Track Finals '09

On June 5, 2009, the Cascade Conference Track and Field Finals took place on Woosley Field. Kings' home field. At a scorching 86 degrees, it couldn't of been any hotter. The conditions were amazing. I had only one event to take place in the Finals. The 4-by-2-relays. It is and event where you have four people running a distance of 200 meters.After you run your 200 meters, you hand a baton to the next runner. I was super nervous that day because the 4 by 2 was my only event in the Finals and I really wanted to be 1st place. My team consists of Andrew Holt, Sam Turpin and Connor McCauley. Andrew always runs the first leg. I run the second leg. Sam usually runs the third leg. Then Connor always runs the anchor position. During the finals race, our team was amazing. Everyone ran with a lot of heart and desire to win. We won! It was one of my favorite feelings in my life. It was priceless. I got to stand on the podium at the top with Sam. I was so proud of my team! Everyone ran their hearts out.

Westward Expansion Presentation

Body Language:
Did you stand up straight but stay relaxed?
Yes, I was very relaxed. I could of not moved around so much.

Did you pause for a moment before you began your speech?
Yes, I waited for everyone to quit down. Then I started my presentation.

Did you look at your audience?
Yes, I kept really good eye contact with the whole audience. I think I could of used my body more.
Did you let your facial expressions naturally reflect what you were saying?

Not really. I changed my voice if I was talking about something exciting or change my voice if something was weird. I didn't use much facial expression though.

Did you use your hands?
I did not use my hand once. I stood in one spot talking with my hands in my pocket. I should of used my hand way more.

Voice:
Did you speak loudly enough so that everyone could hear you?
Yes. I spoke very loudly. I believe everyone was able to hear what I said.

Did you change your tone to show how you felt (upset, excited) about an idea or to emphasize a point?
Yes. I made my voice more cheerful when I was talking about something interesting. I also made my voice sound really sad when I talked about sad things.

Was your speed of delivery too fast, too slow or just right?
I thought that I spoke at a really good speed. It was perfect enough that I wasn't being so boring. I was also good enough that I didn't speak so fast that no one could understand a word I said.

General Info:
Did you practice your speech at home before giving it?
Yes, I practiced a lot of my speech at my house. I thought that it was very clear that I did so.

What did you notice that you did well in your speech?
I thought that I did a really good job getting out information to my audience. I spoke at a good speed so that people could understand me.
Describe one aspect of public speaking you will work to improve?
I noticed that there were some places that I could of improved. Like using my hands. I could have done that better.

Pharrell Williams

His:
Eye is a millionaires vision.
Ear is a cloud.
Mouth is lyrical.
Nose is a truffle.
Forehead is shiny.
Hair is shaved.
Cheek is craters.
Teeth as shiny as the stars.
Lip is a blimp.
Skin is decadent as chocolate.

Fronteir House

Occupations/Schools: Langley Middle School

What attracted you to this project?
Mr. Berquist

What hobbies and interests do you have?
My hobbies are that I like to play sports.

What image do you have of pioneer living?
Horses, Log Cabins, can of beans

What's the most challenging thing you and your family (or group) have experienced?
Moving from Japan to America, We had to leave a lot of our good friends

If you were chosen what do you think you would most miss about modern life?
Definitely the technology to make everything easier. Transportation, food, and video games.

What qualities do you and your family have that make you suited to this experience?
My family is willing to learn and experience the way of living in the 1800's.

What skills do you have that may help you?
I have skills of cooking in the wilderness.

What would you hope to get out of the experience?
I hope to get to know myself better. To be a changed person.

What do you think will be the most difficult challenge of pioneer life?
Definitely all the technology in our lives to help us do every day tasks.

What skills would you like to learn from the experience?
Wood cutting, building, animals

We'd like you to tell us:
What interests you about this project?
The opportunity to go back in time to the 1800's.

Do you have any concerns about your participation?
No.

How much do you know about your family history -- do you have pioneer roots?
I do not no much about my family history.

How did you hear about Frontier House?
My 8th grade English Class.

Trashketball

Today, we played trashketball. It was one of the most amazing, intense and super-duper game in trashketball history. The game was really intense. In the very beginning my team got probation because I was talking. That sucked because we could not answer the first three questions, which we all knew what the answer was. Anyways, we got off probation, thankfully, and we were in the game. Through the whole game it seemed like one team was in the lead the whole time. One of the music trivia was a Whitney Houston song. Isaac thought that the song was by Paula Abdul. We were totally wrong. A lot of other groups tried guessing who the singer was. No one got it right. Anyways, Group #3 was doing really good because Jack hit the trash can, then rolled a high number. Then he hit the trash can again to get a really good score. Our team, Group 5, got a question right, and I wanted to throw the ball, so my team let me. I thought that I had to make it up to my team because I got my team a probation, so I really wanted to get points up. Of course I hit the trash can, which I've never done, then I rolled the die and got one. That sucked. I had to hit it again. I did! I was really happy. At the end, our team went into the final round in a three way tie for last place. When our team was up to throw, Group 1 was in the lead. Ellie went up to throw, (dramatic pause), then she threw the ball and it hit the trash can! We were tied for 1st. The last team to throw couldn't hit or sink the ball into the trash can. It was a sudden death to determine the winner. After maybe 10 minnutes of Group 1 and my Group throwing, no one could hit the can. It was an epic game, as Kellen would say.

Intimate Poem

Dear Maia,

Do you remember when we would laugh
at the funny faces I would make?
Just like the time I would squish up my face
to make me look like an old person?
Or when you tried to make a funny face yourself?
That was the shiz.
Or the time I got hurt
and Hayden pretended to feed me
like an infant (breast feeding)?
Ahhhh, Those were the times.

Sorry poem

I'm sorry for being so beautiful
I really feel bad,
for those who are not gifted by god
to look so beautiful

I know you think,
that I am as good looking as a sunrising
in an Urban city
just to let you know,
I have no face

That might be a problem,
I guess we can just imagine...

What am I poem

I am sometimes
blank as snow.
I am sometimes
filled with imagination.
I have had things erased from me,
from my memory.

What am I?
Piece of Paper

What If...

What if...

dogs were deamons
mans best friend
would become mans worst enemy
instead of it licking your face
it will eat your face off
if you throw a frisbee
it would eat it

The Creature from Muarryland

This Is my version of Vruit.

Sadly, Isaac has not finished Vruit.

Here, you will fulfill your dreams by getting a chance to use your imagination to create this wonderful creature from Murray Land. This mysterious character, whose name is Vruit, may look like something that you might have seen in an earlier stage of your life to present day of 2009.

To start off describing Vruit, I’ll start at the head. This is pretty interesting because he doesn’t have a traditional “Earth Being” type of head. To describe the head, I have to start with the body. His body is a banana. He is as yellow as the hot burning sun. The eyes are on top of the stem of the banana. Then, the mouth and the nose are located on the exterior of the peel. The intriguing part of the nose is that it is an orange carrot. The mouth is just a big, smiling, wide open mouth.

There is a gray strap that goes across his chest. It is connected to a candy cane sword. It’s just one of his two weapons that he has. Going down his body the next body part is his arms. Vruit consists of four arms. All of them are gray like an elephant. Two on both side of his banana body. One arm on each side is a regular “Earth Being” arm. The other arms are a little different from the other two. The one arm on his right is a little different because he has a regular arm, but his hand is a pineapple. The same with his left arm, but his hand is a coconut.

Now, going even farther down to the waist region comes another weapon of his. They are nice, big and juicy blueberry bombs created by the famous VF7 intelligence agency. They are connected to a tan belt. Down to his legs, which he only has two, is a nice yellow-green asparagus. The asparagus legs are on top of a banana skateboard. The wheels on the skateboard are two grapes as hard as a nail and are a vibrant purple. The last factoid about the banana skateboard is that it has an exhaust at the back emitting fire to make it go at a top speed of 150 RFWPM (Rotation of Fruit Wheel Per Minute).

I hope that your mind is exploding with new ideas and colorful imagination on creating my creature from Murray Land, Vruit.

Chuck Norris

I got a request from some fellow readers to do some stuff on Chuck Norris. No one really knows why Chuck Norris is so awesome... but there are many things that are cool about Chuck Norris. Here are some facts about Chuck Norris that you may of not known. Chuck Norris was on the t.v. show "Walker, Texas Ranger." Many people may know Chuck as a t.v. or movie star, but before that he was a martial arts star. He was undefeated in his carrer of martial arts. Now, here are some of my favorite Chuck Norris jokes.
1. Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
2. Some people wear Superman pajamas, Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.
3. Kids play kick the can, Chuck Norris plays kick the keg.
4. Chuck Norris is the reason Waldo is hiding.
5. Chuck Norris once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.
6. Chuck Norris once ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.
7. Chuck Norris played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
8. A high tide means Chuck Norris is flying over your coast. The tide is caused by God pissing his pants.
9. Chuck Norris' first job was as a paperboy. There were no survivors.
10. Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
Those were ten of my favorite Chuck Norris jokes. If you have better Chuck Norris jokes, please leave a comment and tell me you favorites.

My Claymation

For the 1st quarter's big project, our class had to make a claymation about an European explorer. My friend and I chose the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus, who is famously known for finding the new world. Our movie follows the life of Christopher Columbus. I hope you will enjoy our movie.

The most enjoyable part for me had to be the whole project. I got to do this project with my best friend, Hayden Nichols, which made the experience much more enjoyable. One of my favorite things Hayden and I did was that we put a little fun in our movie. If you see in the First Voyage scene, we put a little figure in the water and made it so that he got eaten by a shark. We also put a little subliminal message in our "Back in Spain" scene. If you look carefully at the paintings in that scene, you'll see that the portrait of the king looks like a real human. Then look at the queen's portrait. You'll probably notice that it looks like the clay model of the queen in that scene. I thought that that was funny.

One of the toughest part of this project for us was getting the scenes in on time. For the first scene, we had a full week to work on it. That was easy, but then scene 2 was due in 3 days. That was hard for us. Scene 2 and 4 were turned in late. Thankfully my mom had figured out a plan for us. We would take pictures way ahead of the due date, then we could do all the computer work at school. That really worked out for us. We also had a few technical problems. For all of our scenes, we had to individually change each photo to the set 0:00:03 seconds. That really sucked. For all the people that say that there is another way of changing all the pictures' set time at once I'm sorry but you're wrong. We proved about 7 people wrong in my class all the people that thought that they were right. So don't even try.

I think that the most important thing that I learned was patience. There was something going wrong all the time. Sometimes it would be that our clay was getting too hot in Hayden's room, so we had to put them in the freezer. It would also be some technical problems, too. Another part of patience I learned was for the 300 and something pictures we had to take for one scene. Luckily I had Hayden who was my partner because he is really good at the claymation stuff. The last thing that got on my nerves was that stupid recording delio. Whenever we would finish recording, I would click the "stop record" button and it would slice off half the whole recording! We had to make the same recording about 5 times. That was really annoying.

I really hope you will enjoy our movie about Christopher Columbus. It will suck if you don't because we put so much time into this project. I even skipped parts of basketball practice just for your entertainment. So please enjoy this movie.

My Freestlye Rap

Today I'm going to write a total freestyle rap here it goes "Break it down cam, Yo, Yo, My name is Guy and I rap about life, the first thing I'll say is i like to eat pie. If you already don't know I'm a really fly guy, I rap as fast as Pinocchio may lie. Now I'm makin some bacon, promise you I ain't fakin. Word." That is all for my freestyle rap, but now I'll start talking about some other rappers i enjoy listening to. Lil Wayne: I really like his voice, kind of raspy. My favorite song by him is "A Milli" Kanye West: He could be one of my favorite rapper. I like "Homecoming", "Gold Digger", "Stronger" and "Good Life". I also like Jay-Z, I like "Hard Knock Life" it's got a sweet beat. I don't just like hip-hop and rap I like rock, heavy metal, pop, other stuff. The song I am really into right now is the Offspring. Their song "You're gonna go far kid" is an awesome.

The Real Slim Shady

Eminem is one of my favorite rappers in the music industry. Here are my top five songs by him. 5-"Without Me" 4-"Lose Yourself" 3-"Real Slim Shady" 2-"Like Toy Soldiers" and the number one song that I like by Eminem is "When I'm Gone." These are all really great songs by him. Here is a little more information of Eminem. His real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, but he goes by Slim Shady or his main stage name Eminem. His has won many awards such as an Academy award winning and Grammy winning rapper. He is married to Kim Scott and they have a daughter named Hallie. He isn't afraid to say anything in his songs. He sings about his life including his mom, Kim, and Hallie. The song "When I'm Gone" is partly about his daughter, Hallie.

Adventure Ed Trip

This whole week, I did not go to school. I actually went to the Washington Coast. I woke up at 5:00 AM on Sunday morning and took a shower because I knew I was going to get really dirty. I got to the school, got on the bus then headed off to the Washington Coast. I fell asleep twice on the bus ride. It was a really long bus ride. When we finally got to the south end at Rialto Beach I had to pack my bear can. Then we set off on the hike. In the beginning it felt very strange walking on the beach with a 30 pound backpack. Then I just got really used to walking with it. I think we hiked about 4.5 miles on the first day to the first camp site. Since I don't have enough time to talk about my great adventure on this trip. I guess I will talk about one of my favorite part of the trip. It was when Mitchell and I were right up in the front, concentrating on not slipping on the logs when Mr. Davis tells us to suddenly stop. Frightened of being in trouble, we looked up to Mr. Davis then we turned back around to be surprised to see a very big black bear staring right us about 75 yards in front of us. We started backing up 'till we got back with the group. I really liked sharing this experience with my friends. I thought that it was a really enjoyable trip.

My Life? Graph!

This is my life graph. This shows 10 positive and 10 negative moments in my life. My favorite event that happened to me is when I made the 7th grade basketball team. During the beginning of the try-outs I was very nervous. After a while I started to become more confident. Luckily I made the team. It turned out that I made the spot for floater, which gets to play both J.V and Varsity. One of my best games I ever played was my 2nd game ever in Granite Falls. I had only gone in at the middle of the 3rd quarter, and the middle of the 4th quarter. I made my first basket of the game with an easy fast break layup. Then i got a pass from Patrick Monell on the left side, then cut into the middle and went for the layup. I made the layup and got fouled. Then i made the layup. The same thing happened on my next layup, then made my free throw. At the end of the game I had a total of 8 points, the most i ever made during the season.

History of karate

I am not much of a fan of karate, but i know most of my readers are. I decided to write my second entry about karate. Most Western students of Asian martial arts, if they have done any research on the subject at all, will surely have come across references to Bodhidharma. He is known as "Daruma" in Japan and as often as not, this Indian Buddhist monk is cited as the prime source for all martial arts styles or at the very least, for any style which traces its roots back to the fabled Shaolin Temple. However, the question of his contributions to the martial arts and to Zen Buddhism and even of his very existence has been a matter of controversy among historians and martial arts scholars for many years. That is a quick history of karate. If you want to learn more go to http://www.karateinternational.net/karatehistory.php. It is a great website for karate.

My life

As you know my name is Guy. On this edition of Jo-jo Spinkowsky's world of blogging official post #1 I will talk to you about my life. My interests are not tuna and tuna sandwiches, but they are soccer, tennis, basketball, piano, and music. I am currently in the 8th grade attending Langley Middle School.
During the summer of 2008 i went to Florida. The activities i had participated in Florida are that i went scuba diving, air boat riding, swimming, went to the gulf of Mexico, and i saw many alligators. Where i saw the alligators was at this place called Wakula. It is a very famous place where very old movies were filmed. Films such as "The Creature from the Black Lagoon." That is one of many things i did at my trip to Florida.
One of my favorite things in life is music. I really enjoy listening to music. I like all kinds of music like hip-hop and rap, rock, alternative, r&b soul, metal, and country. There are three rappers i really like. They are Shwayze, Eminem, and Kanye West. The reason i really like them is that they all got their own style. Shwayze is more acoustic rap, Eminem raps about his life, the though times, and just kinda weird stuff, and Kanye West isn't hardcore rap crap.

I love tuna!

Hello young readers of my awesome blog. My name is Guy, Jo-jo Spinkowsky is my pet centipede's name. My interests are tuna and tuna sandwiches. I also enjoy many sports. This blog will teach you karate, my life, and awesome tuna recipes. Please stick with this blog while it is in progress.

Love,
The magical almighty Jo-jo