“I feel like I’m going through a second childhood.”
Adult skater and preschool teacher for the Boys and Girls Club in Kelowna, Donna Bergvinson, uses the lessons she teaches to the ice. “I wasn’t the best skater. I had to figure it out. I learned how to do a three-turn from a book,” said the 61-year-old
Bergvinson’s story is chronicled in the CBC documentary “To The Worlds.” The film follows six adult skaters who travel from Kelowna, BC to Oberstdorf, Germany to compete at the 2018 ISU Adult Figure Skating Competition.
Bergvinson, in a telephone interview, said there were a few factors that drew her to the ice. She wanted to do something for herself. A chance to leave the house. Bergvinson entered her daughter into figure skating, while she joined a synchronized skating team.
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