O is for the Olympics

Can you imagine what it would be like to compete in the Olympics? Scoring that winning goal, jumping that last jump, flying down that ski hill and knowing that you have just won an Olympic gold medal! Of course that doesn't always happen, there are those people who finish that grueling race and miss the gold medal by 1.6 seconds like Devon Kershaw in the 50km cross country ski race! And of course you can't forget those people who may finish in like 79th or something but they go out there and try their best and enjoy every second of it.



So I've never actually been to the Olympics but I love watching them on TV which is kind of weird, because I don't watch any sports (except for the Olympics) I don't know why, not Hockey Night in Canada or anything like that. So why do I watch the Olympics? The honest answer is that I don't know. Maybe I think that the Olympics are different. The Olympics allow people who normally wouldn't be able to achieve their dream do just that. It also allows people who are just watching to dream, to dream that one day that could be them, on the podium with a gold medal around their neck, their national anthem blaring out around them. It also brings the world together in a way that nothing else does. It's like for two weeks every two years the whole entire world believes in something.



Everyone has a favourite moment during the Olympics. Out of all of the Olympics that I've seen and remembered it would probably be when the woman's hockey team won the gold medal!!!! And in Beijing my favourite moment would obviously have to be when Eric Lamaze got a gold medal on his horse, Hickstead (but that's just because I love horses)! However it is harder to pick a favourite moment from Vancouver 2010. Was it when Sydney Crosby scored that winning goal in overtime, or when I found out that Canada had received the most gold medals ever (GO CANADA!), or when Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue finished their breathtaking performance, or when Joannie Rochette received her bronze medal, or when Alexandre Bilodeau received the first gold on home soil and I could go on forever but I'll stop now! All this happened because we all believed! You could definitely say that Vancouver 2010 is something that the world (especially Canadians) won't forget anytime soon!



Life Lesson: If the whole world comes together and we all believe then great things can happen:-D

This week I commented on Georgia's blog!!!

U is for the United Kingdom

The second we hit the tarmac I'm up. Seven hours in a stuffy plane over the Atlantic Ocean isn't always fun but it is definatly worth it, because in a few hours I will be in my grandma's house with all my family around me.

About once a year we go to England in the United Kingdom to visit all my family. I was born there and moved to Canada when I was two years old. I don't really remember living there and to me Canada will always be my home. However I really miss my family that are all living there and I am always really, really, really, excited to go back.

When most people think of England they automatically think of London. Well believe it or not but I have never actually been to London, well I've been to the airport there but I've never actually gone and seen the city. I know its crazy all those times I've been to England and I've never seen London!!!!

However to me there are more important places in England. The most important place is my grandma's house well old house. She moved in November and it was really sad because some of my earliest and best memories were in that house Its called Brooks Close because in the country in England all the houses have names not numbers its weird I know. That was the place where I got to see all my family together at the same time, and when I say all my family I mean great aunts and uncles and second cousins and normal cousins and I could go on forever but I have to stop somewhere! When I go there I don't just see my family though I see all the people who we knew when I lived there I see kids that I have been friends since I was born!

England means soooo much to me. It is a great place and you should all go there someday. I've heard people say that the reason that we love certain places is because of the people there. I think this is probably true I mean if all my friends and family lived in Kenya or somewhere like that I would probably love it as much as England.

Life Lesson: It is the people that make the places so wonderful.