Almost Christmas!!

Well I think the most exciting thing about this week is just the anticipation of Christmas. Christmas comes and goes so fast you really don’t have time to enjoy. I know my Christmas is very busy. We are usually gone all day except for a few hours in the morning to open presents. That’s why Christmas Eve is usually a lot more fun to me then Christmas day. You can still kind of relax and you have all day to be excited. Just to sit and think about the presents you will be getting and the presents you are giving is fun. I always like to think about what I have got in the past and how much fun I had playing with them on Christmas morning. I love giving, though I always definitely love to receive gifts I think is way fun to see the people’s faces when they open the present you gave them. This Christmas I participated in two Sub for Santas. The first one was for Young Mens. Our scout leader said that we couldn’t use any of the churches budget. So we had to come up with our own way to make money. We decided that we would take things that we didn’t use anymore and sell them on ebay. They were up for bid for a week and we ended up getting almost four hundred dollars for all of our stuff. That was a lot of money. There are three kids. One boy our age and two little kids like less than five years old. Last week we went shopping to Target to get all of the items. We spent four hundred dollars in presents and food to give to the family. Then Sunday my Young Mens group got together to wrap the presents and make the dinner so we could drop it off that night. It was fun really fun actually just to get together to talk and just have fun. So we cooked dinner and as soon as it was done we gave it to the family. I personally didn’t go because they wouldn’t let me. Since this person currently goes to our school and chances are I know him they didn’t want it to be awkward for me or for the kid to know that I knew that he was really poor and we had to give him Christmas if that makes any sense. After the dinner and presents got dropped off we ate a Christmas dinner ourselves that our leader made. We talked and had a good time then went home. So as usual as everybody says just remember the true meaning of Christmas. Also remember those who are less fortunate than us. We have it pretty good getting a lot of the things we want. There are lots of people out there that have a hard time just affording to eat and really just plain stay alive. I know on Christmas morning I will just be thinking about the family that we gave Christmas to and the joy that they are having because of a few kids.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Tubachristmas!!

This week I had a lot of tuba playing. We rehearsed a lot for the band concert. I had to stay after school Monday, Tuesday and then I had a concert on Wednesday night. The concert went really well I thought. Then again tomorrow (Monday) we have an assembly where guess what. We are performing again twice, at First assembly and second assembly. Like I mentioned last week Saturday was Tubachristmas at the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City. It is where a bunch of tuba players from all around Utah and even some from all around the county get together to perform Christmas music for the public. The past little while it has been at the Gateway next to the fountain. This year was the 34th performance in Utah. I have played in it for the past two years and plan to keep playing in it. It all starts with a rehearsal in side that really really old high school I think its West High. Then after the rehearsal we went shopping around in the mall. I just wandered around killing time until the performance. Then we were sitting on some benches next to the fountain when this lady comes out of the Apple store pushing this cart around with two really nice computers on it. She was an employee for Apple and was taking the new computers to this lady’s van. She had bought the computers and the Apple lady was there to load them into her car. So as she was crossing the street in her really big high heels (that clomp really loud) she hit a bump and the computer on the top goes falling off the cart and goes splat on the ground. “Oh no!” Cries the Apple lady as she rushes over to pick up the fallen machine. (She wasn’t the brightest person ever you could tell this by the way she said oh no.) After she places the computer back onto the cart and finishes wheeling the computers to the lady’s van. Then she opens up the back of the van loads in the computer and the lady drives away. I couldn’t believe it. I would have expected the lady to go back into the store to get another one because she threw the other on the ground but no she still just gave it to the person who bought it. So after that whole incident I went and performed successfully and went out to Crown Burger after. Then I went to the dance thing that night. It was my second one but I plan to go to them all. They are having a dancing contest in a few months. It is a Latin theme. I will probably enter. We will see I willll keep you updated and let you know about my dancing Ha Ha Ha Ha

Movies, Pancakes, Tubas and More!

Saturday was a crazy but fun day. I had a ward Christmas party in the morning that started at nine o’clock. But before that I had a meeting I had to go to that started at seven o clock. That’s really early on a Saturday morning. So after that we spent all day running errands that needed to be done. My little brother had a basketball game at five thirty so we went to that then straight afterwards I went to the mall. I can never go to the mall and just look around with our finding something that I like. Then when I find that something I like I always buy it. That’s why I can’t go to the mall to often or else I would have spent all my money. Anyway as I was wandering around there my friend called me and asked if I wanted to go see a movie with him and his dad. I told him yes and at about 8:45 they cam and picked me up. We went to go see “The Golden Compass”. It was very interesting but I have to say that I enjoyed it. It’s about these people from like another planet or something, and their souls live outside of their body in the form of an animal. Then this evil lady shows up and starts separating the souls form their bodies. I don’t know it was kind of strange but it was still pretty good. Then after that it was like 11:35 at night and we decided that we were hungry. We were driving along then we decided that we wanted to go to IHOP. I was shocked how busy it was. There were lots of people eating and when we were leaving out the door there was a line of people waiting for a table. I was amazed that people would even go out that late but let alone to go eat! So anyway it was like way fun and they had way good food. He wants to go see another movie next week so maybe we will have a ton of fun again then too. Oh and speaking of next week, its Tubachristmas. Its where a bunch of tuba players from around Utah go and play Christmas music at the Gateway for all the holiday shoppers. Since I play the tuba im going to go play with the tuba band. This will be my second Tubachristmas. I went last year and had a blast. I usually go play in the concert then go do a little shopping my self a little later. (Speaking of going to the mall and always spending money. Ha Ha Ha) Last year at Tubachristmas we saw Matt Harpring from the Utah Jazz doing some shopping. It should be way fun again this year as long as it doesn’t snow or rain on us. Which would be really bad since its outside by the fountain. In case you want to come it starts at 1:00 at the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake. Just look for the really big shiny instruments by the fountain! (Its extra credit for band if you come too!)

It Snowed!

Wow I can’t believe it is almost Christmas. Weird. I can’t believe it snowed, so much too. Weird. I don’t know if I like the snow though it’s kind of nice for a change. I think if it’s going to be cold it should just snow. I don’t want it to look nice and warm outside but when you go out and feel its really 15 degrees that’s the worst. So anyway changing the subject from weather. Last term I entered and essay contest for the assignment of this class. I had no intentions of winning at all. I wrote it in like five minutes at 12:30 at night because I was tired and wanted to go to bed. So I kind of just threw something together to get it done. Well it turns out that they accepted my essay to be published in a book. So here is my essay, what’s going to be published in the book.

School Lunch
Sometimes I think that School lunch is terrible. I think that it is a waste of money and even sometimes a waste of time. Sometimes I like the food the serve in the lunch line, but I don’t agree we should charge a whole two dollars for it. Then there are other days that lunch is just plain gross. Every year the school lunch prices just go up. Now wouldn’t someone think that with the more money would lead to adding new food to the menu? Or at least give you more of it? We pay a ridiculous amount of money for very small portions of nasty food. KUTV 2 reports that state nutrition services visited every school in the state of Utah and came out with grades on the lunch program. Jordan School District in Salt Lake City an F while Davis School District got a barely passing C-. I thought it was a good thing we were failing because we might get good food. But the reason they failed was they say the food isn’t healthy enough! The reason they are feeding us small portions of unpleasant food is because it’s healthy! The state decided that they need a more vegan style menu. I wonder how can inspectors can come to schools and get mad because the vending machine purchase rate is too high. People like to eat food worth eating. Lets make it better.

So if you scroll way way way down in my blog list (or just click on the "School Lunch" heading above the essay) this may look a little familiar to you. Well that’s because that’s all it is, just that blog modified to fit the rules. I don’t know if it will make a difference in the world. Whether its better lunch or just letting us keep the vending machines I don’t know. Or maybe it won’t make a difference at all. Maybe I will win the one thousand dollar prize money. That may be good enough for me because then that will buy my all the lunch I want when I can drive to get my own lunch in 8 months instead of relying on school lunch all the time.