Magee

My trip to Canada was very fun. I went to ValCartier, a resort that is not for skiing, it is for sledding. At this resort there are many different rides and slopes (all ranging in difficulty). The hardest, Everest, we went on many times, it has a 45 degree slope and is really fun and fast. We spent a couple of hours at the resort doing all of the slopes, all ranging in difficulty. Overall it was in the top three most exciting things that I did.

This Weekend, I went to look at a new camp (I have been at my old one 5 years now).  This new camp is called Keewayden.  Keewayden is a very outdoorsy type of camp.  The very long trip up to camp is as follows:

1. You fly up to Toronto.
2. You take a five-hour bus ride (on the camp bus), to a dock (on a lake in the middle of nowhere).
3. You take a speedboat (it makes a lot of trips) to the base camp (which is on an island).
4. You spend two or three days at base camp (learning and resting).
5. You take a 22-hour train ride to “the outpost”.
6. From there, you take a: 5-day, 10-day and 21-day canoe trip throughout the whole of the northern Canadian wilderness!

On these canoeing trips, you see get to swim in natural, untouched lakes, see moose, bears (sometimes polar bears), fish, hike and canoe through the Canadian wilderness.  It is a lot of fun!

This weekend I went to see Tosca by Puccini in at The Met.  It was so much fun.  It was in Italian, so it was a bit confusing (luckily the backs of the seats had captions).  I loved it so much:  there was nothing but singing!  There are three different acts, all have different sets, all of which are beautiful.  In between the acts (when they are setting up the new stages) they serve us lunch (or dinner).  It is really good food!  I would recommend that everyone goes to an opera soon because a lot of opera houses are closing and soon there will be very few (if any) left.

Over winter break, I read the book Tuesdays With Morrie.  The book is one by a man named Mitch Albom.  The book tells the story of a man who goes to his old professor from college when he hears that he is dying from ALS.  ALS is a degenerative disease that wears down your nerves until you die from the inability to breath.  While going through his prolonged death, Morrie “learned how to live.”  Mitch found that he needed to say goodbye to his old professor, and so on every Tuesday, he went through his last class with Morrie.

What we did best as a group, is: working together (harmonizing and balancing volume).  As a group I was most proud of our memorization.  I was the most proud of the way that I learned all my parts (pretty well) while tackling my changing voice.

For me, it is important to build close relationships with my teachers, because when we have a close relationship, it is easier to get along with each other.  It is also important to me to learn about things about my community because it allows me to get along with people better and fit in.  However, the most important thing to me is to develop responsible behaviors that will get me through college, my job and my future adult life.