Month: April 2026

I am very excited for this summer. I’m ready not to have any stress about school, no expectations from anyone. I feel like I’m just happy when it’s warm and sunny out, like when its winter its just so cold and sad, it feels like the days don’t even really start because it gets dark so quickly. But in summer, it never really gets dark until really late, and there are beautiful sunsets wherever you are. I really like waking up when it’s already light outside too.

Every year, with my dads side of my family, some friends and I go to Campbell river to camp. Where we camp, there is a huge river and a sandy beach. It feels like you could never get bored there. At the river, there was like spot where you could climb and at the top there was a rope swing. I swear we spent all of our time there, my friend, Emily, kept trying to do a backflip off of it. Last year (and this year), we did this hockey camp for 4 of the days, it was only 3 hours a day so it left a lot of time doing whatever we wanted at the campsite. The hockey camp was really good and we learned some stuff.

Also this summer, my mom, step dad and brother are going to rent a house and boat on Shuswap lake for a week. This is going to be our third year doing it, we always rent the same house which has tall ceilings and large windows, I love it there. It has a dock too, so when we rent the boat we can go onto the lake whenever. I remember one year I was tubing and my brother was driving the boat, he had turned so quickly that I had flown right off of the tube straight into the water, I wanted to do it again after but our parents wouldn’t let us.

I’m so grateful that my family has given me opportunities like those to make lasting memories, and I’m really excited to make more during this summer.

Yesterday, a spacecraft called Artemis II got launched out of the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four astronauts were on it, one even Canadian. after launching off, they were traveling from 17,000-25,000 miles per hour. They are going for a 10 day exhibition around the moon to test out Artemis II. I’m pretty sure that if everything works during this mission, it is designed to be the next stepping stone to Mars. The only landings we have had on Mars were space rovers, so if Artemis II works then it could possibly lead to the first human landing on Mars, which is really interesting to me.

The only other place in space (other than Earth) that humans have landed on is the Moon, which actually isn’t a planet, but is our only natural satellite. I think that Mars and the Moon is the only planet we have actually landed rovers on, we have had probes land on different planets and asteroids before though.

Yesterday, when I was watching the live stream of the rocket take off, I couldn’t help but feel nervous for no real reason. It made me think about how the people on Artemis II must feel. I find it really interesting how there is so much more in the universe other than us on Earth, I feel like it really puts it in perspective how small we really are, it makes the things I stress about seem insignificant.

As hockey season ends, softball season starts. I’m not sure how long I’ve been playing now, it feels like each season in my memories form together. I’ve always enjoyed playing softball, and I’ve met so many different people while playing. I have also seen a lot of cool places for tournaments, I feel like it’s cool to see how different ball fields can feel when in a new place.

Last year, my team had a tournament in Penticton. During one of our games, the weather was horrible. I remember how cold it was, how wet the field was almost as if were running in a shallow pool. Going into the third inning, the thunder started. It boomed over the mountains directly across of the field, shaking the earth. We kept playing, but the weather seemed to get worse, the ump called the game. The next morning, we continued the game, but that day was so sunny that there wasn’t one cloud in the sky.

I’m very excited for this season, I have my first game this Saturday. I can feel it that I am going to have a better season this year, I struggled a lot mentally last year. I struggled with failing when my team needed me, I would feel that I let everyone down while in reality, softball/baseball is all about people failing. I remember striking out during an important inning, and how hard it was for me to walk back into the dugout with the rest of my team. I got so down about myself so quickly I wouldn’t be able to pull myself back into the game or get my confidence back. This season, I won’t get lost in my own head like last year.

I’ve realized that I love being alone and having my own independence. When I first arrived I was really homesick and doing things myself was really hard, in Mexico I had Iris and Adri that helped with everything around my house, and of course also my mom and dad who where there for me all the time, but now I need to do things myself, buy stuff that I need for basic needs, clean my room, decide everything alone. At first felt odd and difficult but now it made me know myself better, and that feeling of having the power of deciding for myself is one of the things I’m most grateful for. I always remained my self to thank my parents for all the opportunities they give me, and all the things they do to make me happy.