It’s all about bending low and sweeping … Have you ever played curling? I played for the first time last Saturday at the ice rink in Lansing. What an experience! The purpose of curling is to score points by delivering more stones, which are made of granite from Scotland, to the house center – a circular target on the ice – of the marked sheet of ice than the other team, each team of four players carrying eight rocks; the winner is the team with the highest score after all ends have been completed. The game reminded me of pétanque, a form of boules played on a flattened crushed stone ground area, which I often played in France. In curling, the technique in bending your back very low, extending your arm and non-demoniant leg (without falling) and releasing the stone in the direction that your Skip (teammate) indicated.  Sweeping of the ice is done with a brush to reduce friction underneath the stone and increase the amount of curl. It’s a lot of fun and was surprisingly easy to learn, though not master. I enjoyed very much my first attempt at curling and made new friends among sweepers and skippers!