12 — Sunday, June 28, 1998 — North Shore News

NEWS photo Brad Leawiage

GRADE two students at Braemar elementary school welcomed their touring teddies home again last Friday.

Backpacked bears back home

Deana Lancaster
News Reporter deana@nsnews.com

GRADE 2 students at West

Vancouver’s Irwin Park elemen-
tary are in danger of developing
travel envy toward their teddies.

That’s because 55 students sent their
stuffed animals packing on Nov. 28 last
year — complete with a journal that
would provide a record of their travels,

“We had a farewell party for them. We
served Sprite and toasted their travels,”
said teacher Jenny Murdy.

“The students then packed them each
ina special shoebag with a journal con-
taining photos and a written introduction
to the teddy’s owner and: to’ West
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of their journeys with friends and relatives
of the students’ families. From there,
they were pass >4 on to travel in the fug-
gage of other globetrotters.

“Some of the children got postcards
and souvenirs while the teddies were trav-
clling,” Murdy said.

But now that most of the animals have
found their way home again, the children
are finding out about their adventures by
reading the journals.

“Quite a few of them ended up at the
Olympics in Nagano, some went to
Australia, to Singapore. One «went to the
Superbowl. We even have a picture of one
teddy sticking out of someone’s pack in
Mongolia,” Mardy said.

“ft would be hard to believe all the
places they’ve travelled, but we have the
we have incredible

with

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photos and stories.”

Best of all, said Murdy, the children
are getting an unbearable lesson in world
geography.

“They have more interest in learning,
about the places where their teddies have
been. It's made the World Cup more
meaningful.”

Last Friday, the students had a wel-
come back party for the animals. Some of
the students wore costumes or souvenirs
fron: the countries where their teddies
had travelicd.

Some of the children at the party
couldn’t welcome their stuffed animals
home — they aren’t back yet.

“Some have come back and are gone
again,” said Murdy.

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how the travel bug can bite.

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