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June 14 Self Eval and Mentor JournalsMentorship Day Outlines Day 1: Introduction to Churchill , and intro to the school’s history with Field Hockey Day 2: Rules of the Game and the Equipment used Day 3: DRILLS! And lots of them. Day 4: MORE PRACTICE DRILLS! They need to practice individually and with me until they can play a game! Day 5: GAME Day 6: GAME Day 7: PPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAARTY! Mentorship Journals Day 1: I met my mentees today and we got along! I went to Sexsmith and so I know most of the kids here. I remember my mentees and I’m pleased to say that I really like them. Their names are Natasha, Sarah, and Michael. We basically walked around the whole school today and I showed them the different fields and tracks we had as well as the field hockey trophies won by Churchill school. However, I expected them to really be excited about the field hockey teams at our school, but they weren’t nearly as impressed as I had imagined them to be. Time went by REALLY SLOW, and even though I thought I planned enough for the whole time they were here, we had 20 minutes left over and I just sat and talked to them for the remaining time. Day 2: We didn’t get through ANY rules of the game at all! My mentees were too excited to start playing field hockey for having enough brain power to remember rules. SO instead, I just made them so drills. I only had one field hockey stick and because I forgot my field hockey ball at home, I scrunched up a bag of rice krispie squares, and used THAT as a ball. I need more sticks! ! ! ! ! ! It’s really inefficient to have three mentees and only one stick, drills take a lot longer to complete when everyone has to do them one by one. Day 3: Joyce’s group decided to switch topics and join my group so now we have 5 people and only two sticks. UH OH! While we were doing the drills, one of my mentees, Michael, refused to do anything and started complaining that his knee hurt. So he just sat in the corner while everyone else practiced the drills. Some people are so annoying! I don’t understand why he signed up for field hockey when he obviously doesn’t enjoy it. In the end, I just talked to him one on one and let him know that if he didn’t want to be in my group then he could ask Mr.Kay to switch. That did the trick, and He eventually began doing the drills and cooperating. Day 4: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Joyce and I asked Mrs.Blake for 5 field hockey sticks, and she consented! That is why she is the greatest PE teacher ever. We had a really good mentorship day today. Everything went as planned. Every person had a stick and they were able to have enough time to do the drills. Even Michael, my lazy mentee, actually did the drills! Day 5: We didn’t play a game! Instead, we spent their entire time trying to teach them proper techniques. They are not ready for a game yet. Michael stopped being a pain, but one of Joyce’s mentees, Katie has become really annoying. She never wears the right pair of shoes, she is always wearing boots or flats. I keep telling her to remember to wear runners for next class but she always forgets too. Day 6: My mentee Sarah is really good at playing field hockey. She played for a local team, the Hawks, a little while ago and I think that every time she does drills, the other mentees feel bad. They’re not as good as she is but I use her for demonstrations. Joyce and I tested the kids on field hockey rules and we had to go over the rules so many times! I think they understand them now. Day 7: I’M SO PROUD OF MY MENTEEES! At the party today they were absolutely brilliant. When they first walked in they told me not to worry because they had everything they wanted to say planned out. I was surprised but happy and couldn’t wait to see what they were going to say. When it was our turn to present, they were calm and collected. They walked up and after a short introduction about our topic to the class from me, they began. I used to think that they didn’t listen to the rules I kept pelting at them but I learned I was wrong. THEY DID LISTEN TO ME! The whole time that they were up there they explained different rules of the game to the class. I’M SO PROUD! I actually taught people something! I think that was one of my proudest moments. Being a teacher is a really fulfilling profession. *** I hope I have a mark for the YPI booklet. Arun told me that you gave him a mark for it already. We're the DEYAS group that lost it, but you saw me trying to sort it out during your class! DO I have a mark for it? Self Eval: 86 Things I learned: 1. Volunteering is good, don’t just give people your money, give them your time and compassion as well. 2. The world has thousands of mysteries surrounding it, mysteries that scientists are still trying to solve. Some of them can be explained by quantum physics. 3. Stanley Kubrick is the greatest director who ever lived! 4. Sometimes everyone on earth acts the same. We think we’re unique but we’re not, we’re like hot dog wieners who have manufactured beliefs and manners. 5. Teaching people has its ups and downs but in the end, it’s rewarding to know that you were able to teach someone. June 10 It would be nice if. . .I could wake up someday and not have to do anything important. These past couple of weeks have been INSANE, teachers have been throwing in piles of homework and the work seems endless. All my weekends are booked with homework due dates and I'd just like to go to sleep on a friday and not have to wake up early the next day to study for a test. Well, I guess my wish is coming soon, THIS FRIDAY IN FACT! But, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are going to be HELL. I love education but sometimes I wonder. . . June 07 Retard Friend13 more days until the premier of Camp Rock. Suddenly, I'm not as excited about it as I once was. The Jonas Brothers are duller than they once were and not as appealing. Maybe I'm growing up. I guess I realise that being good looking can only get you so far. Celebrity crushes piss me off to begin with. What a complete waste of time and affection. Actually, crushes in general are a complete waste of time and affection. I don't know how poeple can think about, how some guy doesn't like them AGAIN and AGAIN. Doesn't it get boring and repetitive?! I'd want to punch myself in the face if I ever thought about a guy for more than 5 minutes. There are SO MANY MORE important things to think about. I have this one friend who is a complete douche. Sometimes I just wanna stuff her in a bag and dump her on the streets of Downtown so she'd see how bad life was down there. Why does she think that guy problems are so bad! SHE'S SO STUPID. How can someone be so self centered enough to only freakin care about their love lives and piss off other people around them by talking about it 24/7. Honestly, I don't care if he doesn't like you or if he doesn't want to talk to you. I don't care if he asked you out on a date or if he wants to marry you, I care about the people who have to engage in prostitution to survive and the people who don't have any legs but still try to particpate in sports. I care about the people who are forced to be blind for the rest of their lives because they don't have the money to perform a 15 minute eye surgery for cataracts. I care about the people who are orphaned at the age of 10 and left to take care of their 4 year old sister. THOSE are the people who need support and comfort....NOT YOU! Those are the people who are worth my time! GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER. Open your eyes and LOOK AT THE WORLD AROUND YOU. Realise that you're not the only person on earth. Realise that your guy problems are NOTHING compared to the struggles of other people in this world. In fact, the only reason you have guy problems to begin with is because you create them! Stop thinking about him, have some self control, IT"S NOT THAT HARD. June 01 An answer for Joyce: Luc BourdonJoyce asked why his death made the Sun's front page. I think I can finally answer her question. Sports is a stress relief, a way of letting out all your anger. When I'm really frustrated about a project and I know a Canucks game is on, I instantly cry out in happiness and turn on the game. It fills me with happiness, a happiness I can't explain, almost like an adrenaline rush, as if I"M out there on the ice battling with hockey's greatest players. My stress flushes away and I wait as it rejuvenates my senses, pumping passion and excitement into my blood. I watch my favourite team and its players battle on the ice almost everyday and in a way, I live through them. I like pretending that I'm out there on the ice playing along side them. I know I won't get into the NHL, so I cheer on the lucky talented players that have. Hockey's just a game, where you lose or you win, I see the players as special gods that I can only dream about meeting. They're not supposed to die. It is because of this that Luc Bourdon's death is so tragic. It's wrong when you turn on channel 54, and instead of the usual sports coverage and top 10 plays, that are meant to relieve your stress, there's a picture of a young man staring back at you, with the words, "CANUCK BOURDON DIES IN CRASH" splashed beneath his picture.
It spirals you back into reality, into the reality that these players are people. That they're not just objects we trade and sell to other teams, they're young boys and men that we look up to (when we are not judging thm) but are regular people just like us. It shows us that hockey's not just a game where you can either lose or you can win. It's much more than that. You work hard for evey goal and every move on the ice, and everyday you are fighting to stay on a team, proving your worth to the critics of the game. Just like us, hockey players are constanly judged and evaluated. Every little mistake of there's is held under the microscope and examined in detail. Too often, they are criticized, criticized to a point where we don't care how they feel anymore. Sounds familiar eh? This is how we treat others outside the hockey world as well. It's a world I never thought would be similar to ours, but it is. You're not invincible or safe ANYWHERE in this world, and I finally realized that today. Ian MacIntyre, sportswriter for the Vancouver Sun, finally wrote an article that was half decent, for once. I normally hate his articles cause they suck ass, but he made a good point. "Canucks lost a good prospect, but Acadian community lost more." He's right. Even though as fans, we all take this loss very hard, his small community of 3,000 people, takes it harder. For many in this close community, he was a hockey hero. Despite being from a small town that no one knew about, he had made it into the NHL. This provided Shippagan, the town he lived in, with the hope that they COULD make it to the NHL too.
I learned today that in hockey, it is possible for you to win AND lose at the same time. We lost a good person, a person who was taken away too young, but Canuck fans everywhere have made this tragic loss into a (in a cruel way) something good. Thousands of donations, at $28 (which was Bourdon’s jersey number) have been given to Canuck Place Hospice in honour of Luc Bourdon. So Joyce, even though there are thousands of deaths happening this very second, even as I/You read this, and there are other heartbreaking stories out there that should make the front page as well, Luc Bourdon’s death was one that was too unexpected. He was a star that was extinguished to soon, he had just barely started his career. Even though I don’t think it’s true, I like to think that newspaper editors displayed the story on the front page because Canuck fans knew the player, but now they needed to know the person behind the player as well. Maybe they did it so fan’s could realize what I’ve realized because of his death. I can’t watch a hockey player and say anything negative about him anymore, or even say negative things about anyone else in this world. I would regret it afterwards, because Bourdon was often criticized for his game, people thought he should be traded, and it’s wrong how everyone cares how he feels AFTER he dies. Appreciate what people do in life. Everyone has pros and cons, but just focus on the pros and roll with them. I think that Bourdon was critically judged (partly because he got drafted one ahead of Crosby, yet didn’t make the same entrance Crosby had) and now, now that’s too late, he’s finally receiving the recognition he deserved oh so long ago.
I hate reading newspapers, and I remember watching a youtube video about Craig Kielburger (my idol!) and he said that at one point in time, he had hated opening newspapers too. He hated it because there was always someone dying or something doing something to hurt others. Newpapers were just too depressing. Then, he met someone who changed his view on them. A man told him that he loved newspapers because they served as a to-do list for him. They had issues and problems inside them, that he still had to help. Now, ever since that youtube video, I've read the newspaper as a to-do list. Things that I can do to make the world a better place. And I think I know how I'm going to do this. I do want to help cease the pain behind Luc's death and instead of writing down here, I'm going to do it first instead. My tour of change is going pretty well, it's going to be kicking off soon. Also, Mrs.Springer has said that I can continue on with the Daffodil Project in september next year as well. I'm not going to give up on ANY of these ideas and stick through them no matter what. Like I said before, sticking a "RIP" in my msn name for someone, isn't going to so anyone any good. I choose to do something that has a positive affect and reaches out to people who aren't just on my messenger list. I'm going to make a REAL difference, a REAL closure for his sudden death.
 May 30 Luc Bourdon :(He died in a motorcycle accident yesterday, and he was 21 years old. He was just a boy. Why does it bother me so much? I really don't know. I know it's not only because he was a Vancouver Canuck or even because he was the only hockey player I've ever met. It's much more than that. His sudden death made me want to cry, and I'm just a stranger, I can only imagine how horrible his family and friends are feeling right now. I think the fact that bothers me the most is that many Canuck fans were so critical about him prior to his death. Not many people thought he deserved to play in the NHL and that he should just be traded. And now, now that he's DEAD, everyone suddenly feels the need to say how much they loved him. I think that's really sad and pathetic. It makes me really angry to know that people only care about other people's feelings once they're dead. I also realized that I have different priorities than my friends. In my eyes, they worry about really stupid things. Thing's that don't even matter. Things like their "love lives" and the latest shoe sale at Guess. All of this means nothing to me. They're just petty things that I barely think about. They complain about meaningless things too. And I don't tell them when they do but instead just stay quiet and think about how stupid they are for crying over a "asian fail" aka a 87% when there are people half way around the world dying of starvation. It's harsh, but they have no reason to complain. They have a home and an education, and above all they have life. They're not dead. I couldn't even focus at school today. I kept zoning out at all through science and applied skills, everything reminded me about his death. I saw mini motorcycles in the hallway (gr. 12 class project) and I instantly wanted to puke. I saw 7 trucks on the road today and I always jumped back, scared that I would get stuck under it, just like Luc had. Actually, I feel like crying right this very minute. I go on the Canucks website daily, and I went on it today and I didn't have the heart to stay on it longer than 15 seconds. Too many articles about Luc. I hate it when people die, I hate having no control over it. What can you do?!? Thousands of people are dying this very second as I type in these words, just KNOWING that makes me want to shoot myself. There's something sick about young people dying, and I wish that I could do something for every single person dead instead of just "honouring them" by sticking a "R.I.P Luc" in my msn name. It's not going to bring him back. It's not going to bring anyone back.
 May 27 french class is the greatestI love my french class. I like the people that I sit around because they always make me laugh. I also think Mrs.Todd is pretty ok, she's not boring and not too hard so she's a fairly decent teacher. The only problem with the class is that its the first block of Day 2, which sucks because I'd rather finish the day off with that class because it's much more relaxing than Math. THe class is good, the actual subject however is so freakin annoying. There are SO MANY stupid rules in the language that make you want to choke yourself. That is all. This is the shortest blog ever. Also, one of the most pointless. Not one of the usual "profound" blogs. Middle Years in a NutshellI read the "Wear Sunscreen" paragraph on your website and I thought it was simply great so I'd like to do a my own remix version of that. These are a couple of things that I learned the past two years from Middle Years.
Don't worry about stupid things that you have no control over. Lots of kids waste their time trying to attract the attention of the oppposite sex and in the process they screw up their lives. You have no personality or sense of realism if boys/girls are ALL that you think about. I get sick of kids who only talk about their love lives. So the point of this sentence? BE A REAL PERSON and realize that just talking about the same thing over and over again is pointless and not worth the listener's time.
Get up and run.
That's right, RUN!
Run everywhere and anytime. Respect your body because 30 years from now you'll hate yourself for not doing lunges and crunches when you were young and able. Our body systems are amazing, make sure you make use of them.
Don't waste your time on your computer. Get involved with activities outside your house. Experience the real world and join clubs and teams. Meet new people and make friends. Nothing exciting is going to happen to you when all you do is sit on your computer all day. That's why we weren't born with a computer attached to our foreheads, we don't need it to survive so don't depend on it too much. This means YOU Michael Shao.
Donating is great, but make sure that you do more than that. Money does go a long way but so does volunteering. Make sure that you volunteer as much as you can because there are certain benefits that come alone with volunteering that don't with giving your money. When you volunteer you can see the direct benefit right away. Sometimes people cannot just survive on money, they need love and support too. This is something you have to provide in person, not something you can just hand over in an envelope.
Learn to let loose. There are times you should be serious but there are WAY MORE times you should loosen up and unleash the goof in you. We all appreciate a joker, someone who always lightens up the mood for everybody. Know the limits for this one though. You do have to be serious at certain times. Figure out which times.
Jealousy. I think the "wear suncreen" paragraph handled this topic pretty well however I'd like to add something to it. Some forms of jealousy are good. But don't let it become the foundation of everything you do. Do not let it come in the way of your friendships and relationships. I've been jealous at times but for academic reasons and in the end it made me a better student. Use jealousy to your benefit. If someone beats you on a science test, learn that you need to do better and put in that extra effort. There's a dangerous line between using jealousy in a good and in a bad way. Make sure that when you are trying harder on your science test, it isn't just so that you can beat the other person, it's so that you can beat yourself and your expectations.
Set goals for yourself and save the world.
Sounds pretty dreamy but it's true. You CAN save the world and don't listen to arrogant dummies who tell you otherwise.
"I have an Asian mother" is not a good excuse. So don't make excuses. At all. Learn to take responsibility for everything that you do.
Paren't are cooler than you think they are. They work their butt off for your well being so appreciate their hardwork and let them know just how thankful you are. Do it everyday. Not just on Mother's Day or Father's Day. But instead, every chance you get.
** I'll add more advice each day. Writing this is lots of fun. May 24 The YPI LossWell, what are you going to do? What are you going to do now? Those are the questions that are running through my head right now. It's been a day or two since we lost the $5000 cheque and I still don't know what to do. Thursday just wasn't a good day for me. We lost the softball championships AND we lost the $5000 for DEYAS on the same day. However, out of those two losses, the YPI loss stings me the most. And that's because, unlike the softball championships, YPI is not a game. Unlike the softball championships, where I could have caught more balls and hit the ball harder, I don't think we could have worked harder on YPI. That's because I truly believe that Arun, Michaela, and I dedicated all the time we possibly could to making our project better. We spent a lot of time and a lot of heart into this and in the end it just wasn't enough. But, I honestly don't think the better charity won. And i hope people don't get me wrong when I say this , what I mean by that is that you can't say that one charity is better than the other, or that one charity is more deserving than others. To me, that's just wrong. All charities deserve and need money because theyre helping people help themselves. I, personally, couldn't choose which charity to give money to, especially if I had to choose between a whole bunch of them. In the end I would choose the one that I could relate to the most. Take BC Children's Hospital for example, they've saved my life when I was a baby. I have a heart problem and ever since I was a little baby they have performed a series of surgeries and tests on me, making sure I was healthy. I could never repay them for what they have done for me so I would, in an instant, donate as much money as I could to them. But nevertheless, good job to WISH for all their hard work. I am VERY sorry if you were offended by my behaviour after you gus won. I sort of feel bad for not really talking to anyone after we lost because it just really hurt knowing that we had lost. I did say congrats to the WISH group but I think they were slightly offended after I left and went to applied skills. I hope they realize that it's NOT because I'm a sore loser or that I have bad sportmanship because when we lost the softball championships our WHOLE team went up to them and clapped their hands and said : "Good Game". I HATE it when people have bad sportsmanship and always make sure that I either say :Good game to the team that lost or the team that won. But for the YPI loss. My sportsmanship failed me. I did say good job and gave them a hug but I was still cold to them afterwards. I hope they understand that it was because I hadn't just let my team down or my coaches, but that I had let down every single homeless person in the downtown eastside and just KNOWING that fact alone made me mad and angry and made me act in a rude way. On that note, good job to all the groups that cared about their charity and not just their mark. Only a select few groups actually wanted to win the YPI cheque because they truly cared about the people their charity helped. I'm really mad at the people who just wanted to do this project so they would get an A in applied skills. I think you all should be ashamed of yourselves for thinking that. I'm also really pissed off at the kids sitting in the back of the auditorium laughing and talking. You guys are pathetic and the reason why you never got past survivor round was because you have no heart. I don't understand what your guys' problem is. I had a WHOLE bunch of you come up to me later saying "Oh hey, you're going to lose! HAHA" " Go steal the cheque away from WISH" and other really stupid things like that and I honestly want to punch you in the face. I think its because of people like YOU that our world sucks. Have a little compassion, hell, have a freakin heart you douche bags. Use what little brain you have and realize that this was probably the one and ONLY good thing you could have done for our community. If you didn't take the YPI project seriously, and the fact that you had the chance to donate $5000 to a deserving charity, then you'll probably never do anything for other people in this world out of the goodness of your heart. This entire thing had made me rethink my summer "Youth Philanthropists Tour of change" idea and now, along with raising money, I want to volunteer at as many charities as I can in each city. I want to meet people who need help and hopefully make their lives better. I don't just wanna give them money I want to give them much more than that. May 22 Not so hotToday's a not so hot day. We lost the $5000 for Deyas which is a bummer but I'm not too upset about it because of the summer project I had in mind, I'll be able to make up for it. However, we did lose our softball championships. That sucked. Big time. We were undefeated in the regular season and had won the playoff semi finals. We lost the very last game. The one that counted for the trophy. So obviously, that's a big blow to us. THe YPI loss. I lied, I am upset about that. I don't know how to react to that. Today was just not a good day. We lost everything but obviously the YPI loss is still slightly stinging me because unlike the softball championships, the YPI project is not a game. AHHHHH! I don't think it's healthy for me to stress about this since I can't do anything to get that money back from the toskan-casale foundation. BUT, my group members and I are DEFINATELY going back to DEYAS and helping out with anything and everything that we can. We'll fundraise for them and hopefully meet more youth in the downtown eastside. Our connections and relationship with DEYAS aren't going to end just because we lost $5000, we'll make sure we make it up for them. May 21 im popularI had 20 people view my space today and I'm quite proud of that fact. Turns out my locks of love blog is very popular with people and everytime someone googles "locks of love" my blog space pops up in the search engine and then people come and view my blog! COOL! Also, I emailed Toskan-Casale Foundation about I project I thought of and I had pretty good feedback. I'm really surprised that Julie Toskan-Casale replied to my email so incredibly fast! She replied back within LESS than 24 hours. I didn't expect her to reply back at all, since she seems like such a busy lady to begin with. But anyways, I copied and pasted the email I sent her and the email she sent back. I think it's pretty good news, and I can't wait to get started on this project!
To Julie Toskan-Casale, Victor Casale and Frank Toskan, Shannon,
Thank you so much for your email. You have some wonderful thoughts and I think you just may be onto something.You’re right about one of the goals of YPI and that is to encourage students to remain involved with their charities; possibly fundraising, volunteering or creating awareness around an issue. The “Youth Philanthropists Tour of Change” is a very ambitious idea…one that requires much work, set up and possible even some legal support.Maybe you could start this idea by piloting it in a community close to you and working out the kinks and any difficulties. Piloting a project on a small scale is always a good idea.Think about this and connect with us again in June. Much of our staff are tied up working on our upcoming May Event and we cannot consider any new projects at this time. Look forward to hearing from you again,
Julie Toskan-Casale
This email made me really excited and I'm hoping that they will help me run this project. I've got a plan about starting this project locally first, in the lower mainland, and then I'm planning to have all of that done by June. Then, I will contact the Toskan foundation again and let them know how everything's going and if I had any problems. AND THEN I"LL TAKE THIS PROJECT NATIONWIDE! May 20 locks of loveI donated my hair to locks of love this weekend. Over ten inches of it, so now I look like a 8 year old boy. Some people in my family are mad that I chopped off my hair, but that's cause they're stupid and don't know any better. I don't understand why THEY don't understand that it's just hair and it'll grow back. It's not going to stay this length forever. I hope most of the hair ends up being turned into a wig. I read on the site that if the strands are less than 10 inches then they throw them out. May 18 OH MY JONAS: You Need A LifeOk, I realize that I love the Jonas Brothers a little too much but honestly some girls in this world need to stop revolving their world around them. Especially if they're never going to meet them, or hey...maybe you will meet them....but it'll be at the meet & greets (that you keep stalking them at!!!) or random encounters. The chances of you becoming their friends for life and having them take you on tour with them (which you all dream about) is HIGHLY unlikely. I hate that girls my age are wasting their time on this kind of stuff. Yea sure they're hot but that doesn't mean that you need to buy $200 tickets to every single show they have. They're not worth that much :S.
Give that money to charity instead, more worthwhile. PLus, they'll always be hot guys in the world...why go for the ones that are the furthest away from you and have the most admirers. Your own Jonas Brother could be under your nose and you don't even know it.
 May 10 die magazines dieFor those of you who can't read blog titles then...I HATE MAGAZINES. I feel so gross after I read them because if I really had a life I wouldn't be reading about other peoples' lives and issues. However, it's almost hard to resist the Jonas Brothers magazines because one can never have enough of the Jonas Brothers. I went to a rip off version of superstore called Whole Foods (or something like that) and they had Tigerbeat Magazines (WORST MAGAZINE EVER) and TIgerbeat magazines are basically Disney propaganda schemes. All they ever have on their magazines are Disney stars such as the high school musical cast, jonas brothers, miley cyrus...etc. I think magazines are totally disgusting and I can't believe they even sell. Sports magazines are much better than gossip magazines. Gossip rags are just an invasion of celebrities' personal lives. I use the same logic with jonas brothers' magazines as I do with sports jerseys. There is no need to learn about the lives and favourites of the Jonas Brothers if I'm never going to meet them. If I ever did meet them and become friends with them or something then I obviously have a reason to know about them. Sports Team Jerseys: No need to wear Manchester United or Calgary Flames jerseys if I'm not on the team. If I was on the team then I would clearly have a reason to sport their team jerseys.
 May 04 that makes absolutely zero sense you douche bagsI don't understand why people say that they are GOING TO work hard. They're not. You can't say that and be successful in life. It just doesn't work...you always have to (as in present tense) be working hard...you "going to" do something just means that you're putting it off and most likely will never get to it. I've said I'm GOING TO blog everyday...have i?!?! NO! And you Mr.Olson can prove that. I don't like saying I'm GOING TO do something, and that's why I rarely say it (I only say it when I'm talking to my parents and they're yelling at me to clean my room....which by the way is never gonna happen thus why I always tell them I'm GOING TO do it soon.) If I really do want to do something, then I do it. I don't say it, I do it. Saying something and then actually doing it are two very different things and I know a lot of people who are going to waste their entire life saying they're GOING TO do all these amazing and exotic things but in the end just become average joes/joenitas.
I can relate with Thanusan's idea about doing everything he possibly can and not just sticking with one thing. It's hard because why do one thing...why should you be limited to only ONE thing? I guess you really aren't limited you just limit yourself and dismiss other responsibilities and jobs by saying you don't have enough time. YOU DO HAVE ENOUGH TIME! If it's important enough then you can make time. You can sit behind a desk your whole life and still live it. That just sounds boring to us now because we sit behind a desk 5 days a week. Even if you sky-dived for a living, your job would seem boring too you at times as well if you do it everyday. It all depends on what we've already experienced and whether we're able to make an extra effort by trying to make what we do on a daily basis fun. I certainly don't think sitting behind a desk is boring. I'd probably sell over priced butter chicken during my lunch break or hold spirit days at my office. It doesn't matter what I do as long as everyone around me is having fun. I think too many people worry about stupid things and then don't live. One of my greatest pet peeves is when girls complain/blog about boys. So annoying! GET A LIFE YOU LOSERS. If you're that mentally unstable and yearn for cinderella prince charmings then go stuff a pumpkin up your nose. God knows some sense needs to be knocked into you.
I've made a list of stuff that I AM DOING and I am definately doing everything I've always wanted to do. I guess the lesson I learned here was that by saying you're GOING TO do something your trying to fool people around you into thinking you're important and actually DOING something with your life while by not saying anything and actually doing what you want to you do so much more.
birthday. yea not so muchI just remembered that some chick at the Canucks Open Practice won Mason Raymond's stick. Wow that depresses me. OK I'm going to go eat some ice cream now and eat my sorrow.
NO JK. But I AM mad that I didn't get his stick. HA! SEEE there is no god! Anyways, roughly 1 and a half hours left till my birthday. Woohooo. I'm not that excited. It's going to be sucky like every year. This is a problem in my house since there's kids everywhere you look and my dad refuses to acknowledge any body's birthday. His birthday gift to me is well I don't know...giving me life I guess. Yippee dad way to go. That would only be a special thing if he didn't give life to a gajillion other babies after me. Oh actually wait, his gift to me will probably be the ugly ass fob sweaters he brought from India 5 days ago. LIke seriously, he knows I don't where them he just brings them so he can say he got me something for my birthday. Cheap Indian at his finest.
People ask me every year what I want for my birthday and honestly they can never give it to me. Suddenly nice clothes are not fun to wear anymore and jewelery is just well blah. I just wish my family didn't suck. I guess they don't suck but they just don't work. If that makes sense. I'm the only one who tries to get everyone together even. And when I do its just awkward,it makes no sense. No one really cares that we don't get along though and I can understand why. My cousins are almost part of other families that are MILEs better than ours (damn them) so they don't even need to worry about our stupid one cause they'll be out of it soon. But I don't know. I've had some really hard times with some of the people yet I still really care about them and just wish we could sit together as one BIG family and have fun. I've almost given up on the idea, I'm so tired of trying to make it work when in the end everyone just goes back to being anti-family time again. I wouldn't write this if I knew no one read my blogs by the way. (I am totally going to write a blog on top of this)
I still want Mason Raymond's stick. GOD. I want to know why I don't. That is my oen and only purpose in life...to get raymond's stick.
UH OH. Bday's almost here! It's 11:05 PM May 03 that makes absolutely zero sense you douche bagsI don't understand why people say that they are GOING TO work hard. They're not. You can't say that and be successful in life. It just doesn't work...you always have to (as in present tense) be working hard...you "going to" do something just means that you're putting it off and most likely will never get to it. I've said I'm GOING TO blog everyday...have i?!?! NO! And you Mr.Olson can prove that. I don't like saying I'm GOING TO do something, and that's why I rarely say it (I only say it when I'm talking to my parents and they're yelling at me to clean my room....which by the way is never gonna happen thus why I always tell them I'm GOING TO do it soon.) If I really do want to do something, then I do it. I don't say it, I do it. Saying something and then actually doing it are two very different things and I know a lot of people who are going to waste their entire life saying they're GOING TO do all these amazing and exotic things but in the end just become average joes/joenitas.
I can relate with Thanusan's idea about doing everything he possibly can and not just sticking with one thing. It's hard because why do one thing...why should you be limited to only ONE thing? I guess you really aren't limited you just limit yourself and dismiss other responsibilities and jobs by saying you don't have enough time. YOU DO HAVE ENOUGH TIME! If it's important enough then you can make time. You can sit behind a desk your whole life and still live it. That just sounds boring to us now because we sit behind a desk 5 days a week. Even if you sky-dived for a living, your job would seem boring too you at times as well if you do it everyday. It all depends on what we've already experienced and whether we're able to make an extra effort by trying to make what we do on a daily basis fun. I certainly don't think sitting behind a desk is boring. I'd probably sell over priced butter chicken during my lunch break or hold spirit days at my office. It doesn't matter what I do as long as everyone around me is having fun. I think too many people worry about stupid things and then don't live. One of my greatest pet peeves is when girls complain/blog about boys. So annoying! GET A LIFE YOU LOSERS. If you're that mentally unstable and yearn for cinderella prince charmings then go stuff a pumpkin up your nose. God knows some sense needs to be knocked into you.
I've made a list of stuff that I AM DOING and I am definately doing everything I've always wanted to do. I guess the lesson I learned here was that by saying you're GOING TO do something your trying to fool people around you into thinking you're important and actually DOING something with your life while by not saying anything and actually doing what you want to you do so much more. i hope god reads thisI've never vented about parents and since you won't read this because I wisely will post a newer blog above this I might as well write about how irritating parents are. I have a couple of key issues with my parents. Let's discuss the evidence.
Problem #1: Why the hell did you need to have so many kids! I can understand the need to have two kids...heck maybe even three...but FIVE, FIVE?!?! REALLY?!?! That's how many freakin fingers I have (on one hand atleast.) Best part about this entire thing is that my parents can't handle five kids and act as if though it's our fault that they have so many kids in the first place. I told them to stop at two but no they just had to keep popping them out. JEEZ.
How to Resolve this problem? Don't have kids. At all. No seriously DONT. However if you plan to have 3+ kids please make sure you have intervals between pregnancies. Hearing that someone is pregnant 20 days after they JUST had their 3rd kid is disgusting. There is no god if this is allowed.
Problem #2: My dad is a vet.
No that's not a cool job its gross because his office smells gross and if his office smells gross then he smells gross. Vets get ok money..it's better than selling girl scouts cookies as a living but still not as cool as owning a roti stand and then selling butter chicken on main street. You just can't beat that.
Problem #3: I hate indian parents who love boys.
One of the main reasons why I have problem #1 is because of problem #3. My parents just wanted a boy. And they kept getting girls...and then after like the 100th kid they finally had a boy. Plus whenever I say I want to do something or sign up for a certain team or class my dad looks at me, grimaces, and then ignores me. However, if my brother goes up to my dad and says he wants to play hockey (like I have done a million times with no success) my dad grins and then drives him to the activity. Talk about being sexist dad.
April 30 men men men men tor!Mentorship is going better than I expected. My mentees are actually cooperating and not being jerky or just plain annoying. We even laugh about things and I think we may have even become friends. They're fast learners and are grasping the field hockey skills I'm teaching them really quickly. Which is great because I can teach them more things if they are able to learn them faster. Last mentorship day...I was caught off guard by the fact that we had finished all the drills and still had 20 minutes left. I hadn't expected them to learn the different techniques and moves in one day and was really impressed by their work. I even managed to successfully teach one of my mentees despite the fact that she's not too overly excited by anything and that she always has a tired look on her face. I made her laugh a couple of times, made some harmless jokes about her lack of energy, and pretty soon she was playing well, listening to my coaching, and was more energized! I realized that before the start of every mentorship day I have to really make a connection with these guys and loosen up the atmosphere so that they feel comfortable around me. "Breaking the ice" is very important and the reason why I have had to do it every time I see them is because I only see them once a week and they need a little reminder before each meeting about the fact that I am approachable and trustable. Joyce is planning to teach her mentees field hockey as well which is perfect because my mentees can have a game against her mentees! boo youCanucks are out of the playoffs!
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