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.