Back to Seminary

Hello everybody, I'm back. Now my topic for today is seminary. An inspirational talk in church today gave me the idea to do this post. It starts out with me being jolted up by my alarm clock faster than the time when I foolishly put my finger on a plug that was partially through the plugin. I wake up at 5:45 AM so getting a full 8 hours of sleep is a hit or miss. We drive for a few minutes then I arrive at the church. What used to be sleeping on the chairs before class is now listening to my friend Tyler perfect his piano skills. Oh, and for some reason even though it's September he thinks christmas is around the corner and wants to play hymns having to do with it. Just because the icebox-like weather is so soon doesn't mean a winter holiday is. Also on some occasions because my teacher Brother Law uses an a projecter with an iPad to show lessons with it, we use it to play apps on it to, from Flappy Bird to Fruit Ninja. Honestly I should bring my iPad Air to Seminary, I got an assortment of games my classmates will love. Another game we love to do on Fridays is play Mafia, except we call it body-body. I could tell you what it is or you can just google it. The most interesting thing I learned is when Christ was crucified, and arose into the spirit world he organized a mission there to teach souls who never heard the gospel then went out the door that said "Employees Only."

My day at seminary is ended freezing to death at the bus stop before it comes. Don't worry I always live to tell the tale.

High School: First thoughts

Just recently in September I started High School at McNally. I was terrified at first about what would happen but that all vanished on the first day. My timetable was more exciting than in Grade 9. The courses I'm starting include Forensics, with my favorite part is watching Forensic Files (as mentioned In the last post) on some days; Psychology; and photography. Language Arts in more enjoyable as we're doing short stories, novel and graphic novel studies, Shakespeare and film studies (including Almost Famous, the Breakfast Club and V for Vendetta.) We're doing Globlaization in social studies and I'm finding math to be a lot easier. Speaking of, I won't have ANY MATH CLASSES IN SEMESTER TWO!!! I just recently joined the Smash Bros. club there and let me tell you, it's a ton of fun! I have a 45 minute lunch break where I head over to my aunt's house where my loving Grandpa is waiting for me to sit down and eat while watching the Colbert Report together. I've also gotten used to taking the bus to and from school and it's a lot more manageable than I expected and it's very convenient. That's all I have to say really. See you 'till the next post.

The ULTIMATE California vacation

SO sorry I'm late, i've been caught up with summer holidays, and in case if you're wondering what I've been doing, this post will help out. It started out with a 3 hour+ flight to Los Angeles. Nothing really happened except for some *ahem* smuggled scissors in Sophia's bag. We arrived in L.A. and we were soon awaiting out shuttle and my Dad called the company that would takes there, but when it dropped us of we found out it was the wrong one because the guy we called was from LAS VEGAS! So we did eventually found the right people and we were off. We arrived at Uncle Jonny and Aunt Carrie's home and it was magnificent. The only downside is no basement and the cold water part of the tap wasn't even cold.
The next day we ventured out to San Francisco. But before we even got out we bumbled in to some snail pace L.A. traffic (honestly I will never complain about traffic back home ever again.) Oh, and to add insult to injury it was on the INTERSTATE. Turns out there was an accident down on the road. It only takes one nincompoop to screw everything up! We did see a shortcut and we got out. We took some time to enjoy the nice scenery and the farmland. I also saw dozens of distribution centres and a feedlot (Which was repulsive literally and figuratively.) We arrived at the hotel, ate at Trader Joe's and watched the Forensic Files. A true crime show which explains how certain cases were solved. Which has convinced me to take it in high school. The next Sunday we headed out to the Oakland temple, and believe me it wasn't that far at all. The temple  was truly a sight to behold with glistening fountains, beautiful palm trees, a spectacular view and a neat visitor center with an interesting message about families (I'm still having that postponed for me, 'TILL THE NEXT LIFE!) .

After that we headed down to the Golden Gate Bridge and the Fort which was located below it. I enjoyed looking at the old artillery and also being splashed by the oncoming tide. 

After that we headed out to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. It felt very thrilling to go across one of the modern wonders of the world. 

We drove around the city a bit then stopped at a park where we enjoyed the botany and watched a favourite national pastime: baseball, or a mutated form of cricket.

Before we took an evening swim we took a stop at Bevmo (a beverage shop) and in recognition of Pride Week we got a rainbow assortment of pop. 

Man, you thought that was eventful try the next one. Because the day after that we headed to Alcatraz, (duh, duh, duunnnnn,) followed by a catchy slogan "It's criminal not to be here." The place was very interesting and the audio tour done by former guards and inmates made it better. 

There was a ton of events there that intrigued me, such as the battle of acaltraz which got the navy involved, the infamous D block, completely dark and total isolation for the worst prisoners, and a riot over the cafeteria running out of spaghetti.

 And the best part of being stuck here, they had a recreation yard, good food, AND A LIBRARY!!(What, I'm a book lover.) We had a nice drive back to L.A., The best stop was by far the Monterey Bay Aquarium (which ironically was a fish cannery) where I loved seeing the wildlife. Just let the photos do the talking. 

Amazing, right!?
An scenic drive with more sea animals led us to our next stop: a hotel next to an elephant seal colony. There we admired God's creations, and I discovered the comedy fest known only as the Colbert Report. We got back to Jon and Kerri's house where I enjoyed even more of Colbert and a 4th of July spectacular. It got even better arriving at the west's summer home near Seal Beach. Most days was hanging out at the home, swimming and walking around the pier, but the best part was the fishing trip. It was quite the experience, encountering seal, sea birds and reeling in fish as they go. I didn't catch anything though, (I could've been the first but a sea lion pilfered my line of my prize, but to do that he had to play *ahem,* hooky) but the best part of that wasn't the thrill of fishing at all, it was riding back to port alongside a pod of dolphins. It tore my heart apart when we left, until now when looking at a literature site called Goodreads, I saw a quote by Dr. Seuss that said... "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."