A collection of Donna's writings over the past years.

Fall Newsletter 2006

Hello sports fans! My name is Donna and I live in Waterloo, Ontario. I really like to play a lot of sports. This winter I am playing hockey with the Waterloo Ravens girl’s hockey team again. The name of our team is Rocket Ravens. I am also playing in hockey tournaments. My favourite position to be is goalie. I think I am a good goalie. Even my sister agrees. My dad is my hockey buddy and my coach. He helps me with my equipment and hockey bag. I like hockey because it is fun. Sometimes we have to get up really early in the morning to go to the arena to play. Before we play we all sing: “2 – 4 -6 - 8 - who do we eliminate – all the rest – we’re the best – Goooooo Ravens!

Donna Wood Waterloo ON

Spring Newsletter 2006

Bonjour!
Je m’appelle Donna. Moi, j’ai 7 ans. Est-ce que tu aimes les chimpanzés? Moi c’est celui que j’adore lui le plus de tous mes toutous.

J’ai un toutou qui s’appelle Jack. Jack est un chimpanzé. Jack aime les arbres. Il m’accompagne tous les jours.
Parfois, il joue à des jeux de mathématiques avec moi. Je pense que Jack est un très très bon ami. Jack joue aussi au soccer avec moi.

Quelquefois, il joue au hockey avec moi. Jack et moi sommes toujours de bons amis. Jack est beau et gentil.
Maintenant, est-ce que tu veux un chimpanzé comme Jack?

Au revoir!

White Belt
Spring Newsletter 2005:

Donna Wood of Waterloo ON writes about Kung-Fu. Have a question, send us a message with Kung-Fu in the subject line.

Hi. My name is Donna. I take Shaolin Kung-Fu. Right now I have my white belt, which is the beginner belt.  I am getting my gold belt on April 30th. To get my gold belt, I have to do my Short-Dragon-Two-Door and I have to show my kicks and arm blocks.  I am really looking forward to my gold belt. 

In Shaolin Kung-Fu, our teacher is called "Sifu". My teachers name is Zack, so we call him "Sifu Zack". Sometimes, Sifu Katia is our teacher. Kung-Fu started in China hundreds of years ago. We learn stories about Chinese legends in our class. Sifu Zack goes to China in the summer to learn from the Shaolin monks. 

I go to class two times a week. We do lots of exercises like 100 push-ups and sit-ups. We run around the room a lot and we play games at the end of the class. We also do "sparing" in the middle of the class. This is my favourite part. We have a lot of rules for sparing. It is fun!

Donna