//blog43

/I finished an 8 page paper today. I woke up this morning and went to my 8:30 class and once that was done at 9:45, I went straight to the library to get a start on finish m paper. I only had around 2 pages done when I began today and by 3:30 in the afternoon with around an hour lunch break I was done! All I have to do is write the conclusion and check it over for the multiple mistakes that I am bound to make. Now all I have to worry about is my other 8 page paper and the 6 page paper that is due next week!

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//blog42

/Kyle really likes playing the guitar. However, this wasn’t always the case. He used to take piano lessons when he was in grade school for around 4 years but he soon lost interest and quit. He played trombone for a year in grade 6 but he didn’t like that either and quit playing any instrument until grade 10. His parents were trying to convince him that an instrument was a good thing to learn. At first he was uncertain but then he decided to learn guitar. It just so happened that a new guitar teacher in Kyle’s home town was looking for students. Kyle took advantage of this great offer and started his lessons. He began playing how any other person would start playing, sounding really bad. Kyle didn’t seem to understand that everyone started out sounding bad and so he got discouraged. The first year of his lessons went by slowly for him and he hardly practised and didn’t really enjoy it because he felt he wasn’t making any progress. If it wasn’t for his mom who gently pressured him into taking another year, he probably would have been done after his first. The second year went by better and Kyle began to see how much of an improvement he was since he first started. Soon he was in his third year of lessons and he was finally starting to enjoy the guitar. He still wasn’t the best but he was having fun playing songs and he was always excited when a song actually started sounding like it was supposed to. Now that he is away at Providence College, he has learned how much he actually loves playing the guitar. He can often be found in his dorm playing guitar quietly (sometimes too loud) to himself and just enjoying the fact that he can make music.

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//blog41

/Oh man, exams are coming up. This will be my first college style exams so I have no idea what to expect. Sure I can go by the mid-term exams but I have no idea how much to expect to be on one of these exams. This kind of feels like high school all over again. I remember when I first wrote an exam and I thought it was the worst thing in the world. Now I feel that way about college exams, even though I chose to be here and am not being told I have to take the classes I am taking. I hope I do as good as what I did on my high school exams. Somehow I think these will be a bit harder.

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//blog40

/A dorm wide dance off may sound kind of silly, but it was actually really fun. At first I didn’t want to go so I put the idea out of my mind and just went about my day without thinking about a costume that people attending the dance off are supposed to wear. Then, half an hour until the event begins, I decide that I want to go. So me and the rest of the guys from my dorm quickly wrapped me up in toilet paper and duct tape and I went off to the dance off. It turned out to be an awesome time and I am so glad I went. It is awesome that the RA’s and other leaders put these events together.

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//blog39

/His legs feel like they are about to collapse. He can hardly focus on one thing because everything seems fabricated somehow. He finds it hard to judge distances and finds his depth perception feels off. This is how Kyle Bergman feels before every basketball game.

/It is the first game of his senior year at Morden Colligate Institute. It just so happens that his team’s first game lands up being an away game, which isn’t that much of a difference from home games since the same handful of people (mostly parents) would come to watch a home game anyway. These thoughts didn’t help Kyle’s situation so he pushed them aside. He needed to concentrate on shaking off all the feelings he had now that seemed to prevent him from making any successful shots or even run properly. Sure he has played basketball before, but he has never felt this way during warm up for a game. It felt like he was viewing everything through a television so that when anyone spoke to him it took him a few seconds to realize they were addressing him.

/He knew all of this was just the nervousness before a game but what really bugged him was that no one else on the team seemed to feel this way. Everyone else seemed so be running with energy and making shots with accuracy that were of normal standards. Then he began to see subtleties that gave away the real truth about everyone else and their state of mind. He noticed beads of sweat collecting on someone’s brow when they hadn’t done enough activity to break a sweat. He also noticed solemn faces on those who were normally grinning and joking. In fact, now that he was watching for it, he noticed pretty much everyone was displaying some sort of nervousness. Somehow this made Kyle feel a bit better to know that his team mates were feeling the same things he was.

/Five minutes to game time and Kyle’s shaky legs take him to his team’s bench to hear the coach’s pregame words and strategies. He still feels separated from reality but things seem to snap back into focus as soon as the coach says that he is going to be starting the game on the court.

/ Kyle may feel better now that he feels re-connected to reality but the excitement just builds as he strides onto the court with his team of five. They all spread out in their standard formation for the start of the game tip off. The two tallest players from both teams meet in the middle of the court, towering over the official who has the job of tossing the ball. Kyle feels the tension on the court build as the two competitors in the center crouch, ready for the sudden movement of the basketball that would start the game. Suddenly Kyle’s legs feel like they might just bend in on themselves and felt like his chest might explode. He starts worrying he might forget plays, he might miss all his shots, might fall right on his face, might...Suddenly the ball is in the air! Kyle’s body takes over and all previous fears, doubts, and ailments fall away as he begins his game with his team. Nothing mattered now that the game started; all he needed to do was play.

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//blog38

/I have had a pretty easy semester so far here at Prov. I thought it was going to be a bit busier but I am surprised at how much down time I have. That is about to change. I looked at my schedule and realized we have a very small amount of classes left till the end of the semester. I also have a few papers due along with all the smaller assignments I have to do for all my classes. The worst thing is that I will probably not any of it until the week it is due.

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//blog37

/Today for our care group we got to play some Nintendo Wii games. I don’t know what beating on each other on “Super Smash Bros Brawl” has to do with caring but I guess it could fall under a dorm bonding activity. If you didn’t know, this game is the newest game in the “Super Smash Bros” series where you basically bash the other characters off the small platforms and the one left standing at the end wins. I would like to say I am a master at the game but the simple truth is that I’m not. But considering I haven’t really played the Wii at all I think I did pretty good.

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//blog37

/I said that coming home for the weekend was awesome and I still hold to that. One more thing I would like to say about coming home is the ride itself. I enjoy the time I get alone in a world with 6 billion other people so anytime by myself is a miracle in itself. Just me in my car with my music blasting is the most relaxing thing I experience all week. I just consider myself lucky I didn’t fall asleep at the wheel. An hour and a half on the road with some tunes is the perfect start to a weekend of rest and relaxation.

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//blog36

/My tooth is hurting. This is a big deal to me because I have a big case of Dentophobia. This is a fear of dentists if you didn’t know already and is something I have always had. In fact, anything metal touching my teeth, such as a fork at lunch, has the same effects on me as someone scraping their nails across a chalk board. So you can see that a dentist with their metal prongs and pokey objects would be something to avoid if you were me. Now with my hurting tooth, I will be forced to make a trip to the dentist so they can poke around in my mouth while I ring my hands in agony and sweat in their big comfy chairs.

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//blog35

/I have an exam tomorrow. It is at 3:20 and it in the class Introduction to the Bible and Christian Theology. My last exam didn’t go too well so I am trying to study more for this one, “trying” being the key word. I don’t know what it is that is so hard about studying. I guess it is the fact that I could be doing so much other stuff that is a lot more fun. Right now I feel as prepared as I did for the last exam which is not that prepared at all. Oh well, I have all of tomorrow to study too.

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//blog 34

/Over the last year of high school my pair of basketball shoes wrecked. I wore them all through high school so it only made sense that they would wreck after 4 years of hard use. I then decided to get some indoor, all purpose shoes because I wasn’t planning on playing basket ball in college. I got some Nike shoes that were really nice and I didn’t get cheap ones because I wanted them to last a long time. I only got to wear them around 6 times before the bottom of them started to fall apart! I am now kind of sad that they are breaking but I will try to fix them with shoe glue or I might try to return them. Either way they are not my new shoes anymore. Oh well, there will always be more shoes.

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//blog33

/Watching Star Wars again brings back memories from grade school. Me and a friend would get hooked on them and watch them together with lots of junk food. That’s what I am doing now years later; sitting in my dorm room watching Star Wars with some friends; eating ketchup chips. I feel really nerdy and kind of silly but these movies are pretty good so I will continue to watch them. Episode II is almost halfway done so I will turn my attention back to the movie.

//endofblog33

//blog32

/Today’s entry will be in the form of an obituary. I was asked to do this for a class and since I have not had someone pass away in my family or close friends for a long time, I will do one for one of my cats. I do really like my cats so this is in no means a joke.

/Mr. Anderson, a small grey tabby cat, barely 4 months old died in September 2009. He was a very pleasant cat and never fussed too much only when he wanted food. He was also very curious that trait eventually became his undoing when a vehicle in reverse ended his short life just a short 10 minute drive out of Morden, Manitoba.

/Early in July a litter of kittens were born on a farm outside of Morden. There were 4 kittens in total and since there were 4 children in my family we each got to name one. I chose the only male cat and named him Mr. Anderson. It was interesting watching him grow because he started off barely able to move and soon grew to eat hard cat food. Even though my two younger sisters had cats of their own they always said that Mr. Anderson was the cutest. There is only one of the four cats of Mr. Anderson’s litter left living at the farm outside of Morden, the other two cats being deceased or missing. The mother cat is still alive and healthy living at the farm. Even though there have been many cats that have come through the farm, Mr. Anderson will be missed and remembered as an individual cat.

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//blog31

/Today my roommate and I rearranged our room so that now we have so much room for activities! Before the big move my roommate took up over half of the room and I never said anything. Then I had a bright idea today that would give us equal room and make both of us happy. So we dusted off our thinking caps and started playing the fun game of trying to move furniture around in a space that they barely fit in to begin with. In the end it worked our alright and after only a minor injury to our fan the room was complete. Thus ends the first, but not last, blog written in a new and improved room.

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//blog30

/All last week I was struggling to come up with an idea for an essay proposal I had to write for one of my media classes that was due this week. The topic I originally came up with was something I was really interested in but since the final paper had to be 7 to 8 pages, I wasn’t sure if there would be enough information for my topic. The paper is due tomorrow so I cut it really close when I waited until today to go and discuss this with my professor. I am really glad I did because he gave me some really good ideas and now I am actually excited to get a start on my paper since I know I will have enough information.

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//blog29
/I’m home for the weekend again! It is super nice to have a time away from school where I can see my parents and siblings. I also got to see an old friend and we had some fun playing some classic games together. The main reason I am home, however, is because I am playing guitar in my Church’s youth praise team on Sunday. I haven’t done this much so each time I still get nervous and mess up a lot. I used to mind about when I mess up in front of the whole church but I it dawned on me that all I have to do is “make a joyful sound unto the Lord”. It may not be the perfect chords all the time but I always try to make it sound Joyful.
//endofblog29

//blog28

/Halloween is coming up very soon. I remember running around town to stranger’s houses to collect the various treats offered to us and hoping to find the person that gave out the full chocolate bar. It never occurred to me why some people didn’t go out trick-or-treating until I found out what Halloween was all about. I then understood why some kids didn’t go but to me I had no problem going myself. To me, the event doesn’t mean anything but it is what you are thinking and how you treat the event is what it makes it good or bad. So if you picture it as an evil time, you will be negatively influenced, but if you go out to have fun and get candy, then all you will have is a tummy ache by the end of the night!

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//blog27

/Wednesdays are my least favourite day of the week. It is the busiest day for me with four classes starting at 8:30 and going throughout the day until 4:30. I guess it is not that bad considering I would have even more classes during high school and sports on top of that. But here at Prov, My other days have only 1 or 2 classes so Wednesdays seem like they are so bad compared to my other days. Oh well, at least Thursdays follow Wednesdays and Thursdays only have 1 class and that’s in the afternoon. You know what that means; I get to sleep in tomorrow! I can’t wait!

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//blog26

/As you at Prov have probably noticed, a lot of people are sick. People have colds, fevers, sore muscles, stuffed sinuses, and other pains that are making a lot of people here tired and sad. I know that it is that time of year for these things but it seems worse for some reason this year. I am not feeling anything wrong with me yet but I am sure that I will catch something from the many ill people I am in contact with daily. Through times when I am by sick people I always feel closer to God and an immense feeling of compassion for them. I wish I felt this close all the time, but for these times, I will pray for those not feeling 100%.

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//blog25

/I am finding more and more each day that I really enjoy playing guitar. I didn’t always, in fact, when I fist took guitar lessons, I wasn’t that interested. I took it for 3 years because I thought I would eventually start liking it, and I did! Sadly it was only in the last couple of months that I really started to like it and I played for the first time in public at a youth event in a small praise band. I still wasn't that good but I knew I liked playing. Now a days, I find that the guitar keeps on growing on me and I enjoy it more and more.

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//blog24

/I watched a very interesting and funny movie today called, “The Ringer”. It is about a man who pretends to be mentally handicapped to enter in the Special Olympics to win money to save a friend. What I thought was interesting was how they made the main humour of the movie about the actions of mentally challenged people. The film was well done and it wasn’t made in an offensive way but I know there is a fine line between going to far when making a movie of that type. It is interesting how one bad joke could have made the movie an insult rather than a charming comedy.

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//blog23

/ The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games are coming soon to CTV. I will be an avid follower of this great event and will cheer whole heartedly for my fellow Canadians who happen to be a bit better at sports than I am. However, I will not be wearing the bright red mittens or camping out at McDonalds until an athlete comes by that I can ask for an autograph. I won’t even be anywhere near the action in fact, I will either be viewing it on television (CTV of course) or missing all the excitement and hearing the events from friends. I am so excited!

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//blog22

/I am now a professional Yahoo Basketball Fantasy Draft player. That’s right; I just partook in my first ever drafting of a fantasy basketball team that I will put up against other people from my dorm. I am in a league with around 7 other guys and we all sat around in a room and each took turns picking NBA players that will win us points every game they play. I would like to say I knew what I was doing but that would be a lie. I can’t wait to see if my players are good or not.

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//blog22

/It’s so hard to force myself to read! There is always an excuse or something more fun to do than reading. There is something about reading that just turns most people off even though it isn’t that bad and we chose to take the classes that require that reading. Whenever I read, I get an anxious feeling that I need to get it done and I start just skimming the page and I totally forget what was on the last page I read. I don’t know how much I am actually getting out of the reading if I don’t remember it but I will read it anyways to say I did. That makes no sense. I’ll have to think on that one.

//endofblog22

//blog21

/Two weekends ago, I got a belated grad gift from my aunts. Kind of late but it was a good one, a gift certificate for Future Shop! That was perfect because the speakers on my computer needed replacing and Future Shop had some good deals, or so I heard. So I went there today and they had so many to choose from but only 2 that were in my price range. I ended up getting a cool set with a base and two speakers.

/I never thought that the type of speakers really made a difference but now that I upgraded from two super old speakers to some really nice ones, I realize that sound quality makes a huge difference. It changes the way you listen to music and watch movies because everything is so clear. It was funny because we were talking about this in media class but I didn’t believe it. Now I do :)

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//blog20

/The study of communication is a very complex thing. I am majoring in communications and media here at Providence College and I am starting to realize how one thing that seemed so simple is really composed of layers and meanings that you never thought of before. I have learned so many definitions of what it means to communicate and how we as humans communicate. There are so many different things to study from audiences to the effect of the size of television you watch that I doubt we will ever find concrete definitions and meanings for everything. Rats, and I thought I would come out of College knowing everything, really I will just know that there is more to learn than what I thought.

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//blog19

/Pool has become the big thing now between me and my friends. We always hope for an empty pool table before and/or after meals since the table is right beside the cafeteria. If it is empty, we play a few heated games until we think of something more productive to do or decide that the competition level is too high and quit before someone breaks a pool cue over someone’s head. I’m joking of course; we would never damage school property.

/I used to be alright at pool. Now I am not. Enough said. I won’t discuss my pool shot or anything, don’t worry.

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//blog18

/Today I wrote my first college midterm exam. I realize now that I maybe should have prepared a bit more...but oh well, it is written and now I have the privilege of forgetting about it. That is until I get my mark back and see what I got. That mark has the power over one of my future days. It has the power to decide if I am happy or sad all day long. That’s how it is with all tests I get back after marking. If it is a good mark, I am happy for the whole day and if it is a bad one, I am sad.

/I am sorry for wasting thirty seconds of your life with this blog. Then again, you now know something deep about me. What that may be is for you to find out.

//endofblog18

//blog17

/I said Thanksgiving was going to be good but I was wrong. It was fantastic! Now that the cliché line is out of the way I can tell you about my super awesome, super long weekend.

/ I had two family gatherings over the break and each one filled me up with some really great food. I must have felt full to the bursting point all weekend and certainly didn’t feel hungry. I even got to go glow mini golfing which was in a whole other fun league in itself. I got to see pretty much all my family members and even got a belated graduation gift. I have so much to be thankful for.

//endofblog17

//superlongblog1

/Today I camped out in the main lobby here at Providence College just outside of the book store and watched people. No, I haven’t taken up stalking or creeping, I just watched people go about their day. People standing, sitting, walking, and talking: all of them doing something that I can write about.

/One thing I observed is that some people have the ability to merge two groups into one. As an example, there was a group of about 3 guys huddled in a group and to one side were two girls talking together. Then another guy comes along that I knew could and would talk to anyone and everyone. He came up and started talking to the group of guys first, and then started to talk to the girls too. He was also standing between the two groups so soon they were one big group and chatting like they were good friends. Now I don’t know the context of the encounter, they might have already all been friends, but either way, it is pretty cool if someone can bring two opposite groups together like that.

/I see all the other groups standing around me too and recognize each one of them. One group consists of the sports players who are probably talking about the latest practice or game, there’s the 2 guys playing foosball who are getting pretty intense, the group mentioned above still chatting it up, and of course there is the table full of four Asian girls conversing about, well, I don’t really know what they are saying. Sometimes I wonder what they are talking about in their circles, but then I realize that I probably won’t ever know.

/Oh well, back to the groups. They are dispersing now to head to various destinations. Half of one group will go up the stairwell with a wave to those who exit through the front doors. Some conversations are forgotten in an instant while some are mulled over in brains until the next discussion comes along. The lobby is completely empty now, just me and silence. Or is it silent? I now hear sounds I couldn’t hear over the din of chatting students. I hear the humming of the vending machine behind me, inviting me for a snack. I also take notice of the music drifting through the bookstore door and into the open space of the lobby. I almost missed it because of the sound of the tempting snack machine. The song is one I have never heard of before but I can instantly tell it is from a Christian band.

/It then hit me. The symbolism of this situation was basically staring me in the face and screaming. I wasn’t hearing the beautiful melody wafting through my world because the world was too loud. It sounds like something straight out of a poetry book but it is so true. I even wrote about this in one of my previous blogs, that sometimes we can’t hear God because the world just has too many things going on.

/It is amazing how God can use a 500 word blog assignment for a Writing for the Media class to teach me another lesson. His presence here on Earth showing us his love in the smallest of situations is awesome.

/The sound of footsteps on the hard ground makes me look up. With a smile and a wave I dismiss the student late for class and with fifteen minutes left before my own class, head off on my own path.

//endofsuperlongblog1

//blog16

/After a long wait (4 days can be a long wait), I am finally back to writing on my blog. Nothing really exciting has happened and I won’t bore you some more with what I had to eat. I will tell you however, that next weekend is thanksgiving weekend! I am heading home on Thursday and staying there until Monday since we have Friday and Monday off of school. I will come back 10 pounds heavier, courtesy of my Mom and Grandparents, and fully refreshed for a lot more school. I just hope that I will find time and remember to study for midterms, whatever those are.

//endofblog16

//longblog1

/So far in my blogs, I have written about nonsensical things that really had no meaning. This time however, with the chance (actually I was told) to write a longer entry, I hope to get some concrete ideas onto the web.

/I was listing to a song by John Reuben called “Breath” and one line he sings is “But it sure would be nice to leave the world around. So I run towards the Son to shed the Earth that surrounds”. I started thinking about it and it occurred to me that sometimes I feel like the world is too much and I would like to leave it (and/or my troubles) behind me. To do this; Reuben says to run toward the Son, who is Jesus, to “shed the Earth that surrounds”. I think that we as humans are sometimes compromised by the world and sometimes it takes leaving the world behind to get back on track spiritually. It is amazing that we are able to rely on Jesus to shed the Earth off us and bring us into his embrace.

/Now I’m not saying that we should leave the Earth to its own devices and focus only on getting ourselves to heaven, far from it. We should be focusing our efforts on taking as many people to heaven with us as possible. It is still important to step back sometimes and get refocused on God because like I said before, we can become compromised by the world. Once we do that, I found through experience that we can be empowed by God to compromise the world.

//endoflongblog1

//blog14

/I wish there was a magical, fast way to learn guitar. I want to know how to play really good right now and not have to work towards it. I know this sounds selfish and lazy but it will take so long to be anywhere near as good as some of the guys my age. Take a guy I hung out today for example. He just came into my room and picked up my guitar and played a couple of songs in quick succession right off the top of his head. He also played them almost flawlessly. He also said that the skill came with lots of practice. So I will have to put down my hopes of suddenly acquiring mad guitar skills and pick up my guitar and start practicing.

//endofblog14

//blog13

/Over the weekend, I went home for a time of rest and relaxation. When I came back to Providence, I brought along my Nintendo GameCube. My roommate and I are going to attempt to conquer the amazing Mario game, “Super Mario Sunshine”. So far in the last 2 days, we have accumulated 30 out of 120 “shine sprites”, the main item to collect in the game. The time spent accumulating these shiny stars could have been better spent reading our text books or working on various assignments, but running around in the Mushroom Kingdom is a whole lot more fun.

/Wow, I just proof read this blog and this sounds so nerdy!

//endofblog13

friday

//blog12

/Today is Friday and I am done all my classes! I have nothing up this weekend at Providence College and I am going home. I will have a chance to see my family and see what is going on in Morden. I will also get to pet my cat Sniffy that I miss dearly. I am hoping to be back for supper so I have the evening at home to relax and see what new with all of them. Right now I have to pack up my car and start my hour and a half long drive home.

//endofblog12

//blog11

/For those of you who read my last post you know what I am talking about when I say ‘tater tots and I’m sure you all had sleepless nights wondering weather or not I would get my tots. Well never fear, I got my tots, and ate them too. I even had to go back for more! To make things even better, there was bacon right beside the tots that I got as well. I also washed all that down with some creamy chocolate milk and apple juice. The cafeteria workers are doing a good job (I say this now after I have eaten my ‘tater tots) and I have to say that the tots were perfectly cooked...as always.

//endofblog11

//blog10

/Today at breakfast, there were no ‘tater tots. Me and two other guys woke up early this morning and neither of us had any classes. We got out of our warm beds and into the cold cafeteria for those golden, crispy tots. But when we get there, there are no tots! Only the bigger, non bite-sized, triangle hash brown patties! They crumble when you try to stab them with a fork and they are too big to fit in your mouth all at once. “WE WANT TOTS!” was our silent cry. We are hitting up the breakfast bar again tomorrow and if we don’t get tots, bad things will happen.

//endofblog10

//blog9

/I am watching a movie while blogging today. The movie of choice today is Tropic Thunder. I have never heard so many “F-bombs” in a row before. The movie itself is very funny and the language is just an exaggeration of other action movies that have a lot of swears too. Everything in this movie is just an exaggeration of other action and war movies.

/It isn’t the worst one I’ve seen and some parts are really funny. If you can get passed the swearing and some vulgar jokes (which is hard at some points) then the movie I think is worth watching.

//endofblog9

//blog8

/Today was care group day here at Providence College. Care group, for those who don’t know, is when everyone in the dorm gets together for at time to get to know each other. This time we got together with one of the girl's dorms and we played games and got to know the people in a female dorm. This was really nice because I haven’t met anyone except form my own dorm. We had a really good time with snacks and games and I think I actually remembered one tenth of all the names. I am so proud.

//endofblog8

//blog7
/Today was a good food day here at Providence College. When I say good, I mean better than good since every day has good Prov food. For breakfast I had some “tater tots”, ham, bacon, grapes and a banana. To drink, I had 2 glasses of chocolate milk (yummy!).
/Then came lunch. Wow! Tasty lunch! I had a burger (my first Prov burger), a piece of meat lover’s pizza, some fries, and 2 cookies. I also had a glass of chocolate milk and one glass of Coka-Cola. Not the healthiest lunch but a good lunch none the less.
/I’m heading to supper right away so I can’t tell you how that is but I am sure it will shape up to be just as good as the other meals.
//endofblog7

//blog6
/I am really glad that I took Intro to the Bible & Christian Theology as class here at Providence College. It opens my eyes to things I wouldn’t have noticed if I didn’t.
/I will read the bible on my own time and think I am getting it all. I then go to the course mentioned above and the Professor fills in all the details and explains why things are written the way they are and how it portrays strong spiritual values or shows the splendour of God. I think that after this class I will have learned to read the bible with more attention to detail and I will get more out of it.
//endofblog6

//blog 5
/Today in one of my classes (namely writing for the media) we were asked to conduct an interview on someone in the class sitting near us. The purpose of the exercise was to get us to write something in class to hone our skills. The questions we were to ask were ones that got us to know the other person better so this assignment had dual purposes. I tried to think of questions that would let me get to know my peer on a personal level and expand my knowledge of them beyond first name and colour of hair. What I came up with fell short of that mark. I asked where he grew up, where he would like to live, and what kind of cat or dog he would like to have. Those were the most insightful questions I could think of. But who knows, maybe in some way the knowledge that my classmate wants a small, brown terrier will help me get to know him on a deeper level. Hey, stranger things have happened.
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/I thought I was good at reading. That was until I was told to read a text book for the course I am taking here at Providence College. Any noise what so ever was a distraction and an excuse to stop reading the endless black words on the huge white page. There were many times that I would read for a few minutes and realize that I have no idea what I just read, compelling me to go back and re-read what I just went over. That was never fun since it extended my reading time every time I lost focus. Today, however, the dorm was dead quiet. That was really nice. I got the same amount of reading done as the day before but in half the time. I learned that I am one who needs complete quiet to study, no background noise at all.
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/I’m sitting in my dorm room today and my roommate and neighbour started a really odd discussion. I have no idea how this came about but they suddenly started talking about how a “liger” came to being. I won’t go into details but a liger is basically a cross between a male lion and a female tiger. They then started discussing what a “tigon” is, which is the same as a liger but with the tiger as the father and the lion as the mother. They both claimed to see one and proved it using YouTube... they are expert researchers. I’ve learned to expect anything from dorm life.
/I just want to end by saying that this hasn’t been the weirdest discussion yet and I can bet that there will be weirder ones to come.
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\I never knew how much I enjoyed hearing about events that go on throughout the world, and news in general, until I stopped hearing about them.
\In high school, I would hear about current happenings from the many familiar people that I saw everyday in school. I even had a history teacher that would tell my class the news every day to try and make us “history buffs”. I thought the news was boring back then and hardly paid attention and never participated in sharing new news during class.
\Then I Graduated and stopped seeing those friends every day and I realized how much I was missing out if I didn’t hear the news. I would see someone occasionally that would know all the current news and he would tell me something big that happened that everyone was supposed to know about. I never started paying more attention to the news but I did find it weird that with all the technology available to me I still didn’t know what was happening in my own province and country. Not to mention my world.
\I’m hoping that I will get into looking up the news this year everyday now that I am in school again. I also hope that I will continue to enjoy it even if I have to work for my own news.
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\Good day world! I am now Blogger Kyle, set loose in the world wide web. By the end of this year we will see if that was a good idea or not.
\I hear that twittering has become pretty popular. People will write the things they are doing at that very moment onto a web page so others can see what they are doing… in my opinion kind of creepy. I don’t have a twitter of my own so I’ll use my blog as a testing site to see if I like it or not. Here it goes;
\9:25 - Just woke-up. blah
\9:40 - Only got out of bed now. blah
\9:45 - Time to take a shower. Ya!
\9:50 - Get into my awesome new school clothes
\9:59 - Shoot! I missed breakfast. Oh well. I’ll have some home-baked cookies and a
“Fruit Medley” juice box (super yummy) as I wander around my room
\10:10 - It’s time to kill time by practicing my guitar. I might as well be awesome. Not.
\10:45 - I just realized I have a blog to write today. Better get on that.
\10:48 - Start writing my blog.
\10:50 - Got bored, smashed my computer, and ate a whole party sub from Subway.
\That brings me to present time readers. As you might have guessed, I did not smash my computer, or else I would not be able to write this last bit. Hahaha. I did however get bored and if there was a party sub, I would have eaten some of it. I just needed to spice things up a bit since my life sounded pretty boring up to that point. I think I will have to lay off the twittering until I become a celebrity or an extreme sports player. Or both.
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