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Hello. Again. This is my week 7 Student Blogging challenge. This week we were just supposed to make a post about something we liked so this is it.

Hockey has always been my favourite sport. I started playing when I was five. I would have one hour sessions every Wednesday at the rink closest to my house. That rink ended up being almost a second home for me, it was my home rink for 8 years. I actually played through some changes at the rink. They added a new arena to the two that were already there and they changed the name of it.

Picture of the rink

The speed of the sport is one of my favourite things about it. It’s unpredictable and momentum changes really fast. Sometimes it can be frustrating that you’re losing but that also means it’s great when you’re winning. When I’m on the ice, I get an adrenaline rush that I don’t get doing anything else.

Hockey frees my mind from homework, school or any other problems. The only problem while I’m playing is losing the game. But I manage to still have fun even when I lose. Obviously it’s better to win but you can’t win everything.

My little brother has also been playing hockey since he was 5. He’s a goalie but we’ve always enjoyed the sport. At home we’ve had a mini hockey area set up for years in our basement. We used to play all the time whenever we were in the house. My dad, my brother and me also have tournaments whenever we can.

That’s why I like the sport. And hopefully I can keep playing for years to come.

Well that’s the end of this post.

See you soon.

Hello, I’m back.

This week’s challenge was to make a holiday post.

I decided to make mine about  something that my family celebrates.

First thing is that my family is from Colombia. According to them this tradition has its origins there. They’re called Novenas. Now what are these? How my family celebrates it is nine parties in different houses leading up to Christmas Eve where the biggest of the 9 happens. These Novenas come from Catholic traditions. They’re nine days of prayer.

To understand why Novenas before Christmas come from Colombia, is because Colombia has a vast majority of people who are Catholic. My grandparents and my great parents and everybody else before them have been Catholic. My parents however aren’t really believers in a religion anymore even though they were brought up that way.

The Novenas are usually started off with a bit of prayers with some singing here and there, Spanish Christmas songs to be precise. After the prayers comes my second favourite part. The food. The host family makes food for the whole group and other families will bring a few things like dessert or drinks. After the food is my favourite part. We kids are free to go play around or watch a movie.

Eating time at one of the Novenas last year.

The Novenas are celebrated with friends and family. You can have 1 family come over or many more. Some of the families we celebrate it with are however more devout Catholics. They always start on December 16th no matter the day of the week. The last day is Christmas Eve.

I was never brought up with any religious beliefs at my house. So personally sitting down in prayer is a bit boring but if they’re your beliefs, go for it as long as you’re not hurting anybody. It also gets a bit more boring for me because I have absolutely no idea what they’re saying throughout the prayers so I just kind of sit there quiet and waiting.

The past few years however I have been missing more  and more novenas. Why? Because I’ve got soccer and hockey, my religions.

Well that’s our tradition. Hope you understood it.

Bye Bye now.

Hello I’m back with my third post today. I’m catching up. On a few things and that’s why it’s my third post today. Anyways let’s jump into this week’s task.

Week 3 was all about copyright free images. I chose to write a poem about the image below but also about a previous experience I had playing hockey. I went on Creative Commons and searched “penalty box hockey” and got the picture below on Wikimedia commons. I then saved the image to my camera roll and inserted it into my post. And now it’s right below.

Below is my poem. It’s about a time in a game several years ago where I got really angry at the ref’s call and had a bit of a rage for a few minutes. I got the picture of the hockey player in the box not to happy about his being there.

The ref put his hand up,

and next I knew
He blew his whistle,

pointed at me
And went to the box,

to say it was roughing
The lights were bright,

but the rink was cold
I was a little kid then,

but I was frustrated
because my team was losing,

I headed to my bench
But the ref stopped me,

and changed my direction
My head was heating up,

from my anguish at the ref
I stepped in the box and,

threw my stick and gloves
Took my helmet off,

and tried to storm off.

Hope you enjoyed the poem. See you next post. (Should be coming shortly).

Hello and welcome back to my blog. A few of the next posts might be in the wrong order as I fell behind a bit. Anyways, let’s get back in to it.

This week’s task was themed around emojis and their usage. I chose to make a quiz with emojis. My quiz is guess the NHL team with emojis. It was pretty simple but sometimes I needed to put an emoji that doesn’t exactly correspond to what I was trying to get at. Well below is my quiz and answer key will be at the end of the post, don’t cheat.

Quick tip: If you’re stuck, think of what the emojis featured have in common or what they do and your mind will link them up.

How’d you do in the quiz? If you want check out the answer key at the bottom and comment how many you got right.

I personally don’t use many emojis and I’d rather type the words. However lots of people I know constantly use them. They are many times more efficient and quicker to type than words but in my opinion are causing a slight degradation of our languages.

Well I hope you enjoyed my quiz. See you on my next post.

Hello, this is week 5 of the Student blogging challenge.

This week’s theme was our differences and similarities. Turns out blogging is actually a decent way to realize this. We’re all humans but we like different things. We actually just worked on a unit in Humanities on how the land where we live impacts what we do. Click the box below.

The land is part of our identity (Unit end)

I chose to make a video with a few questions to learn a few things about my readers, (I’m not sure I have many).

I was originally going to make a slideshow but that didn’t work. I had gone on keynote and put a few pictures on each slide with arrows pointing at them. You have to choose one of the pictures of what would you rather. I ended up taking screenshots of each slide and making a video out of those.

Well below is my video, I hope you enjoy it.

Comment your answers below.

See you next week,

Luciano