INTRODUCING
ROCKY LANDON
Online Guest Teacher

Hi,

Welcome to the pilot course. I hope that we all can learn from one another as we complete this course together.

My name is Rocky Landon. I am from Wabigoon, Dinorwic, Eagle River and Dryden area. I lived in all of those towns as a young person. Now I live in a town called Kingston, [maybe if you get a map of Ontario, and you look east, near Lake Ontario...you can find it]. I worked in Kenora for about 11 years as a grade 7 & 8 teacher. I liked teaching English and history....and coaching volleyball. Gosh, life would be perfect if I only had to coach.

I think volleyball is one of the best sports going...besides hockey. My favourite team is Toronto Maple Leafs. When I was in high school, I used to play football and wrestle. This past year, I was given the opportunity to coach wrestling [not WWF stuff, just amateur stuff].

I am married and have two children, a boy (10) and a girl (8). My son is doing a lot of gymnastics at a Boy's club near my house. My daughter likes to go horse back riding at a farm outside of the city. Me, I used to like going fishing but since I moved to Southern Ontario, my fishing life has changed [how sad]. You know if I could, I would teach a course in fishing. ....Wouldn't that be nice to get a credit for learning how to fish? But, you don't know how well I fish [smiles; my guiding friends used to tease me about my famous shore lunches, spam and northerns].

Now, I love to go out fishing in a canoe....motorboats are too loud, although, when I worked as a fishing guide, I used one. And I used to catch fish. You know what? Since I have had a canoe in the south, I have not been lucky since. How many of you go fishing?

My wife's name is Petra (it is German name, for a German lady) and my children are called Benjamin and Katrina. Both of my children are great...they like to go fishing [even when they don't catch anything--we do that a lot down here], canoeing, camping, and playing a variety of sports: kickball, volleyball, basketball, hockey, soccer and badminton.

How old am I? I think it is 41...when you get to my age, your memory starts to go....which reminds me, it is time to go.

Take care,

Rocky