Blog #7

What I really enjoyed this year in English was the film presentation where it was based off of the Academy Awards and everyone had to argue a movie that they thought was the best of all time. We all got to dress up fancily and present a fifteen minute project to the class. It was interesting to watch the unique projects being presented. I believe that my group did very well on that project since we put a lot of time and effort into the presentation. As well as the fact that we won the award for “Best Most Powerful Moment” with our film Guardians of the Galaxy. Overall it was a pretty fun project to take part in, since the whole day had a different feel to it. One thing I didn’t like about this year was how long it took to complete the novel The Road. Although the novel was pretty interesting, it was quite slow so it felt dragged on. It took a lot of time to interpret what was being said in the novel and that made it last even longer. It became boring after a while which made me lose interest in it. Something I wouldn’t mind doing again but would change would be the blogs. They were really interesting but instead of having given topics, I wish we could have chosen our own topics from the list of 1000 Awesome Things for all of our blogs. I believe that the blogs would be more creative since the students could find motivation in what they were writing about. With the blogs this year, I specifically enjoyed the one where I got to choose my own topic because I was given the ability to choose a topic that I wanted write about. With that topic I was able to create a reasonably funny post which I enjoyed writing. So if I were to write blogs again, I would appreciate having the choice to choose what I write about. Overall, I really enjoyed English 20-1 because of my classmates and teacher, as well as the curriculum. The individuals in my class really helped in making this a fun year for me in English.

My Spring Break

I wouldn’t say I have a favourite part of my Spring Break, but I surely have many great memories from the break. One of which was going to the Tampa Bay Lightning game in Florida. They played the Boston Bruins and blew them out with a score of 5-2. During the game there were many happenings that occurred. We were seated right near this giant 300 pound man in a muscle shirt with a lightning bolt painted under one of his eyes. He was quite fanatical over his team and at one point he went up to the glass and screamed at the Bruins’ goaltender. The guy was so loud and menacing that the goaltender flinched and looked over to him. He was on the screen numerous times throughout the game for his loud antics and pride for the home team. At one point in the game, he started to gain hate from the Bruins’ fans seated near him. They started yelling back at him in a hope to deter him from slandering their team any more. Since he was riling up the other team’s fans so much that they were threatening him, a security came over to him to keep him from ensuing any more chaos. I believe he is a regular there and that he is paid to attend the games as sort of a secondary mascot for the team. Along with this fan, the game was just as energetic. On the Bruins there is a goon of a player called Marchand who always goes for cheap shots. The captain of the Lightning, Steven Stamkos had had enough of his annoying antics against his team so he fought him and brought him down to the ice in just a couple punches. The crowd was electric as this happened because not only was it against Marchand, but Stamkos isn’t much of a fighter. Overall, the game was amazing and the entire trip to Florida was a well needed paradise after exams.

New Year's Resolutions

New Year’s resolutions are destined to fail every time. Basically, what New Year’s resolutions are, are people telling you what they want to change with themselves. Despite them telling you this and that they want to change it, they will spend a day actually attempting to better themselves before going back to their old miserable life. There was one resolution that worked however, or so the legend goes. He was your average New York citizen, rude, obese, and frankly just an awful individual. He went to the pub most nights, coming home late. When New Year’s Eve came, he was changed when he simply uttered the words, “My New Year’s resolution is to get my life together.” He wasn’t serious, of course. He had no plans to follow through, or even think about this resolution again. But on the morning of January first, he looked down at his drink and realized that it wasn’t a beer, it was a fruit smoothie. He was flabbergasted; he had never seen one of those in person before. He dropped it on the floor and he let put a bloodcurdling scream. He ran to the fridge, fearing for the safety of his ice cold beers. They weren’t there when he opened the fridge door however. In their place were protein shakes. Later that day he drove over to the bar or what was once the bar, what it is now is a gym. He couldn’t believe his eyes; his life was being turned around, for the better. As the day went on, he became less rude, he lost weight and he was a genuinely nice guy. They say this man is still alive today, as healthy as can be all because of a simple resolution that he didn’t even plan on following through with. Other than that there are no documented cases of New Year’s resolutions being achieved, this story truly depicts a New Year’s miracle.