Spanish Food

So in Spanish class today, we had a quiz about some Spanish food names.

Here are some of the foods I know in Spanish:

Manzana: Apple
Naranja: orange
Cereal: cereal
Pan: bread
Pan tostado: toast
Jamón: ham
Tocino: bacon
Sandwich: sandwich
Salchicha: sausage
Ensalada: salad
Galleta: cookie
Fresa: strawberry
Sopa: soup
Papas fritas: French fries
Perrito Caliente: hot dog
Aguacate: avocado
Coco: coconut
Hamburguesa: hamburger.

That's only a couple.  I know a ton more, too.

Snow

We got a snow day yesterday!  There was just a TON of snow yesterday!  There was like ten billion feet of snow that was outside, and Gavin and I had to go out like 4 different times to reshovel the driveway.  The snow just kept coming.  We would shovel off one part of the driveway, move on to another part, and then when we were finally done, we passed the first part and it was so annoying!  The snow drifts are like 10 feet tall, and you could fit our house inside of one.  Just kidding, but they were pretty tall.  It was hard, but kinda fun.

So lately in my basketball games, I have not done as amazing as I had previously hoped.  I averaged like 7 points per game, but I had really good defense.  It was just the offensive part wasn't going as smoothly as I wanted it to.  So I was really at a loss for what to do.  I realized that I was turning basketball into some sort of life or death activity instead of a my favorite thing to do besides eat.  I was setting my expectations too high, and suffered from it.  Also, I would get down on myself if I missed a shot or had a bad play, and it would affect me the rest of the game.  So I realized that I should just play basketball, have fun, and try my hardest.  That way, I just do what I love and the points and amazing plays will come.

Plate Tectonics

In Earth Science, we are learning about plate tectonics. It's confusing and easy at the same time.  Basically, a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really long time ago, the was a super continent.  It was when all the continents were all merged together to create what was called Pangaea.  If you break it apart, it is: pan, which means "all", and Gaea, meaning earth.  So basically, it means "all earth".  It would have looked something like this: 



http://mentalfloss.com/article/62066/man-who-figured-out-pangea

Eventually, in like the early 1900's, some sciency dude named Alfred Wegener discovered that the world used to look like the picture above.  He wanted to know why.  We now know that we don't live in some big super continent because of something called the Continetal Drift.  That's where the plate tectonics thing comes into play.  In the ocean, in mid ocean ridges, the sea floor reversed polarity and because of the magnetic sea floor stripes.  So then the continents drifted apart and here we are today.  Tadaaaaaaa!

Gavin Day

Today is Gavin's birthday, for those of you who don't know what day it is.  I'm thankful for Gavin not only because he helps me with math since he practically invented math, but because he is awesome. 

Almost as fast as me.  (:  Just kidding he's faster.

Way to cool to only be 17.

Exceptionally intelligent.

Super strong.

Overpowered at chess.

My bro.

Even-headed.

Get it?  It spells out awesome if you look at the first letter of each sentence?  (:  Habby birthday dude!

So far this year in a geography class, we have already covered Canada, Mexico and Central America, South America, and the unit we are currently on is Europe.  But we are specifically focusing on Germany in the European unit.  The four most important cities in Germany are: Berlin, Frankfurt, and Hamburg and Munich.  Berlin is important because it is the capital.  Frankfurt is important because it is the money making/ banking city.  Hamburg is important because it invented the hamburger, and because it is a port city.  And Munich is the manufacturing city which also hosts Oktoberfest.  

Christmas Break

Finally!  Christmas Break!  We had to go to school today which flabbergasted me.  Everyone was so hyper at school, you wouldn't believe it.  It was like we were all a bunch of hyper chipmunks who had way too much coffee.  I got a couple of candy canes throughout the day, so that might have offset having to go to school.  We didn't have any homework, thankfully, because if we did then the school system would be officially pathetic.  (:  Anyways, it's Christmas Break, so I get to sleep in, ski, eat a lot of dessert, celebrate Christmas, celebrate New Year's, and try not to get s sugar induced coma.

After School Basketball

I am on extra basketball team for my school.  We play and practice after school and my team is doing really good.  We are the only undefeated team, which is awesome!  We have had two close games, one today and the other one a couple of weeks ago.  We won by a single layup which I made at the end of the first close game, then the game today was way too close for my liking.  We had a ten point lead on them to start out, by then they started making a comeback and tied it up with about 10 minutes left.  They actually even took the lead.  But then we had a couple of steals for fast breaks that we took the lead back on.  We ended up beating them by about 10 but they worried me for a while there.

Dad's Birthday

Happy Birthday Dad!  Can't wait to see you when you come home from work today!  Mom finished the amazing chocolate cake so we have to finish the whole thing tonight.  (:  Hopefully.  I am so glad you are my Dad instead some lame old guy who is boring and rude.  Life would suck if you weren't in it so I'm super thankful that you are.  I mean, you haven't invented the cure for cancer or anything, but your the best Dad ever, and one of the best human beings on the planet ever, so that is all that counts!  And who knows, maybe you will invent a cure for cancer?  (: Happy Birthday!

Home Tournament.

So we finally have our Farmington Basketball Tournament this year!  Every one is super excited on my team.  The varsity coach might be watching some of our games so no pressure.  (:  Also, my youth Pastor at my church might be coming too so he can pray that I can dunk.  (:  We play the winner of Cottage Grove (I have no clue if they are good or not) and Eastview (I think they a really good) for our first game.  All I know is, basketball is fun and if I like playing basketball, then I will probably do good at it.  Forget all the pressure or anything like that, just go out there and kick butt.