SECOND PRIZE
Laurianne Matte
Grade 7, West Island College
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec
Title: “Cookie and Tea”
These may look like normal tea cups and you are probably thinking that there’s nothing special about them, but they actually have a story. My great-great-grandmother bought them decades ago in 1920. She used them every Saturday afternoon when the family came. She made delicious cookies and tea for the adults. She would take the cups out of the shelves, where they were stored, and put them on fancy silver trays for each member of the family. After using them for years, she decided to give them to her daughter. Her daughter did the same thing a few years later and this is how these tea cups have been passed down from generation to generation. And now, whenever we use them with our family, we remember those Saturdays afternoons, where everyone would meet in a house to spend time together, to laugh, smile and cry to create memories and important moments they would never forget.