Due by 4:00pm Friday January 29th, 2021 (send online or drop off paper copy to Room 104)

Grade 9 students who wish to apply for COAST 2022 (spring semester of Grade 10) need to complete this COAST Application Form in full.  Students are required to write a supporting letter and either: upload it to this application form or hand it at Room 104.  Paper copies of the application form are available in Room 104, the Coast Room. All applicants will receive an interview during the first week of Februay (February 1-5, 2021). Please add COAST to your Gleneagle APP for notifications (COAST is found under "programs" on the APP). To sign up for an interview, please visit Room 104 and the sign up sheet is on the door. Interviews will be about 10 minutes each and students can choose a virtual meeting on Teams, or face to face socially distancing and wearing a mask, in the Coast Room. Interviews will be available in a variety of time slots to provide flexibility for students, outside of class time. All applicants will receive an electronic letter sent through your Gleneagle student email on February 11th, 2021. 

This Online form requires you to upload your Application Letter.  You can do this using the following form:

• COAST Application Letter

Please download this file and prepare it before filling out the main online form below. This is so that you will be able to upload the form to the Application as you complete filling out certain sections of this form. You will notice that some fields in the form are marked with a red asterisk (*). This incates that they are required before submitting the form.  
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The Bowron Lakes - by Jason

The Bowron Lakes

Listen, listen closely,
Listen to the river roaring,
Hear the endless beating of the rocks,
Focus in on the rare sounds of life.

Screw that.

Open your eyes,
Life is all around us,
Trees shoot up from the nurtured soil,
Plants blossom,
Ducks ferry across the river,
Birds soar the skies,
And the bears keep their distance from the humans.
All this from a river.

Breath in.
Smell the freshness of the air,
Take in the smell of an class A provincial park,
Forget about the city life, forget about school, forget about the rules, forget about politics,
This is what you lived for,
To be surrounded by everything you are allergic to.

Grab on.
Lean against a tree while you give in to the irresistible urge to sneeze,
Feel the texture of the tree,
The complexity of Mother Nature.
Just like when you were a baby, grab and feel everything,
Ponder over how all of this was made,
Think about how life was created,
What is the meaning of life?

Wake up!
You are hungry and that’s all that matters,
Shove food into your mouth as you sit around the stove,
Taste the pigments of dirt in your food,
Drink your river water.

Oh, you’re not full yet?
Well too bad, that’s all you are having today.
Go to sleep with the crave for food,
Dream about your house filled with snacks,
Pass out in your sleeping bag as you wish for your favourite snack.
Good morning.
Canoe down the river with a empty stomach,
You’re weak, you’re bonking, you’re not focused, and you are going down a river.
Welcome to the Bowron Lakes.

This NEWEST section of the website will include various 'videos' that have been create by the COAST students during their various adventures.  We begin with the first of these done by Jayden on the Bowron Lakes trip in May of 2016.