My favorite part of English this year was when we got to watch the king’s speech.  It was the best moment of the year because it was a good movie that was actually interesting. I really enjoyed the story between Bertie and Lionel. Geoffrey rush does an excellent job at portraying the speech therapist. Bertie’s acting skills are also amazing, he is acting like he has a stutter that is incredibly difficult to do, and he does a flawless job of portraying it. My least favorite part of this year was when we read the road. I found the road to be an incredibly dry and boring novel. There was nothing in the book that was exciting. The whole novel was just the boy and his father walking in the rain. A two hundred page book filled with nothing but a boy and his father trying to get to the ocean. I don’t think that anything could have been done to improve the book, it was always just depressing and boring. That’s not what I want in a book, I want a book to be exciting and fun, not boring and sad. I would change the amount of Essays that we had to write in this class, because I think that asking us to write fifteen essays is just insane, I think seven essays would have been more manageable, in conclusion I didn’t really enjoy English this year

During my spring break I went on the ITS trip to China. I don’t really have a favorite part of the trip because the whole trip was incredible. The flight out was not the most enjoyable experience, 10 and a half hours inside a pressurized metal tube isn’t what I would call fun. Once we get off the plane we went to see the birds nest Olympics stadium. For the next three days of the trip we were gardening at an orphanage in Beijing, after that we went to see the Forbidden City, the sheer size of the city is amazing. After that we went to see the Great Wall of China the views that are taken in on the great wall are incredible. However the climb up the wall is quite tiring. The day after that we went to a jade factory to see how the jade is carved and polished. Then we went to see the temple of heaven which is quite an amazing building. After that we took an overnight train to xian where we went to see the terracotta warriors, there are so many warriors that it is mind boggling. We also went to a factory that sold replica terracotta warrior sculptures. After that we took a river cruise to a small town where we took a cooking course. Then we flew to shanghai and went to a factory where the produced Chinese silk, after that we went to a royal garden and a market, the garden was filled with exotic plants, after that we boarded a plane and spent another 15 hours traveling to get back home to Calgary.

 

I think that New Year’s resolutions are stupid, why do you need to wait until new years to start making changes in your life, why can’t you just change weather it is new year’s or not. New Year’s resolutions are really just a glorified form of procrastination. It’s just an excuse to put off what you want to get done because it’s unpleasant. It’s the same principle as not doing a homework assignment because you want to watch TV or play video games. It’s the same as not going to the gym because you’d rather watch TV. Or not eating a healthy salad and eating a burger and fries because it’s tastier. If you’re not going to change in the middle of the year. Why are you going to change at the start of the year? A New Year’s resolutions is just a free excuse for people to look good in front of their peers. It’s the most stupid thing it’s just a way to give you the impression of feeling good about yourself before you realize that you have failed because you are lazy. The only people who actually succeed at their new year’s resolutions are people who are already not lazy and not fat. If you’re a procrastinator then you really have no chance of accomplishing your goals. If you’re going to make a resolutions then you have to be super dedicated to accomplishing your goals if you’re not super dedicated then you might as well give up and go eat a cake.  I am now out of ideas for this blog and short a few words so if you look out your window right now there’s probably snow on the ground if not then you’re not in Calgary or there was a chinook if not that then you’re in Mexico.