MYP5 English 10

At the beginning of my weekend, I decided I was going to hang out with some friends, then I decided to take a short nap that turned into multiple hours. Now I am doing something I never thought I’d do, my English homework 3 days before it’s assigned. i feel like this will surprise Mr. MacKnight and will also surprise Suzy and Lyla, i definitely surprised myself. Who knew I was capable of such a thing? Being productive isn’t as tiring as I thought it was; it’s actually only the time when you actually sit down and “relax” that’s tiring. Also, is this supposed to be 500 words? cause i have 109 right now, what am I supposed to talk about? i feel like shrimp crackers with lime would taste really good, also my summer/hype playlist is so good fr check it out on Spotify. I’ll talk about the police camp, so this is a camp I went to over the summer. And every day I woke up at 0530 am, and needed to be downstairs for PT (Personal Training) at 0545. If you were late, that would be 4 extra laps around the campus. everyone needed to have their hair back, and for men they needed to have a slick back. PT was nonstop movement for an hour and 45 minutes, pushups, burpees, squats, and so much running. we had 15 minutes to go back to our dorm and shower, then come back at 0730 for breakfast. Normally we would eat with our team (team red was the best of course) but we would invite people we knew over (my roommate was team blue so she’d sit with me). at 0750 we would need to be in the classroom for 4 hours of learning, we would have the bomb squad come in, the K9 unit, RCMP, Volunteers, Firefighters, Paramedics, X-Navy officers and more, we would get to see their gear, hold unloaded guns, and ride in cop cars. honestly this was the best experience of my life. it was 1 week at St Margret’s, (im not done talking about my day) at 1150 we would grab a quick snack then go outside for day SIMMS which is just day simulations, getting to use what we used in the classroom to use and be police officers with actors, this would go until dinner at 1900 hours (7pm) we had 2h for dinner, then 30 minutes of class time to summ up what we learned during the day, and we would get free time from 945pm to 10pm (i dont want to do millitary time rn). there were over 400 applicants, but only 50 spaces for people, and to even score an interview is 2 in 10 people, but the friends i made were some of the most amazing people ill ever meet. i want to thank, Nathan, Taylor, Bailee, Alien, Kelsi, Oliver, Murray, Aaron, Jack and Nova. there was one night when we were all hanging out until 3am, and we still needed to wake up at 5am. i dont have any regrets from this team, and if i had to do it all again, i wouldnt change a thing. this experance got rid of my socail anxiety, during class i use to think that everyone in this school was kinda scary, popular, and i always catagorized everyone into a group. but i realize that their oppinions dont matter nor impact who i am, thank you Nova for being my amazing roomate, thank you Aaron for being a great team leader (and breaking rules for us), thank you Kelsi for keeping us in line and pretending not to see us sleeping in class, thank you Taylor for always being so inclusive, thank you Murray for breaking the nervous part of meeting everyone (even though sometimes too much information was shared) and also thank you for being understanding with night SIMMS, thank you Nathan for always making sure we all had our notebooks, thank you Oliver for being my first friend, thank you Jack for staying strong through everything youre going through, and thank you Bailee for always being so energetic and getting everyone going in the morning. im really going to miss all my friends i made, and i cant wait to see them again. i guess people in this school arnt all so weird (all the time). woah and thats 713 words.

For this most interesting personal writing I will be writing the original lyrics to  Spooky Scary Skeletons and then running them through google translate a bunch and then putting them back into English to see how much they changed!

Original Spooky Scary Skeletons Lyrics:

Spooky, scary skeletons
Send shivers down your spine
Shrieking skulls will shock your soul
Seal your doom tonight

Spooky, scary skeletons
Speak with such a screech
You’ll shake and shudder in surprise
When you hear these zombies shriek

We’re sorry, skeletons, you’re so misunderstood
You only want to socialize (but I don’t think we should)

‘Cause spooky, scary skeletons
Shout startling, shrilly screams
They’ll sneak from their sarcophagus
And just won’t leave you be

Spirits supernatural are shy, what’s all the fuss?
But bags of bones seem so unsafe (it’s semi-serious)

Spooky, scary skeletons
Are silly all the same
They’ll smile and scrabble slowly by
And drive you so insane

Sticks and stones will break your bones
They seldom let you snooze
Spooky, scary skeletons
Will wake you with a boo!

Google Translated Version:

Brain tumors are dangerous and dangerous                                                                Your stomach starts to tighten                                                                                          The buzzing insects will shake you to your core                                                          Feel your presence tonight

Fear, fear                                                                                                                              He spoke loudly                                                                                                              She said, laughing                                                                                                                If only the zombie’s voice could be heard

I’m sorry, Bones. I don’t know                                                                                      You just need to rest (I don’t)

Because I’m a rascal                                                                                                            I screamed                                                                                                                  That’s that                                                                                                                        But they won’t let you

The monsters got scared, what happened?                                                                But the magnetic field is not very strong (low temperature)

A sad, sad tragedy                                                                                                    They’re all idiots                                                                                                            They wrote slowly, smiling as they wrote                                                                    And it really inspires me

Iron rods and stones break bones                                                                                They will stand up for you                                                                                              The bones are amazing                                                                                                They wake you up with a hello button

I sincerely hope you enjoyed that chaos and have learned not to use google translate for your French assignments!

Once again, I have no idea what to write..

I have now come back much later because I finally have something to write about. And I am going to write about what just happened to me.

So, I have a lot of homework. Some more important than the others. And I find it really hard to get motivated or do my work when I start with the hardest first even though it is the most important. So, I decided to do my PW #9. But, as I sat down I had no idea what to write about. So, I read other peoples’ personal writings. I was gonna do something like Camille’s, but I didn’t want to copy her. So, to come up with ideas or just to get motivated, I put on some hype music. But then, I don’t know what happened. I was motivated, but I got out of my chair and I took everything out of my closet and, cleaned it. Then I separated my stuff and even found a bunch of stuff I wanted to donate. Then I put everything back in, colour coded, and I even organized my hoodies on my coat hangers (I have a lot but I only wear like, 4). So I was productive, but not in the way I wanted to be… At least I finished my Art Criteria A and have something to write about.

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is watch TV shows, especially if they have over 5 seasons and 40-minute episodes. I prefer the ones that were made in the early 2000s-2010s because they all have a certain vibe to them that I really like. A few of my favourites are Supernatural, Pretty Little Liars, and The O.C. Supernatural is about two brothers, Sam and Dean, who hunt monsters, demons, and ghosts across America. It has 15 seasons, and it’s incredible. I particularly like the first couple of seasons because they had really cool lighting/a filter, but as the show progressed, they slowly got rid of it. Pretty Little Liars follows a group of high school girls whose lives unravel after their friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappears mysteriously. A year later, they begin receiving threatening messages from an anonymous figure named “A”, who knows their darkest secrets, even the ones only Alison could have known. The next show I like is The O.C., which is about a troubled teenager, Ryan Atwood, who is taken in by his idealistic public defender, Sandy Cohen, and his wealthy family in the elite coastal community of Newport Beach. It has four seasons, and is a very fun 2000s show.

What am I passionate about?

• My Spotify playlists. I love putting together a specific group of songs based on random things (eg. decomposition is romantic, mythology & women & sin & death & love & sex & hozier & florence, etc etc.)
• My books. Once you get me actually talking about my favourite books (or, alternatively, the worst books I’ve read) it will be difficult to get me to stop.
• Specific lyrics that I think are meaningful and will analyze far too much.
• Women.
• Wearing sunscreen. Literally what do you have to lose by wearing sunscreen? The two minutes it took you to apply? Have you ever heard of skin cancer?
• Judging people that don’t enjoy listening to music. What do you do with your ears or your brain? You just choose to sit in silence instead of listening to heaven singing in your head? Why?
• Flowers. They’re just so pretty and I love looking at them. I also don’t really have a pollen allergy so I’m generally unbothered by plants as a whole. Except chamomile, my greatest adversary (vocab word).
• Complaining. It might be what I’m best at. Nothing gets me going like complaining about the same minor inconvenience for two hours, I promise.
• Shoes. Unfortunately, I do believe in consumerism when it comes to shoes. Yes, I only have two feet but I need more shoes.
• Watching edits of my favourite books and TV shows and artists. The internet people are so ridiculously talented and entertain me so well. They are so creative and find songs that match niche characters and scenarios. Most of them make me cry incredibly hard and that isn’t too hard to do but it’s still special to me.
• Drinkity drinks. I love me a drink. I like a mocktail or just a flavoured lemonade. I like tea, mostly fruity teas but I do enjoy some teas with milk. I like lattes and hot chocolate, as well. I also like water, obviously, but having a cutesy little drink makes me so happy. Especially if it’s in a nice cup.
• Gossiping. I’m never the one that knows the gossip first, but I greatly enjoy finding out about it. The only people I tell are my mom, sister, and best friend, all of which do not know any of the people at school and will 100% forget two minutes after I tell them. I actually just tell them so I can have a chance to talk about it to entertain myself. Either I gossip, or I make up things about people in my head when I’m bored.
• Words or phrases that I get fixated on. I love to say:
  – in fact
  – unfortunately
  -correct/incorrect
  -oh so actually maybe not (something along those lines)
  -field trip!
  – oh, so why do you hate me?/ okay just say you hate me
  – “blank” is a taylor swift song or lyric

During the year seasons, I have two favorites, the summer and the winter. I really like both of them, because during the winter you can do winter sports such as  snowboarding,that is my second favorite sport, just losing to surfing.Sleeping during the winter it’s one of the best things because the weather is already cold, so you just put yourself under the blanket and suddenly you get warmer and another thing that I like during the winter is eating a good and warm food. I really like the summer because I love the hot weather,the long vacations and in my city during the summer break everyone is in the city, so we can do a lot of stuff together and going to the beach, that is one of my favorite things ever especially when I go surfing with my dad or friends, and at the end of the summer my family always travel to a new place. But if I had to choose one between both of them, it would definitely be the summer due to the beach and that in summer most of my friends are in the city, while during winter most of the travel to another place.

Basketball is finally starting back up for me after months of waiting. Ever since something came up with our team we haven’t been able to play in a tournament in months. Now that we have everything back in order my coach has enrolled in multiple tournaments. I’m super existed because we mostly have tournaments on the island but we have a few in Vancouver and 1 I think in the US but I don’t know which one or were it is. All I know is that my dad told me we had one and it will be in a few months. For me I’m expecting to win most of the tournaments like around 80% because we have a better team than last year. For myself I’m expecting myself to be able to average around 25 or 30 points per game because that is what I should average being one of the lead players on the team. I also think this because that is what I usually average if I’m around my best performance. Since last year is have learned multiple new moves and skills I can use during the game that I never got to use during school season because I was a center and not were I can do 100%. Anyways I’m really existed to play and that we are going to win.

In art class, we had a chance to make whatever we wanted. I wanted to create something with pipe cleaners, so I decided to make little finger puppets. I first had to look up inspiration images and tutorials. However, I ended up doing the opposite of the tutorials, but it still worked. I needed pom poms for the heads of the puppets, but didn’t have any. To make pom poms, I had to wrap a bunch of thread, tie it in the middle and cut it. Then I fluffed it and out and trimmed it, and it turned out better than an actual pom poms. Bending the pipe cleaners so they could fit in my fingers took more time than I expected. After I made all the parts, I hot glued everything together. Gluing it all together took almost the entire art class, which I didn’t expect. Deciding the placement of the eyes was also challenging. If they were too close or too far apart, it looked silly. My finger puppets turned out really cute, and it had been a while since I actually enjoyed art and making something.

My dad came last week to visit me for one week. I really liked it because it felt more like home even if I wasn’t, but still, I enjoyed it a lot. I really liked to be spoiled by my dad because here you mostly have to care about yourself, so if you want something you have to do it . But last week I didn’t have to get worried about something because my dad would be there for me. I realized more that I am so lucky to live here and have these amazing experiences here. Because my dad was talking about how much he would like it when he was young to live here in Canada with all this beautiful nature, but he told me that he is really happy that I have the opportunity to be here. One thing that made me feel sad was when my dad was talking about what is happening at home because I noticed I miss it a lot being with my siblings, my dog, my cats and just spending time. But still I was happy that he visited, and I appreciated it a lot. 

Last weekend one of my best friends from Austria, Emma, came to visit me here in Brookes. Seeing her here almost felt like an illusion and it at least took me ten minutes to realize that it’s actually her, here in Canada, just for me. I showed her and her parents the whole school, my room and all the places in Victoria I normally go to. I was so happy to see her here and we were literally talking so much we almost forgot to breathe because it’s really hard to pack three months in three days. Before she came here the thought of leaving Brookes made me really sad but Emma reminded me that there are so many good things waiting for me in Austria so I hope that the goodbye from Canada won’t be too bad. Especially in the last month I thought a lot about how it will be to leave Canada in just a bit more than two months and about how I don’t want to leave, at least not so soon. It makes me sad to realize that I need to all this, what feels like a dream, behind but it also makes me realize how privileged I am and how happy I can be that I can experience all that and how amazing it is that there are so many people I can miss, because that only proofs that I am truly happy here. I am going to try my best to enjoy my so valuable time here and collect a lot of memories that I can forever look back on if I will ever happen to have a bad day.

I recently had my drivers test to get my learners License it went so well. I probably studied 1 week in advance and I got 100 percent on the test. So for the past three weeks I have been driving around the city and practicing it has felt so wired because I am always in the passenger seat and now I am the one driving. The only issue with the L is that you can only drive with your parents and no one else that means I can’t go pick up my friends to go for a ride not for a whole year. It has been very fun driving around and I’m happy I got my learners.

Mac Miller (Malcolm James McCormick) is a famous singer/song writer who was born on January 19th 1992 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania US and died on September 7th 2018 in Los Angeles after an accidental over does on fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol. his death was prodicted to be from buying fentanyl laced pills by Stephen Walter who was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison in 2022. Mac Miller is famous for numerous songs and albums he came out with before and after his death one of his most famous albums he came out with being The Divine Feminine (2016) and Swimming (2018). His top hits on Spotify being The Spins (1,257,424,027 streams ) Love Lost (470,687,820 streams ) and Come Back to Earth (467,231,181 streams )

One of my favourite Albums from Mac Miller would be The Divined Feminine (2016) and Balloonerism (2025). The Diviened Feminine was released September 16th 2016 and has 10 songs in it and is about 52 minuets long. The Divined Feminine has someone of Mac Millers most known songs and songs hes widley known for. I personally love the whole album and consider it one of those albums that has no skips in them but some of my favoirte songs in it would be God is Fair, Sexy Nasty (feat. Kendrick Lamar) and Soulmate. Balloonarism is one of Mac Millers new albums that was relased on January 17th 2025, it has 14 songs and is around 58 minuets long and has more a more on edge feel to alot of the songs to it. Some of my favourites in Balloonasrim would be Stoned and Manakins.

Mac Miller relased six studio albums in his lifetime and his 7th (Balloonarism) after his death with a few anniversary releases and singles, He released 13 mixtapes, multiple EPs, live albums and a total of 56 official singles and features. Mac Miller is still extreamly famous as he was before he died and will forever be an amazing artist and known for his amazing work and his dedication to what he loved.

Yesterday, I had my first practice with my basketball team. I’m playing with a team called TriVision Elite for this spring/summer season. We have many super good players, and I am very excited for this season. We’re going to be going to Las Vegas, Calgary, and other cool places. We are soon receiving tracksuits, jerseys and other apparel for being part of the team. I look forward to a fun and competitive spring season!

I love baking. This semester my friend Andrea and I have found a lot of enjoyment in baking. Whenever we would get bored we would look up a recipe on Tik Tok and five minutes later we were going to the store to buy what we needed. Andrea and I first started enjoying baking together when we discovered a healthy cinnamon roll recipe that tasted  amazing. We continued to bake healthy recipes until this weekend. We were planning to do something different and make a pistachio chocolate bar, but when we were about to make it a dorm parent informed us that she was allergic to pistachios so that plan got completely scrapped. We still wanted to use the ingredients we had bought for the chocolate bar and we came up with making brownies. Those brownies were the best thing we had tasted in a long time. The taste of those brownies motivated us to continue to bake for the rest of the long weekend. I have always loved baking at home but recently I discovered how peaceful it felt to bake; like in the movies. I love how this is Andrea and I new weekend hobby. I hope to continue baking with Andrea for the few weeks we have left of Brooke’s.

The first half of this is going to be what I did on spring break. During spring break I really only did three different things and that is it, which if you think about it. Thats not a lot of things. Also something that should happen is spring break needs to be longer than two weeks. It was just not a lot of time and to be honest the first week is really the time that it takes you to stop thinking about whats do tomorrow and go stress free. So then you really only have a week, but if you travel than its also not long enough. So the first thing that I did over spring break was I biked a lot, maybe too much, but I don’t know. The second thing that I did and this was turning 16, and guess what? I also biked that day. And the last thing that I did was go shopping for food, it was a very needed thing to do. Also the biking thing happened everyday even in the rain, which now that I’m writing this I do not remember if it rain, all I remember is that it was cold. Oh, and also I lied at the beginning there is no second half because I had thought that there was not going to be enough words that I could use to explain my very interesting spring break but it turns out there was.

I particularly enjoy rainy days. I like to stay at home every time it rains When the rain gently falls on the windows and roofs, the entire noisy world seems to become quiet and fresh. The air smells fresh and cool, mixed with the scent of damp soil and green trees. The gentle tapping sound of raindrops calmed my heart and took away my exhaustion from going to school. On rainy afternoons, I like to sit comfortably by the window and have a hot drink. Sometimes, I quietly read a cute book, listen to soft music, or just watch raindrops flow down from the glass one by one. I feel calm and relaxed, away from busy homework and pressure. This is a wonderful time spent alone with my thoughts. Rainy days are not sad or boring at all for me. They bring me warmth and comfort, allowing me to slow down and enjoy the simple beauty of life. Every time it rains, I feel calm and peaceful. I really enjoy these quiet, gentle, and healing rainy days.

Most of the time right now I miss being younger so much, even though when I was a kid, all I wanted was to grow up and being with older people and things like that. Back then, everything seemed easier. Problems were smaller, and life felt simple. I didn’t think too much about the future or about responsibilities and of course because it was a kid mind. I just lived in the moment without getting worry about what was coming next.

Now that I am older, I see things completely different. Being a teenager is not as easy as i was expecting. There are more expectations, more pressure, and more things to think about its like making everthing worst. School becomes more demanding, decisions feel more important, and sometimes it feels like everything matters more than it used to.

It’s super weird to realize that something I once wanted so much in this case growing up also comes with challenges I didn’t expect. I used to think that being older meant more freedom, and in some ways it does, but it also means more responsibility and stress.

Nostalgia is what makes me feel sad all the memories from me with my family friends or where i used to live . It reminds me of a time when life felt lighter and more simple. But at the same time, I understand that growing up is part of life and i cannot keep being a little kid . Even if things are harder now, I am also learning more about myself and the world around me so i can learn how to enjoy it more.

Maybe the goal is not to go back to being younger, but to keep a part of that so you can keep moving forward.