This is just one of the many funny pictures that you can find at icanhazcheezeburger.com they have all of the lolcatz and other various funny pictures

In part of the video he says that he grew up in a house with violence. If you didn’t know  he saw his step dad beat his mother when he was still very young. It would be a very hard thing to expeirince and it would affect him for many years to come.

I belive that Chris is a good person that made a very big mistake. It was a choice that was made out of anger and I hope he gains forgivness from more and more people. He is still the same person he was before and thats never going to change.

Since I got home 3 days ago I have been spending lots of time with friends. My best friend Aja came to visit from Prince George and it was great to see her. The last two days I spent time with my some of my really good friends from around here swimming in a nearby river.  Its been a great summer and I hope it gets better.

CONGRATS COURTENAY!!!! We have beaten the heat record from many years in a row. The heat has been unbarable I hear. TO BAD A WASN’T HERE !!!!

So it summer… WHATCHA GONNA DO?  well I am very lucky this summer. My family owns a small lake in winnipeg and I get to go there in 2 weeks. Its one of my favorite places in the world. I also get to go to Edmonton becuase I get to take a… (dramatic pause) UKRAINIAN DANCE CAMP!!!!!!!! In Edmonton there is a group called Shumka and they are a ukrainian dance group and offer camp in the summer. Since I have been dancing for 7 years my mom and I decided that it was time I take a camp and my cousins who liv ein edmonton, the youngest, was going to a dance camp and so my aunt suggest I go and take the camp to so I get to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so happy about it. Also my best friend who moved to Prince George is going to be coming and I get to see her. This is going to be an awesome summer. Just this weekend me and my friend were at a party and there was face paint so we made him a pretty rainbow kittie and then he just made a mess on my face. It was still lots of fun.

Enjoy your summer and have fun!

Looking Back

At the beginning of this school year we went to hornby island for our school trip. We stayed two nights with our friends in tents and did lots of activities. We learned about ourselves and others and made some really good friends. I learned in those 2 days most of the things I know about my friends. I learned that most of them are loud and some of them are quiet. Some are crazy and some are calm and some are just everything in between.

 My best friend moved to Prince George at the end of last year and coming back to school this year knowing she wasn’t going to be here was hard. It turns out with her not being here I made two best friends that I hang out with all the time. If she had been here I would have always been with her and I’m not saying its a good thing she moved it just I got to make other really awesome friends. Even though I lost some of my friends this year but I also made lots.

Challenges

This year one of our units in PE was juggling. It was one of the most challenging things this year because it was so hard to keep a straight face. For my group we had Sophie, Haley, Chelsea, Max and me. We did our routine to “Mambo Number 5″  and it was pretty ridiculous looking. There was lots of arm flailing and leg kicks. It was just for humour and fun and I was not surprised we had lots of fun. We thought that no one could beat our crazy humour but sure enough someone did. Michael.G , Nicholas, Dom and Brayden had a very interesting moment. They practiced so much and worked on it a lot to land this one move at the end and they got it perfect on the last time but it all went wrong in their performance.  Michael went for the jump and … (dramatic pause) he missed and kicked Brayden. Brayden had been standing on his head and michael was supposed to jump over him. They had gotten it a couple of times and in the moment Michael didn’t get the right amount of height on his jump and kicked Brayden. They both fell over and ended up moaning on the ground. This is also my favorite moment from this year.

What’s Your Subject?

Lots of people have differant favorite subjects and no PE and Music do not count in this case because I am talking about academics. My Favorite subject is Math!!! Math is my favorite subject because I think it is just so cool. Chaeyoon also loves math and when it says math on the board she goes up and puts hearts and writes “MATH ROCKS”!!!! Math is so cool because you can figure out were a person is going by things that you know about them and what their pattern is. You can learn how to caculate the sqaure route of pie which you might not know what that is but its math. I really  love finding out eqations and differant formula’s. most people would say “EWWWWW math is gross” and ” thats crazy who likes math”. Well heres a news flash… I LOVE MATH!!!!!!!! Math is just so coool and fun and YAY!!!!!

The Wacky Gift Exchange

For christmas we had a wacky gift exchange. We each brought in a gift that we have had for a while that are jsut fun things that are humourus and joking around items. I brought in a gift that I have had for a while since I was about 7 and it was a very girly toy. I took 2 foam balls and painted them like faces and put them on pipe cleaners and then taped that to the box. I had choosen the biggest box I could find so someone unsuspecting would choose it thinking ti was something big and awesome. So when it was time to choose gifts a very unsuspecting hayden chose my gift. When he open it everyone started laughing and so didn’t he. He opened it to find a little doll that turn in this skirt to open it and make an ice cream shop. it was a pricless moment and very fun.

 The End

As the end of the school is just on the horizen I relise it has been a fantastic year through good times and bad. Next week on Thursday we will be saying good by to being juviniel and crazy and when we come back to the school we will be saying hello to our last year at valley view and having to be mature leaders at our school. I want to thank all my class mates for making this such an awesome year for me and to Ms.Smith who will be leaving the school next year. Also Good bye Chaeyoon!!! we will miss you so much when you go back to Korea

You left us so quickly.
Not even goodbye.
And still to this you can see me cry

I will always miss and I will never forget

This is a post about my grandpa who passed away when I was six. My grandpa was so much more then just an old man. He was my best friend and a great man. He helped build a camp site that we still go camping at. Unfortunatly he fell asleep and did not wake up. He is in a better place now and I will remember the good times with him.

RIP
Grandpa Cliff

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY TO ALL!!!!

Mission BC. That’s where I have spent one weekend a year for the last 3 years dancing. As you probably already know form some of my other posts I am Ukrainian and I also am a Ukrainian Dancer. This weekend was the Mission Ukrainian Dance Festival. My dance group goes there for the one day of dancing and we always have so much fun. I’m going to tell you all about it.

Mission is a fairly small town near surrey BC. It’s pretty old too but there are some really new things like the school we preform at. There are a whole bunch of different groups. I think there were about 10 this year and each group has more then 20 dancers. One group has ten girls and ten guys in the age range of 15 to 18 and most of them have just arrived from the Ukraine this year. They were speaking Ukrainian the whole time. 

The Senior girls from my team (that’s the group I’m in) Got a bronze, a silver and a gold for the three dances we did. The gold was for our shawl dance. The adjudicator (the judge) said that the shawl’s are hard props to use and we used them very effectivly. We were called elegant. With our Privit (welcome dance) The younger kids missed there que so we lost points for it. We got a bronze for that dance. The third dance we did was a plotava dance ( a region in ukraine). We got a silver for it because we have only been practicing the full dance for a a coulpe weeks. We mixed up some of our timings on something and had our ribbons in the wrong hands at some points. But int he end we were only 2 points less then getting a gold so all in all we did pretty good this weekend considering the mistakes.

The best part about mission is the after party. We all get together in someone’s room and have a party. this year Austin Power: Gold Member was on TV so we were watching that and laughing really hard. There is also a pool in hotel we stay at and we spend most of our time (when were not dancing) in the pool. My friends at dance are like my family because This was my 8th year dancing with these kids. We are one large disfunctional family. We are best friends.

I have more than one hero in my life. Some I know personally some I have never met. Some are dead. But all the same they are hero’s to me. Here are my top 5 hero’s.

At number 5:

Oprah. She is a truly amazing woman who has ever thing she could want or need and with all of that she is still a real person and helps with poverty through out the world. She has gone through struggles in her life such as here childhood. She had lived with her mother from when she was 6 to when she was 13. After suffering abuse and molestation, she ran away and was sent to a juvenile detention home at the age of 13, only to be denied admission because all the beds were filled. She was finally sent to live with her father. It must of been hard for her and now she is a successful talk show host and business woman. She once said “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always”. That line really makes you think. She is one of my hero’s.

At number 4:

Ghandi. He fought for what he believed and didn’t stop. He was against any violence, ate vegetarian, and also undertook long fasts for means of self purification and social protest. He never stopped fighting and ended up dieing for his beliefs. He was amazing. He was even thrown off a train in south Africa for his race but even then he never gave up.

At number 3:

Susie Mcgregor. Susie is my local teacher. Singing is her career and she is just amazing. When I go into the music studio the first thing I see is all her albums and posters. There are guitars on the wall and a piano. Susie is really nice and awesome to be around. She is a truly amazing musician and her voice is so beautiful. I really respect her and what she does. I hope to be as sucessful as her one day.

At number 2:

Donna Baydock. She was an olympic volleyball player. She is also my mom. My mom was on the jr national team and the national team for Canada. She was on both teams for a total of about 6 or 7 years. She has got me into volleyball and I love the sport. She was supposed to be in the 1980 summer olympics but they got canceled for Canada and 62 other contries. Maybe I will be able to live her dream.

At number 1:

David Regehr. My daddy. I am the biggest daddys girl but not because he gives me lots of stuff. Its the exact opposite. My dad doesn’t spoil me and doesn’t inrole me in everything I want to do. He keeps me grounded and if my mom wants me to do something that I don’t want to do he always does whats best for the family and for me. Every night he makes a family dinner before our activeities. He is also a drag racer. He takes our family to go see him race at one of the biggest tracks and he has got a licence to drive under 8 seconds. He introduced me to cars and I am really starting to like them. I love my dad and he is my biggest hero.

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