Philippe Comtois

It's too long ago! I was only 5. Seriously, I was very impressed by the big yellow bus that was to take me to Saint-Béatrtice School in Auteuil. My sister took her bus before I did, and now it was my turn. I was little, but it's as if I was big boy all of a sudden.

Beyond any doubt, it was when I began to attend Secondary 2 at Pierre-Laporte school, in the music concentration program. I had spent a year at Poly-Jeunesse, a school that had students coming to it from all over Quebec. It was the music program at Pierre-Laporte I remember most and best. And there too, I was following in my older sister's footsteps.

Obviously, back-to-school meant the end of one year of my training and the beginning of another. That was usually the case. At school, I met up again with friends I hadn't seen for the summer because all my time was devoted to diving.