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Hi my name is Nicolas Potvin. I had been at the Winchendon School for 3 years. I am from Canada, I life in a town call Chambly just 15 minutes from Montreal. I Came at Winchendon to learn how to speak English and to have to chance to play hockey here too. What a like to do during my free time is to watch the Montreal Canadians play hockey, be with my friend, and go at the gym. Last year a lost some of my good friends that graduated from here but I know that next year I will make some new one. But before that year start lets talk about my summer.

My first week of summer I had to come back in the US for hockey. I did I camps With Simon, and Nick Marin From Monday to Friday. It was the Future Prospects Camps; we had the chance to practice with different NCAA coach like UNH, Holy Cross, Northeastern, and more. We had the chance to talk to them, and they tell us how to become better hockey player. Simon and I had the chance to stay with Nick family all week; it was a lot of fun. That camps help to know more about college hockey and what the coach like to see about a player. It was a really nice first week. 

This Week I was back home for good now. So I didn’t lost time I start to work with my dad right away, and at night I was going to train for hockey. For my dad I don’t do must I print paper, call some client, and do whatever people want me to do. The good thing is that I don’t work on Monday and on Friday I only work till 12:30 so it an easy Job for me. The only thing that is hard it to week up at 7:00 after a big training the night before, I have some problem to get out of bead some time. That was my first week of work.

This week is can of the same I when to work every day of the week and train. I train With Rioevolution, it a group of hockey player that play in Europe, NHL, AHL, and the Q. I like to train there because most of my friend are there so it nice to see them during the summer. We are in the Gym 5 time a week and we skate 3 times. This summer the training were a lot harder than last summer, every year it improve so we cam became better player at the end of summer.

This week was the nicest week of my summer. My family, Lexi, and I are going to spend the week in Cancun. We left Friday at 9 in the morning from Montreal and got at the hotel around 2. We had the chance to relax there and spend time at the beach with my family. I had the chance to do trapeze for the first time of my life I think I did good. We play basketball Lexi and I against my parent and we win every games. It was a really nice week.

This week I had a tournament with the junior wolf. Simon and I left Canada on Wednesdays to go at Lexi house. We had a really good tournament that week we when in final but lost by one goal. It was fun to have a chance to play with the junior team. After this weekend I was going back to work no more vacation.

This week I changed jobs, I was done working with dad. I know my dad’s office will miss me because they won’t have any one to print papers anymore. My new job is to run hockey camps, which is a lot better than office work. I worked with kids 10 years old and under and they ended up being monsters, the job was a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Lexi and I went to Maine this week. We stayed at a hotel in Old Orchard for 2 nights. We went to the beach during the day and walked along the boardwalk. We went to Portland to eat dinner at a homemade pasta shop and it was really good. We went to the carnival at night and Lexi wanted to win a giant smurf. Lexi shot the gun for the game first and she won the smurf for herself. I tried to shoot after her and I missed. We had a really fun weekend.

My family from Moncton came to visit this week and Lexi, Fyfe, and my best friend Dave did too. We all went to Old Montreal for dinner and we saw fireworks and a live show. On Monday we went to La Ronde, the amusement park in Montreal with my cousins and aunts.



We went white water rafting and zip lining in New Hampshire this week. The first day we got there we did the white water rafting. I almost fell out of the boat right in the beginning because our boat filled up with water from the rapid so quickly. We went zip lining the second day and I loved it. We had really fun instructors and a good group of people with us.

This week a bunch of my friends came to my house. We stayed at my house for 2 nights and then the last night they were there we stayed at a hotel in Montreal. For some of them it was their first time in Canada. It was nice to see my friends from school that I hadn’t seen since graduation. It was one of the best weekends of the summer.



Lexi and I went to see Keith Urban this weekend! I got her the tickets for Christmas and the concert was so good. He sounded better live than he did on the radio. We went early with our friends and tailgated in the parking lot with everyone else at the concert. Keith Urban was a really down to earth celebrity and took pictures with fans during his concert.

My last weekend before school started I played in a tournament in New Hampshire with my Fall Prep league. In the warm up my own teammate hit me in the head with a slap shot. After playing 2 games I didn’t feel good so I stopped. My parents took me to the hospital and I had a concussion and blood in my brain. I had to go to Umass Memorial hospital and my parents, Lexi and I sat in the room for 5 hours before they let me leave.