Track Events Gone Wrong (Hurdles and 4x100 Relay)

On June 6th 2007, I missed classes to compete at the York University Track Events with my school team. The competition went from 7:30a.m. to about 4:40p.m. The people that had early events had to take the cab to the track. But the people with late events took the bus and arrived to the track at around 9:30a.m.-10:00a.m. I was one of the late contestants. I was lucky that I actually got there on time for my first event, the hurdles.

I was called on the the track once I got there. I didn't even have time to change into my shorts. I had to run with track pants on and my legs were still freezing because I didn't get to warm up. So my legs were practically shaking from the inside. I had took forth place on the first try but then disaster strikes. My legs were really frozen now and my waste was hurt. I believe I twisted it too much so I felt a little pain in my waste. But I did not I have enough time for it to heal fully. Thus I was running the finals with an injured waste. Once the finals started I had a good start, but I tripped on the third hurdle and fell into another lane but got back into my lane with enough speed to get back into the race. Unforchunetly I got last place. But after an hour of judging I finally got the 7th ribbon. The last ribbon was the 8th ribbon so I actually wasn't all that bad after all. Even though I got through this race with a ribbon, things will get worse.

For hours I waited for my second event, the 4x100 Grade 8 Boys Relay. In the time I had left to prepare for the race(which was about 5 hours of free time) I played, cheered, warmed up, and even watched over competitors compete. I also got the opportunity to take pictures of some of my teammates. After about 5 hours, it was time. I had to run the 4x100 Relay. I was first to receive the baton so I was kinda running on a curve. I kind of had some problems receiving the baton from my teammate but I finally got it and I was a little behind. Although I was behind I charged up and got into first position. But my speed led my team into defeat.

Even though I am a fast runner and I ran really fast, I couldn't tell my teammate to run ahead to receive the baton in time. I accidentally bumped into him and stepped on his foot thus making the both of us slip and fall while other schools passed us. I then yelled "RUN!!" and I then thought to myself "What have I done?!". One of my teammates that were cheering from the sidelines ran down to see if I was okay. I was devastated of what I have done and I put everything on my back. I felt really guilty. I still remember what my teammate said to me. "It's okay. Everyone makes mistakes. Just think of this as an experience and you can be more careful next year. It's no one's fault. No one will blame you." These words were just about the same words that my teacher said to me. Right when I got back to our resting place under a tree, 1 of the teachers/couches from my school ask me about the relay situation. I didn't say a word and he could guess what has happened.

But before I walked back to our resting place, back on the track, the referee saw that my teammate and I had fell so he came over with a red flag to take a look I told him that we're
okay and that it was my fault that we fell. Not the other teams. The referee then raised the white flag indicating that everything is fine and no one is injured. Although the other team did not get into trouble there, they were disqualified at the next receiving point because of a false start by a teammate of theirs.

Later on, when everyone had left, we were the only school left with sad expressions on our faces. But in the end we all had fun and we even stayed 'till about 5:50p.m. to have some fun on the track.

Ants, Bees, Wasps and their Queens

Ants
First of all, I hope everyone knows that there are different kinds of ants. Even though that's a fact, ants are classified as one family.

It is believed that they evolved from a wasp like soil insects. These little special creatures belong in the animal kingdom. They sure don't look like it but they are defiantly animals. These creatures are related to the, quite dangerous, wasps and bees.

Even though they seem small and helpless, they can be really strong in groups. They especially work best in hunting while in groups. They can carry things that are heavier than their own weight. These fascinating creatures are classified in duties. There are worker ants, soldiers, the babies, the drones, and the Queen. There can be more than a million ant workers in one colony. The workers' jobs are to build and expand the spaces in an ant hill. An ant hill is a hill of sand that the worker ants dug for the rest of the colony to live in and them selves.

The soldiers are to protect the colony from any invaders like cockroaches or any other insects. These ants are needed in colonies. Not only do they protect the colony but they hunt for food as well. Some of these soldiers' duty is to either fight, protect, or scout around for the workers. After they start scouting and then if they find something. The workers will come help the soldiers bring the food back to the queen and some for themselves too.

The drones are just simply the only ones that have wings permanently. Their job is to mate with the Queen. First they fly into the air above the colony forming clouds and then the Queen will mate with the drones and the drone will die.The normal life span for a drone is about 2-3 days.

The Queen
The Queen is the larger than the workers and drones. The Queen is the one that keeps the colony together and working. It produces particular pheromones that makes everything and everyone working in the colony. The Queen also creates a distinct smell for the colony. Every ant in the colony smells just about the same. The Queen is the only one that is able to lay fertilized eggs for the colony. The Queen is practically the mother of the whole colony. The Queen is able to live for 15 years and mate only once in its life-span.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ants
http://www.bubblegum-productions.com/anthony/queen.htm http://www.answers.com/Ant%20Queens

Bees
There are many kinds of Bees. Some of which I can't even pronounce properly. Bees are like ants. The only different from most of the ants is that they are able to fly. All bees are able to fly.

Bees' are insects. Bees' are the ones we should thank for all the flowers in this world. They do something called pollination. Pollination is when the bees' flying around flowers and collecting pollens. While they do that, the pollen collects on their legs and while the bee finishes collecting, it'll start flying around again and the pollen will fall into and soil thus planting more flowers.

Bees are really protective. They can sting you for no reason and then die off.

All creatures must have some place to live in. Unlike ants, bees live in a nest. Inside is a big honey comb chamber. Inside each honey comb is either an egg or honey. Like ants, the bees are sorted be duties. There are soldiers, workers, larvae, drones, and the Queen. The worker's job is to build the nest and block off the larvae after feeding them in their chamber in the honey comb.

The Queen
The Queen of the bees are just about the same as the ones of ants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees

http://www.answers.com/bees

Wasps
The wasp is like the ant and the bee, they are most likely to travel in groups. They are more powerful that way. The wasp is almost like the bee but except the part in between the body and the abdomen. Its thinner than the bees'. The wasp is an insect. There are many different species of wasps. The Yellow Jacket is an example of one. All wasps are like Bees. They sting!

The wasps fall in two categories. They're solitary wasps and social wasps. Solitary wasps are generally adult wasps that travel alone and do not tend to build nests. All solitary adult wasps are fertile.

The Queen

The Queen is like the Queen of bees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasps

http://www.answers.com/wasp%20

Green Earth

Once there was a great green planet called the Earth. But now it is just a planet of pollution and grief. Everywhere you go on this once green planet, you will see garbage everywhere on the ground. Dead bodies are lying around in places that are not suppose to have any because of the endless wars that us greedy humans (no offense) fight for because we always want things for ourselves. Gases are killing our earth by making the O-Zone Layer thinner. What can we do to help our earth to grow back into its original self before we actually destroy it ourselves? Here are some good tips that I thought up myself:

-plant extra trees if you have room around you (optional)
-do not use your car too much. Instead ride a bicycle and use your car when you really need it.
-recycle
-do not use too much garbage (ex. Instead of using a tissue once or twice, you may use a paper towel and you may use it for even 4 or 5 times or use a towel and then wash it off)

For more info please give me some sites or some more ideas of how to save our Earth, so I may put them on this post. Thank You.

Science Fair

OH MY GOD!!! TOMORROW IS THE DAY WHEN THEY ANNOUNCE WHOSE GOING TO THE SECOND LEVEL OF THE SCIENCE FAIR!! My friend and I are really excited because since we made it to the school finals :D and we found out that we got a 48/50 mark :D, which our Principal gave us :D. I just hope we get in the next level :D so we can go see a real science fair contest for the very time. Well I will see a real Science fair contest for the very first time :D.

Date: Friday March 9th/07

YES!! I found out that I got in the Science Fair! That's the good news... now the bad news. Even though my partner and I have gotten into the Science fair... we have to go downtown... to UofT.... and its on March 30-31st.... It really sucks for me since on Friday March 30th, I have to go to UofT AFTER SCHOOL!! Which is like 4:00-5:00pm, and I have no ride. Unless my partner's Dad drives us after school to go set up our project, we won't be able to set it up in time for the presentations next day. But it was still good to know that we made it :) All the hard work paid off :)

Date: Saturday March 31st/07

Oh no!! WE LOST!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Breaking News: Saddam Hussein Executed

Saddam Hussein, former dictator of Iraq was killed this morning at Friday 10:00 pm E.T. He was handed over by the United States government back to the Iraqi government for judgment. He was hung at his hometown of TIKRIT Iraq. And his body is going to be buried at the Awja section of Tikrit cemetery this Sunday morning at 9:00 am (1:00 am E.T).

*Yawn*...OH NO I SPREADED THE YAWNESS!

Yawning is a proccess in which you exhale carbon dioxcide through your mouth after inhaling oxygen. There is a saying that if one person in a room of 3 or more people it can spread making everyone yawn after another until it goes back to the one person who started it. But how does it spread? Well I'm not sure how it spreads but I know it spreads. I GOT EVIDENCE!! Last night when my mom, dad and I were returning from our dinner, my mom began to yawn and then I yawned and then my mom yawned and my dad yawned and I yawned and so on. We were randomly yawning after another but it was spreading through the air!!

Weirdest Dream I've Had Ever This Year...

Dear Readers,

I just woke up from the strangest dream I have ever had this year. It was after school. I asked my dad to drop me off at WalMart. I needed to pick up a game that a friend of mine was helping me fix. Once I picked it up, my friend asked me to stay and help her do her X-Mas shopping. The time was then 3:30 pm. I just wanted to walk around but the decorations and the present that I could give to my mom and dad was so temping that I started to get a cart and loading it with presents. I also help my friend out and started to load what she wanted too so the cart was just about full. There were nuts, snow-globes, red hats, coats, games, (etc). I saw some friends from school doing their X-Mas shopping and I also made 2 friends that were cashiers. They were nice and gave me some tips on getting good gifts.

Then everything started to get weird. It seemed that I went through a time portal and went into the future. (I can't remember all of my dream so I can't really tell it all)

Once I came out of the portal I was back at school but it wasn't in that year. It was in the year when my school opened for the very first time... Strange eh? So I got in to the school with my uniform but hardly anyone saw me... ...it kinda seemed like I was invisable... ...a ghost or something. So I tryed to communicate with them for about 5 minutes and I heard screeming. It came from my classroom. Once I got to my classroom I saw another portal but this time I ignored it and kept on going down the hallway which my classroom is in. Then the whole school seemed to have started to melt.. INCLUDING the people.. it was a scary sight. I covered my eyes and in a few seconds I was back in present time WalMart.

When I looked back at the cart, it was already full so I went to the cashiers and I looked out the window and it was already dark. I looked at my watch and it was 9:00 pm!!! I hurried and put my stuff in the conveyer belt and I realized I didn't have enough money to pay for all of these good stuff. But fortunetly my classmate was right behind me and he borrowed me 5 dollars which I only needed $5.

When it was my turn to pay, I saw my mom. I called her and she turned her head and saw me in the line. Strangly her eyes went wide open and she seemed angry. She then started to yell at me and I couldn't even explain why I was there. She then stopped for a while to let me pay and the cashier said I could go. Then he held me back saying that I still need to pay 2 more cents. I then started to ask my mom for 2 more cents but it seemed that she didn't care and was pretty mad.........

This is when I woke up with a big tear running down my cheek.

Wind Energy (Science Fair Project)

"One kind of recyclable energy is wind energy. It is pllution- free and it gives off alot of good energy. This kind of energy has been used for thousands of years. Almost everything that travelled accross sea had to use the wind as a source of energy, before the invention of the Steam-engine or electricity. Wind is everywhere! It's just another kind of Solar energy. Sunlight that shines on water will make it to start evapurating and the water droplets will rise up and warm up while rising to make wind. Wind is mostly created because of different temperatures all around the world. Place with the most wind's are coastlines, anywhere near water like the lakes, oceans, rivers(etc)."
This is all I wrote for my Science Fair project ~_~. I need some help with it. I need more info. Can anyone help me please? I'm still searching for Info but I can't seem to find anything else. Everything I find about wind energy always talks about the history of wind and stuff. Or maybe I should just go look for info in books.

A Hero's Story......(Continued....Will this be the end?)

.........as I hid behind the bush the battle had begun. First the dog raised his paw and scratched the raccoon with his peircing claws. That feirce strike really did anger the beast. For the raccoons counter attack, it bit the dogs left front leg, but the dog didn't seem to be in pain, once the raccoon lifted his teeth from the leg of the heroic dog. This was when I realized that the battle had ended before it even really begun. With its last strike the dog ripped the raccoon in to peices. After a moment, the battle finally ended.

I raised from behind the bushes and I lifted my right leg over the bushes to make myself visable. Once my leg had reached the ground the dog had turned and stared at me with eyes as big as a loonie. I stopped for a moment and stared back. It seemed to have a tear drop run down its fury cheek. The drop was quite large. It really seemed to be in pain. It then turned his head and slammed to the cement floor. I sprinted over to see if it was ok. Unforchunetly it wasn't ok. I saw the wound when the raccoon bit his leg. The raccoon actually took a chunk out of its leg and he was bleeding to death. I realized that there was a nearby animal clinic. I quickly struggled to carry it as fast as I can to the Clinic. As soon as I touched him, visions started to flip through my head. I didn't care about those pictures for now, I just ran to the clinic. Once I got in, a nurse saw me carrying the poor dog in my arms. She quickly arranged a room for the dog to have his surgery. I handed him over to the doctor and they disapeared into the surgery room. I waited outside the room patiently sitting on a chair. I started to wonder if they would help him in time. I wouldn't be able to thank him properly if he goes. Then I started to wonder if he would make it or not, and what were those visions in my head.......

.......To be Continued......

Why is Laughter the Best Medicine?

Ok first of all laughter is a kind of emotion. Sometimes people even say laughter is the best medicine. Why? Maybe it's because whenever you laugh you save more cells than being mad and angry and furious all the time. Maybe it's because whenever you laugh, you forget about maybe about 75% of the angry things you were furious about. More friends can also be made with laughter. Laughter will also enlighten your life so you wouldn't be so dull.(IF you're dull)

Sometimes laughter can also be a good distraction for some people. For example, if your friends want to do something without the other person looking, you can always try laughing you head off to distract him or her =D.

Remember when I said laughter can enlighten our lives? Well I'm an example. Earlier in my life before I began to get use to laughing and joking around, I never had many friends. I was also very dull. Ever since I got use to laughing, I made more new friends and most of them I've known for more the 3 years now. This is why people say laughter is the best medicine. No matter what situation, laughter is always a Life-Saver.

Blogger :Beta

Hey everyone, can you guys answer me this? What is good about Beta. I mean it's new but it doesn't seem any newer. Strange...

Hmmmmm.. oh wait I think I know why. Oh wait... nah It's probably wrong.

Am I really such a bad guy?

OMG I HATE MY LIFE. Why can't I be like everyone else!?! Why don't I know what to say at what time!?! AGH I HATE MYSELF!! >=[

New Wasabi

Yay I went to the new Wasabi Buffet this night. This buffet just opened today and we had to give them advice of how they did on their first bussiness. Everything was delicious but I'm not sure if my parents like it ☺. We ordered alot of things the first time but for reason it hardly reached our table. At the end, we found out that our food went to the other table behind us. The waiters and waitresses explained that their table numbers were not in order so we got mixed up witht the other tables. Luckily my mom's friends ate with us and we had a total of more than 30 people so we got our food back before we went. Don't ask me how much we paid cause we didn't. We were invited to this VIP food testing for the first day. This buffet is located at Richmond Hill, 270 West Beaver Creak Road unit 1-12. 桖 WOOT ANOTHER CHINESE WORD!! ¥ I'm not sure what this is.....

Well that's all for today folks. um GOOD NIGHT!

Chinese Lanturn Festival

Wow. I've never seen anything like this! I went to the Chinese Lanturn Festival on Monday August 6th 2006. It was awsome. Most of the Lanturns were based on chinese History like the gods and legands. Alots of the lanturns were also based on Dragons. I liked the Dragon lanturns the most because many of them were made of not cloth but chinese dishes, spoons, cups, bowls combined with light. I kept wondering how long it took them to think of this idea. Whoever thought of it must have been a genius. I also kept wondering what Dino World had to do with chinese culture. One of the festivals best ideas were to combine the lanturns with some chinese music so people that come to the festival will see and hear chinese history. This festival must have took hours and hours of work. This festival is located in Ontario place. To all the readers reading this. If you guys have time, go check it out. It's a chance you don't want to miss out.

A Hero's Story......Continued

As I laid still the raccoon came closer and closer. I could smell its oder from 5 inches away. As its claws reached my foot I thought it was going to be the end of me. As it got a little closer I heard a faint barking noise. As I forgot about the raccoon I listened for more barking. The barking came closer and closer and finally a dog popped its head out of a bush from behind the raccoon. The raccoon turned its body and faced the dog. I started to move slitely away from the raccoon as it crawled closer to the dog. Once I think I got far enough from where I laid, I quickly jumped behind a bush and watched the battle between the raccoon and the dog. I thought "hmmmmm raccoon vs. dog who will?'' So who will win the dog or the raccoon?......

...... To Be Continued ....

A Hero's Story......

I was going on a thursday morning walk to to the park, when suddenly a raccoon sprung out from no where. I was scared half to death. While on the ground I breathed heavily hoping the raccoon would stop gazing at me with those big brown eyes. I could see that he was hungry for some meet.
I thought this could have been the end of me. Then i thought to myself how it would be like to be full of rabies. I prayed, hoping that the raccoon would run away if i just laid still, but i was wrong. It came closer and closer untill one of its claws reached my foot. I felt its sharp claws like needles on a stormy day. I thought this could be the end of me..........


To be Continued..........

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