Category: Student blogging challenge

Week 8: Holidays!

Hello, and welcome back or if you are new, welcome to my blog!

For this week, one of the tasks asked us to write about the holidays that our families celebrate. 

My family and I may not religious but, we still celebrate holidays like Christmas, Halloween and Easter. But, for this  In this part of my post, I will only be doing holidays that my family celebrates in December. I will explain those holidays in detail and possibly, if my family and I have any specific traditions. So let’s just jump into it!

Christmas!

Now, this holiday is very important to my family and is also the one that we celebrate the most. We put up lots and lots of decorations inside and outside of the house, we get a huge Christmas tree and decorate it until there is absolutely no space left on the tree! 

To prepare for Christmas, my family and I try to get our Christmas tree in the first week or so of December. We also get our lights up and start shopping for presents! The past two years or so, we have adopted a mini elf that named Fred that hides somewhere different every night and we find it in the morning We also buy those sort of “boxes” that have chocolates in them and each day counting down from the 1st of December, we get a chocolate. 

On the night of Christmas Eve, we go to a friends house for a party. We eat, drink (JUICE) and watch a movie, most of the time it’s Polar Express. 

On Christmas morning, first, we make a fire, then get comfy and start unwrapping our presents! We start with the stocking stuffers, then have breakfast, open the big presents and Skype my grandparents who live in Quebec. For the rest of the day, we all play, dance and do a lot of other fun things! Later that day, we also have dinner with my aunt and uncle. 

Boxing Day!

On the 26th of December, which is Boxing Day, we have a big dinner with my whole family: cousins, 2nd cousins, aunts, uncles, etc! 

New Year’s Eve!

For New Years, my family and I usually go and celebrate it with our family friends. One year, we went to Penticton at our friend’s apartment and celebrated it there, dancing and singing all the way till midnight! Another year, we went to Sun peaks to watch the fireworks then go get some ice cream!

For the 2nd part of this post, I chose to give my blog a holiday makeover! Here is the before and after. 

That’s all for now!

-Lexie😆

Week 7: Your Choice!

Hello, and welcome back or if you are new, welcome to my blog!

For this week’s challenge, it’s catching up week and/or we can write about whatever we want! So, I decided to talk about my very favourite sport, drum role please…….Soccer! I have been playing this sport for 9 years now, and it takes out a big part of my life. I now dedicate 5 days out of my week to soccer. 

For my first 7 years of playing soccer, I was on a team called the Jungle Cats, had lots of fun there, made lots of friends and my coach taught and helped me through a lot. Now, for my second year, I am playing with a selects soccer team called the Fury. 

At the end of grade 5, it was the year to try out for selects which is a higher level of soccer. They had two levels: gold 2 and gold 1. I was looking forward to trying out but, this was the one year where I actually started to take soccer a little more seriously. 

Once, I found out that I hadn’t made selects that year, I was pretty devastated. It made me sad, that’s certainly no surprise! I took this as a learning experience which meant that next season, I would have the chance to try better and possibly make it the next year! My dad kept telling me: “if at first, you don’t succeed, try, try, again”. 

Grade 6, was where I really shinned, I scored about 20 goals that season, even with about 8 games canceled due to icy roads and snow covered fields. I got called up to a gold 2 team named the Bandits and played a few soccer games with them. 

At the end of that season was the second chance to try out for selects soccer. This time, they added silver and metro levels. The order goes like this: silver, gold 2, gold 1 and metro as the highest level. The tryouts lasted for about a week. 

 

A couple weeks later, I found out that I had made silver for that season! I was very happy and excited to play in a higher level. When I met my team mates, they were all super nice and friendly which made me super excited to play along side them during games. We called ourselves, the Fury. 

That year (grade 7), we won two tournaments in total, winning gold in the coastal cup against our arch nemesis, Squamish. Even though I only scored 2 goals, that year. 

This year, my team moved up to gold 2, since we won our division. Even now, we are better than the two gold 1 teams and also won a div 1 tournament, bc soccer has decided to not move us up. We also have not had any loses yet. I am so glad to be on this team and have scored 4 goals this season so far!

Thank you so much and I will see you in my next blog post! 

-Lexie😊

Week 6: Science!

For this week, we needed to ask ourselves a scientific question of our choice. My question is: why is sugar so addictive and how does it affect the human body? I chose this question because, I have to admit, that I am a sweet tooth which means that I love eating things with sugar or that are sweet and so, I wanted to find out why I love it so much, even more than vegetables. 

The second step for this weeks task is that we need to find a video about our subject that we find interesting. Here is mine. 

The video concludes that having an over consumption of sugar can have adictive affects on the brain but, having a chocolate cake every once and a while won’t hurt you.  

Last step is to do two truths and a lie. Here is the link. 

Week 5: Similarities and Differences

Hi! Welcome back to another blog post! For this week’s task I have created a servey for you to complete. It is asking you what your favorite school subject is. You can make your own too! All you need to do is click here and then then click on the blue button and  after you complete the options, it’s done! Here is the link to my servey, if you can, please complete it!

Thank you! I’ll see you in my next post!