Here are the latest standings for WHERE IN THE WORLD IS ERIC FORTI 2010! Thanks again to everyone that has been participating.

1st Place: Alex Ehrenthal- 15 points

2nd Place: Rorry and Jordan Miller- 14 points

3rd Place: Greg Ricken & Noah and Ben Rubin- 9 points

Round 3 Begins on Monday! Be sure to participate and it’s not too late to join in the fun!

Please note all answers should be emailed to CONTEST@CANADENSIS.COM

Everyone loves canteen at camp!  And, with camp still a few months away, we thought it would be a great idea to bring a little bit of camp to you!  Introducing…CANTEEN ON THE FLY!

This weekend our winter staff will be making their way to a number of locations (details below) to see you (and eat ice cream)!  We are encouraging our camp families to bring along one friend that might be interested in camp for this summer or a future summer.  All campers and friends that attend will get FREE ICE CREAM!

If you are a family that is interested in Canadensis for a future summer, we encourage you to stop by as well and meet our directors and staff and meet other Canadensis families.

We will also be raffling off LIMITED EDITION CANTEEN ON THE FLY T-SHIRTS.

We hope to see you there!

DATES, TIMES and LOCATIONS

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21

SOUTH SHORE, LONG ISLAND from 12:00 – 1:00 pm
TCBY at 2203 Merrick Road, Merrick, NY
(next to La Piazza)
Store Phone #:  516.868-8471

NORTH SHORE, LONG ISLAND from 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Carvel Ice Cream at 403 Jericho Turnpike, Syosset, NY
(next to Patsy’s Pizza)
Store Phone #: 516.921.9895

NORTHERN NEW JERSEY from 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Colaco’s Creamery at 273 S. Livingston Avenue, Livingston, NJ
(in King’s Shopping Center)
Store Phone #: 973.758.0152

Hello Canadensis!

Now, I know most of you are used to seeing Eric Forti post on the blog, but today I (JCal) figured I’d take some time to share about my exciting trip to the West Coast I took over the weekend. On Thursday night I left snowy Washington DC, which has been basically shut down since last Friday. I hadn’t had school since last Friday. I flew from Washington to Seattle, Washington where group leader, MARSHALL WEINSTEIN, met me. Marshall than took me to his house where we spend the night before our long road trip to Eugene, Oregon the next day. On our car ride down to Eugene we spoke camp. What else would we talk about? Even Matt Unger wanted in on our road trip and called us to talk camp for a portion of the ride. Finally after about 5 hours in the car we pulled in to Eugene and the University of Oregon where several of our Canadensis Staff, past and present attend. We went over to group leader, MIKE LINDQUISTS house where we were spending the weekend. Mike was so excited to see us, we hadn’t seen him since the last day of camp. Mike was wearing his Big Apple Blue shirt so I knew he was excited for our reunion. Me, Mike and Marshall sat around talking about camp for a little while before the next batch of Canadensis staff members arrived. 2009 Lower Inter Boys Counselor ROB MCRAE And 2008 Staff member, JUSTIN BOWDEN. It was really exciting to see all theses Canadensis staff members who just wanted to talk camp! A few minutes later, group leader KENZIE GAUTHIER showed up, Kenzie happens to live directly across the street from Mike. We were all again, really excited to see Kenzie. I hadn’t seen Kenzie since a few days after camp when she visited Long Island before going home to Oregon. After Kenzie showed up, group leader and Mike’s fiancé ALYSSA THIBODEAU came running inside. Alyssa and me have been good friends for the past few years ever since our Color War Win in 2007, SHOUT OUT TO MYSTICAL GOLD! Kenzie and Alyssa than gave Marshall and I a tour of the University of Oregon. It was really cool to see a school that has a campus, as GW is in the middle of a city and doesn’t have much of a campus. Kenzie brought us to see a group of singers who were singing at the schools amphitheater. They were really talented and it was really cool to see them sing their takes on some of the latest hits. After walking around the university and talking CAMP we returned to Mike’s house where we got ready for dinner with MORE CANADENSIS STAFF! At dinner we met up with 2009 Counselors KELLY PRICE and NORA DRUTZ. Again, Marshall and I were excited to see them since we haven’t seen them since camp.

The next day, Mike took us to his favorite restaurant, Hawaiian Time. Now, for those of you that know me well, you know I’m a really picky eater so I wasn’t sure what I’d eat, but Mike and Alyssa kept telling me about how good their chicken was! We’ll, the chicken was really good, and all weekend, all I wanted was chicken. That afternoon the girls went to go see Valentines Day, which they said wasn’t very good while the guys sat around watching the Olympics. I really enjoy watching the Olympics because it reminds me of Color War which happens at CAMP! That night, we went our to dinner to Red Robin. I have never been to red robin and has no idea that the French Fries were free! Kenzie had to explain to meet that they just keep bringing them to you if you ask, and again if you know me well, you’d know I love french fries.

Now we get to Sunday and our final full day in Eugene, we all slept in late and enjoyed a late breakfast at The Original Pancake House! Again, it was really good and I love pancakes. In the afternoon we sat around talking camp and there was just so much camp to talk about. We were telling funny stories and even got a call from Eric Forti who was jealous of our little reunion. After talking to Forti we went to TCBY. Now, for those of you that don’t know, TCBY is very special to Mike, Alyssa and Kenzie. They try and go once a week together and hang out and just talk about CAMP! So we went to TCBY and we all got the Sunday Special, SUNDAYS. We sat around and spoke about schools, just kidding, MORE CAMP TALK! When we got back to Mike’s we sat around watching the Olympics and ordered in pizzas. We filmed a special West Coast Edition of Canadensis Today and just were reminiscing about the summer. Kenzie then decided she wanted to bake some cookies so she made special Valentines Day cookies for us! They were very delicious, thanks Kenzie! We then headed to bed so we could get up early for our long drive back to Seattle in the morning.

We woke up supper early, said our goodbyes and Marshall and I, headed to Seattle where he dropped me off at the airport and now I’m aboard my flight back to snowy Washington DC. We were all texting this afternoon saying how much we missed each other and can’t wait to see it all over again next year!

NBC News (oops, Eric’s blog) just received confirmation that Sara Sommers from Sewing (Summer 2009) who is celebrating her birthday and….

She also got ENGAGED!!

Congratulations Sara from one fiance to another and from your entire camp family!

Hey Canadensis,

It’s JCal coming to you from the WEST COAST where i’m visiting Marshall Weinstein, Mike Lindquist, Alyssa Thibodeau, Kenzie Gauthier and several other Canadensis counselors. We will be posting updates all weekend long including a special WEST COAST EDITION OF CANADENSIS TODAY! Check back on the blog for updates. Also a quick Eric Forti update, he is en-route back to the states right now after spending the past week over seas. Remember to check his twitter at www.twitter.com/whereisforti for updates.

-JCal

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL OUR CANADENSIS SNOWMAN SUBMISSIONS! THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT SENT IN A SNOWMAN AND IF YOU HAVNE’T ALREADY YOU CAN STILL SEND THEM TO EDITOR@CANADENSIS.COM AND WE WILL POST THEM ON THE BLOG!

Eric Forti Surfing with special guest JIM PRICE!

Eric Forti and Robin Hasson in Paris!

Thanks to everyone who is sending in their Canadensis Snowman pictures! Keep them coming! Send them to Editor@Canadensis.com!

Note: With the East Coast getting another BIG snow storm and lots of school closing tomorrow we want to see whatyour doing in the snow! Send us pictures of YOU having fun in the snow. Anybody that makes a Canadensis Themed SnowMan gets 2+ Bonus points in the Where in the World Contest.

Sorry we have been slow with blog posts, but the internet was very expensive in France. Robin is at her gate for her flight home and I am at mine (different terminals unfortunately) headed to DESTINATION UNKNOWN for 2 more days of work. We had an amazing time in Paris. We took it fairly easy by the Forti runaround standard when on touristy vacations (I was still wiped from Australia), but we ended up seeing some great sights and working fairly hard! We went up the Eiffel Tower (that’s what Robin really wanted to do), did a river barge cruise of the Seine (it was freezing, even on the inside), did a bit of walking (actually a lot), and yesterday went to the Jewish section of Paris. It was so neat- falafel stands, borekas, kosher restaurants/bakeries, etc. We loved it. We also went to the Shoah Museum (Holocaust museum) of the French jews and we found it to be fascinating. Aot of material and unfortunately we didn’t have enough time. Eating wise, I (Eric) was being a pain and didn’t want to eat long drawn out dinners, plus alot of French restaurants serve frog legs and steak tartare, so we ate at more casual places, except one nice Italian restaurant. We shared the Sole and a pasta, it was great. Believe it or not, I ate meat only once and that was chicken out of 5 days! Maybe that’s why I was tired?

The croissants, pain du chocolate (chocolate croissants), the apple tarts (pomme de tarte), and baguettes are all amazing. Despite all that, we ate relatively healthy and well, with a few sweet tooth items here and there. Oh, let’s not forget the crepes- but we only had them ONCE the whole time! Chocolate/Banana for me, coconut/banana for robin.

We really had a wonderful time together (no cell phones except a few texts from Jaycal/Unger) so we had some time to be together without lots of interruptions.

AuRevoir for now…I will check in from my next destination and stay tuned for Clue 2 (Video) of Where in the World to guess where I am headed next (without Robin).

Hey Canadensis,

Me and Robin have been really busy the past few days in Paris. We have gotten to see some old staff members and enjoy the sites of Paris. We met up with Mariam from last summer and Pierre from 2 Summers ago. (Pierre and JayCal are twins). We took a trip to the Paris Holocaust Museum. It was very interesting seeing the stories of the French Jews. On Sunday, Me and Robin went over to the Eiffel Tower which was alot of fun. We were able to go inside and see a great view of Paris. JayCal was even able order our tickets and have them sent directly to my phone so we could avoid a 1 hour line! We have been busy doing some recruiting for camp as well! More later! Remember to keep checking my twitter for updates and pictures from Paris. I’m heading to my next destination later in the week and we’ll have another video clue for you from there!

Also, some of you have been asking for the Surfing Video from Australia. JayCal has told me he will be posting it sometime this week after it’s edited!

Here are some pictures that we’ve taken over the past few days!