WOW!

Okay....first of all, it feels like a really long time since I wrote on here. It's been eight days! Wow, time flies. Anyways, today I was at a Volleyball tournament for the varsity boys from my school. Two of my friends were scorekeeping for the whole tournament, so I stayed with them for pretty much the whole day. It was a very exciting tournament, but I don't think they did too well. But that's okay. Then the guys in my class had a tournament at a different school just across the road. I went to visit them with two of my friends. It was pretty fun. I think they came in 3rd or 4th place. They're pretty good. It was good to watch them. It's amazing how much people improve over one year.
Okay, so, we were at the tournament and my friend, Lori and I, were sitting at a table scorekeeping. The volleyball comes over because somebody bumped it and it was right above the table. So, they guy that was running for it, "didn't see the table", so he TOTALLY ran into it! It was pretty much one of the funniest things I've ever seen! The score card thingies were knocked right off the table and Lori was stunned. She just kind of sat there for a few seconds...really still, shocked I guess you could say. It was so funny! It made my day.
The other thing that made my day was some guy that was running to get the ball. He was running, running, running.....DIVE! He dove right into a row of chairs and onto a couple of people! It was also really funny.
Anyways, that's all I have for today. It was a pretty exciting day, I must say!

All the Family..

It's been a while since I wrote. In the past week quite a bit has happened. I went to school from Monday to Thursday and my mom let me have today, Friday off. Yesterday I found out that I made the Volleyball team!! I was excited, but not surpirsed because my coach said that this year she was going to put me left side (power) and some setter. One of my friends didn't make the team. She was really quite upset. I felt sorry for her. I hope she'll get over it and continue on with life (it sounds like a mid-life crisis or something, but it's not). Tonight we're having a pig roast at my house. It's going to be after the rehersal for my cousins wedding tomorrow. It'll be fun I'm sure!
Right now, I'm kinda cold and there are some people here. My opa was just talking to me about how to read my blog, and how he needs the website name. Anyways...my mom is in the kitchen preparing some salads for tonight and I'm on the computer. But now I think I'm going to go get something to eat and maybe have some hot chocolate (with milk). Yummm.

School...

School is still quite boring. The math classes are sooooo dry. They're so easy. There is one guy in my class and whenever we go over the examples in class he gets it. But then when we do our assignment, he goes, "I don't get it!", right away. Then the teacher responds, "It would probably help if you read the question, Ryan". We're talking about adding and subtractin polynomials!! BORING! Anyways...School is pretty good other than the math classes. Today we had a sub. for gym and that was kind of sucky because we had to play soccer outside. I'd much rather stay inside and play volleyball along with the rest of the class! Canadian Studies is a pretty boing class but it is getting better. Today we assigned groups to do the 6 regions of Canada. I'm with three classmates and they're all pretty smart. No dummy's who will ruin the project which is good. Enough about the dry school stuff. Let's get to the good stuff...

VOLLEYBALL! It's so much fun. Hanging out with friends, playing the best sport in the world, and the fact that I have and awesome coach. I really hope I make the team. I don't know why I wouldn't. I mean....I'm the best player on the team. HAHA...that's a joke. But I've got to be pretty close. We had our first try outs on Monday. They went pretty well. We had to do the tennis ball drill. I really dislike that drill, but it is a pretty good one. We have to do an approach like we were going to hit, and then we have to throw the tennis ball over the net into the opposite back corner. Anyways...like you care about what I did at volleyball practice. That's enough for today!

First Days of Grade 9...

My first two days of grade nine were pretty slow/boring. The math classes are so dull, the LA classes are quiet reading and grammar so far. The only fun things I did so far are we had to pretend we were in a boat as immigrants to Canada and we had to speak this really weird language called "beep bop", and we had gym class once and all we did was play volleyball. Those are really the only highlights of my first two days. I'm sure it will get better once I'm in the "school groove". I'm not feeling particularly well either, and I'm sure that's part of the reason it's kinda slow. I like all of my teachers except for two. I think that next semester will be better too. I'll have better teachers too. I'll have Madame Petkau (the French teacher), and I'll have Mr. Harris. They're both good/funny teachers. Anyways...I should probly go.

Boring Holiday...

Right now I am sitting at the computer wondering what to blog about. The computer "blew up" the other day so a whole bunch of stuff was deleted. It sucks. Right now I'm sniffiling because I'm sick and I'm sick of being sick. I just want to get better and go to school. Eric is over right now fixing his car. My dad is outside helping him and my mom is outside in the garden. I'm bored sitting on the computer with nothing to do. This really sucks....a holiday Monday and I'm bored and I have nothing to do, but I'm sure I'll find something to do today. My two brothers are at the Van A's cabin. Well thats all I have to write about. Now perhaps I will go outside and convince Eric to come inside and eat some lunch or something.

It's been a while since I wrote. Just to give you a little bit of an idea of what the desk will look like....

And some of you asked how the iPod was working out....It's great! I already have downloaded many songs and video clips onto it.

It's actually happening!

I decided today that I'm going to buy and iPod! I'm so excited! My mom and I are going to get it on Wednesday! I can't wait. And also on Wednesday, I'm helping out with the day camp at my church and we're going to Tinkertown! And then after that we might go to Staples for last minute school supplies! I'm so excited to go back to school! Right now I'm soooo excited!

What I did in the Last 3 days:

On Wednesday, there was a day camp at my church that meets every Wednesday and we went to the fire hall. It was a really interesting trip. Then we made some pretzels with the kids. We had nothing to do while the pretzels were being baked so we went to 7-11 to get slurpees. We walked back to the church and we finished up the pretzles. Then I had to go home with Corrie and Pam, but first we went to pretty much every place on St. Marys! We had to drop off some pretzels at the fire hall, we had to wash Corries car because the carwashing garage was right there, and then we had to go to 7-11 again because Pam didn't get a slurpee with all the kids. It took forever! (I'm just kidding corrie + pam) It didn't actually take that long. And ontop of that... Joey, Micah, and I were all sitting in the back seat in a non airconditioned car!

On Thursday, I didn't do anything so I felt super sick at supper time. I hadn't done anything that day, and I had eaten a whole bunch of candy! :P

Today I designed my desk that my dad is going to build for me. It's really nice. It took a really long time though. I think that it'll be super cool/awesome when it's done!

Shopping...

Yesterday I went shopping with two of my friends from school. We had a blast. We went a ton of places and my mom took us out for lunch! Yum...Moxies.

We went to Polo Park mall. We started shopping at about 12:45 and we were supposed to meet my mom back at the elevator at 1:00 and we got a little side tracked in Mairposia. We spent at least 45 minutes in that store trying on dresses. We had so much fun. So, after that we rushed to the elevator to meet my mom and she was there waiting for us. We said that we were not near done. So, we were on our way again! We didn't go back to Mariposia...thank goodness! We went to some of the stores that we shop in more often and bought a few nice things. I got a new pair of jeans and a hoddie. Then we were finally done at about 3:00 and we went to Winners by Kildonan Place. We spent lots of time there trying on shoes and such. It was soo much fun! After our trip to Winners we just headed over to the Bulk Barn (It's in the same plaza.). We bought $7.46 worth of candy and ate it in the car on the way back to Jessica and Jamie's houses.

Overall it was a pretty successful shopping trip! Tons of fun!
That's all I have tonight!

Likes and Dislikes...

Likes:
freshly shaved legs
candy
my family & friends
playing instruments
sunsets
newborn babies
hearing the rain on the roof while I'm laying in bed
baths
camp fires
when its so still and quiet outside you can only hear yourself breathing and the crickets chirping
summer and winter
Holidays
watching people open presents
watching storms roll in
freshly washed sheets on my bed
getting a warm towel from the dryer after a cold swim
shopping

Dislikes:
beans
feeling and being sick
having crumbs or sand in my bed
new flip flops (they need to be worked in!!)
freshly washed jeans
having cold feet in bed
when its windy
sitting on the "hump" in the car
hair (at times...when its wayy to long)
my frizzy hair (thank-goodness I'm getting it cut tomorrow!)
having to get out of bed earlier than normal
being woken up by an alarm

The past 5 days...

Wow! It's only been five days since i've written on my blog but it seems like it's been so much longer! Many things have happened in five days!

1. My aunt and uncle left on Monday morning.
2. I went shopping for Birthday presents for Nicholas.
3. The Vissers came home and we had a really nice dinner.
4. I made an awesome card! (it's a tractor)
5. Nicholas had his Birthday.

Overall these five days have been very good ones! I am enjoying every minute of my summer! I love summer. No school, don't have to get up early(sleep in), go fun places, visit with family and friends.

As some of you may know we planted grass seed a week and a half ago I think. It's finally begining to really grow! It's soo cool to see it grow. Almost the whole lawn has a green haze over it! It's very exciting.

Anyways...that's all I have to share today.

Random stuff...

Well...where do I begin? It's been a while since I wrote. Ahhh...yes, back to Wednesday. On Wednesday I did huge groceries with my mom. We also went to Home Outfitters to get some pillows and new towels. Anyways...after that I went to Kristy's house and we boated to Lockport and we had supper there. We went back to her house and went swimming. That night Kristy came over to sleep at my house. Then we both went to Jamie's house and we went swimming there too! And then...I came home really late last night and went to bed! It was wonderful!

Anyways...that's all I have for today!

Long weekend!

It's the Monday of the long weekend! Ahhh...a day to relax. Only two more days untill my aunt and uncle come from Ontario! I'm so excited!

Last night we had a "camp" fire in our little piece of the bush beside our house. It was beautiful outside! It was a comfortable temperature and there were hardly any mosquitoes! There were lots of gnats though. We had smores!! Yummm! The chocolatey goodness mixed with the cruncy graham crackers and the gooshy marshmallow!

Anyways..that's all I have to write today!

I'm back...

I have once again entered the world of blogging. I originally had a blog, but then I didn't write on it for a really long time, and therefore I cannot find it back. I'm hoping that this one will last much longer than the other.

I am a little frustrated right now. My aunt and uncle's dog is staying at my family's house when they are gone to PEI, and he wasn't cooperating very well with my dog, Buddy. They keep on fighting and they won't stop biting each other! Jed is a very cute dog though!

My summer has been great! The first thing I did this summer was go to the Winnipeg Folk Festival. It's a weekend of relaxing and listning to mostly good music. It was super fun!
The second thing was my trip to Ontario that came up last minute! It was really fun. I stayed with my best friend, Valerie, and we did all sorts of fun things together! We went to Wild Water Works and we went shopping with our cousins! Fun times Val! PJ pants that were only $4.77!! Yaaa!
The third thing was my Volleyball camp! That was really fun too! I went with two other friends and we played volleyball for at least 5 hours a day! It was super fun!
I also went to my friends cabin this past week from Tuesday to today. We had three storms in those four days! It was really fun too!
And now...all most time for school. Just kidding! Still another month. I'm surprisingly excited to go back to school. I'll get to see all my friends again; back to school shopping...the best thing ever!

Anyways, it's late and I should probably take the dogs out again!