Christine Paré
Q-Tips' "Where-the-Hell-Are-You" Award

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Tina Turner's "Private Dancer."

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Storming Downtown Halifax

Q-Tips' Tales
~ Nicole Bergeron ~ Josée Déraps ~
~ Nathalie Drouin ~ Claire Dubuc ~
~ Louise Girard ~ Lucie Grégoire ~
~ Lucie Lapierre ~ Francine Paquet ~
~ Christine Paré ~ Ada Perreault ~
~ Annie Racine ~ Guylaine Robitaille ~
~ Sonia Ruel ~ Dany St. Hilaire ~
~ Monique Venne ~

Their Instructors' Tales
~ Maria Desjardins ~ Leta L.-Malone ~
~ Maurice Michaud ~ Mary Lou O'Hara ~

Q-Tip Distinction
The "Where-the-Hell-Are-You" Award
No breakfast, no lunch, no class ... no night in YOUR bed?
 

She wanted to swim along as much beaches as she could. Her first stop was at Peggy's Cove but nothing really attracted her—too many rocks (a bit slippy for a mermaid). Another day, she swam along Crystal Crescent Beach with mermaids that she had met in the Assisi River. Well, they actually all took a yellow submarine to go. On the beach (her tail in the water, of course) she searched for a nice looking man but nobody caught her attention.

A week later, she and her friends decided to swim near Halifax Harbour. They decided to follow a sailboat called Mar II. Claire saw a handsome sailor on the deck of this boat. She and the other mermaids got closer to the boat and started talking with John, the handsome sailor. Oh! He laid eyes on Claire! The girls were a bit hungry so they decided to go fish for shellfish. Claire chatted a little bit during dinner but her thoughts were somewhere else. Guess where? With the Prince of Tide. The little mermaid decided to go back by herself to have one last look at her Prince. She again swam along the boat with him leaning over the side of the boat so that they could chat. By the end of the night, without even thinking, he invited her for a walk. (Mermaid don't have legs John!). All mermaids know that if they spend more than 24 hours out of the water, legs will grow to replace their tail. The prince had charmed her so much that she actually decided to live on earth and never go back to the ocean.

For as you know, if a mermaid is out of the water longer than two days, she will lose her tail and legs will actually grow.

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Who Bets Better?
city the size of Halifax has many things to offer. On a chilly night, after visiting the most beautiful museum in the world, three students staying in Assisi Hall, Lucie L., Claire and Christine, left the rest of the group to sit quietly on a terrasse near the ocean. This terrasse is so familiar, WHY? They don't know! After a few glasses (of milk, of course), the girls dared to enter the bar. They're the shy type. Once inside, they started to chat, laugh, sing and even slide on the benches of the picnic tables. It's strange how people easily spot tourists; it's probably because of their strange accent.

After a while, something really strange happened. They were actually giving away their friend, Lucie, for an auction. How did it all begin? They don't even know. What they remember is that they started to shout out loud $$ numbers $$ in order to get people to bet on "The Precious Stone." Lucie didn't see a thing because she was sitting back to the crowd. The bets would had gone higher if they could actually see her beautiful green eyes, but what the heck!

The two friends (well, if you can call them friends after that) had a great laugh. "The Stone" didn't even seem bothered by the price they were shouting out. The two girls stopped the auction because it was getting way too serious and they actually wanted to stay on Lucie's good side.

But the clincher of this story is that the next morning Lucie "The Stone" asked her two partners, "What were you actually giving away at the auction last night, I didn't hear?"