The Olympics are now well past and Oscar fever has set in. But I think it’s worth a tribute to the Canadian Hockey Pride to explain how a bunch of Canadians managed to “watch” our favorite game of the season.
In Zambia for a brief marathon of meetings, a bunch of EWB Canada types gather around a computer to “watch” the game and support our country.
In case you can’t tell, that’s a bunch of Canadians, huddled around a computer with a Skype call through to Canada with someone back in Canada putting his computer next to his TV so that we can hear the TV commentary on the game! Not quite as good as radio commentary (comments of “did you see that!” are sort of useless), but hey, we caught the goals! Also in the mix is a live update of the goals and a Canadian flag hanging above us. And even though nothing on the computer screen moved… we still stared intently at the screen as though it were a real TV and jumped at all the appropriate parts.
Just like Ghanaian and their football, Canadians love hockey and we will find a way to watch it, even in the bush in Zambia.
