Yay Olympics!

Hey everyone. I've been having a busy week helping out at the day camp everyday and not being able to sleep in. I plan on sleeping as long as possible tomorrow to make up for it.

I have to pack up most of the rest of my stuff for uni sometime this weekend. I won't be going down for a while yet but my parents want it done now I guess. It'll be interesting to see how much I actually have to take (hopefully not super lots).

I've been watching as much of the Olympics as I can. I really don't care much for watching sports except for during the summer and winter Olympics (though I also prefer the winter ones over summer). My favourite events to watch in the summer ones are diving, gymnastics, and some track stuff like high jump usually. But all of it is cool to watch, everyone is just so talented. I'm pretty all over the place in terms of cheering. 100% for Canada if we're involved, but other than that basically it just depends on various random factors and my mood. I'm pretty much guaranteed to have cheered for every country at least once by the end.

Ah Kate The Hobbit is an amazing book, I hope you enjoy reading it. Personally, it was my favourite over the trilogy for The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo was just so entertaining to read about. And I don't know what it was but I just loved the whole dynamics of the story.

I don't really follow any kids series Kira, but I do have some books that I think are from the 9-12 y/o section in the book store and I still enjoy them. I'm usually semi embarrassed about the fact, but whatever I like the stories so who really cares.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMPION!!!!! Hope you have a fantastic day filming or going to the ball or whatever ends up happening.

Deidra you pretty much know my answer to this already, but I'll say it for everyone else. I love to draw mostly with pencil or pen. Occasionally I'll use other stuff like pastels and whatnot. I don't paint that often, but I'd like to change that. I like water colour, acrylics are so-so and I really want to try out oil paints. I also write, but I rarely finish. Though I enjoy and finish poetry.

DFTBA

Kayla

My week was really busy so now I just want to relax.

Hey guys!

I'm back from Ottawa for the time being. I had a lot of fun there. Canada day was packed with people as usual. I saw one guy that was carrying a sign that said free hugs and brohoofs which I thought was funny. Also for some reason there were a bunch of furries walking around getting their pictures taken with people. It was pretty amusing. The fireworks were beautiful they had these really cute fizzing gold ones that I adored.

Also there happened to be a special Van Gogh exhibit in the Art Gallery when we were there so of course I went to check it out. I love his landscapes, the flow of his brushstrokes is really pretty. I ended up buying a print of Bedroom in Arles that I'm going to hang in my apartment somewhere, probably in my bedroom. 

Oh, and I went rock climbing with my sister for the first time. It was in one of those gyms with the fake rock climbing walls all over the place and it was really cool. We only went bouldering which is where you don't go as high and you don't need any ropes or anything. It was really fun, but really hard at the same time. I definitely want to keep going and try to get better at it. Lol, but let me tell you, was I ever sore afterwards. It wasn't that bad at first, but the next day my arms and shoulders were so sore that it hurt to move, push doors, or even lift my arms over my head.

I finished WGWG, and another book I bought called Awaken. The idea behind Awaken was really good in my opinion, very suiting for today's society. It takes place in the future when violence had escalated so much that people started isolating themselves in their homes and doing everything online instead. And it seemed relevant because even though it hasn't gone that far yet in reality, it doesn't seem like it's very far off from happening. I also ended up rereading The Darkest Powers series in one day, which was stupid because I stayed up really late to do it and now I'm done the story.... I should have spaced it out to enjoy it more...

Oh and I got all my marks back and my diploma for high school so that's cool. I'm very pleased with all my marks, all low 90s or high 80s.

Katie, that's cool you donated your hair. I did that once when I was younger. You liking your new hair or regretting it? Also I tend to just use the shift key for capital letters, unless its for like a whole sentence in capitals, but even then I forget the caps lock key half the time.

Adam, I liked your post idea. I'm not going to write a letter to myself, but I went back to look at my first couple posts. It's kind of strange reading them now. I feel like a different person now even though I haven't really changed all that much.

DFTBA

Kayla

Plans for the Future Near and Far

I've been super super lazy all this week. I think I'm already in my summer mood, so I have very little motivation to do school stuff. Which is bad because everything is starting to get busy as prom and grad draws nearer and exams are in a month.

I did get to see the Avengers last weekend. I won't spoil anything, but I thought the movie was pretty great. I ended up liking Bruce Banner/Hulk and Tony Stark/Iron Man more than I thought I would. Originally I liked Thor and Captain America the best, but now I'm not too sure who's my favourite.

Thanks for your compliments on my Ood drawing. I did end up making another one, of the Silence, as a present for Deidra this time. I'm planning on doing more Doctor Who aliens, but there's so many that I want to do and like I said, schools getting really busy, so I'm not sure when/how often I'll be able to make them.

Kira, yeah my birthday's on the first. I'm really excited for it, but boy oh boy is it going to be a busy day. I have to finish decorating for prom that day, do a calculus test, hand in the written component of my data management ISU (which I will hopefully have done well before that day), do my post on here, get ready for prom, go to prom, ditch early so I can go home and celebrate my birthday with Deidra, and then if the weather cooperates and I can find our tent then we're going to sleep out in my yard. Lol I hope that's not packing too much into one day.

Deidra up until probably this grade I have always only ever imagined myself as living in Canada for the rest of my life, preferably not in Geraldton or Thunder Bay, but somewhere in Canada. I enjoy living here. However I have more recently considered the fact that I might rather live elsewhere. Definitely not the United States. Maybe somewhere like England (just because), Australia (also just because), Japan (always wanted to at least travel there for an extended period of time), or Finland (because it seems really nice and I have a lot of relatives there). Some other European countries sparked my interest as well. But in all honesty I'm not sure if I would ever be able to move so far away, to such a different and new place. It would definitely be an adventure.

DFTBA

Kayla

Happy May Long Weekend

Hey guys, hope you're all fine and dandy. It's currently May long weekend since we get Monday off school for Victoria Day, but I also got today off because I had a dentist appointment in Thunder Bay. I hate going to the dentists, it's just not enjoyable at all to have people poking around inside my mouth. However the appointment was short and I got to do some shopping afterwards so I guess it was alright in the end. 

Not much else has really been going on, just the usual business from school and preparing for prom and grad. I did have a bit of free time (I say that but I was really just procrastinating) one night so I drew a picture of a possessed Ood. It turned out really well I think, and it made me realize that I really enjoy using ink as a medium.

Adam, my summers go from the end of June to the beginning of September. And a valedictorian is the person that has to do the farewell speech during the graduation ceremony. Typically it's the person that has the best grades, but for some reason this year they decided to take the top two people and then have a vote among the grads on who should be valedictorian. I had the highest grades so I was one of the nominees, however I was not chosen to be valedictorian in the end. Which sucks and bothers me immensely, but whatever. I'm trying not to dwell on it.

Campion, those puppets look soooo cool! And I definitely think there is an improvement from the first to the second one. Seeing those pictures kind of makes me want to go try making one myself.

Also since I'm in Thunder Bay for the weekend I'm hoping to be able to go see the Avengers. It's either that or Dark Shadows which I am also anxious to see. 

DFTBA

Kayla