My canoeՉs name is The Float of Peace. I have hopes that my canoe will make it to Norway while spreading joy and love on its journey. When it launches off, I want it to go through a nice garden with a mourning dove in a chokecherry tree. As it travels I hope it races a rabbit along a Moorhead river. After that it will get stuck on the back of a catfish and ride down the river with it. When it reaches Norman County, it will see the fair and enjoy the turkeys over by the barn on the grounds. As it rides down the river, there will be some rough currents, and a wave will push it up out of the river. A pheasant will grab it and carry it downstream.
When my canoe and the pheasant reach the town of Grand Forks, they will meet a squirrel, and the pheasant will accidentally drop the canoe on the ground. The squirrel picks it up and spits it into the river as it reaches the city of Emerson.
When my canoe leaves America, it will reach the border of Canada. It goes through the city of Pembina and finds Winnipeg. On its way through Winnipeg my canoe will get caught in a school of walleye. My canoe will ride with them to Lake Winnipeg. It will see tons of northern pike swimming around in a sort of synchronized dance.
My canoe leaves the lake and floats down the Nelson River. When it rides the rapids to shore, it gets picked up by a black bear and taken to its den. After the momma bear leaves, two baby cubs pick up my canoe and bring it into a cottonwood tree. After a night in the tree the wind softly blows my canoe back into the river. On the way through the Nelson River, my canoe will pass some cornfields in the country and see families of lynx drinking from the river.
My canoe rides down the river into the Hudson Bay and encounters a pod of beluga whales swimming along. The whales lead my canoe through the Hudson Strait. For the next few years, my canoe floats on the Atlantic Ocean headed to Norway to learn about my family heritage. -Edda Ulven