广州加拿大人国际学校CIS Cultural Treasure Hunt: Spot the Can

Do you know…there are several Canadian symbols dispersed across the beautiful CIS campus? Can you guess what they are?

Following our Maple Leaf Spirit feature (Click here to read), we’re taking you on a CIS Canadian Culture Treasure Hunt! Can you guess where this canoe is?

你知道吗?在我们美丽的校园里，其实有好几个带有加拿大特色的标志作品。你能猜出是什么吗?

在上周我们介绍了枫叶精神后，现在欢迎来到广州加拿大国际学校加拿大文化寻宝第一站!来猜猜看这个独木舟在哪里?

If you said that it is in the School lobby, you guessed right! Walking through the grand entrance of the Canadian International School of Guangzhou, the first thing you’ll see on the ceiling of the lobby is an upside-down canoe! That is a pretty unusual feature to have in a school building. Why is it there?

没错，走在广州加拿大国际学校的大厅里，如果你抬头看，映入眼帘的是天花板上有一艘倒置的独木舟!这在学校大楼里可不常见。为什么它会出现在那里?

In Canadian history, the canoe is a symbol of identity. Canadian aboriginals and European settlers used canoes to explore and discover all that Canada had to offer. There are numerous bodies of water that dot the Canadian landscape. The canoe was the country’s original means of transportation, allowing the Indigenous people to take advantage of this unique environmental feature. Made with natural materials, the canoe provided freedom, gave rise to opportunity and fostered commerce. Men and women had to work together to overcome the obstacles they faced and to reach their destination. Canada indeed owes an enormous gratitude to the Indigenous people who created the canoe and shared their insightful knowledge of how to travel by water. Without the canoe, there would be no Canada.

在加拿大历史上，独木舟是一种象征，加拿大原住民和欧洲殖民者用独木舟探索加拿大的荒野，和遍布加拿大领土的水域。

从早期开始，加拿大先民就使用独木舟来开疆拓土，原住民利用它探索加拿大的自然。由天然材料制成的独木舟提供了自由，带来了机会，促进了商业发展。男女性必须共同努力，克服障碍，抵达终点。加拿大应该感谢原住民，他们创造了独木舟并分享了这种技能。没有独木舟，就没有加拿大。

At CIS, the canoe is strategically placed in the lobby so that it towers above us as we walk into the school campus. It vividly represents adventure, exploration and teamwork, skills that CIS aims to instill in all our students. It characterizes the pioneering and adventurous spirit of our community as they collectively move forward in their learning journey. Every time we look up to see the canoe, we can feel a renewed sense of adventure, understanding and discovery. And most of all, we remember our school motto: Learn Today, Lead Tomorrow.

在广州加拿大国际学校，独木舟被巧妙地放置在大厅里，这样当我们走进学校校园时，它就会高高站立，生动地表现了冒险、探索和团队合作精神，也正是我们希望向学生传达的技能。它体现了开拓和冒险精神，在学习的旅程中共同前进。每当我们抬头看到独木舟，便感受到勇于冒险，追求新知的成就感。最重要的是，我们牢记校训：今朝学子，未来领袖。