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| It was the whirlwind week of the President's visit. All the students awaited his arrival on Monday, October 28. |
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| Mark Evered was accompanied by his wife, Maureen, Peter Geller and Satwinder Bains. |
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| That evening, we all gathered for a dinner prepared by Ninni Anand. |
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| Tuesday was the big shopping day at Elante Mall.... |
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| Followed by dinner at the Bhasins, Dilmeet's family. |
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| Wednesday - the first Principal's Symposium hosted by UFV Chandigarh was held at the Taj Hotel. |
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| Team Peary spoke to the invited highschool principals and other staff members present about education--particularly in BC. We hope to have some of them visit us in Canada. |
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| This was also George's birthday. So, after a short meeting with the UFV faculty and that prankster, Dr. Evered, he shared his first birthday cake. This delicious one was baked by Simlee Ma'am. |
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| His second cake was truly explosive. This was supplied by Pirates of the Grill where we had dinner and watched India beat the Australians! |
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| His third cake was presented by three students who were waiting patiently at the campus for us to return. |
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| Thursday, of course, was Halloween. We came prepared this year with our costumes. |
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| The students, too, were prepared with many amazing costumes and masks. |
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| Friday was particularly busy, starting with the first ever UFV Inter-School Business Quiz. The first round had been conducted by a short written quiz completed by students in various highschools in which UFV presentations had been given. |
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| Quiz Master, Mushtaq, was in fine form, making his entrance to the final round with a little macarena. |
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| Friday night, Team Peary again hosted an evening of celebrating successes. George finally got to perform his Blackberry Boys routine (renamed the Teampeary Boy) and other stunts from his repertoire. |
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| Entertainment this year was the amazing Punjab Pipe Band. |
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| Too early on Saturday morning, we were off to lovely Shimla.... |
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| with all its interesting sights and monkeys and baboons. Along the way, we encountered a cookie snatching monkey and I will try to upload the video at another time. |
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| In addition to some great shopping and sightseeing, we had a nice dinner at the Himland East with Adi and his father, Mr. Akre. |
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| Sunday we were back in Chandigarh to celebrate Diwali.... |
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| starting with a visit to the Gurdwara. |
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| And ending with some quiet fireworks..... |
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| as well as dinner at the Anands. |
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This evening, President Mark hosted his farewell dinner at the Taj Hotel
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