{"id":21040,"date":"2025-03-13T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecenglish.com\/en\/?p=21040"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:47:20","slug":"the-great-canadian-mail-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecenglish.com\/en\/blog\/travel\/the-great-canadian-mail-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Canadian Mail Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-b5019a3be44e895fcb43d3be5b88851e\">This past January, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecenglish.com\/en\/schools\/canada\/learn-english-in-montreal\/\">EC Montreal<\/a> received a very special letter from a Grade 6 student from London Ontario.&nbsp; The letter is part of an initiative their 6th grade teacher came up with called The Great Canadian Mail Race.&nbsp; The purpose is to put students in contact with each other to build a more connected world.&nbsp; The letter explained that the activity was sent to them from a school in Grand Bend.&nbsp; One student from the 6th grade class at the Kensal Park F.I.P.S. school in London Ontario wrote a letter to one of EC Montreal&#8217;s students.&nbsp; As we are not an elementary school, we didn&#8217;t feel right keeping this race going, however, we did want to send a reply to Inas, the grade 6 student who took the time to write her letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">EC Montreal chose our youngest student, Laura, who is here with us from Kazakhstan.&nbsp; We explained to Laura the goal of the letter and she was thrilled to participate.&nbsp; This way, Inas would receive a letter in the mail and get to know someone who has chosen to study English in Canada from a country across the Atlantic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It is a very sweet initiative and we wanted to share it with all of you!&nbsp; &nbsp;At EC, we are all about empowering connections and creating a more connected world.&nbsp; This fits in beautifully with our vision.&nbsp; We hope you will find it as darling as we did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Inas&#8217; letter describes her school, her siblings and what she likes to do as a hobby as well as the Christmas presents she received this year.&nbsp; She ends the letter by asking some questions to our EC Montreal students about her holidays, if she plays a game called Roblax, if she has any pets and if she likes her school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Here is Laura&#8217;s reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Hello dear Inas!&nbsp; My name is Laura.&nbsp; I am 15 years old.&nbsp; I come from a mid-Asian country called Kazakhstan.&nbsp; Now, I am studying at the EC English school in Montreal, Quebec.&nbsp; Thank you for sending me a letter!&nbsp; I would be really glad to answer all your questions that you wrote to me.&nbsp; My holidays were great!&nbsp; My first time in America and Canada was great because I got a lot of impressions.&nbsp; About the game Roblax.&nbsp; I heard about it before but I didn&#8217;t play it.&nbsp; But, when I as your age, I played Minecraft.&nbsp; I have two pets!&nbsp; A German Shepherd (girl) and a Siberian Husky (boy) and they are so cute!&nbsp; I really like my school and especially my teachers and my classmates!&nbsp; My birthday is November 26.&nbsp; Thank you very much for sending me your lovely letter!&nbsp; With love, Laura<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We are so proud of Laura for answering Inas&#8217; letter and for doing her part to help us create a more connected world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We hope Inas is overjoyed to receive a reply to her beautiful letter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-e4a91083a24058b05bafc49841bfe093\">We encourage everyone to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ecenglish.com\/en\/english-courses\/bilingual-programme\/\">Learn English and French in Montreal!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past January, EC Montreal received a very special letter from a Grade 6 student from London Ontario.&nbsp; The letter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"acf":{"post_subtitle":"","related_posts":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Great Canadian Mail Race | EC English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Great Canadian Mail Race connects students across Canada! 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