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Hey folks,

As per your request I tried to find a photo online of me in high school and found one. Here's the link: http://images.milton.halinet.on.ca/details.asp?ID=16566

This photo was in the local Milton newspaper as part of a story about me going to Ireland for 5 weeks with Atlantic Challenge. AC is a great organization for young people who want to learn about rowing and sailing with the option of travelling abroad for competitions. The competitions are more about bringing together young people from different countries, learning how to work as a team and learning some skills. For more information, check out: www.atlanticchallenge.com

Someone else was asking about the word "Cheemo." This is a variation of the word "chimo", which you can read about below. I changed it from "chimo" to "cheemo" after someone told me that by coincidence, "chimo" is short for "child molester" in prisons (d'oh!) Anyway, here's some info about the harmless greeting, "chimo."

taken from: http://www.billcasselman.com/cwod_archive/chimo.htm

Chimo!(CHEE-mo) is a widespread and ancient Inuit greeting that may be accompanied by a gesture of salutation as well, namely moving the left hand in a circle on the area of the chest over the heart. Variants as heard by white explorers include teyma, tima, and timah. Some early explorers were told that chimo came from an Inuktitut root that meant ‘trade, barter’ and that the only greeting implied in the word when spoken to white southerners was ‘let’s trade.’ Even if that is true, today chimo is exclusively a warm greeting and is used in our North as a toast before drinking.