Month: October 2024

I always wanted to go on a boarding school because I have always love the idea of making new friends from other places but I am really close to my family so the idea of being separated from my parents, friends and brothers was not so exiting. I was on my school in Mexico when my school was telling us about boarding school, they where telling us all the schools that where in Canada so I told my parents about the boarding school and they loved the idea of me having the chance o go on a boarding school and I was really exited because I never imagine they letting me do boarding school so we start looking of all the schools the had told us about. I wanted to go to Vancouver but there wasn’t any school that we loved to we started looking in Victoria and we found “Brooke Westshore” we loved the school so my parents let me come to this school. First I thought that I was going to hate the school so I told my mom that I wanted to stay just 4 months, I thought that I will not meet anybody and that I could stay here with any friends and that was one of the bad things that I thought would happened. Right know I regret saying that because I wish I could stay more time but my mom and dad don’t want me to stay more because I have a trip plan already and also because my family already miss me so I’m just staying 4 months.

My mom is Brazilian and my dad is Mexican. I was born in Mexico but since I was 1 month old I spent 2 or 3 months in Brazil with my family, practicing Portuguese. What I always found weird is the feeling I have when leaving both countries, like I´m sad when leaving Mexico but I´m also sad when living Brazil. Both countries make a part of me so it is hard to leave and not knowing when I am going back (In this case when I go back to Mexico). Mexico has an amazing culture, everything is so colorful and beautiful, the food is amazing and I have my friends, my dog, my home, my school and lots of things that have made an important part in my life there. on the other hand, Brazil has an energetic but chill vibe, people are awesome, the food is out of this world, as well as the flora and fauna. Everything in both countries is so different but perfect and, each has a piece of my heart that breaks when leaving. Now that I can´t be on either country because I am in Canada, I just feel like my heart is now separating into three pieces so Canada can also have a special part on my life.

I believe every person has a city or a place they feel drawn to, and for me, it’s New York. Though I’ve never been, I’ve always imagined it as a city I was meant to be in. Maybe it’s the idea of a place that’s constantly alive with energy, The idea that everywhere you look there’s a story or a person chasing their own version of a dream. Maybe it’s because of the thought of walking down the street and hearing so many different languages and seeing so many stories unfold at once. Maybe it’s because it’s a place where everyone is free to be themselves, a place where no one looks twice, because they’re all too busy pursuing their own passions, whether it’s fashion, music, art, or anything else that drives them, a place where Nobody is afraid to be unique that it’s almost as if the city encourages it. When I think of New York, I can imagine myself exploring everything the city has to offer walking through the streets during rush hours, exploring the countless art galleries, going to Broadway shoes, going to beautiful restaurants, walking through Central Park during the fall where all the leaves have changed colours, and maybe even calling for a cab on a busy sidewalk, and finally coming to my apartment on the top floors where I’ll sit down at my sofa and just watch the city go by through my big windows. In the wise words of Frank Sinatra, “I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.”

I really enjoy swimming, I started swimming when i was 5 years old at the YMCA in Edmonton. I originally started just doing lessons, then eventually I joined a club in the YMCA. It wasn’t really a real swim club, because they didn’t do any swim meets or anything. In 2019, me and my family moved to Montréal, and I got put in some shady, non-registered swim club, which didn’t do swim meets either. I only did that for a little but though because then Covid hit, and they closed down EVERYTHING. Especially in Quebec they locked down everything more than everywhere else. At one point there was a public curfew; you had to be in your house by 10:00 PM, unless you were out walking your dog or something. Anyway, I didn’t do swimming until I moved to Victoria. when I moved to Victoria in the summer of 2021, and almost immediately, my parents put me in lessons. They quickly realized that I was to advanced for all the lessons, and out me into my first real swim club, the Juan de Fuca Royals, in winter 2021. I have been in the Royals since then, and have swam in competitions all through the summer of 2022, 2023, and 2024, and plan to continue swimming competitively for a long time.

My favourite season is winter, while i also really like summer and spring, but winter is my favourite. It’s my favourite because my birthday and christmas are in the winter. I like christmas because I get to see my family and spend time with them off of school. I also love winter because I love to ski and during the winter months I get to ski with my friends and spend time in the snow, which I love. another reason why I like the winter and snow is because I love to take my dog and play in the snow with him. I like Christmas  also because it’s so pretty with the snow and all the Christmas lights, during winter i love to do things with my friends and decorate for Christmas. I also really like to decorate cookies and gingerbread houses with my friends and family.

So when I was younger I had the weirdest dream ever. And it just kept happening. In the beginning of my dream I would start out in a school gym, I was the only one there and it was silent for a minute before a horde of people holding tents with elephants walking behind them started to enter the building. It turned out that they were a traveling circus setting up for their next event. I settled in and watched the show, and it was a lot of fun, except all of a sudden they disappeared. just as I looked around in confusion a short middle aged man cam in the door pulling a boy in a wagon who was sitting in a pile of hay. He asked if I wanted to see a magic trick and I said yes. The he waved his arm and the boy turned into an owl, which for some reason always scared the crap out of me. I was terrified and tried to run for the door when all of a sudden a Disney princess came in and started yelling about danger. I was so confused until moments later a giant octopus knocked down the door and barged in. He was the size of a small mountain. I screamed and ran for my life out the other door, but when i got outside I was in front of my house and there were pools of lava on the road. Then there was a volcano erupting behind me and I ran down the street as fast as I could, but the volcano was laughing at me and chasing me. Then I was with my kindergarten class and I accidentally splashed lava in my boot and my foot burned like crazy. i started to run past the entire class because I was terrified of the jellyfish in suits that were chasing us in there cars. Then just as a jellyfish caught up to me I woke up. The weirdest thing about this dream is that the first time I had it I woke up with a large blister on my foot, just like the one from the lava in my boot…

Once upon a time in a small town lived a very wise old man that was very wise. He would be the guy that everyone in the small town would turn to him for guidance and advice. One day the wise old man was confronted by a little girl who asked him a question that she knew the wise old man wouldn’t know the answer to. The question was what is the bird in my hands dead or alive and if the old man said the bird was dead she would then open her hands and let the bird go. If the old man said alive she would squish the bird in her hands and say No! its dead. The chances that the old man would get the answer right was 50/50 and it was a 50/50 that the bird would die or not. In the mind of the little girl she wanted the old man to be wrong because she wanted to say to the whole town that the old wise man does not have the answer to everything and you should not take all of your advice from this old man that is wise and claims to know all about giving advice.

In this personal writing, I’m going to be 100% honest, I’ve gone over 20 different websites about what I should write about, and honestly, I have no clue because they all said something along the lines of “ write about your dream job, something you like, something that interests you, something that makes you happy” and personally none of that interests me one bit…. So now I’m here writing about how I had nothing to write about and if I did write about something it would be something foolish so I’m here writing just about that. So I want to thank Grammarly for helping me write this and also changing all of my horrible grammar to something correct just the other day I was thinking about Rudolph the red nose reindeer and why his nose was red like his mom’s nose is black and his dad’s nose is black but it also might just be genetics but I was wondering. “What if there was a mailman in the mix”. Or ”if his real dad went for the milk and the other guy is the mailman!!!!” woah that was a lot, okay now I’m at 195 words so I just need to say 5 more words, I made it to 210 words, honestly I just kept telling the first thought that came to me ?  and now I’m here, thanks or reading this random stuff ?

One of my Favourite golf courses on the island of Victoria Golf Club. Victoria is a private course which means you must be a member there to play on the course of use the practice facilities. But one of my friends is a member and hid dad is the Head Pro so I’m lucky enough to go and play their sometimes. The course is out on the water in Victoria and had beautiful ocean views. Basically, on the entire front nine the water is directly in front of you. The course is always in beautiful condition with the fairways mowed perfectly with a fringe and greens are always so fast. The course was built in 1893 and it still stunning. The atmosphere there is always perfect as it is quiet so you can practice, and the feel of a private course makes everything better. All the holes are very diverse and unique as you get to see something new every hole. The course can be difficult as the wind at the ocean can sometimes be very strong and the golf course itself is challenging. But that’s what makes golf fun. They are a great practice faculty with a full range, chipping green and putting green. And two simulators. Overall, it is easy for me to say Victoria is one of my favourite courses.

When I was younger, my mom had this nice, red, fancy trench-coat. She loved it and wore it every winter. People knew her for this coat, and she often got compliments for wearing such a beautiful, bright red coat. she took this coat to Paris, when we moved there and the compliments just got better and better. I was about 8 at the time, and my dad suggested we went to this carnival at the one of the piers. We all said yes, and a few hours later, we were playing games and eating junk.

You know, the 8 year old brain only functions on games, junk food and crying. and that is exactly how mine functioned at the time. I was so enveloped in the game, that I didn’t notice when my parents began to talk to their friends. I didn’t exactly care…

Less that 10 minutes later, I was playing different games in other areas, not even thinking about where the rest of the crew could be. It didn’t take too long to get questioned by one of the game attendees who bare spoke English. It was then I noticed that my parents were nowhere to be found, neither my two other brothers.

The police were called, and my parents were found. The only description I could give was her red jacket. She still has that jacket. It is a lovely jacket.

During the summer I went to Australia for my aunts wedding! But when we were flying to Australia we stopped in New Zealand. Our flight was delayed by 6 hours so we had to walk around and find something to do. When went to get some food. Then my uncle, my cousin, and me played cards. It was a delightful experience and I really loved it. We were told to bring our winter clothes because it was going to be cold. It was winter time there because the seasons are switched so I did not get to see their snakes and how hot it could get there. But when we landed it was not as cold as it is in Victoria during our winter months. One of the best parts of the trip other than the wedding was visiting one of their zoos. We got to see baby and adult kangaroos. We even got to feed the kangaroos. One thing that was interesting and took some time getting used to was the how traffic was reversed and people drove on the other side of the road. It did scare me a couple times when we would take a right turn because it was different from our roads in Victoria. I was exited to meet some of my family that I have never met before and get to know my extended family.

It was 2018 when my parents told me we were going to move to France, I was shocked at first, but then they told me it was just for six months. I was so excited, and a little nervous, because going to France for six months meant I had to go to school there. Anyways, I can’t really remember when we left, but I do remember the flight there, It was awful, It was so uncomfortable. It started off pretty good, there were a lot of good movies. But then it was time to sleep. I couldn’t, It was so uncomfortable, I tried everything to fall asleep, my mom even made me a little bed under the seats, I still couldn’t sleep. And for some reason I remember hearing the ac of the plane, it was either that, or very strong wind. I tried everything to fall asleep, until I switched seats with my brother and fell asleep on my dad’s lap. The next morning, I woke up to people talking and children crying. When I woke up I it was really late, and I had missed the breakfast, thankfully my dad saved me some of his fruit and yogurt, It was pretty gross but that’s all I had to eat, I can’t remember if I finished it. I can’t remember when we walked off the plane although I remember arriving in Paris. A couple of days later we went on the Eiffel Tower and It was pretty cool. we could see the seine river and all the locks on the railing. After a few days we finally got to see the apartment we were going to stay in for the next six months, I was amazed by how small it was ( the living room, the kitchen and the dinning room were all in the same room ) “This is going to be the longest six months of my life” I thought. It turned out to be great. We didn’t rent a car to move around, we move around on scooters, not even electric ones. The first month was pretty fun because I didn’t have school, because we were still moving in and school hadn’t started yet. We went for walks to the park and ate really good pizza and bread from the corner, thats when I first started skateboarding, I even got to see my best friend that had moved to Italy. It was pretty fun, until school started. I had a lot of friends, but it was the teachers and the staff, they hated me and I hated them. they were so rude and strict. Except I liked that I didn’t have school on Wednesday and the weekend of course, and I also had two twenty minute breaks and one two hour break to eat. I ate at school. Anyways that pretty much sums it up. And that was my experience in France.