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My New and Improved Blog

January 28, 2014 / Martin / 0 Comments

Well, this is the new and improved (almost) blog about my life as a teenager and (pretty soon) an adult. You could see that I changed the website address, the title, the background, and other small details. I am still adding changes to the blog. I can’t wait till I finish this blog.

You are welcome to look around my blog and hope that you enjoy it.

Long time no talk

November 27, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

Hello everyone. It has been about maybe 5 months or more (I was not keeping track of how long since I have last blogged on my blog). But it is good to be blogging again. I am been busy with school, my cross country program, friends, family, and video games.

I couldn’t believe that the first trimester of my school has finished already. Being a sophomore is actually easier than being a freshman, because I know the feeling of high school, made better plans, and I knew the school better. Things have gone crazy for me and some other friends of mine in school. We had a day when half of the school did not have power because of a wind storm. We somehow have school, but a lot of people left the school and went home, they were mainly seniors since they have their own transportation. I stayed at school and got somethings done that I did not have to worry about. I finished my algebra chapter test and the worksheets from other classes. I had finished all my final examines last week and this week. It was a relief to not worry about too much on the finals since I know that I did my best, studied everything, and did everything for this school year. I have gained a lot of knowledge from all my classes and I am graceful for that. I want to thank my first trimester teachers for their efforts. I can’t wait until I see them again in the second and/or third trimester. I have an empty mind for more learning experience and my mind buds are very hungry for that knowledge. For now, I am on my thanksgiving break and I am relaxing with my family. Pretty soon, I know I have to get my mind back on and get ready for the second trimester that is coming after this week. I hope my friends are having fun on their break and hope they are ready for the next trimester.

I hope that everyone had a successful first part section of their school. But get ready, because your time in school is not done and you have to get your mind working again for more learning. Enjoy your break and blog you all later.

-Bro

Summer part deux (two)

June 26, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

Hey everyone. I told you I would blog today. Hehe. It is cool here right now (thanks to the rain last night) I hope everyone is having a nice cool summer (I don’t like the afternoons, it gets very hot) Time is going very fast once you don’t count the days (just like when I was not counting the days left of schools, and boy it just past when I am not looking). Right now, things are going smoothly, what about you? AT 6 today, I am going run with my friends in my high school cross country camp to get us back into running.

Well I don’t have anythings else to today. Have fun today and stay cool to all the people out there.

Summer

June 26, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

Hello everyone. Sorry that I have not been blogging for the last two months. You know what session it is right? Every teenagers wanted this time to be themselves, it would be summer break. I am enjoying my summer with my friends, family, and myself. I won’t be able to blog for the next two weeks or more after next week. I am going to a summer camp in Colorado with my little sister to visit our grand-mother. I can’ t wait to see her again. I hope everyone has planned what they are doing this summer. We have only about one, two, or three more months until school year would be back on and learn many new things for us in the future. I hope everyone is enjoying their time. I will bog again tomorrow. Talk to you all tomorrow. See ya.

Long time

May 19, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

It has been a long time since I blog. Sorry about that. I was busy with school. My dad went to Australia for three weeks. This is his third. This Wednesday, he is coming home. I can’t wait until I hear his adventure in Australia. He went to Australia once, this is his second time.

My mom is working as usual at the Radisson. They serve good breakfast, trust me, they have good bacon. My little sister is just the same. Right now, she is at her friend’s birthday party. I hope she smiles and have a good time there.

Next week, Memorial Day is coming. Loy Norrix is going to march on that day. I am very excited to march again this year. I really enjoy marching. Since I am in marching band and symbolic band. I play the alto saxophone for those band. It is my third year playing the alto saxophone.

Now, the weather is very good here. It is warm, sunny, and it is Spring. I am glad that winter is over. I will continue on blogging and do it more often. Hope everyone is enjoying so far. Summer break is coming very soon for everyone. I hope everyone has a plan. Bye everyone.

Just another week

May 4, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

Hello everyone. It is been a while since I posted on my blog. The weather is great, warm, and cool. It does get really hot in the afternoons, but cool in the even. I hope the weather is good for you all.

School has been the same. I have homework over this weekend, one is a project and two are for studying. I did get a head start on it yesterday. I bet everyone at my school do not like to have homework over the weekends. School is school. School are classes that teach you stuff that could be used in the future.

My family are busy. My dad flew to Australia with some college students, my mom is at the Radison work for the morning job. My sister is at her friend’s house playing. I am here alone playing on the computer. I don’t know what you people are doing, but I hope it is not nothing.

Thursday was the best day of this week. I had a concert at my high school and it was hot. The middle school kids performed first. They first did solo/ensembles, then they perform their full band. Then it was our turn to do solo/ensembles. After everyone was done, the audience get to get a snack, high school clothing, or just hang around while the jazz band performed. I was the alto saxophonist that did all the solos. It was my first time doing solos. It was fun as heck. A lot of people were enjoying it. I even stand up to do my solos. We only got to play two songs because we want to get the concert going. Everyone wanted more from the jazz band, but we will do more in the future. The stage was set up for us to perform and it was great and hot. We were sweaty (well, I was the most sweaty). In the end, we got the people to have a great time. I love that day.

I hope next week would go good for me and you all. Talk to you later. See ya.

Back in school.

April 18, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

Hello, I am back. Yep, it’s raining and it’s boring, we all want a sunny day. Here in Michigan, it was pouring frogs (not actually) and thunder wanted to play with us. Though it did give the grass a nice fresh of water.

Now to school. Ever thing is back to normal. I am tending to my normal classes, seeing my friends, working well with my teachers, and learning something new everyday. In French 1 B, we are learning how to say family members in french and about France for wedding, holidays, and pets. In Geometry, we had to do a problem that is a triangle. They gave us coordinates that forms a right triangle. I had to look through my notes so that I could find an equation that I learned in Geometry A. It is the Distance Formula. After I found the lengths, I had to find the angles by ratios like Sin. Cosine and Tan. They are used for right triangles only. I had to basically put what I learned last week and this week about how to find lengths and angles with the ratios and the Law of Sine or Cosine. I finished it, now I have to wait till tomorrow to give out our answers. Now in Biology B, we have a project on making an analogy on a cell. I have a partner for this. We came up with an idea of what analogy we would use. The project is due on Tuesday, which gives us enough time to plan and do the project. Next class, World History B, we watched a video about World War 2 propaganda cartoons. Some people were explaining different types and why they were used. I did watch an example in English B called “Education to Death”. It shows about a life of a German kid. I did learn a lot from them. What surprised me was that they were made by Walt Disney. I didn’t know that he makes cartoons in World War 2. Now final class, band. We didn’t play very much music, actually, we only played two musics. He was working with the percussion. They had to fix some things in the music. In the end, we did get to play two songs, Hey Jude and The Final Countdown.

Once school finished, I just come home and play the piano. At 6:00, I had saxophone lessons. I practice new scales and other things that has to do with jazz.

I enjoyed my day. I hope the rain doesn’t make everyone’s day low. Have a good day.

The Spring Break

April 13, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

Who had a great spring beak? I know that I had a fantastic spring break. What I got to do was fly to Vancouver, British Columbia to visit my aunt. It is located in Canada, so my parents researched a flight to right on that flies to Vancouver. The airport that I took was O’hare Airport, which is in Chicago, Illinois. I flew by myself, since the tickets are really expensive. And if you know who flies to foreign countries, you have to go through condoms, which they ask you if you are bringing anything that is legally and why you are going there. I was nervous that they would ask me questions that I don’t know. In the end though, I was able to answer to the questions and get to the entrance where my aunt was waiting for me.

I found her and she was really glad to me and can’t wait to spend time with me. While we were still at the airport, we bought some tickets at some locations that Betsy and I would go to. After we bought the tickets, we started our day by riding the train to downtown.When we got to her apartment, I put my stuff up, got in the car, and drove to the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanly Parks. While at the Vancouver Aquarium, we saw seals, dolphins, fishes (some was looking at nothing and I was trying to imitate them), baloga whales, and many other sea animals. It was great. 🙂

We finished looking at the sea animals, we drove around Stanley Park, to Spanish Banks, then to Queen Elma Peter Park. The view was amazing. At one of the parks, we saw the Lions Gate Bridge. It was really long. Trust me.

Here are the rest of my time with my aunt since it would take me a long time to talk about.

Day 2: Day 3:

Woke up really early                                  *Woke up at 8
Drove to the Ferries                                   *Caught the trolley
Took ferry to Vancouver Island                    *Got the bus to Capolano Sus. Bridge
Drove around a bit (lost on purpose)           *Cap. Sus. Bridge/Rainforest
Royal B.C. Museum                                    *Treetop adventure and the Cliff Walk!
Ate at Milestone’s                                       *Hopped on the trolley
Underwater Sea Garden                             *Hopped off Trolley at Granville Island
Bug Zoo– through the Empress Hotel          *Caught the water taxi to take us over to Science World
The Miniature World                                  *Science World
Soda Shop! (Brown Cow)                         *Took water taxi- store- pizza
Headed back to the ferry                            *Movie Night (2)
Ferry to Vancouver

Day 4:

Slept in
Routed bikes (Yaletown)
Rode bikes around Stanly Park and Downtown and Science World and Olympic Village
Returned bikes
Water taxi to Granville for lunch
LUNCH! -Crepe
Water taxi to Science World

Well people, that was what I did with my aunt. On day 5, I got on the plane and flew back to the United States. I drove my little sister and my dad back home. It was 98 miles, the second longest drive that I ever did. I hope that you people had a great spring break.

Free day

March 25, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

One dark, cool day, a boy named Martin was about to go to sleep until his father said that there is no school tomorrow. Martin said “What!”, “Yes. The principle said that the water pipes were frozen. He sent an email to everyone and called to let them know that there is no school on March 25.”, dad explained. In my mind, I was not happy because I enjoy going to school everyday. I learn from my teachers. I bet that some students are happy that there is no school today. Time goes really fast everyday, so today is going to be like an ordinary day.

I got some things going on today, like researching about some actors from “Fresh Prince of Bel-A” and help me mom bake some cookies

The main actor that made the show funny in “Fresh Prince of Bel-A” was Will. My dad wanted me to see if the other actors are still being actors or join in any other movies. Or quit being an actor and going back to a normal life or so. I know that Will has been in many movies like “Man in Black 1, 2, and 3. Also I think he is the voice of Donkey in all of the Shrek movies. He just wanted me to see what things has turned out for the actors.

My mom is going to make three different snacks for my dad’s meeting. I am going to help her. My dad created a business starter called Pitch Zoo. I have been to the first meeting. We had a good amount of people who joined in. What is going to happen is that a person would be given three minutes to present their idea to us. After those three minutes are up, people are allowed to ask questions. They have five minutes to ask questions before the next person comes up and present their idea. Every speaker would get a Pitched Zoo t-shirt for presenting their idea. The meeting is about one hour. Today is the second meeting. I hope more people would come to the meeting. I will sometimes join in the meeting. Maybe even present my idea that I am working on (My dad got the idea. He wants me to make the website. It is called Pick-n-Run.).

The weather is cool and windy today. The weather report said that there might be a chance of snow today. Lets hope that it won’t snow heavily. I really want spring to come so that I could get back into running. Blog ya later.

The new week

March 22, 2013 / Martin / 0 Comments

This week has been great. I get to go to my new classes with the teachers that I know from the 2nd trimester and the 1st trimester. I have French 1 B, Geometry B, Biology B, World History B, and Symbolic band. I like my teachers that I have, they are funny, nice, understandable, and good at communicating with you. We are going to settle down and get into the trimester. We are close to the end of the trimester, which is going by quick when you don’t pay attention to the days, which I don’t like it to go that fast.

The weather here is still cold here and I wish that winter would just be over with, I want Spring to come so that I could run in the cool or warm day. I am being to wish that winter here is not my type. I know that my mom hates that cold here. She would wear lairs. Hehe. I hope you people are staying warm or cool right now.