. We are big on sports. Our two main sports that Woodstock is known for are basketball and hockey. Although our national sport is lacrosse, otherwise known as field hockey. we also are home to the Woodstock Subway Slammers, which is a hockey team in the major junior league. Many Woodstocker’s goes out and watches them.

Unlike what many people think we do receive all four seasons. We have very warm summers and bitter cold in the winter. We have 3 grocery stores and several convenience stores. We have our annual Big Bass Fishing tournament that is hosted in the spring. We have a local park and campground that is continuously full. We have a town library. We have a community college. We have several churches: Baptist, Anglican, Catholic, Pentecostal and Jehovah's Witness. For most of our clothing retail we travel to Fredericton (the New Brunswick capital), which is about 45 minutes away.

We have a municipal owned Civic Centre. It consists of a hockey rink, swimming pool and a gym. We also have an outdoor skateboard park. There is also a privately owned an underground skateboard park (largest in Atlantic Canada) where they hold competitions for the entire province. It is called Burner's Basement.

Woodstock is only about 15 minutes from the U.S. border. We are about 6-7 hours to Boston and 9-10 to New York City. We are about 10 hours from Montreal.


 * Woodstock High School Confronting Injustice Students**

My name is **Tiffany**. I am 16. I love swimming, shopping, hanging with friends, going on the computer (MSN), watching movies & listening to music.

Hey my name is **Ebony** and I am 16. I enjoy playing my violin, teaching, hanging out with friends, and various other activities!

Hey my name is **Peter** I am 17 years old I enjoy music hanging out meeting new people and talking about history. And I like wrestling my email is Crawford.peter2@nbed.nb.cs

Hey Gang! My name is **Alex M**, I’m a 16 year old male. I enjoy playing the guitar and listening to Rock music. I also like skateboarding and spending time with friends.

Howdy! My name is **Adam** and I am 17 years old. I enjoy heavy metal music and I play guitar. I also enjoy watching a good movie from time to time.

Hey, my name is **Dedreanna** and I am 17 years old. I like to travel and go to concerts with friends.At school I am involved in the Yearbook and Prom committees.

Greetings, I am a fun-loving 17 year old female who enjoys reading and loves anything to do with theatre and music. P.S. My name is **Lieneke**.

Hello! My name is **Brittany**, I am 18 and I’m Pentecostal. I love going to church related activities, and being with the love of my life, Matt. I like to read and listen to Christian music.

Hi! My name is **Emily** and I am a 16 year old female. I am involved in medieval recreation. I love reading, listening to music and sword fighting.

Hey, my name is **Jillian** and I’m a 17 year old girl. I love music and going to concerts, and I also love movies. I am very interested in human rights issues and am planning to study continue studying human rights in university next year.

Hey! My name is **Courtney** and I’m a 16 year old girl here at Woodstock High. I Am involved in Musical and many other committees and groups here at our school. J

Hey! My name is **Jocelyn**, I’m a 16 year old girl at Woodstock High. I love sports. I play on our school’s varsity team. I love to hang out with friends, shop and party.

Hey I am **Stefano**, an exchange student from Brazil, living on Woodstock for 5 months. I love Capoeira and classic rock. I am 16 years old

Hi All ! I am 16 years old, and I enjoy playing music and sports. I thoroughly enjoy both working and playing around with computers. Regards, **Louis F**.

Hey, My name is **Emily** and I am 17 years old. I like reading, playing guitar and listening to music.

Hey, my name is Olivia or **Libby**, I’m 18 years old. I love music, and books. My favorite thing to do is write.

Hey there, I’m **Aly**, I’m 18 years old. I am proud to be Maliseet. I love to go snowboarding and hunting and do lots of outdoor activities.

Hey, my name is **Trevor** I’m 17 years old. I am a skateboarder and I snowboard in the winter. I am also interested in history, world issues, and different cultures.

My name is **Jorden**. I am 17 and like hockey and hunting. My father is the Chief of the First Nations (native) community in Woodstock.