Where am I?

Where am I?

As the wind blows softly the scent of maple leaves and pancakes drift through the air. Cries of moose are heard mixing with the sound of coyotes wailing. Those who inhibit the area speak blends of english and french and love to play hockey and lacrosse. Everyone is supposedly friendly and stereotyped as those who are too kind.

(Personification) Speaking softly and quietly the place is unheard over his older brother's noise and brightness. The place is kind and loves pancakes and hockey. He is soft spoken and fun and loves his pets.

Holiday Shenanigans

Okay so literally there was nothing worth writing about because really all I did was dance to eighties and slightly older music provided by my Dad when I visited him. I also drew a few pictures but not such an interesting topic so let me tell you about the time I visited The Hamilton Zoo with my cousins.

I giggled a little at the joke my oldest brother made once we arrived at the zoo. He trudged over to my little brother and grinned. "Don't worry Logan, we're releasing you to your family today." Logan frowned deeply and stared at Ethan with an agape mouth as all of my cousins laughed a little in reaction.
"Oh yeah? Well we're taking you back to the gorilla place!" I could tell they were going to be on this for a while so I just slowed down a little and walked in behind next to Luke, the oldest of my cousins.

I saw three pygmies nomming on some food, two birds that looked like pricks and a tiger that was lying on it's back. With the tiger we joked about it being my dad as it looked as if it was saying, "Rub my belly." Which is a phrase he uses.

One of the cooler enclosures I think belonged to the chimps. It was large and had strange little trees. They also had this house-like thing where they could enter the small door flaps to a play/sleeping area. I had leaned against the railing and watched as the chimps with wispy dark hair either just sat there or slowly climbed around. It was pretty boring until one of them began licking what we assumed was feces and we all pulled faces. "Oh god. Dad what is that?" I asked as I looked to my side.
"Peanut butter…Or some kind of food stuff." He chuckled a little.
"And if it's not?"
"Then what the hell are you doing mate." His line made me grin and laugh softly into my arm before we changed enclosures.

After a while of looking at ducks, pigs, red pandas and the like we decided to have lunch. We each had made our own lunches and put them in plastic bags. Mine had a smiley face on it whereas the others had their names. Once I pulled out my sandwich my face fell as a depressing thing dawned on me…I DIDN'T GET A MUFFIN OR A BISCUIT. I pouted at the rest of the boys though I kept quiet about it.

There was a short period of slightly awkward silence before my other cousin, Shaun who was second oldest, decided to break it. "Who here likes maths?" I deadpanned as only two raised their arms. The two eldest Luke and my bro Ethan. It kind of made sense as Luke was an intellectual and Ethan was………well he was Ethan. He had also decided that it was the perfect time to wear a my bright beanie and ridiculous looking sunglasses. He was a bit of a dork nose.

Overview of Term 2

One of the main events happened to be cross country which was challenging and another was The Production which was awesome. Cross country, if you didn't know, is basically a school-wide running event where you run a track at least twice. A Most Triumphant Tale, was the production title and it was exciting to watch. There probably were more events but they're the ones that I can't remember so I apologise for my impudence.

Highlight? A highlight you say? Well…my favourite event was probably Ngamuwahine Camp. To be more specific it was the camping in the outdoors of the forest area even though it was cold, kind of wet and I got no sleep whatsoever I enjoyed sitting around the fire and telling stories. Scary stories in particular but I didn't get to tell mine and the ones that were shared weren't horrifying at all. See the good components of a scary story involves suspense, gore, a low voice, acting and if you're making it up make it believable I mean anything can be scary if you add the right things.

My Lowlight. What the heck is a lowlight? The opposite of a highlight I suppose but I haven't heard of the word really. Anyway, we're heading off topic. My lowlight doesn't really exist because I enjoyed the entire term but running would be one as I'm pretty unfit.

I have improved in maths by heaps! I have no idea how! I went from a level 4 something to a 5B. I'm so happy about it too. That also puts all of my subjects on the same level which is interesting.

Improving in my literacy is something I want to do. They're pretty good already at 5B but I want to get higher because staying the same forever just isn't going to work. I want to make sure that I can keep moving.

~A Most Triumphant Tale~

To put it lightly the two year sevens seated next to me were loud and annoying as well as the constant name shouting over the actors who were trying to speak but other than that I enjoyed the production. I sat in my row and placed my headband across my eyes so that only my ears would tell me if it was starting. Funnily enough only moments after my eyes had been concealed I heard music and quickly ripped them off of my face and shifted my gaze around to spot the source of the familiar song. In the brightness of the spotlight was a man who was slowly rising out of the bottom of the stage and playing an old looking piano and he spun around a little too. The roar of the audience only fired up more as he played the song skillfully and the children spotted keys moving on their own.

That seemed to be like a pre-performance and once it had finished most of us had calmed down as the lights dimmed and the red velvet curtains rose to reveal a scene with David Bowie singing one of his epic songs.

As the show progressed the story became more clear. Phil and Ed, two band members who had been ditched by their original group are trying to find people to join their band to make it whole again. They need to do it in time to defeat the rival band, One Dimension who are a group of popular lip syncing fakes. In the end they have to travel through time to moments of music history to get famous musicians to join the band and defeat them to protect the future from bubblegum pop fakers.

A major part of the production was music and the message that came from it was about how lip syncing wasn't real music and that real music is made by artists that compose their own songs and make their own music. This is a message I agree with entirely as most of the music coming out nowadays is terrible compared to the songs from the nineties and so on.

My favourite part of the production was how the phone box thingy appeared in the different timelines and freaked everyone out. I enjoyed watching the production because it was awesome but afterwards I was really tired and wanted nothing more but to sleep. I

Why You Should Play Soccer!

Dear Whoever it may concern,

Okay, so I don't exactly play this sport but I used to and I enjoy it so my job today is to persuade you to join it.

First of all there are two names for it. soccer and football, though it's only really soccer in America and Canada. That has to be one reason and it's English! But I should probably start with a real reason. Like all other sports of course it'll help you get fit if you play and it's arguably of the most popular sports in the world and over one billion people watch the Football World Cup every few years. Here's another fact about soccer for the basketball fans, the first basketball game was actually played using a football.

Football is a game involving your feet which makes it different from every other sport though you have to kick it correctly in order not to injure yourself. The game should be smooth and simple as long as you have trust in your team and continue to play to the rules. If you find it difficult to hit the ball with enough strength I'd imagine kicking something you hate and trying to hit it towards your goal.

If you don't like being on field you could stay in the goal as goalie or goal keeper. The goalie's job is to catch the ball and is the only player allowed to use his/her hands. The goalie usually ends up diving for the ball and would do anything to stop the ball from getting into the goal. 

Book Review: Samurai Girl: Book of the Shadows

The lone survivor of a plane crash that fell from the sky as an infant, named by the media Heaven Toko was taken in by a rich family but is the wealth built on the deaths of others and was her father working with the yakuza?

Many questions run through heaven's head as she does her best to unveil the shadow covering her family's past. Including what the truth was behind her brother, Ohiko's, death. Fed lies her entire life and believing them Heaven is sick of it and now wants to find the truth and only the truth but what happens when her family rivals are in the area including her alleged husband "Teddy."

This book is for the mature as it includes blood, drama, knock outs and a few…sexual references but nothing gets too far out of hand so I suggest girls of around thirteen to twenty or older if you enjoy novels. This book is filled with action and a little bit of drama along with a small bit of asian culture and weaponry.

The author has done a great job giving you a basis of what the character's personality is like and making you want to read the book through to the end. My favourite part was one of the final scenes where Heaven ends up fighting a group of men at an arranged meet up and whether she wins or not depends…are you willing to read the book?

Want to hear a joke?

Q: Want to hear a dirty joke?
A: A white horse slipped in a mud puddle

Q: You're in the woods with three things in front of you: A bear, a jaguar and a lion. You have a gun but there's only one bullet left, what do you do?
A: Shoot the lion, drink the beer and drive home in the jaguar!

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Ipe!
Ipe who?

There was an English man a Chinese man and an Irish man who all went on a hot air balloon ride. As they hovered over England the englishman couldn't help but call out, "Oh my fine England!" With pride. As they hovered over Ireland the irishman also exclaimed, "Oh my fine Ireland!" The chinese man dropped a few plates overboard and shouted, "Oh my fine China!"

Three men went to go for a picnic up a hill. At the top the first man decided to throw an apple off the large hill and the second threw a banana. The third who wanted to be daring, threw down a grenade. On their way back down the hill they spotted a young girl crying and they asked her why she was crying and she answered with, "An apple knocked my father out!" The men decided to continue down the hill and they saw a little boy crying and they asked him why he was. His answer was, "A banana knocked out my mama!" Continuing on until they reached the bottom they spotted two children laughing and they asked them why they laughed to which they replied, "Dad farted and he blew up the house!"

Q: What do you call a man with no legs?
A: Neil.

Q: What do you call a man with a shovel?
A: Doug.

Q: What do you call a man without a shovel?
A: Douglas.

Q: What do you call a man with no arms or legs and is floating in the water?
A: Bob.

Knock knock!
Go away!

Book Review: Alice in Wonderland

Rabbits jumping through holes and a world where everybody is mad. This is known as Wonderland and this book is a very famous story made by Lewis Carroll that has many other adapted versions though the one I read was the original.

I enjoyed reading it a lot as it was interesting though there were words that are a little complicated I believe if you try to understand them or end up searching up words it'll become a fun reading experience as you meet lots of different funny characters that will make you laugh and question their beings entirely. One of them being the cheshire cat who can disappear at the flick of his tail and speaks in almost nothing but riddles. His job is to guide young Alice through Wonderland along with the others.

Alice Liddel is the girl who fell through the rabbit hole and does her best to comprehend her situation. Unfortunately that isn't how Wonderland works and she finds herself wondering whether it's a dream or not due to all the crazy happenings like when she ends up shrinking and growing at strange speeds all due to some funny little foods.

This is a topsy turvy world that I would recommend for anyone aged ten and up as it is a wonderful book with nothing bad in it apart from a queen who's favourite phrase is, "Off with their head!" I invite anyone to join Alice on her adventures through the magical world of Wonderland where anything is possible and where everybody's mad!