Well, there's about a foot of snow here now. Just in time for the Sorrento Light Up tomorrow night. That should be fun. It was last year! Our church does the music for it and then all the shops in Sorrento are supposed to turn their Christmas lights on at the same time. Then we have fireworks and hot chocolate and Santa comes in on the fire truck and hands out crappy mini candy canes! It's cool! :P
On Saturday, I have another 4 hours of swimming lessons. :S I cut my time on the endurance swim for 19 minutes down to about 15 minutes! That was rather awesome.
Anyways, I started Social Studies. It's really boring. When am I EVER going to use history in my life? there are a few paragraphs that area atiny bit interesting but it's so pointless!!!!!!! Plus, they're just reteaching it over and over again. dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
ANYWAYS! Well...my math exam mark is supposed it some in about a week or so. Can't wait to hear it. I hope I did well.
I should probably go now but I'll post more soon!
-Kristen
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Blowing In The Wind...
Why did most of BC's power go out yesterday? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
Sunday night, we had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's and when we were leaving, the wind was insane! It was picking up rapidly! And wind is strange for our area because we're so deep in the mountains. I slept over at Darby's (because we had to finish our game of Kitchener-Waterloo-opoly) and we slept in the basement and watched movies (That Thing You Do and The Muppets: The Frog Prince) and listened to the wind. It sounded like a hurricane and I am SO glad we got our roof redone last month so that our shingles wouldn't be littered across Blind Bay!!! At one point, we heard a few loud noises but we figured it was just a tree branch or something.
The next morning, we got up and it was still windy! The boat was flipped over and had blown about twenty feet from where it had been. There were buckets and stuff across their lawn and their neighbours. When my mom came to pick me up, she said that a tree had blown down across the shortcut to Auntie Sue's house and someone had literally driven through it.
On the way home, we had to drive around a bunch of piles of branches and stuff. It was crazy! And then, at about 2, when I was just about to go onto the internet to write my practice exam for math, the power went out. Yay. So I went over to Grandma's to use her computer since their power was still on. I was about 3 pages into it when their power cut out too!
After phoning BC Hydro, Auntie Sue came back with a report that there were over 200,000 homes in BC without hydro. Yay.
So I went back home and drew a picture for art by candlelight and ate warm (not fully reheated) chicken and drank milk. It gets dark so early! It was pitch black by 5.
Anyways, we got lucky and the power was back on at around 7. I did get to do my practice exam, which was incredibly good because I had to go in and write it this morning. I think I did pretty well. There were a few things I didn't know but for the most part, I knew it.
SO! Today, Beauty & The Geek is on. Must watch it. And then Darby, Preston and I have the lame Red Cross babysitting course. Ugh. It's so boring. But it gets you a certificate. That's all I want. And it applies for school.
Report cards come soon....
Preston got chosen from Air Cadets to do a thing at the Salmon Arm Rememberance Day celebration thing. I can't remember what exactly it's called that he did and I didn't get to go because I have church duties, but he looked all awesome in his uniform, with his rifle. He totally deserved that. And apparently he did really well! YAY! GO PRESTON! :D
Anyways, that's all for now. I need to go...do something. We had youth band last Friday. Darby, Preston, Ty and I played 3 songs to the four people that showed up. But it was still really fun! Music rocks. And then we played some games. Haha...that was fun. Okay, I'm gonna go now!
-Kristen
Sunday night, we had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's and when we were leaving, the wind was insane! It was picking up rapidly! And wind is strange for our area because we're so deep in the mountains. I slept over at Darby's (because we had to finish our game of Kitchener-Waterloo-opoly) and we slept in the basement and watched movies (That Thing You Do and The Muppets: The Frog Prince) and listened to the wind. It sounded like a hurricane and I am SO glad we got our roof redone last month so that our shingles wouldn't be littered across Blind Bay!!! At one point, we heard a few loud noises but we figured it was just a tree branch or something.
The next morning, we got up and it was still windy! The boat was flipped over and had blown about twenty feet from where it had been. There were buckets and stuff across their lawn and their neighbours. When my mom came to pick me up, she said that a tree had blown down across the shortcut to Auntie Sue's house and someone had literally driven through it.
On the way home, we had to drive around a bunch of piles of branches and stuff. It was crazy! And then, at about 2, when I was just about to go onto the internet to write my practice exam for math, the power went out. Yay. So I went over to Grandma's to use her computer since their power was still on. I was about 3 pages into it when their power cut out too!
After phoning BC Hydro, Auntie Sue came back with a report that there were over 200,000 homes in BC without hydro. Yay.
So I went back home and drew a picture for art by candlelight and ate warm (not fully reheated) chicken and drank milk. It gets dark so early! It was pitch black by 5.
Anyways, we got lucky and the power was back on at around 7. I did get to do my practice exam, which was incredibly good because I had to go in and write it this morning. I think I did pretty well. There were a few things I didn't know but for the most part, I knew it.
SO! Today, Beauty & The Geek is on. Must watch it. And then Darby, Preston and I have the lame Red Cross babysitting course. Ugh. It's so boring. But it gets you a certificate. That's all I want. And it applies for school.
Report cards come soon....
Preston got chosen from Air Cadets to do a thing at the Salmon Arm Rememberance Day celebration thing. I can't remember what exactly it's called that he did and I didn't get to go because I have church duties, but he looked all awesome in his uniform, with his rifle. He totally deserved that. And apparently he did really well! YAY! GO PRESTON! :D
Anyways, that's all for now. I need to go...do something. We had youth band last Friday. Darby, Preston, Ty and I played 3 songs to the four people that showed up. But it was still really fun! Music rocks. And then we played some games. Haha...that was fun. Okay, I'm gonna go now!
-Kristen
Sunday, November 04, 2007
New stuff
Hey folks. No pictures this time. Don't have any new ones as of yet.
Halloween was cool. I was Eighties Girl. There's a picture of it on Darby's facebook and I think that if you click on Pictures Of Me under my profile picture, you can see it. I helped out with the Harvest Fest party at our church and then there was a little youth group party afterwards. Darby and Preston did the games for that. It was pretty cool.
I started taking the Red Cross babysitting course in Salmon Arm with Darby and Preston. We already know everything (literally) that they teach you but you get a certificate and it applies for school.
Friday I took three LONG math tests in Salmon Arm at the EOP office. I don't think I did very well on them, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. First report card comes soon. My math exam is on November 13th. Hopefully, that will go well.
Friday night, we went bowling with the youth group and then, at the last minute, we went to see Bee Movie, which was much better than I'd expected it to be. That was pretty fun. But I ended up staying up really late, which probably wasn't smart because there was swimming in the morning.
Which leads me to Saturday. I started Bronze Cross. If I pass, it's worth phys. ed., career and personal planning, and 2 high school credits. Well, staying up late and not having swam since August worked against me. I didn't make the endurance swim (12 laps/24 lengths) in under 18 minutes. I did it in 19 and then after that, I had a horrible headache and I felt sick, so I laid down on the side of the pool and then Reid, our instructor, came over and asked if I was okay. I said no (because I wasn't) and he said he was going to go get me oxygen. Okay, so yeah. That was pretty scary. But by the time he got back, I was feeling much better. So that was good. I drank a glass of water and was able to get back into it again. Hopefully, I can still pass and he won't think that I'm not good enough. Because I'm good at everything in the class, but yesterday was just NOT my day. When I got home, I was really tired so I went to bed early.
This morning was church. That was pretty interesting. We had all the kids in the same class because Sandi was at the Women's Retreat so there was no one to run the older kids' Sunday School class. It was fun though. And the worship team did really well. It was a cool week since the Three Susans and three of The Talonz were playing. Plus they picked really good songs.
Anyways, now I'm pretty bored. And I have to go!
-Kristen
Halloween was cool. I was Eighties Girl. There's a picture of it on Darby's facebook and I think that if you click on Pictures Of Me under my profile picture, you can see it. I helped out with the Harvest Fest party at our church and then there was a little youth group party afterwards. Darby and Preston did the games for that. It was pretty cool.
I started taking the Red Cross babysitting course in Salmon Arm with Darby and Preston. We already know everything (literally) that they teach you but you get a certificate and it applies for school.
Friday I took three LONG math tests in Salmon Arm at the EOP office. I don't think I did very well on them, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. First report card comes soon. My math exam is on November 13th. Hopefully, that will go well.
Friday night, we went bowling with the youth group and then, at the last minute, we went to see Bee Movie, which was much better than I'd expected it to be. That was pretty fun. But I ended up staying up really late, which probably wasn't smart because there was swimming in the morning.
Which leads me to Saturday. I started Bronze Cross. If I pass, it's worth phys. ed., career and personal planning, and 2 high school credits. Well, staying up late and not having swam since August worked against me. I didn't make the endurance swim (12 laps/24 lengths) in under 18 minutes. I did it in 19 and then after that, I had a horrible headache and I felt sick, so I laid down on the side of the pool and then Reid, our instructor, came over and asked if I was okay. I said no (because I wasn't) and he said he was going to go get me oxygen. Okay, so yeah. That was pretty scary. But by the time he got back, I was feeling much better. So that was good. I drank a glass of water and was able to get back into it again. Hopefully, I can still pass and he won't think that I'm not good enough. Because I'm good at everything in the class, but yesterday was just NOT my day. When I got home, I was really tired so I went to bed early.
This morning was church. That was pretty interesting. We had all the kids in the same class because Sandi was at the Women's Retreat so there was no one to run the older kids' Sunday School class. It was fun though. And the worship team did really well. It was a cool week since the Three Susans and three of The Talonz were playing. Plus they picked really good songs.
Anyways, now I'm pretty bored. And I have to go!
-Kristen
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