My Brand New Life (2004)
My Brand New is a Canadien television series that premiered on YTV on July 4, 2004. The series brings together kids from different backgrounds and experiences and invites them to switch lives.
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My Brand New Life
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Kendra, a rough-riding western rodeo girl from Claresholm, Alberta—pop. 3,622--and Olivia, a prim and proper dressage competitor from Montreal, switch hats and gears to try each other's sports. Kendra must get used to a different kind of riding precision, while Olivia tries her hand at goat tying in a rodeo. Source: www.nfb.ca
All kinds of musical notes are played when Melanie, a traditional fiddler and step-dancer from Acadian New Brunswick, switches places with Ray, a Bhangra musician and dancer from Scarborough, Ontario. When these two kinds of music meet, it's a jam session like nothing you've ever heard! Source: www.nfb.ca
Indian East meets Indian West when Abdul Rahim, a Muslim from Surrey, BC, and Peter, a Native-Canadian from the Squamish Nation Reserve, learn to cook each other's dishes. They're judged by discerning family juries used to high standards for their particular cuisines. Peter celebrates the holiday Eid at a big Muslim party, while Abdul Rahim catches and smokes his own salmon. Source: www.nfb.ca
Eleven-year-old Ming has been home-schooled all her life in Nova Scotia. She's never sat in a classroom, worn a uniform or taken a test. Her brand new life calls for her to spend a week in a Grade 5 class in Montreal, making new friends, getting used to routine and trying to pass a dreaded math quiz. Source: www.nfb.ca
What would happen if kids ran the school? Three tweens switch places with their school officials. Cory becomes the principal, Jamie works as the custodian, and Laura takes on her own teacher's job for a day. Will they play hooky and fool around or get down to business? Source: www.nfb.ca
Are ballet dancers sissy? Are hockey players macho goons? Pasquale, an aspiring hockey player from Montreal, trades lives with Nikita, a Montreal ballet and ballroom dancer. Both award-winners in their own sports, Nikita has never laced up hockey skates, and Pasquale is a novice at tripping the light fantastic. Source: www.nfb.ca
Andrew, a student at a military-style private school in Nova Scotia, leaves his regimented dorm life to trade places with Sarah, a circus gymnast. He finds it's more than clowning around, while she has to learn to play by some pretty strict rules. Source: www.nfb.ca
Alexis, a Montreal boy, sets off somewhat nervously to a Mayan island in Mexico to celebrate the Day of the Dead, in a cemetery, in the dead of night. Alejandro leaves Mexico to experience Halloween, complete with haunted houses, leering jack-o'-lanterns and collecting candy from total strangers in Canada. Which is scarier? Source: www.nfb.ca
My Brand New is a Canadien television series that premiered on YTV on July 4, 2004. The series brings together kids from different backgrounds and experiences and invites them to switch lives.