My Reflection on The Quest of Doom (Not Really) to the Ardsley Curling Club

Just yesterday on the 28th, we went to the Ardsley Curling Club for a field trip for PE. Recently, we’ve been doing a lot of curling. Curling is a sport you play on ice, where you have stones and you try to hit the stone inside of the bulls eye which is a flat surface, called a house. Simply, the closer the stone is to the house, the more likely you win. If you have, let’s say, three stones all inside the house and the third one is just further in than the other team’s stone, and your fourth stone is in the house but a little further from the center than the other team’s, you get three points for three stones closest to the middle. Everyone on each team takes turns, so the lead on blue team goes, then the lead on red team, then the second on blue, then the second on red, then the vice-skip (Aka third) on blue, and on and on. I know it’s kind of confusing in words, but that’s what happens when you’re reading a blog, so you should probably get used to it.

Curling is a sport of people being good sports. According to that video but I feel like the video may have been slightly biased, with it saying stuff like “Curling is a great sport and everyone is a good sport.” Or that might have just been me, but it seemed good.

The place was a pretty cool place. There were flags everywhere with mostly countries in the north like Norway, Quebec, Canada, (Quebec is in Canada but I have no clue) and Scotland. They also had some championship banners. There were 6 houses and three on each side. We got these shoe covers which they called “booties” and my booty ripped. That sounded hilarious, didn’t it? Anyways, I took a new one. I went to a different group for our practice so the groups would be more balanced. We learned how to deliver a stone on the ice and how to sweep on the ice. After, my team of four played another team of four, and we tied… 0-0. We only got to throw one stone each since we didn’t have much time.

Anyways, it was really fun but kind of short. We learned a lot about curling on ice, which was definitely different than playing in the gym with stones that have bad wheels on them. It was a little harder, since the houses were so much further away. But I still enjoyed it. Sliding on ice is fun.

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