THE MANY REASONS WHY RURAL IS BETTER THAN URBAN

Listen, I know I live in the city but I wish I could move from Edmonton to Magrath or Barrhead. Here are the reasons why.

1. I can see stars in Barrhead and Magrath, in the city I can't because of the lights.
2. Less litter or vandalism, in the city, it's very common.
3. Rural life has no criminals, city, plenty of them.
4. Barrhead and Magrath has extraordinary creatures such as, frogs, bats, minnows, ducks and deer, Edmonton, quite rare.

5. Rural, you can here birds sing, bees buzz and other wonderful natural sounds, urban, the only thing you here are cars, jackhammers and other loud obnoxious noises
6. Town the air is fresh and sweet, city, nothing but smog and air pollution

7. Barrhead and Magrath are very wise with their resources, and they are renewable, Edmonton, just fossils fuels and the guys that extract them are plagued with greed and foolishness, plus they take more they they need!
8. Town, easy to find your way back home, city easy to get lost!
9. The town has lots of members of the church.
10. In a town, everyone knows each other, city lots of strangers.

In future blog posts I will talk about stuff such as whaling, over hunting, overfishing and pollution.

Good Times

In my life there were really good times. one of them was getting a HD screen TV with a blu-ray player. Another was getting a better computer. Another was getting an apple TV. On it you get cool stuff such as Netflix, YouTube the iTunes store movies and the ones you already purchased. And another good time was getting a Venus Flytrap! By just getting one, it enticed me to study Carnivorous plants. And going on vacation. Such as, The trips to Magrath. The USA road trip, Going to Barrhead, and the around the world trip. Another was a science center summer camp. There I went on my first plane.

It was only a small one. Another was Getting an iPAD. The best one was going to Ottewell. There I took the laptop program, where I did most of my work on the computer.
Another was seeing my first natural disaster. You see we were driving from Waterton and I saw smoke on the horizon. Once we got nearer to it, we discovered that the grainery at Magrath was on fire, luckily no one was hurt.
My life is great, but because these things happened it made it awesome!

Thanksgiving

I'm having a great Thanksgiving, so I'm going talk about the things I'm thankful for.

1. My family, because they guide me through harsh times
2. Heaven, because it is the most happiest place
3. Health, because it is important to everybody
4. My grandparents and great-grandparents, because they love me
5. God, because he is my eternal father

6. Jesus Christ, because he made a great sacrifice
7. The Church, because I learn from it
8. My friends, because I have fun with them
9. The Holy Ghost, because it comforts me
10. Shelter, so it can protect me from the elements
11. Food, so it can give me strength
12. Water, so I can stay hydrated
13. Nature, so I can adore its beauty
14. The book of Mormon, because it teaches me the gospel
15. Apple, because it has simple and awesome technology
16. Thomas S. Monson, because he is a great prophet
17. Love, so I can be comforted
18. Earth, so I can be tested
19. Natural Disasters, so I can study it's power
20. Baptism, so I can be cleaned of my sins
21. The priesthood, because it prepares me for my mission
22. My country, because it's where I live
23. War, so I can study the cause and effect
24. Night, so I can sleep
25. Autism, because it builds character

Down to the Prairie

Just after Barrhead, my family went down to Magrath to see my Grandma and our great grandparents. The ride was 6 hours (though it felt like 24). Before we arrived we did a little stargazing, I caught sight of the Big Dipper. When we arrived we saw Grandma Bonny, Brenda and their pets. There had two puppies named Wolfe and Bentley and their cat named Tiger. There were all thrilled to see us. After that we got into bed. Believe it or not, Tiger crept in to my room and got up on the bed. But she eventually left. In the morning I was the first one up. When I got upstairs, the dogs came rushing to me and jumping on me. After that I got a little exercise. Much later we went to see our other Grandparents, Grandpa and Grandma Bennett, then Grandpa Lyman and Grandma Joyce and then Grandpa Steele and Grandma Loree. I was really exited to see them. Did you know that Grandpa Steele has a Katana (Japanese sword)!! Best of all they all live in Cardston, the same town, so we don't have to go to Lethbridge and then Cardston again.
When we were in the South we dropped by at a Restaurant at a place called Twin Butte. In case you didn't know, this guy bought an old store and turned it into a Mexican Restaurant. My dad loved that place, and so did I. After that we went to Red Rock Canyon were we waded, threw rocks and admired nature's work. And the water was chilly! Then we went to Waterton, where we skipped stones, ate ice cream and saw Deer! I felt Unhappy to leave all that but I'll be back November.

Scout camp

After school last Friday, my dad dropped me off at scout camp. The location was Birch Bay, past the Esso oil refinery. When I got there we had a little game of ball tag. After that we had hot dogs for dinner. After darkness fell we gathered around the campfire. Then we had a game of capture the flag in darkness. I didn't use my lantern because I said to myself "light is my enemy" because it would just give away my position. I came close to the flag, and managed to slip past two guards but someone caught me before I could locate the flag and as a result I was in jail for half an hour before I got out. The second attempt was worse than the first because when I was sneaking in the field someone ambushed me from the trees, and I was in jail until the end of the game.
Later that night one of the the leaders was lighting a fire with a candle but it went out, everybody was shouting and clapping but it was ineffective. Then I start rubbing by hands and guess what. I made the fire start with my hands!!!!
After that we sung campfire songs and did skits. Mine (with Brad and Tyler) was about a guy who was bankrupt and a doctor being sued jump off a bridge! We didn't go to sleep until midnight! The morning was rotten, when I woke up I was freezing!!! Brad, Nicky, Tyler, Tried to wake me up. But I wouldn't budge. They got me out of bed by threatening to throw me in a nearby lake. I would die of Hypothermia!
When I got out, breakfast was waiting. After that we went to the activity area. The first one I did was archery. The arrows were blunt but at the right speed the could puncture the human body. Another one of them is the mini zip-line, Only a few feet in length. However it was still fun. The most frightening part was the tower zip-line! There was an other one but the one I went one had a 10 FT FREE FALL!!!!!! Before that you had to climb a ladder.Once you done that you had to cross a wooden bridge, and the wood was 2 feet apart!! When I was on the bridge and ladder my mind was swarming with VERTIGO!!!!!!!! When I went down the zip-line, I was saying "I'm too young to die"!!! After it, I was saying stuff like "I feel sick and disoriented, "CAN WE DO THAT AGAIN!?!?!?" or "THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!!"or "that was scary, BUT TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! It was the most EXTREMIST thing I've ever done in my entire life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN THE OL' WILD BOREAL FOREST

After the first 2 days of Jr. High we went to grandma and grandpa's house in the coniferous forest of the north. Before we left my dad bought a quad but there were some technical difficulties. We weren't the only ones visiting, Mike, Sandra, Daniel, David, Val, Heather, Scott, Dionne, Suzanne and Kirk and their children were all their. The first thing we did was riding on the quads. After that we had a campfire. Some of my uncles left wood on the ground, and the fire was burning it! I said they were MAD! So I ran to the house to warn them of the oncoming Armageddon, but they didn't care. Luckily the area was not burned in a fiery inferno.
The next day we went tubing. Before that I went searching for leeches. I called Thunder Lake, The Leech Breeding Grounds since there were lots of them. When the boat arrived I was the second rider to go on the tube. I went on the single tube and on the first time I went I fell off. You see, a series of waves shook me off balance and caused me to plunge into the lake. The minute my head was above the surface of the water I shouted, "Help! man overboard!!" But I really enjoyed the adrenaline rush.
On the final day in Barrhead we went tubing a second time and I fell off again only this time I flipped. You see, when I was approaching Grayson's tube (we were riding together) my tube flipped and I plunged headfirst into the lake again.
We also did fireworks on one of the days before and I have to say they were really amazing.

THE FIRST DAY OF JR. HIGH!

It's the first day of school. I really enjoyed it! Before I left my eyes spied a hot air balloon with all the primary colors(red,yellow and blue). The minute I got there I went to room 26 where I did a practice lock down and where my teacher explained everything. The first subject I did was drama I explained to the teacher that I had a lot in common with drama then we did a little game to know each other. After that I did math. We did a movie that taught us about facts such as that in the future China will have the most English speaking people and that the first text commercial appeared in December 1992. The next one was Mandarin. I didn't learn any words but the good news is I can finally take Mandarin on the laptop program. If I'm successful I can speak another language. Another subject was science units coming up are planet earth structures and forces etc. Another one was Language arts, where I heard a funny story about a guy who needed to use the washroom and ended up vomiting in the hall! The gr. 7er's avoided it but the students of grade 8 walked through it! Just sick! After the final bell I walked through a small gap in the fence and jaywalked home! Don't tell anybody and I mean anybody that I did that! Or else.