Track and Field Tryouts

At my school, track tryouts have started.  So far there have been 2 tryouts.  For both of the tryouts we have been inside, in a gym.  In the first tryout we started off by learning the A’s, the walking A’s, the skipping A’s, and the running A’s.  Then after we learned all of them we did warm ups around the gym.  We did all of the A’s, we also did high knees, butt kicks, karaoke, and side shuffle.  After we did the warm ups, which they took a long time since there’s a lot of grade 5 and 6’s, we got into groups of four. Two girls and two boys made each group.  We did sprints so one of the boys started and ran to the other side and high fived one of the girls.  Then the girl would run to the other side and high five the second boy.  We did this for 5 minutes straight without stopping.  After we did that for five minutes we did stretching.  We did a lot of different stretches.  We did the stretches for a long time.  After that we did 2 laps around the gym and then our first tryout was done.  For are second tryout we used an app called Swirk It for the whole time.  So one of the coaches attached there phone to the projector and put on Swirk It.  We did 20 minutes for lower body work out and we did 10 minutes for upper body and core each.  Then we did 5 laps around the gym and we were done.  After both of the practices my legs were sore.  But after the second tryout my legs weren’t as sore as they were after the first tryout.

Last year I did the 400 meter, the 800 meter, and the relay.

Florida

In march break I went to Florida to visit my grandparents.  I went from Tuesday the 10th to Tuesday the 17th.  When I got off the plane I went with my grandparents to a Chinese food place that we always go to.  My brother and I ate a lot of Chinese food.  I really liked the ice cream there, especially the sherbert.  The next day we played a lot of card games and board games.  My Nana and Poppa taught my brother and I the card game hearts.  We both really liked hearts.  My brother and I really like the board game Clue.  There were three mornings where my brother and I went to the beach.  We would always build villages or castles and play with them.  The third time we went was the most fun.  We always built our villages and castles close enough to the water that the waves would be able to hit it some times.  It was tons of fun.  On the fifth day we went to a botanical gardens.  There were many cool plants there.  There were about 15 different types of cacti.  One time I tried to catch a lizard but I got its tail.  Another time I caught a lizard, I was holding it but it escaped.  On the sixth day we went on a bird walk.  We saw a lot of cool things.  We saw the eyes and nostrils of a crocodile and a whole bunch of pink snail eggs.  We saw snake birds, cardinals, and whole bunch of other types of birds.  On the 7th day we went to a hockey game. It was Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Montreal Canadians.  It was a good game and Tampa won.  The score was 4 – 2.  After the first it was a 2 – 0 Tampa.  After the second It was   3 – 1 Tampa.  Then after the third it was 4 – 2.  Then the next day my brother and I left.

Basketball Party

Today I had a basketball party after school since basketball is over.  The first thing we did was a shoot around while we were waiting for everybody else to come to the gym.  Once everybody was in the gym we made up up three teams of four and played four on four.  What we did was, there were three teams one team would come down the floor and another team would be defending.  If the offensive team scored then they would keep the ball if they missed and they got the rebound they would also keep the ball and they would go down the other way.  If the offensive team missed and the defending team got the rebound then they would go down the other way to face the third team of four.  After we did that for a while we had pizza, drinks, cookies, and bite size cupcakes.  While we were eating my coaches handed out the rewards.  I got the Kingstantoni award for best refusal.  On the bottom of the page it said “best refusal to defend and then shutting down the player!.”  In a game my coach said to guard their best player and the I shook my head but then I did guard him and when I did I shut him down.  After we were done eating and giving out awards we played six on six for a little bit and then it was time to go.  So I grabbed my brother a piece of pizza, a cookie, and a drink.

Basket ball championships

Last weekend I had my U12 basket ball championships.  The first game we faced Crescent who were in third place and we were in second place.  We only beat crescent by about nine in the regular season.  But when we faced them we were destroying them.  When I went on the coach told me to guard their best player so I did.  Their best player only got two baskets on me.  In that game we won by a lot.  After that we faced the sixth place team, Sterling hall.  In the season we faced them in are second game and we demolished them.  They had a good player that only passed the ball once in the game so he didn’t use his team at all.  We started off by putting on are best five players and then we got a 20 point lead.  Then I went on and guarded this teams best player and I stopped him.  He got no points on me.  I got to go on twice that game.  We won that game by a lot.  Then it was the championship round against UCC.  In the first period we didn’t play that well and we were down by six.  Then in the second period we tied it and it was 14 – 14.  Then after the third we were winning.  Then in the fourth we were beating them by more then fifteen and they kept on fouling us and it made the game take forever.  We won the U12 championships.  Ever body got red ribbons that say first on it for winning the U12 championship.

My snow day

On Monday I had a snow day.  I was so happy.  When I was in bed and I woke up I was just thinking “mom please don’t come.” I said mom not dad because my dad gets up much earlier than everyone else and is gone.  Which she didn’t.  I got up around 7:30 and started playing my iPod.  I played it until my brother came upstairs.  Then we battled with real Lego. What happens is that we recreate a Star Wars scene and play it.  We play with     mini-figures and ships.  After that my brother and I went outside and sledded on one of the small hills in our backyard.  Then we played a paper football game that I created, for a while.  Next my dad and mom drove us to the big hill where my brother and I went sledding.  We were sledding for an hour until we had to leave.  That was the first time my brother and I went sledding this winter.  It was the best time of my day.  That was my best day for a long time. 🙂

 

Snowshoeing

Today I went snowshoeing in social studies class.  We did that to find out how natives maneuvered on them and to see how hard they were.  First we played follow the leader and I was one of the leaders that the other kids had to follow.  Then we did stretching.  After that we did some relay races in groups of two.  First we had to run twenty paces there and back.  Then we did twenty paces running sideways there and back, which was a lot harder.  Then we had to link arms with our partner and run there and back.  After that we played soccer.  People kept on falling over which made other people fall over.  Whenever I kicked the ball I felt like I was going to fall over which sometimes happened.  Once the game was done we had to go back inside and go to fifth period.  It was really fun and I would like to do it again.

Robotics

Today I had robotics club after school.  It was fun.  The program was on the board then we had to make it on a flow chart. Then we would get it checked to see if we did the program right; if we did then we would go onto the computer and use RobotC.  What I just explained took three days and we only have one day in a week for robotics club.The first challenge was to be able to control the robot with a remote.  I was the only one to finish so I was trying to solve another challenge.  I only had ten minutes to solve it but I still did it.  It was a fun time.  The second challenge was to make the arm go up and down.

My first basketball tournament

In my first basketball tournament our team made it to the finals.  I played six games in the tournament.  In the second game I scored my first basket ever.  It made me really happy.  In the last game we faced UCC which beat us in the normal season when we didn’t have our best player.  This time we had our best player and beat them by a lot.  When they put me on, I was nervous that I would make a mistake.  I was only on for a minute but that’s fine.  I didn’t make a mistake which is good.  Our team won the tournament just like last year.

Assassins Quest book trailer

I was the star for one of my brother’s projects.  He was making a book trailer for Assassin’s Quest.  It was hard and it hurt but it was also fun. A hard part was when I had to fight my brother with a fake sword.  My brother was pretending to be a pirate.  A part that hurt was when I was doing fake sword play while jumping off a couch, and hit my head on the wall.  A fun part was when I was fighting my brother with fake swords. I was the main character, my name was Fitz, who was an assassin.  In this book he was going on a quest to kill Regal.  Burrich was Fitz’s wise old master and he was also the Stable master.

The trailer of

I helped my brother get a level 5 for his mark. 🙂

Last post of 2014

I am so happy that today is New Year’s Eve because I get to stay up late. I get to stay up until 12:10 am. The latest that I have stayed up before is 12:01 where I went to bed and I instantly fell asleep.  To keep myself awake, we played video games. Today, for 2014 New Year’s Eve celebrations, we are going to have friends over: Lee&Daryl, Jacob and Victoria. We are going to play Just Dance and lots of other games including Mario Kart 8, Mario 3D World, and NHL 15.

Some of my most memorable moments from this past year are Christmas and my birthday.  Also i moved schools from Beverly central to Hillfield Strathallan college which I already blogged about. I enjoyed playing football. I especially liked coach Cartier Shields because he was nice and knowledgeable about the game. In football this year, I received the Hamilton Junior ti-cats coaches award, which was pretty cool.  I played on my first basketball team this year.  I play great defense, but need to work on my shooting. This year I also played hockey. Including a spring rep team that got to play in Maple Leaf Gardens. I really liked going to Buffalo for our hockey tournament. We did horribly bad but I had a good time with my family. The last sport that I participated in was Track & Field where I came second in the 300 m and did well in the 700 m. I don’t remember how well though. I think I ran 52 seconds.

This year I started practicing my pbone. A pbone is a plastic trombone. Mine is blue. you can get a pink one, but I did not want that colour. It’s fun to play. When i first started playing, Ode to Joy was one of my first songs and it sounded terribly. It did not really sound like anything. A week later, my dad videotaped me again and it still was not very good, but it was better. Yesterday it sounded way better. I joined a band at school, but I have not been to any practices yet. For Christmas, I got a harmonica. so now I have another instrument that is really fun to play.

As you know, I like pets. This year my brother got hermit crabs for his birthday. And my brother and I got a Ball Python for Christmas. It is one of the top 5 starter pets because they do not bite, are very docile, active and interesting. Most snakes just curl up in a ball and do nothing.

My favourite movie this year was The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies. It was one big giant continuous war for the entire movie. There was Oakenshield, Ironfoot, Elves, Humans, and several armies of ORCs.

I really like reading and probably read about 20 books this past year. My favourite series was Ranger’s Apprentice which has 12 books in the main series and 5 more written in a secondary spinoff series. I got the fifth book for Christmas and I am really looking forward to reading it. but firs tI have to finish the FarSeer Series about a boy named Fitz who becomes an assassin. I like that series as well. The other books that I read includes some Percy Jackson.

My favourite restaurant which we discovered this year was Buffalo Wild Wings. I eat a plain burger with ketchup and potato wedges and pop. I also have terayaki wings.

I went on several trips this year including hockey tournaments, basketball tournaments, Darian Lake, Cottage somewhere north, and Florida to visit my grandparents. I enjoyed the cottage trip the most because we got to hang out with the whole family on my mom’s side.

I am 4’10 1/4″ tall and weigh 76 pounds (with clothes on).

I want to grow a little bit more in 2015. I am looking forward to summer break . . .

Happy New Year’s to everyone who is reading this . . .

Darian Ellis

Here are some pics as well . . .