Haley’s Blog

From my last post:

We went to Nanaimo and got on a long ferry to Horseshoe Bay. We arrived at out Sandman hotel. Keenan found papers in the bathroom, of all places, and turned them over…

“Thank you! Thank you so much!” I heard and wondered what he was talking about. Dad came over and told me that we were going… to… a… (wait for it, wait for it…) Canucks game!! My family loves hockey, and it was mostly Keenan’s surprise because he is the biggest Canucks fan of our family! He’s the only one who has a jersey; even my Dad doesn’t have one!

Well, the Canucks lost 2-3 vs. Edmonton Oilers. oh well. They played well and it was a good game. My first game.

So, skating is dangerous…

I have mentioned Kierra (my cousin) before, and this is a story about her.

Today we went skating at the ice rink. We were zooming past other people, laughing and falling. Kierra’s friend Rainne was with us, and instead of these metal wire things to hold us up (if we wanted or needed it), there were large, orange cones to steady ourselves. I used it for two laps around the rink, and gave it up. It was much more fun when you skated independently.

Well we were falling down for no reason, and when one of us would fall, someone else would. Uncle came right up, and asked me for some words of advice, after Kierra and I both sprawled on the ice. (She’d pushed me down while she tried not to fall, so it wasn’t my fault.) My words of advice to the camera were “Things to bring to the ice rink: skates, knee pads, a helmet, possibly a change of pants, and definitely NOT Kierra!” It gave me a right good reason to push her back, but did I? No.

It’s always that last run that just wipes you out, and Kierra was concentrating on skating. I don’t know how, but she tripped and fell REALLY HARD. A top tooth banged right through her mouth. Right on the side of her lips. I didn’t know she hurt herself, so I went right on skating. A staff member came over, and Kierra was crying. Uncle was there too, holding her up. I had no idea what happened, so I skated on over, too. It was somehow explained to me what happened to her, but I didn’t really make sense of it until I figured out what it looked like, and got the idea from that.

Tell me, is there anything that you can say about injuries that you’ve had? Comment at will!!

My brother was a pumpkin one year for Halloween. It was probably the cutest thing I ever saw!

One Halloween, Keenan decided to go out as a pumpkin. It was a cute little homemade costume, and it had a little hat that was supposed to be the green part on the top. I was some sort of princess that year, but I don’t really remember. His costume was a round ball thing that had sleeves so it would stay up. He had an orange shirt on underneath. It was long sleeve so it had pumpkin arms. It was very hard to walk and move in it, he said. The little hat was green and looked like the stem of the pumpkin. The material was a shiny orange and it was so adorable on him. I think he was in kindergarten.

We went to Crown Isle that night. We were leaving, and suddenly he started to run. We watched as the pumpkin (AKA my brother) hopped down the street, struggling to keep up with us. It was the funniest thing I ever saw!

Has there ever been a funny costume that you’ve seen?

From my last post…

I think that global warming is NOT a good thing. But there is something to say against going and doing everything and anything you can possibly do to save our planet…

I have a very special guest writer on my post: my only cousin Kierra!

So Kierra, what do you think about this? Global warming, I mean?

Kierra: I think that some people are big on this “saving the planet” thing, and other people just don’t care.

What else can you say about global warming? How does it effect the world through your eyes?

Kierra: I think our world is getting destroyed everyday, slowly, but surely.

So what’s getting destroyed in our world?

Kierra: Our atmosphere, our Arctics, I don’t really know, but I know that since we are careful, it’ll take a long time.

Do you think we all can or should help?

Kierra: Definately YES!!

Thank you Kierra!

Now that you’ve heard Kierra’s opinions, what are YOURS?

My cousin Kierra and I are so close it’s not even funny. She is my one and only first cousin, even though I have second cousins and step cousins. We have this special language where we move our hands and do actions, not make any sense at all, and one will know what the other is talking about. It’s pretty weird, but we can pass by each other’s classrooms and do a thing in our language, and the other will respond.

I was walking back to class last year, and I saw Kierra in her classroom. As soon as I walked past, I saw her look up from her work. Her teacher was out in the pod, so I could do something in our language and she’d respond to me by doing another silly action or something.

It’s awesome having a cousin to talk to and joke around with. Not many people have that with a family member that I know of, so I am thankful that I get to see her a lot. I am also thankful that she is with us on Thanksgiving!

My brother Keenan, who is in Grade 3, just had his first star of the week. In case you don’t know, Star of the Week is when the students get a chance to talk about themselves in front of the class. He had 2 poster boards filled with pictures.

The first thing he talked about was his dog, Rocky. Rocky is a mutt! He’s all kinds of dogs! He also talked about going to the beach right down the street from our house. He talked about us being a multicultural family, and Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, Great-Great Grandparents, and all about himself.

Star of the Week is a very fun thing to be! I, having done it before, hope that all his classmates know him just a little better!