Hey Flies
So I didn't think that I would have to do one last post for the year but I do so sorry to bother y'all.
This post is going to be fairly lazily written because it's a Friday and I went to sleep at like 2 am last night and took an AP Human Geography test this morning which I'm pretty sure I did poorly. Btw Social Studies/History/Geography is my least favorite out of all class subjects.
This post is about me reflecting on my blog.
This blog was something that I was posted on last minute. To be honest I won't continue this blog after this year is over unless school calls for me to do so again.
Don't get me wrong. I don't hate this blog. It's just something that I had to do for school and now that this assignment is going to be turned in I'm not going to come back unless necessary. I just have more fun things to do than sit at this computer and type away 500 words or so. And the motivation for this to become a hobby just isn't there.
I don't think this blog has really changed me as a person. It was a place where I could share what I wanted because the only person who looks at this is my Honors English teacher Mr. Parker who's really funny and always has a good attitude whether he's having a good morning or not.
This blog went through a few updates during it's life.
The first one was going from me saying what's on my bucket list to me saying what my day was and then it lead to me either watching Hulu or Youtube. This was because the research was tedious and writing 500 words about a place to go is somewhat hard unless you're just randomly spouting facts which nobody wants to read.
The second update was going from the previous^ to me rambling on about whatever I want. I just talked about what I found cool or funny or whatever. This was easier to write 500 words on because I could just make it up as I went along and whatever I thought I had to filter out all the bad stuff and just type it out.
I don't think I'll come back to this blog so this concludes my blogging journey.
Have fun in life. Laugh at everything. Goodbye Flies :)
Friday, May 13, 2016
Friday, May 6, 2016
LAST POST
Hey flies....
So it's getting towards that time of the year where there's finals and AP tests and projects that are all due on the same day of the same week.
This is my final post on this blog probably.
This is kinda awkward.
I guess I''l share a few things that are on my mind. Mostly this is just going to be me ranting about people and how absolutely idiotic we are.
RANT: People think that they alone control their lives.
DEAR GOD PEOPLE YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE. And if you think that moving the the wilderness and hunting your own food and providing your own homing and water is being completely in control of your life well wrong again. If you do that you are (depending on your situation back in civilization) even less in control of your life. This is because you are constantly battling the elements. I severely doubt most of you can make a heating system that doesn't involve fire so the cold will be one of the first things to get you in the night. Speaking of things that get you in the night: predators. Humans may think that we are at the top of the food chain but we are not the only species that mastered the area they live in. There aren't many predators in the area of Utah that I live in because we have hunted the main predator, the mountain lion, near extinction so the only thing that could kill you is the occasional snake or coyote. But in other places around the states there are things like bears which aren't aggressive unless you threaten them but once you do there's really not much you can do. Rangers say play dead but I'm not sure ow that would actually help. Bears would think it peculiar if suddenly the prey they were chasing, moved to the ground and stopped moving mostly.
So when you turds are listening to advice from a friend about something, instead of being cheeky and stubborn maybe listen to them and think about their advice. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT SAY "STOP TRYING TO CONTROL MY LIFE". THIS IMPLIES THAT YOU THINK YOU DO HAVE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. AND ALSO THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO CONTROL YOUR LIFE. THEY ARE TRYING TO HELP YOU IMPROVE YOUR LIFE 90% OF THE TIME.
SHORTER RANT: Tell people what's wrong if something is wrong
People. If someone asks you if something is wrong and you say no we will hope that we can trust you to tell us if there is actually something wrong. We can not read your mind so I don't know why people get mad when someone asks is they are ok and they say its nothing and then your friend who asks you goes back to doing whatever they were doing. They took the time out of their day that they will never get back in order to ask you how you are doing mentally and if there's something you want to talk about. If you say no and there is something not only are you lying to them but you are misusing the kindness that they are giving to you.
I hope those of you who see this will take a step back in life and see if your friends are ok. If they say there's nothing say ok but make it clear that they can trust you and that they can talk with you about things. If they never trusted you then there wouldn't really be a chance of them opening up to you would there.
Goodbye (maybe) Flies. I hope you guys liked this little thing I made...
So it's getting towards that time of the year where there's finals and AP tests and projects that are all due on the same day of the same week.
This is my final post on this blog probably.
This is kinda awkward.
I guess I''l share a few things that are on my mind. Mostly this is just going to be me ranting about people and how absolutely idiotic we are.
RANT: People think that they alone control their lives.
DEAR GOD PEOPLE YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE. And if you think that moving the the wilderness and hunting your own food and providing your own homing and water is being completely in control of your life well wrong again. If you do that you are (depending on your situation back in civilization) even less in control of your life. This is because you are constantly battling the elements. I severely doubt most of you can make a heating system that doesn't involve fire so the cold will be one of the first things to get you in the night. Speaking of things that get you in the night: predators. Humans may think that we are at the top of the food chain but we are not the only species that mastered the area they live in. There aren't many predators in the area of Utah that I live in because we have hunted the main predator, the mountain lion, near extinction so the only thing that could kill you is the occasional snake or coyote. But in other places around the states there are things like bears which aren't aggressive unless you threaten them but once you do there's really not much you can do. Rangers say play dead but I'm not sure ow that would actually help. Bears would think it peculiar if suddenly the prey they were chasing, moved to the ground and stopped moving mostly.
So when you turds are listening to advice from a friend about something, instead of being cheeky and stubborn maybe listen to them and think about their advice. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT SAY "STOP TRYING TO CONTROL MY LIFE". THIS IMPLIES THAT YOU THINK YOU DO HAVE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. AND ALSO THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO CONTROL YOUR LIFE. THEY ARE TRYING TO HELP YOU IMPROVE YOUR LIFE 90% OF THE TIME.
SHORTER RANT: Tell people what's wrong if something is wrong
People. If someone asks you if something is wrong and you say no we will hope that we can trust you to tell us if there is actually something wrong. We can not read your mind so I don't know why people get mad when someone asks is they are ok and they say its nothing and then your friend who asks you goes back to doing whatever they were doing. They took the time out of their day that they will never get back in order to ask you how you are doing mentally and if there's something you want to talk about. If you say no and there is something not only are you lying to them but you are misusing the kindness that they are giving to you.
I hope those of you who see this will take a step back in life and see if your friends are ok. If they say there's nothing say ok but make it clear that they can trust you and that they can talk with you about things. If they never trusted you then there wouldn't really be a chance of them opening up to you would there.
Goodbye (maybe) Flies. I hope you guys liked this little thing I made...
RANDOMOSITIES THAT I THINK ARE COOL
THING #1: TIME.
I love thinking about time. Time is something that is unchangeable thus far. Time is infinite and the time that we are around is finite. Time works differently in different perspectives. Ever wondered why you can never swat a fly?? That is because for them time is moving faster. By this I mean a few seconds for us humans could be half a minute for them. To flies we are enormous and slow. This is all relativity and this knowledge is comparable to the tallest drop of water turning to ice on an iceberg.
There are theoretical particles called "tachyons". These particles are ones that move faster than light, which as of right now is the confirmed universal speed limit. It is theorized that if we were able to partially control tachyons then we would be able to see the future. The theory is that moving faster than light is the key to traveling through time. Since they move faster than light you would only see two images of it. A premiere of it arriving, and a afterimage of it going away. Learn more about tachyons here.
Another bit about relativity is that the closer you are to a black hole, the faster time will be moving relative to everyone else. This theory is shown in the movie "Interstellar" when they have to travel to a planet that orbits a black hole for 1 hour. By the time they get back to the ship, the character who stayed on the ship says about 7 years has passed. Surely this can't be possible right? Wrong. This theory is really haze and I don't quite understand it yet but it has something to do with gravity.
THING #2: GRAVITY
Gravity is a force everyone is familiar with. We all live with it and accept that it's there. We know that planets and stars have gravitational fields and somewhere there's a source and that the farther away you get from the source the less effect gravity will have on you. However nobody knows how it works and how to manipulate it. Don't get me wrong. We know how to explain in great detail how it affects things. But we only have theories about what causes it. One theory is: the more mass you have the more gravity you emit. That's really the only theory that I know of so I'm just going to stop this post here and let you think about time and gravity and if I've inspired you to want to learn something new because it interests you then that's amazing.
Later Flies!
I love thinking about time. Time is something that is unchangeable thus far. Time is infinite and the time that we are around is finite. Time works differently in different perspectives. Ever wondered why you can never swat a fly?? That is because for them time is moving faster. By this I mean a few seconds for us humans could be half a minute for them. To flies we are enormous and slow. This is all relativity and this knowledge is comparable to the tallest drop of water turning to ice on an iceberg.
There are theoretical particles called "tachyons". These particles are ones that move faster than light, which as of right now is the confirmed universal speed limit. It is theorized that if we were able to partially control tachyons then we would be able to see the future. The theory is that moving faster than light is the key to traveling through time. Since they move faster than light you would only see two images of it. A premiere of it arriving, and a afterimage of it going away. Learn more about tachyons here.
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| This is a picture of a tachyon. I don't understand it either so bear with me. Kudos to here for creating this image. |
THING #2: GRAVITY
Gravity is a force everyone is familiar with. We all live with it and accept that it's there. We know that planets and stars have gravitational fields and somewhere there's a source and that the farther away you get from the source the less effect gravity will have on you. However nobody knows how it works and how to manipulate it. Don't get me wrong. We know how to explain in great detail how it affects things. But we only have theories about what causes it. One theory is: the more mass you have the more gravity you emit. That's really the only theory that I know of so I'm just going to stop this post here and let you think about time and gravity and if I've inspired you to want to learn something new because it interests you then that's amazing.
Later Flies!
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Summer!
Hey Flies!
This post is about summer and what mine is going to look like.
Ahhhhh summer. The time when school's out. It's hot outside. And you're inside wrapped in a blanket watching Netflix. So sad..... Don't you want to do something with your summer. Something that could help you in the future. How about get a job?
This summer I'm going to try and get a job. Here are my top picks: and ice cream worker, because everybody wants ice cream when it's hot outside so I'll probably see some friends then; a lifeguard, because then you can get in the tan, and again you'll probably see friends because pools feel extraordinary when it's hot outside; and lastly something to do is bus tables at a nearby restaurant, this would not be the most fun that I've put on he list but it's a good way to build a work ethic and a great experience to have under your belt. To work as an ice cream maker I would work at a place called Cold Stone which is a popular chain creamery. For being a life guard I'd work at either Silver Mountain or the M.A.R.C.
If you guys want to tell me what jobs you're looking to do make a comment. It'f be nice to know that one of you other than my teacher is looking at thus blog😅.
Every summer my family and I go to North Carolina to a place called Ocean Isle where we rent one giant house and stay there at the beach with all of the cousins uncles and aunts from my mother's side of the family. Don't tell my dad this but I like my mom's side of the family way more than my dad's side. Anyway the house we usually stay in is right on a quiet part of the beach which changes quite drastically once my family comes to town. We have tradition that most of us will go out to the nearby putt putt place and do that one night out of the week we stay. This trip has been one of my favorite since I was little.
The other trip that my family and I go on every summer is usually longer than a week. We fly or drive from Utah up to a tiny, little town called Nisswa, Minnesota. It's a few miles away from Brainerd which again you probably haven't heard of. In Nisswa we stay in a lakeside house that been in my family on my dad's side for many generations. The lake it's on is called Lake Pelican. It's a good sized lake. Not super big but also not really small. It's fairly perfect. What we do there is all of the family on my dad's side comes out to it at one point or another during the summer. And by all I mean ALL from my cousins to even my dad's cousins' cousins. It's a blast because we go out on the lake everyday and do things like: tubing, water skiing, and wake boarding. One thing I want to introduce my family to is wake surfing which is like wake boarding in the sense that you have the same relative type of board under your feet but it's much less lower impact on things like your knees and back. And if you fall you're not going 20 mph so it must likely won't hurt.
So that's all I have time for this post. Later Flies!
This post is about summer and what mine is going to look like.
Ahhhhh summer. The time when school's out. It's hot outside. And you're inside wrapped in a blanket watching Netflix. So sad..... Don't you want to do something with your summer. Something that could help you in the future. How about get a job?
This summer I'm going to try and get a job. Here are my top picks: and ice cream worker, because everybody wants ice cream when it's hot outside so I'll probably see some friends then; a lifeguard, because then you can get in the tan, and again you'll probably see friends because pools feel extraordinary when it's hot outside; and lastly something to do is bus tables at a nearby restaurant, this would not be the most fun that I've put on he list but it's a good way to build a work ethic and a great experience to have under your belt. To work as an ice cream maker I would work at a place called Cold Stone which is a popular chain creamery. For being a life guard I'd work at either Silver Mountain or the M.A.R.C.
If you guys want to tell me what jobs you're looking to do make a comment. It'f be nice to know that one of you other than my teacher is looking at thus blog😅.
Every summer my family and I go to North Carolina to a place called Ocean Isle where we rent one giant house and stay there at the beach with all of the cousins uncles and aunts from my mother's side of the family. Don't tell my dad this but I like my mom's side of the family way more than my dad's side. Anyway the house we usually stay in is right on a quiet part of the beach which changes quite drastically once my family comes to town. We have tradition that most of us will go out to the nearby putt putt place and do that one night out of the week we stay. This trip has been one of my favorite since I was little.
The other trip that my family and I go on every summer is usually longer than a week. We fly or drive from Utah up to a tiny, little town called Nisswa, Minnesota. It's a few miles away from Brainerd which again you probably haven't heard of. In Nisswa we stay in a lakeside house that been in my family on my dad's side for many generations. The lake it's on is called Lake Pelican. It's a good sized lake. Not super big but also not really small. It's fairly perfect. What we do there is all of the family on my dad's side comes out to it at one point or another during the summer. And by all I mean ALL from my cousins to even my dad's cousins' cousins. It's a blast because we go out on the lake everyday and do things like: tubing, water skiing, and wake boarding. One thing I want to introduce my family to is wake surfing which is like wake boarding in the sense that you have the same relative type of board under your feet but it's much less lower impact on things like your knees and back. And if you fall you're not going 20 mph so it must likely won't hurt.
So that's all I have time for this post. Later Flies!
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| The house with the squarish pool is one my family and I stay in. I got this picture off of Google Earth |
Sunday, March 20, 2016
TRACK IS AWESOME AND AWFUL PT. 2.5/ THEME UPDATE AGAIN
Anyway getting back to the second meet. It was around 2:45 when we got to Union which was the high school where the second meet was taking place. My friends Jack, Carson, and I went into the school to get changed into our track shorts and jersey. I was so glad that I brought athletic underwear that day because the track shorts are extremely small and my thighs are whiter than a ginger covered in sun lotion. I mean seriously it is pretty and and I need to change that.... or just bring athletic shorts to every meet. Knowing me I'll probably just do the latter. Anyway so we go in the school and Carson and I are getting changed in the mens bathroom with a few others from our team. Once we're done changing we realize that somehow we lost Jack. We started heading towards the field thinking that he probably headed there since e was changed before we got on the bus to Union. We found him on our way there and we all just continued to walk to the track.
When we got to the place we realized IT WAS UN-GODLY WINDY. I MEAN HOLY $Ï€!† THE WIND WAS MOVING LIKE 20-25 MPH. CARSON ACTUALLY GOT MY BLANKET, TIED THE TOP AROUND HIS NECK, GRABBED THE BOTTOM AND JUMPED UP. WHEN HE JUMPED UP THE WIND CARRIED HIM BACK AN INCH OR TWO AND HE SAT IN THE AIR FOR LIKE A SECOND. IT WAS INSANE. So it stayed that windy for the entire meet which was really a pain in the end when the sun set because it got super cold. So in my race the 100 meter I got second against two other people. It wasn't my greatest race because again I stood up right away but it wasn't awful. After our respective race Carson, Jack, and I walked around cheering on other people in races and being cold. We hung out with other people. To name a few: Sydney, Patsy, Katie, and River (All girls). It's usual that if we hang with anyone outside of us that we'd hang with them because there are only three other freshman guys that run track and we don't really talk with the sophomores that often. Nearing the end the freshman girls got all the blankets they could and laid down close to each other making a sort of cuddle pile next to the baseball wall which was made of mesh so it only mostly protected you from the god-awful wind. I laid close to the wall to try and not have to deal with the wind so naturally I was nearby them as well. No I was not in the pile, because I'm a little wimp and I don't the guts for that. One of the girls I'm friends with named Sydney who I'm 75% sure was joking actually told em to come over and lie close to her. I hoped she wasn't kidding but the wussy part of me told me I shouldn't scoot closer so I just blushed and hid my face in my hood. I actually figured out that I like her more than a friend not the bus ride home. So the rest of that evening went on with everyone being cold and hoping the meet would end. The bus ride home was really fun because we stopped to get food which was good because I had run out of cereal. And on the bus my friends Carson, Jack, Sydney, and Haley played "Never Have I Ever" which is a game where you have a certain number of lives and you go around the circle saying something you've never done, and if you've done something someone says they haven't then you lose a life. During this game is when I figured out that I like Sydney. She's smart and funny and pretty. Anyway it was around 10:40 when we got back to the school and 11 p.m. when I got home. Of course I went straight to bed. End.
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Update: Hey Flies. If you haven't already noticed, I haven't been watching Hulu or YouTube at the end of each post. From now on I'm going just blog about whatever I want because I can. I doubt you will mind it because I bet $100 dollars that there isn't a single person that actually follows this blog or even looks at it other than my English Teacher Mr. Parker. So here's to you Mr. Parker, Peace out and sorry this post is kinda long.
When we got to the place we realized IT WAS UN-GODLY WINDY. I MEAN HOLY $Ï€!† THE WIND WAS MOVING LIKE 20-25 MPH. CARSON ACTUALLY GOT MY BLANKET, TIED THE TOP AROUND HIS NECK, GRABBED THE BOTTOM AND JUMPED UP. WHEN HE JUMPED UP THE WIND CARRIED HIM BACK AN INCH OR TWO AND HE SAT IN THE AIR FOR LIKE A SECOND. IT WAS INSANE. So it stayed that windy for the entire meet which was really a pain in the end when the sun set because it got super cold. So in my race the 100 meter I got second against two other people. It wasn't my greatest race because again I stood up right away but it wasn't awful. After our respective race Carson, Jack, and I walked around cheering on other people in races and being cold. We hung out with other people. To name a few: Sydney, Patsy, Katie, and River (All girls). It's usual that if we hang with anyone outside of us that we'd hang with them because there are only three other freshman guys that run track and we don't really talk with the sophomores that often. Nearing the end the freshman girls got all the blankets they could and laid down close to each other making a sort of cuddle pile next to the baseball wall which was made of mesh so it only mostly protected you from the god-awful wind. I laid close to the wall to try and not have to deal with the wind so naturally I was nearby them as well. No I was not in the pile, because I'm a little wimp and I don't the guts for that. One of the girls I'm friends with named Sydney who I'm 75% sure was joking actually told em to come over and lie close to her. I hoped she wasn't kidding but the wussy part of me told me I shouldn't scoot closer so I just blushed and hid my face in my hood. I actually figured out that I like her more than a friend not the bus ride home. So the rest of that evening went on with everyone being cold and hoping the meet would end. The bus ride home was really fun because we stopped to get food which was good because I had run out of cereal. And on the bus my friends Carson, Jack, Sydney, and Haley played "Never Have I Ever" which is a game where you have a certain number of lives and you go around the circle saying something you've never done, and if you've done something someone says they haven't then you lose a life. During this game is when I figured out that I like Sydney. She's smart and funny and pretty. Anyway it was around 10:40 when we got back to the school and 11 p.m. when I got home. Of course I went straight to bed. End.
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Update: Hey Flies. If you haven't already noticed, I haven't been watching Hulu or YouTube at the end of each post. From now on I'm going just blog about whatever I want because I can. I doubt you will mind it because I bet $100 dollars that there isn't a single person that actually follows this blog or even looks at it other than my English Teacher Mr. Parker. So here's to you Mr. Parker, Peace out and sorry this post is kinda long.
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| Here's an update button and I couldn't find the url because it for some reason is blocked. Sorry Mr. P |
TRACK/FIELD IS AWESOME AND AWFUL PT.2
I'm not going to be talking about hurdling or relays because those things don't take part in. I might do a relay in the future but for now I don't. Remember I'm a freshman in high school so I have a while in track to figure out if I want to do a relay or hurdles.
So right now I am a sprinter who does the 100 meter dash. I also do the long jump and the high jump.
The first meet I went to this season was in Tooele which is a good hour or more from Park City. The meet was very late and Track meets take a long time because there are a lot of events that need to happen on the same place so they're right after each other with almost no break in between. This first Track meet was a cool experience and I learned a lot of things: No phones on the track/field, BLOCKS ARE A PAIN IN THE A**, and that you should always bring snacks and a blanket. The snacks are because you WILL get hungry and the blanket is if it gets cold.
For my first race.... it was pretty awful. I was inexperienced with blocks and stood straight up as the gun went off. You don't want to stand straight up when accelerating in a sprint because it makes you less quick which determines the race in a 100 meter dash. In a race like the 3200 meter, which is the high school version of the 3000 meter at the Olympics, you don't need to have a lot of acceleration. You just need to be able to run for a long time. Anyway getting back to my first meet it was pretty uneven full with nothing particularly interesting happening. I only did the one event of 100m of which I got put in a heat with all seniors and one junior. Needless to say I came in last by a very noticeable margin. I got back to my house after the meet around 9:40.
My second meet was one of the best days of my year so far. We got out of school at 12:20 because the meet was in Union which 2+ hours away so that was awesome. The classes I missed that day are Math, which is my favorite academical subject but I hate the class since most of the people hat me for a reason I don't know and I like the teacher as a person but she's not the best teacher. And the second class I missed was Stage Tech which is a class supposed to be one semester long and I took it both semesters so I already knew all the stuff. Continued...
So right now I am a sprinter who does the 100 meter dash. I also do the long jump and the high jump.
The first meet I went to this season was in Tooele which is a good hour or more from Park City. The meet was very late and Track meets take a long time because there are a lot of events that need to happen on the same place so they're right after each other with almost no break in between. This first Track meet was a cool experience and I learned a lot of things: No phones on the track/field, BLOCKS ARE A PAIN IN THE A**, and that you should always bring snacks and a blanket. The snacks are because you WILL get hungry and the blanket is if it gets cold.
For my first race.... it was pretty awful. I was inexperienced with blocks and stood straight up as the gun went off. You don't want to stand straight up when accelerating in a sprint because it makes you less quick which determines the race in a 100 meter dash. In a race like the 3200 meter, which is the high school version of the 3000 meter at the Olympics, you don't need to have a lot of acceleration. You just need to be able to run for a long time. Anyway getting back to my first meet it was pretty uneven full with nothing particularly interesting happening. I only did the one event of 100m of which I got put in a heat with all seniors and one junior. Needless to say I came in last by a very noticeable margin. I got back to my house after the meet around 9:40.
My second meet was one of the best days of my year so far. We got out of school at 12:20 because the meet was in Union which 2+ hours away so that was awesome. The classes I missed that day are Math, which is my favorite academical subject but I hate the class since most of the people hat me for a reason I don't know and I like the teacher as a person but she's not the best teacher. And the second class I missed was Stage Tech which is a class supposed to be one semester long and I took it both semesters so I already knew all the stuff. Continued... |
| Here's a picture of some Running Blocks for those of you who don't know from here |
TRACK/FIELD IS AWESOME AND AWFUL PT.1
Track is a sport that people compete in contests of running and jumping.
The running events are all about getting the fastest time. There are sprints, middle distance races, long distance races, hurdles, and relays. You can find all of this information here.
There are three sprinting events currently held at the Olympics: 100 meter, 200 meter, and 400 meter. The fastest time ever recorded at the Olympics for the 100 meter sprint is 9.63 seconds done by a famous runner named Usain Bolt from Jamaica. The fastest time recorded at the Olympics for the 200 meter is 19.32 seconds, again ran by Usain Bolt. The fastest time ever recorded for the 400 meter is 43.94 seconds ran by Kirani James from Grenada.
The middle distance running events are the 800 meter, 1500 meter, and mile run. The fastest time for the 800 meter is 1 minute and 40.91 seconds ran by David Lekuta Rudisha from Kenya. For the 1500 meter the fastest time is 3 minutes and 33.11 seconds ran by Asbel Kipruto Kiprop from Kenya. And lastly for the mile the fastest time is 3 minutes and 43.13 seconds by Morroco's Hicham El Guerrouj.
The long distance running events are the 3,000 meter steeplechase, 5,000, meters, and 10,000 meters. The fastest time for the 3,000 meter steeplechase is 8 minutes and 5.81 seconds from Ezekiel Kemboi from Kenya. For the 5,000 meter run the fastest time is 12 minutes and 53.82 seconds by Kenensina Bekele from Ethiopia. And for the 10,000 meter the fastest time is 27 minutes and 1.17 seconds by Kenensina Bekele.
Now, let me get something straight. These people are IN-F***ING-SANE. They have trained most of their life to get even a slim chance at going the Olympics or another large sports gathering. An example of how super human these people are is that remember when I said the fastest time for the 100m sprint was 9.63 seconds? That means this guy is moving more and a meter per second. Which probably means their stride is also longer than a meter because if you're moving as fast as you possibly can than that means that you will probably not be taking more than one step a second. For all of you who follow the imperial system more than the metric system. One meter is about 3.28 feet. so the 100 meter is about 328 feet long.
The running events are all about getting the fastest time. There are sprints, middle distance races, long distance races, hurdles, and relays. You can find all of this information here.
There are three sprinting events currently held at the Olympics: 100 meter, 200 meter, and 400 meter. The fastest time ever recorded at the Olympics for the 100 meter sprint is 9.63 seconds done by a famous runner named Usain Bolt from Jamaica. The fastest time recorded at the Olympics for the 200 meter is 19.32 seconds, again ran by Usain Bolt. The fastest time ever recorded for the 400 meter is 43.94 seconds ran by Kirani James from Grenada.
The middle distance running events are the 800 meter, 1500 meter, and mile run. The fastest time for the 800 meter is 1 minute and 40.91 seconds ran by David Lekuta Rudisha from Kenya. For the 1500 meter the fastest time is 3 minutes and 33.11 seconds ran by Asbel Kipruto Kiprop from Kenya. And lastly for the mile the fastest time is 3 minutes and 43.13 seconds by Morroco's Hicham El Guerrouj.
The long distance running events are the 3,000 meter steeplechase, 5,000, meters, and 10,000 meters. The fastest time for the 3,000 meter steeplechase is 8 minutes and 5.81 seconds from Ezekiel Kemboi from Kenya. For the 5,000 meter run the fastest time is 12 minutes and 53.82 seconds by Kenensina Bekele from Ethiopia. And for the 10,000 meter the fastest time is 27 minutes and 1.17 seconds by Kenensina Bekele.
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| Pic from unisci |
Now, let me get something straight. These people are IN-F***ING-SANE. They have trained most of their life to get even a slim chance at going the Olympics or another large sports gathering. An example of how super human these people are is that remember when I said the fastest time for the 100m sprint was 9.63 seconds? That means this guy is moving more and a meter per second. Which probably means their stride is also longer than a meter because if you're moving as fast as you possibly can than that means that you will probably not be taking more than one step a second. For all of you who follow the imperial system more than the metric system. One meter is about 3.28 feet. so the 100 meter is about 328 feet long.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
1-30-16
Today is Saturday, January 30, 2016
Today I woke up at 10:00. This is the longest I've slept in awhile. I'm an incredibly light sleeper. Like a single soft knock at my door will be enough to jar me from my slumber. But since nobody does that on the weekends that's not what I have that wakes me up. My eyes are also really sensitive to light. And there's a single square rectangle in my small room. And in the morning the light shines right through it and directly onto my face. It annoys me so much because once I get up I have a hard time falling back asleep. So my amazing mom bought and set up curtains so that it doesn't let in as much light. I love them so much.
After I woke up, I went upstairs and had cereal for breakfast. Sometimes it's nice to just have cereal with milk instead of the pure cholesterol and protein inside eggs early in the morning. I had Honey Nut Cheerios which is my favorite cereal that my mom regularly gets at the store. In the entirety of cereal my favorite is either HoneyComb or Apple Jacks. I spent the morning watching YouTube and Hulu+. I was so happy. My mom was so kind as to let me sleep in past my private basketball lesson and she moved it to 2:30pm. So the best part of my day that day was relaxing.
Since I have my permit for driving. I got to drive to my lesson in Jeremy Ranch. I got to the lesson with my friend Kaj. It was an hour long and me and him worked on our shots because that is what the coach specialized in. His name is Steven Miles and he is really nice and helps a lot of my team now with our shooting. I leaned a lot from the lesson and I think it really helped my shot. I've noticed my shots have been going in more often and my coach has praised me for it too.
After the lesson I drove my mom home and we prepared for my teammates to commoner and hang out. We went sledding. At first it was just me and my friend Evan that were outside and then everyone else came out. It was a blast. I was sad that my friend Alec couldn't sled. He got a concussion early in the season from taking an elbow to the side of the head. My friend Dylan went down on a sled and he accidentally went sideways and he fell at the lip of the jumping causing him to do some sort of side flip thing. It was hilarious. After that we found a really good inner tube slew that made you catch like 3ft. of air and my friend Landon went off with it and almost did a flip but the powder provided a shot landing so that when he failed it didn't hurt him that bad. After that we played Madden 25 and I had no idea what I was doing.
All in all that day was pretty good Flies. Until next time!
Today I woke up at 10:00. This is the longest I've slept in awhile. I'm an incredibly light sleeper. Like a single soft knock at my door will be enough to jar me from my slumber. But since nobody does that on the weekends that's not what I have that wakes me up. My eyes are also really sensitive to light. And there's a single square rectangle in my small room. And in the morning the light shines right through it and directly onto my face. It annoys me so much because once I get up I have a hard time falling back asleep. So my amazing mom bought and set up curtains so that it doesn't let in as much light. I love them so much.
After I woke up, I went upstairs and had cereal for breakfast. Sometimes it's nice to just have cereal with milk instead of the pure cholesterol and protein inside eggs early in the morning. I had Honey Nut Cheerios which is my favorite cereal that my mom regularly gets at the store. In the entirety of cereal my favorite is either HoneyComb or Apple Jacks. I spent the morning watching YouTube and Hulu+. I was so happy. My mom was so kind as to let me sleep in past my private basketball lesson and she moved it to 2:30pm. So the best part of my day that day was relaxing.
Since I have my permit for driving. I got to drive to my lesson in Jeremy Ranch. I got to the lesson with my friend Kaj. It was an hour long and me and him worked on our shots because that is what the coach specialized in. His name is Steven Miles and he is really nice and helps a lot of my team now with our shooting. I leaned a lot from the lesson and I think it really helped my shot. I've noticed my shots have been going in more often and my coach has praised me for it too.
After the lesson I drove my mom home and we prepared for my teammates to commoner and hang out. We went sledding. At first it was just me and my friend Evan that were outside and then everyone else came out. It was a blast. I was sad that my friend Alec couldn't sled. He got a concussion early in the season from taking an elbow to the side of the head. My friend Dylan went down on a sled and he accidentally went sideways and he fell at the lip of the jumping causing him to do some sort of side flip thing. It was hilarious. After that we found a really good inner tube slew that made you catch like 3ft. of air and my friend Landon went off with it and almost did a flip but the powder provided a shot landing so that when he failed it didn't hurt him that bad. After that we played Madden 25 and I had no idea what I was doing.
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All in all that day was pretty good Flies. Until next time!
1-29-16
Today is Friday, January 29, 2016
I again have a basketball game today. That's two in one week. Which is totally fine by me but it means I don't really do much after school that day. Not that I would be dong much anyway. I'd probably just try to hang out with my friends Austin and/or Nic.
So I do the same unchanging morning routine as ever. By that I mean I get up, put on clothes, wake up Bella, eat the eggs my wonderful mother made me, and leave the house. The bus ride is the same; cold and boring.
The first class of my White Day is PE. It again was really fun because my team "LSU" (we had to choose a college basketball team to be our name in the tourney) actually got to play a game. It was a lot of fun because all we did is have me and Johnny and Jack toss the ball to each other and screw around. Azym and Sysilia were fine with being back-ups incase the ball bounced off the rim to one of them. Jack was only taking three point shots and he missed every single one of them. It was ok though because either me, him, or Johnny and occasionally Azym or Sysilia would get the rebound and then get a lay-up or easy shot. The game ended with my team winning 22-2. It was a pretty pitiful game and funny to watch. The main Ref was my friend Drew Parker is hilarious and good at refereeing (relatively).
After that game (they're ten minutes each) my team got to ref again because our next game was yet to be decided. It was yet another game that was pitiful to watch. Half of the people in my PE class aren't exactly what you would call coordinated or quick learners. I don't remember the out come of the game my team refereed but what I do remember is that it was really funny. The rest of the school day was uniform with me just going through the motions of classes and dealing with dumb people. And as usual we lost the game against Tooele but it was actually a good game. Park City was actually winning in the beginning and then at some point we just started slipping up and those slip ups cost us and built up quickly.
I know this seems like a pretty pessimistic view and yah I get it. My life is so incredibly blessed. I live in a place where there is no war and this is part of a Golden Age for mankind. But in reality it's mostly an illusion and blissful ignorance. In American half of us live in this blissful ignorance. In reality there are people losing their limbs, lives, minds, and ways of life just to protect us all. And we actually only know the tip of the iceberg of our country. Everybody has their secrets and countries have an enormous amount that they hide from the . To be honest it's really good that they keep us in the dark about the shady $Ï€!† that happens inside the place we so carelessly live in.
Sorry for the saddening post Flies. I haven't been feeling the greatest mentally lately. Luckily I've gotten good at hiding it from my friends so I don't make them worry about me.
I again have a basketball game today. That's two in one week. Which is totally fine by me but it means I don't really do much after school that day. Not that I would be dong much anyway. I'd probably just try to hang out with my friends Austin and/or Nic.
So I do the same unchanging morning routine as ever. By that I mean I get up, put on clothes, wake up Bella, eat the eggs my wonderful mother made me, and leave the house. The bus ride is the same; cold and boring.
The first class of my White Day is PE. It again was really fun because my team "LSU" (we had to choose a college basketball team to be our name in the tourney) actually got to play a game. It was a lot of fun because all we did is have me and Johnny and Jack toss the ball to each other and screw around. Azym and Sysilia were fine with being back-ups incase the ball bounced off the rim to one of them. Jack was only taking three point shots and he missed every single one of them. It was ok though because either me, him, or Johnny and occasionally Azym or Sysilia would get the rebound and then get a lay-up or easy shot. The game ended with my team winning 22-2. It was a pretty pitiful game and funny to watch. The main Ref was my friend Drew Parker is hilarious and good at refereeing (relatively).
After that game (they're ten minutes each) my team got to ref again because our next game was yet to be decided. It was yet another game that was pitiful to watch. Half of the people in my PE class aren't exactly what you would call coordinated or quick learners. I don't remember the out come of the game my team refereed but what I do remember is that it was really funny. The rest of the school day was uniform with me just going through the motions of classes and dealing with dumb people. And as usual we lost the game against Tooele but it was actually a good game. Park City was actually winning in the beginning and then at some point we just started slipping up and those slip ups cost us and built up quickly.
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Sorry for the saddening post Flies. I haven't been feeling the greatest mentally lately. Luckily I've gotten good at hiding it from my friends so I don't make them worry about me.
1-27-16
Today is Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Today I have a basketball game in Tooele against a school called Grantsville. Toole is about an hour and a half away from Park City. The night before when I was packing my bags for the next day of school I considered bringing a phone charger just incase it died on the way there. After taking a shower while thinking about it a little I decided against it and just tried to be conservative with my battery by putting it on low power mode and using grayscale to use less battery.
So I wake up and throw some clothes on after which I pick up my backpack and amble up the stairs. When I get up there after two small flights of stairs my mom has some wonderful smelling scrambled eggs and bacon nearly ready for me. When I'm getting my shoes on she asks me to wake up my sister. She has this weird thing where all the alarm clocks we buy her go missing or get broken somehow. So I knock on her door and sure enough she's lying there on her bed sleeping like a rug. So softly yell at her to get up and she groggily gets out of bed and I leave so she can get dressed. Get upstairs and eat my eggs of which she shows up right before we leave and scarfs down her plate. It's freezing cold outside which serves as what wakes me up in the morning. We take the bus to school.
The only highlights of school today are that it was a White Day meaning I didn't have many core classes and that we figured out teams in PE for basketball. My team is Me, my friends Jack and Johnny, and then two more people named Azym (male) and Sysilia (female). Jack is on my basketball team and Johnny doesn't have bad coordination so I thought I was pretty set. Of course that day we refereed a game instead of playing. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. Me and Jack and Johnny were the court refs, Syscilia did the score and Azym just kinda hung out. I was the ref that gave the players the ball went out of bounds and Jack and Johnny had whistles and called violations. Also we narrated the entire game which was hilarious because nobody knew what they were doing.
For the game we got to leave class at 1:00 which is and hour and twenty-five minutes before school actually ends; so that was pretty great. The whole ride there I listened to music and played on my phone.
The game went as usual. Me getting in for the last 1:45 when it was almost impossible for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we dug and pull out a win. So we ended with a mother loss by about fifteen points which isn't as bad as some of our other losses. After that I went home after with my friend Kaj Madsen who's dad had space and I didn't really feel like going home on the bus and getting my house at 11pm.
Today I have a basketball game in Tooele against a school called Grantsville. Toole is about an hour and a half away from Park City. The night before when I was packing my bags for the next day of school I considered bringing a phone charger just incase it died on the way there. After taking a shower while thinking about it a little I decided against it and just tried to be conservative with my battery by putting it on low power mode and using grayscale to use less battery.
So I wake up and throw some clothes on after which I pick up my backpack and amble up the stairs. When I get up there after two small flights of stairs my mom has some wonderful smelling scrambled eggs and bacon nearly ready for me. When I'm getting my shoes on she asks me to wake up my sister. She has this weird thing where all the alarm clocks we buy her go missing or get broken somehow. So I knock on her door and sure enough she's lying there on her bed sleeping like a rug. So softly yell at her to get up and she groggily gets out of bed and I leave so she can get dressed. Get upstairs and eat my eggs of which she shows up right before we leave and scarfs down her plate. It's freezing cold outside which serves as what wakes me up in the morning. We take the bus to school.
The only highlights of school today are that it was a White Day meaning I didn't have many core classes and that we figured out teams in PE for basketball. My team is Me, my friends Jack and Johnny, and then two more people named Azym (male) and Sysilia (female). Jack is on my basketball team and Johnny doesn't have bad coordination so I thought I was pretty set. Of course that day we refereed a game instead of playing. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. Me and Jack and Johnny were the court refs, Syscilia did the score and Azym just kinda hung out. I was the ref that gave the players the ball went out of bounds and Jack and Johnny had whistles and called violations. Also we narrated the entire game which was hilarious because nobody knew what they were doing.
For the game we got to leave class at 1:00 which is and hour and twenty-five minutes before school actually ends; so that was pretty great. The whole ride there I listened to music and played on my phone.
The game went as usual. Me getting in for the last 1:45 when it was almost impossible for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we dug and pull out a win. So we ended with a mother loss by about fifteen points which isn't as bad as some of our other losses. After that I went home after with my friend Kaj Madsen who's dad had space and I didn't really feel like going home on the bus and getting my house at 11pm.
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
LATE (again) NEW YEARS EVE POST [Dec 31]
Hey Flies!
December 31st 2015,
Today has been exhausting.
This morning I woke up at 5 AM. I'm in New York City right now with my grandparents. These are my last few hours because I am leaving today to go back to Utah. I've had a ton of fun here.
We went and saw all of the sights: The Statue of Liberty, Freedom Tower, Central Park, and Times Square. To get to the Statue of Liberty we took a cold 2 hour bus ride where we couldn't see outside the windows, which was the point of taking the bus rather than the subway. To get to the Freedom Tower we took the subway; this was the first day we were there and neither me nor Bella had taken the subway before so it was cool for the both of us. On the Freedom Tower we got to got to the very top and you could see nearly everything. Even the Statue of liberty which is several hundred feet tall looked like a little doll. We walked to Central Park because it wasn't very far away from the hotel we stayed at. There we took a carriage ride around and learned about the place; it was cool. We walked through Times Square to see "The Lion King" on Broadway. All this happened before New Years Eve, so now back to Dec 31st.
So now I'm getting in an Ãœber to go to the airport. Me and my sister are flying back to Utah without my grandparents and our dad is picking us up at the gate since we can't exactly walk around an airport unaccompanied legally. Once we got on the plane we sat and waited to take off. My seat was in the row in front of my sister's and the lady who was sitting next to my sister asked if we were siblings; and when I answered yes she asked if we wanted to sit together. Of course I answered yes because it would be more convenient for us to do that. The ride was pretty normal and of course ended with Bella's phone dying right when we land. We had to wait for everyone to get off the plane before us for some weird reason. And our dad was waiting for us outside the gate.
After we got our bags at the baggage claim we left and went home after being away for a very long time. When we got back me and my sister had our very own little christmas because when we left for christmas break we did not bring any of the presents that had already arrived at our Utah house and instead decided to just open them when we get back. We both got some fun stuff that we liked. I opened mine somewhat hurriedly because I really wanted to play on my new Xbox One. The first game I played was Fallout 4 which was tough but I really enjoyed. It's a game set in a post-apocalypse time where most people have been mutated and become feral. People weren't the only things mutated. There were enormous bugs and these weird reptile-wolf-ram combination things that were really hard to kill called "Death Claws". Anyway that's how that way went for me.
Until next time Flies!
December 31st 2015,
Today has been exhausting.
This morning I woke up at 5 AM. I'm in New York City right now with my grandparents. These are my last few hours because I am leaving today to go back to Utah. I've had a ton of fun here.
We went and saw all of the sights: The Statue of Liberty, Freedom Tower, Central Park, and Times Square. To get to the Statue of Liberty we took a cold 2 hour bus ride where we couldn't see outside the windows, which was the point of taking the bus rather than the subway. To get to the Freedom Tower we took the subway; this was the first day we were there and neither me nor Bella had taken the subway before so it was cool for the both of us. On the Freedom Tower we got to got to the very top and you could see nearly everything. Even the Statue of liberty which is several hundred feet tall looked like a little doll. We walked to Central Park because it wasn't very far away from the hotel we stayed at. There we took a carriage ride around and learned about the place; it was cool. We walked through Times Square to see "The Lion King" on Broadway. All this happened before New Years Eve, so now back to Dec 31st.
So now I'm getting in an Ãœber to go to the airport. Me and my sister are flying back to Utah without my grandparents and our dad is picking us up at the gate since we can't exactly walk around an airport unaccompanied legally. Once we got on the plane we sat and waited to take off. My seat was in the row in front of my sister's and the lady who was sitting next to my sister asked if we were siblings; and when I answered yes she asked if we wanted to sit together. Of course I answered yes because it would be more convenient for us to do that. The ride was pretty normal and of course ended with Bella's phone dying right when we land. We had to wait for everyone to get off the plane before us for some weird reason. And our dad was waiting for us outside the gate.
After we got our bags at the baggage claim we left and went home after being away for a very long time. When we got back me and my sister had our very own little christmas because when we left for christmas break we did not bring any of the presents that had already arrived at our Utah house and instead decided to just open them when we get back. We both got some fun stuff that we liked. I opened mine somewhat hurriedly because I really wanted to play on my new Xbox One. The first game I played was Fallout 4 which was tough but I really enjoyed. It's a game set in a post-apocalypse time where most people have been mutated and become feral. People weren't the only things mutated. There were enormous bugs and these weird reptile-wolf-ram combination things that were really hard to kill called "Death Claws". Anyway that's how that way went for me.
Until next time Flies!
Thursday, January 14, 2016
REALLY Late Christmas Post
Hey guys!!!!! Don't really know if there are any of you actually out there.
Boy, it has been awhile since I last posted. I probably should post less spastically and set days were I absolutely have to have a post ready to publish. Seeing as how this is a school assignment it builds up too much. Anyway, I'm just going to say how my Christmas went.
T'was December 25th and all through the house, everybody was stirring and walking about. HAHAHAHAH I can't believe I'm actually going to post that sentence. Crap, I'm getting off track again, back to Christmas! My mother's side of the family has this game that we all compete in on Christmas called "Christmas Gifts". It's where when you see someone for the first time that day and you have to say, "christmas gifts" to them before they say it to you. It's so much fun even the grown-ups play in the game. I think year I got nearly everyone. There's not a prize for the person who gets the most people but it's a great way to get everybody in the spirit Christmas morning and it's a ton of fun. So I was in Virginia which is where my mom's side of the family lives. They all live on this enormous piece of land that we've nicknamed "Lorely" ("lor-ah-lee") . The driveway is mostly rocks and dirt daily because it's a mile and a half or two miles long. I have 14 cousins on my mom's side. So yah it gets pretty hectic when we come all the way from Utah to see them. They also live in a small town like Park City except it has less famous events. The name of it is Charlottesville. It's amazingly beautiful and very spread out. So on Christmas we open presents at the Big House which is what everyone calls my grandfather and grandmother's house on which they own a farm. That's where my family stays because all of her siblings have houses on the road and it, miraculously, has enough space to fit all 6 of us plus more!
Usually my family has to wait for a little while for everyone to show up. But I don't usually mind waiting. It gives me time to eat some breakfast before the junk fest that comes with it being a holiday starts, plus the wait make everything sweeter. So when when everyone gets to the Big House, we gather at the curtain that hides what's inside the room where all the presents are so nobody gets a sneak peek at what they're getting. Once the curtain was lifted we all go inside and find a place in the room to camp out while my grandfather plays Santa and hands out the presents. He does that so it lasts longer and we have more time to enjoy each present before the next one is given to us. I got so many amazing presents for Christmas. My favorites were my new Xbox one and my Patriots sweatshirt (some of you guys are probably not going to read anymore just because I like the Patriots but thats ok, you are allowed to have your own opinions).
Anyway that was my Christmas and I hope you guys got what you wanted! Until next time Flies!
Boy, it has been awhile since I last posted. I probably should post less spastically and set days were I absolutely have to have a post ready to publish. Seeing as how this is a school assignment it builds up too much. Anyway, I'm just going to say how my Christmas went.
T'was December 25th and all through the house, everybody was stirring and walking about. HAHAHAHAH I can't believe I'm actually going to post that sentence. Crap, I'm getting off track again, back to Christmas! My mother's side of the family has this game that we all compete in on Christmas called "Christmas Gifts". It's where when you see someone for the first time that day and you have to say, "christmas gifts" to them before they say it to you. It's so much fun even the grown-ups play in the game. I think year I got nearly everyone. There's not a prize for the person who gets the most people but it's a great way to get everybody in the spirit Christmas morning and it's a ton of fun. So I was in Virginia which is where my mom's side of the family lives. They all live on this enormous piece of land that we've nicknamed "Lorely" ("lor-ah-lee") . The driveway is mostly rocks and dirt daily because it's a mile and a half or two miles long. I have 14 cousins on my mom's side. So yah it gets pretty hectic when we come all the way from Utah to see them. They also live in a small town like Park City except it has less famous events. The name of it is Charlottesville. It's amazingly beautiful and very spread out. So on Christmas we open presents at the Big House which is what everyone calls my grandfather and grandmother's house on which they own a farm. That's where my family stays because all of her siblings have houses on the road and it, miraculously, has enough space to fit all 6 of us plus more!
Anyway that was my Christmas and I hope you guys got what you wanted! Until next time Flies!
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