La year in review

I was completely crushed when seeing my essay and la marks, la this year has been painful, annoying and in environment where creativity is accepted yet somewhat awkward when trying to express it to class mates. From what you read above, I did not enjoy La, it is my least favorite subject not because it’s harsh but my views and creative ideologies on la topics are often regarded with a 50% mark. In some ways I got hyped and interested in movies like V for Vendetta or with the recent Calgary Academy awards but after the marks came in for my commitment to those movies/events reflected my average essay mark. La this year was difficult in many ways, some due dates were clouded by other event occurring in physics and other classes that caused me to forget about them like a certain La project which again shall reflect my “creative” essays mark. There were some positive sides to La, got to study movies and some books, 12 angry men I particularly enjoyed because of how we did it organizing the desks and taking turns speaking.  From what has being written above I am mostly doubtful for La this year, a summary for this year would be disappointing for me though, because it appears my concepts for la essays are terrible. My least favorite unit would be midsummer’s night dream, barely understood the importance of this story if anything I think we should have done another Shakespeare play that could be exciting or fun for the class. Midsummer’s night’s dream and The Road did not move me, how people could cry or shows such an extreme feeling when reading The Road seemed a little overrated or in Midsummer’s Night Dream has a cool idea with all the Shakespeare fantasy but seemed quite a child-like play with all sudden feelings and an odd ending. The thing I disliked the most about midsummer’s night dream was that fact that one of the boys had to have a magic spell on them to fall in love with a women they hate then have a supposed happy ending in this story. La this year was a tough year with a lot of low essay marks but over time some good moments occurred like the movies and the occasional project.

Spring Break

On my spring break me, my mom and dad went to Cuba, it was a 5 hour flight there and a 6 hour flight back (wind was against us), when we got there it was a cool 36 degrees and we eventually got a bus that took us through mainland Cuba to our hotel that was an hour and 45 mins away. As we were driving i saw some of the farmers houses and towns as we drove to our hotel. The farmer houses looked very makeshift, with stone wall and straw roof sometimes scrap metal and holes dotted around some of the walls of the house. In the towns, housed were close together mostly attached, the towns looked nicer having a higher quality housing with a few fancy churches that are guide said carried many gold items for religious use. Upon arriving at the 45 mins away from the hotel the bus arrived at a military checkpoint where only tourist and hotel staff were allowed to pass, beyond this checkpoint stretched a long man made road through the ocean that connected to the separate islands that the hotels were located on. it has been said that no residents live on the islands that the hotels occupy only tourist are allowed to stay there. Once arriving at the hotel it had a few water fountains outside and this hotel was all-inclusive meaning all drinks and food were free in the hotel which was great. Though the one week we spent there i swam, the snorkeling was very good and i mostly sat on the beach, played some beach volleyball or wander around the hotel, it was pretty relaxing. at the hotel they had a show every night regrettably i didn't go to one but my parents attended their Micheal Jackson show that they said really well done. on our last day we took the bus ride back and again seeing some of the town before leaving was quite interesting, seeing the country side and beautiful views of Cuban landscape. The flight was a grueling 6 hours back to Calgary it was terrible since of lack entertainment on board leaving us with a lot of time on our hands to try to get asleep or play cards. When i got back i had about a week before school started so i just relaxed and enjoyed the snowy weather.



Me in Cuba overlooking the hotel's beach.

New years

New Year’s resolution is an infamous saying where people attempt to try something different but ultimately fail after a few weeks, if I had a new year’s resolution I would try to eat healthier foods. Some stupid new year’s resolutions would be things like permanently eating better which would be very difficult or really doing anything permanently would be difficult. Some things that people say for their resolutions is lose weight, quit smoking, get out of debt, traveling, be less stressed, volunteer, drink less and many other resolution that after a few weeks are forgotten. Some people claim to want to drink less but really after a few days most people just give up and go back to their regular tradition. On New Year’s Day it’s pretty cool seeing all the fireworks plus all the festivals that go on like the fireworks in Montana since fireworks are legal in some time of the days. Many other days like Chinese New Year where Fireworks were invented, Independence Day and Canada day. All of these days close to New Year’s hold similar celebrations like firework displays. What people mostly think about when we say New Year’s is the famous countdown to new years and the changing of the years. In New York and many other cities has some of the most iconic fireworks displays like one I saw where at the end they showed a number 2015 with fireworks and that was pretty good to watch. Also many of the skiing resorts around Canada like, whitefish, Lake Louise and Panorama. A few years ago I went to a cabin my family used to rent in Invermere, a nice lake side community where we stayed for New Year’s. At the time the lake was frozen over allowing people to shoot a variety of fireworks and it was fun to watch.

holiday memory

Back a few years me and my family including me, my brother, my sister and my parents went to Australia to visit my uncle and his children. when we arrived at the airport sure enough my uncle was there to pick us up and, just looking outside the window in the car seeing how hot and sunny it was, filled with palm trees and just amazing scenery. then we arrived at my uncles house an amazing white house in a gated community equipped with a tennis court, indoor pool, guest house and trampoline installed in the ground. while we were there i saw some of the amazing beaches, some of the wind surfers and just really cool beach front activity. after staying there for a couple of weeks we ventured out to an island off the cost of Australia where the Tasmanian devil lives in the island of Tasmania, there we went around the island looking at the fields and visited a zoo along with doing zip lining. At the zoo, i saw a variety of animals like the Tasmanian devil which looks like if a baby black bear with sharper teeth along with that we saw kangaroos and wallabies which really looked the same but cool nonetheless. on our way back we drove on a beach front road wandering around the coast of Australia before we arrived back in my uncles house in Melbourne in when we enjoyed Christmas there, exchanged presents spent a few more days vising an checking out the local malls and shops before returning home to Calgary. On a different trip we went down to mexico's biggest island, Cozumel, where we stayed a beautiful hotel, played volley ball, ping pong and swimming by the pool side bar, enjoying drinks. about halfway through the trip me, my brother and my dad drove around the island to see what it was like, in town it was practically shops selling fake items and selling cheap items which actually seemed less then that, one time when we were driving we stopped by a beach front restaurant but sadly there was people eating there from a cruise ship, meaning we had to pay more since they upped the menu, so for the majority of our stay by dad complained about how he wanted the "regular menu" over the "cruise menu" which was more expensive but we just ended up leaving since there was no point in staying and after we returned to the hotel we stayed their a few more days enjoying the sun and the beach before we left for Calgary.    

Numbers from the Book of Awesome

Number 425, "When you're merging into traffic and there's no traffic to merge into".

This is a great feeling when merging or changing lanes where there is no traffic, its a good feeling and kinda makes your day, to be able to calmly change lanes without speeding up or slowing down to much its much easier.


 Number 464, "When characters in movies visit a place you know".

This is kinda cool seeing a movie character or car chase set in your home city or a place you know, this sometimes brings back memories and gets you to think about where their are or standing by to make you remember.

Number 473, "When that social event you didn't want to go to gets cancelled".

This is always a good feeling so that you can do your own thing without having to go to that event.

Funny moments

I went hiking with my dad last weekend to a mountain plateau in where we hiked about 10km uphill and 10km return, When we were nearing the top we saw 3 huge grizzly bears probably a mother and her cubs. we were about 120 meters upwind from them and it was quite scary yet quite interesting by this is one of my first times seeing a bear up close like that. My dad had binoculars so we both got to see the bears and got to see what they looked like. I was watch Laugh for Gags a funny prank they did was they had an elephant with poke dots, in the beginning the victim would be pulled over by a cop who was part of the prank and while the cop facing the person the elephant would cross the road making it seem that the victim was high or had been drinking and asking the "cop" to turn around and confirm it but they wouldn't turn around and it was pretty funny. I was watching some Tosh.0,a funny shows which takes funny clips, breaks them down and practically the guy says a lot of funny things and wanders through many different topics like funny fails and internet topics. Key and Peele, those two guys are pretty funny, like it their videos, substitute teacher 1 and 2, alien invaders and many other funny videos along with their show on comedy central. Their is show called whos line is it, it an interesting show that may still be on that the host gives lines and they have to say something funny that goes along with it and is pretty entertaining to watch and see what the people on the show will come up with or what skits they will do on order to obtain "points" for them in the show. Conan, a talk show host who is like Key and Peele but he interview's celebrities and among other things also does skits like clueless gamer in where he knows nothing about video games and judges them.

Camping

I was in Scouts, a few years ago when i went to a camp in a place called camp Gardner, when we got there(we were staying there for a few days) it was snowing. we put up the tents and froze as we slept only to wake up to and extra foot in the morning, through the day we did events but mostly heard people talked and got permits to do stuff like use an axe, etc, That part was okay. For the most part it was annoying being surrounded by snow constantly, being so cold and all and crowing around a fire. On another camping trip i was brought along with my dad to his annual fishing retreat, in where i was surround by people who were much older than me talking about some somewhat odd stories, in the day we would go fishing to a local creek in the area and see if we could catch any,  my dad got a lot of fish i didn't really get any.One time my mom took me on a tour of the UK and we drove up and saw Ireland, Scotland and went to lochness and went to the museum there along with staying at a hotel along the lake. The museum was pretty cool and seeing the history behind the photos and legends following the lake. On many of my trips to  England i visited my family and saw the city of London, it was pretty cool seeing the city and traveling around because a lot of the buildings in UK are quite old like the city of bath has a lot of old building and is quite interesting to visit them like the roman bath and other cool buildings. Last Summer(2014) i went to Las Vegas with my mom and my friend and his mom and we wandered around Las Vegas, we saw many shows like the shows, Jersey Boys, Blue Man Group, Micheal Jackson One, The Jersey Boys was about an upcoming band and their experiences towards the path of stardom. The Blue Man Group is a comedian group dressed up in blue makeup who do not talk and preforms skits. The Micheal Jackson One is a recap of Micheal Jackson's songs with a few skits and dancing. We also wandered around Las Vegas and saw some of the local themed stores, along with going to the mob museum which is all about the mob's involvement in Las Vegas and how they invested some of their money into the creation of casinos and other buildings and games.