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.

Surfing in November! (And in Utah!)

Well this week was a perfect week and I had so much fun. After my short week of school I had to waste time until my best friend flew in on his airplane really late. So my best friend moved to Tennessee the summer of my sixth grade year. It is tradition that he comes out to visit every Christmas and the summer when school gets out. So this year they decided that instead of coming for Christmas they would want to come for Thanksgiving so they could experience their first Tennessee Christmas. So he flew out on Tuesday and he was going to spend that night at my house. So his plane came in at 11:30 and he got to my house at midnight. Then he was all hyper because he was all excited to be here and stuff. So he got here we talked then I convinced him to go to sleep. Then the next morning we got up and went surfing. I don’t know how many of you have been to the Salomon Center that I mentioned in my last blog. But that’s where we did it. They have this thing called Flowrider. It’s this platform thing that the shoot jets of water over. Then you jump onto it and the moving water makes it like you surfing. That’s the best way I can explain it. Anyway it was so much fun. First I did the boogie boarding. You lie on this boogie board and jump on. The water shoots underneath you and you stay relatively still. Then you can just sit and “go with the flow” (ha ha ha ha) or you can try to do tricks and stuff. I managed to do a barrel roll. Then if you biff it they powerful water flow will throw you up into the air. Then you hit these drain things that hurt. But it’s worth it. I can do the boogie board well but I still have a hard time with the surfing part of it. I can stand up for a little while then I always will fall. So after all that fun was over my friend wanted to go to Crown Burger for lunch. Then after that we went to another friends house. Then later that night went to see the Bourne Ultimatum. It was really good and I really liked it. Then the next morning was Thanksgiving. After I dropped my friend of at his grandmas I went to my own grandmas for my fist Thanksgiving dinner. Then ill be you can guess what I did there. EAT and EAT. Then after that we started the long drive to Draper where my other grandma was having her dinner. So yes my family goes to two dinners on Thanksgiving. Then guess what I did there. We ate again, ate some more. So anyway there is my week. My super uber fun week (there is your word of the day). So if you have a lot of money laying around go do Flowrider its worth it!!

Boring Week

Well once again another boring week goes by. But next week will be way fun. So I will wait to tell that to you next week when it happens. So on Monday this week my parents went to the Jazz game with some friends. They got to have this really fancy buffet with Prime Rib and Shrimp and all this stuff in a suite. I was mad I couldn’t go. So instead my grandma came over and we ate pizza and ice cream as we watched Evan Almighty. It actually didn’t turn out to be a very bad night. Tuesday I went to Primary Children’s Hospital to deliver some quilts. My friend for his eagle project made quilts and we went and delivered them to the sick kids. On Wednesday I went to the last little bet of the Honors English party got some ice cream then left. Then I really didn’t do much the rest of the day. I drove my mom and my brother to my brother’s basketball practice then drove back home and did homework. Then on Thursday I did nothing the whole night. Wow really boring isn’t it. Well that leaves me to Friday. I got up went to school oh then I got checked out 11:00 to go to the Layton High Football game. We met my grandpa at Crown Burger is Salt Lake to eat lunch. Then after we ate we started our way up the traffic filled hills up to Rice-Eccles. We got there about half hour early and it was still packed. There were people all over the place and we had a hard time finding a place to sit. But we ended up sitting on the fifty yard line a little way up there up still they were really good seats. So we watched the game (too bad they lost I really wanted them to win) the drove home afterwards. On the way home we had to stop at the store to get some groceries. We happened to pass the exit ramp that the team was getting of on the bus. So once the three school buses passed through the intersection six cop cars and a fire truck pulled out onto the road, around the busses. They turned on their lights and sirens and paraded the school bus through the city to the school in celebration. I thought that was cool that they did that even though they lost. So anyway then on Saturday I got up slaved away in the yard doing lots of yard work. Then after that I went to my little brothers basketball game and came home to read my book for the term project in Cobia. That was my way fun week. But I PROMISE that my next blog will be tons better because I have a lot of fun things planned for the new week.

Fun Fun Fun

This week I went to the Solomon Center twice. For those of you who don’t know what that is that is the place in Ogden that took the place of the mall. It has the Indoor Skydiving, Surfing, Rock Climbing, Arcade, Bowling Alley and places to eat. So on Monday since we didn’t have school my family decided to go there and eat lunch and watch all the fun. So we got there wandered around the arcade and went to eat pizza at the Pizza factory. I got the humungo cinnamon and sugar breadtwist (you know those little breadsticks they twist on a stick) and had a hard time eating it because it was so big. Then after I managed to eat the rather large bread thing and my pizza my family wandered up stairs to where they have Ifly, the indoor skydiving. The best way I can explain it to you is there is this big glass tube with a really big fan in the bottom of it. Then they turn up the fan so the wind is well over 100mph. We really wanted to watch somebody try it out and while we were waiting this really old couple walked into the room. They got on the funny looking jumpsuits prepared to go fly. I was like “They are going to fly!” It really surprised me that this old couple would do something so daring. So as the workers fired up the giant fan and the old guy went first. He just jumped into the giant tube and started floating in mid air. It was amazing it looked like so much fun. So after the old guy went it was his wife’s turn. She was scared to death. You could tell because the whole time before she went she had this horrified look on her face. But I think it turned our really well because it seemed like she had a lot of fun. So then the guy went again and he was doing tricks the whole time. He was actually pretty good I could tell that he has done it before. It was funny because the air was blowing the skin on their face and it looked really funny. So then after that we went to watch the surfing. That looks like so much fun also. I really want to do it for a young men’s activity. I had a planning meeting at the Hoskins house, and suggested it to him. We will see if he will let us do it. Oh and by the way Bro. Hoskins is my scoutmaster. (Hoskins had Mr. Thompson and Mrs. Cobia when he was in school and is good friends with Mrs. McEwen.) Anyway I watched all of these ex-surfer dudes from California rent the place to try it out. I looked like so much fun. My little brother has done if for a birthday party and he loved it. I think that I am going to gather a bunch of friends up over Thanksgiving and rent the place. So if you are my friend start saving your money cause chances are I will be calling you soon. Then after we watched them we went home. Then when I went back on Thursday I did the same thing but this time ate at Costa Vida and did the same thing. It was way fun.

My Week... Again

Well once again nothing special has happened to me over the week or weekend so far. Or nothing else that I have wanted to talk about or share with you. So that means yes I am going to tell you about my week again. Yes even over UEA weekend and Halloween I still have nothing exciting to tell you. Here we go, Monday I slept in then I got up and read The Count all morning because I was hurrying to finish it by Wednesday so I could get all my AR points by the end of the term. So after I read all morning my dad my little brother and I went golfing. After we got back I just stayed home and read some more. Then on Tuesday my dad had to go to Portland on a business trip early in the morning. I got up read some more of my book while my brother was a Basketball practice. Then they got back we ate a Crown Burger then went to Provo for my brother’s soccer game. Then I came home and read even more to finish the book. Then the next day I got up went to school came home and pretty much did nothing the whole night. It was the most boring Halloween ever! I came home went to the store, ate dinner, passed out candy to fifteen trick or treaters since my parents wont let me go trick or treating anymore.. I think that Halloween is becoming a lost holiday. I don’t know about your neighborhood but mine was dead. Nobody was out trick or treating. I remember when we used to spend forty dollars on candy but now its like three bags and that’s enough. So after that terribly boring night I came home and went to bed early. Then on Thursday I came to school went to the Basketball game and saw the win against Mueller Park. Then came home and did nothing once again. (You probably could have guessed that because of the things I have bored you with above.) Then on Friday I came home sat around home and instead of going to the Layton game like I have been for all the home games. I decided to stay home and watch it on T.V. since it was on because they are in the state tournament. (Layton is the best and we are going to win and be the best in the state of Utah!) Then after that I ate dinner then went to be early again for like the fifth time this week. Then on Saturday I got up ate breakfast, then my mom decided that she wanted to see Hairspray at the Kaysville Theater. And she decided that she was going to take the whole family with her. So me my dad and my brother went along with here event though we weren’t really excited about the movie she picked out. But it actually was pretty good. The funniest thing during the whole movie was my dad. He laughed the whole way through it. I really don’t know what was so funny but apparently he thought it was funny. I don’t know. Well that was my week see you in another seven days!