Category: Personal Writing

Graphs are cool because you can make all sorts of different shapes, bends and other stuff like that. But probably my favorite thing about it is that it’s a big challenge and it takes a lot of hard work and a long time. Part of it is also that the equations that you end up making are so complex, and the results are kind of beautiful. Also there are tones of different variables that you can add and change. To me graphing equations is a bit like sculpting or any other art, it takes time, skill, and a lot of hard work.

Another part of graphing is the functions. There are all sorts of different functions to explore and many of them are new to me, so graphing also has a bit of an exploration element to it as well. Also, I find figuring out patterns in statistics fun, for example 2^x can be used to represent the number of binary possibilities for a pin or another similar form of security where x is the number of characters in the pin. I found this after using a method where I put the possibilities side by side and then look at the structure they take. So for this one, I figured out that the possibilities would double since there was same amount of possibilities as the last, except that there were were twice as much as the last. Here are the results for evidence; 1=2, 2=4, 3=8, 4=16, 5=32, 6=64. Also I discovered how this equation is different from x^2; 1=1;1=2, 2=4;2=4, 3=9;3=8, 4=16;4=16, 5=25;5=32, 6=36;6=64.

On Sunday, my father took me to the amusement park. I sat in the car along the way, feeling very happy, and soon I arrived at the entrance of the amusement park. The scenery along the way is beautiful, with rows of evergreen trees standing upright along the roadside, and willow branches on both sides of Linping Park fluttering in the wind. Screams came faintly from a distance, I thought they were riding a roller coaster! So I hurried over and queued up. Along the way, I went up and down, left and right, which made my heart feel like it was about to stop beating. There is no other ride in the world that attracts me more than this!After waiting for a long time, it was finally our turn to play. After everyone got on the pirate ship and got ready, the pirate ship started. Soon after it started, the amplitude became larger and larger, as if it was like a time bomb that could explode at any time. When the amplitude When I reached the highest point, I started screaming too

My favorite game, Genshin, is a new open world adventure game developed by Mihayou. The game takes place in a fantasy world called Tivat, where those chosen by the gods are granted the “Eye of the Gods”, the power of the guiding elements. You will play as a mysterious character named Traveler

In the free travel encounter different personalities, unique abilities of the companions, together with them to defeat strong enemies, find lost relatives – at the same time, gradually discover the truth of the “Genshin”.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Genshin is miHoYo’s biggest and most ambitious work to date. Even after 8,700 hours of grueling combat, the game has many undiscovered secrets, missing weapons and equipment, and spells and abilities that have never been used.

While the combat experience isn’t that different from what we’ve seen before in the Burning Machine series, the game has a variety of well-designed enemies and Boss battles that take combat to a whole new level. Like the Legend of Zelda a few years ago, Protogod is a great game to push the genre forward.

This is a day in my wonderful life, everyday I wake up at 7:30 in the morning, have a shower and get ready for the day. For breakfast, I always eat my Vector (cereal brand). It is very sweet, but is good for the body. After breakfast I get dressed and head off to school. When I arrive to school I greet all my friends and head off to my classes. School is something I enjoy a lot, I make it a habit to always be positive and try to make every school day enjoyable. When school is finished my grandpa picks me up at 3:20, I head back home and get prepared for my football session. To get prepared I will usually eat pasta, because it is great for energy. Now that I’m ready I head off to PISE to train, every session I try to take something out of every one. Plus it is great for my physical health. It’s always great having some banter with my teammates. After football training, most likely I’m drenched in sweat. So when I get home I need a shower, change into some very stylish clothes. I will always be craving a sandwich, so that’s what I do. My grandparents always give me grief for not cleaning up. So I clean up after they tell me to. Now I look on my computer and look at Managebac and do a little bit of homework. After my homework I do my 15 minutes of reading, right now I am reading The wealthy barber, it is a very intriguing book. Finally, I have a little bit of free time, so I can go on my phone and communicate with my friends that live in Comox and look at videos on the internet.  I will sometimes play my grandparents in a game of chess or hang out with my cousins. Then to end the day I will do a full body workout and then stretch after. That is the end of the day. I go to bed at 9:30 and wake up in the morning and do it again mostly.

I’m going to talk about one of my friends but his name will stay anonymous because some people in the class still know him. He joined Brookes last year and at first we didn’t even talk to each other but during the second semester, we started talking. He legit helped me through a lot of stuff and made my school life so much better. He was also always talking about Latina ladies, sports and about how ‘handsome’ he is. He was like always there for me and stuff and gave off good vibes you know. Literally every girl in class liked him and it was super funny  because he didn’t like any of them back except one maybe, she was Latina duh. He has very girly blue eyes and very girly pink lips. He was also always talking pics of himself because he liked his reflection so much. The endd

This is a piece about one of my greatest friends ever Marky. Marky is a silly little guy, he loves to play funny silly video games such as roblox, genshin impact, and cozy grove! Marky has cool red hair and has a amazing sense of style we like to call “looks he lives by value village”. He goes to Royal bay with some of my other friends who I could’ve chose to write about, but Marky is just better. He is very good at sports and mathematics he is a very smart cookie who’s favorite food is cookies!  Marky always talks about random gaming stuff I don’t seem to understand like “rizzlys” but I try for the sake of not hurting his feelings. Marky is a very good friend he is super cool, awesome, and over all fun to be around! Marky is my bestfriend!

the day my puppy arrived is one of the days I remember the best, my sister and I had been asking my parents for a puppy for months but they did not accept, especially my mom because she said it would get dirty and break things and that we would not take good care of it, one day coming back from school my mom told us she had a surprise for us and arriving home I saw Mica, a puppy hidden behind a box, we took it and it was shaking and it was so small that it could fit in a shoe, that day we did not separate her, we bought her things and tried to take care of her, we tried to buy her things and we tried to take care of her, We took her and she was shaking and she was so small that she could fit in a shoe, that day we did not separate from her, we bought her things and we tried to get her to gain confidence but she still does not love me, now Mica is 5 years old and she has made me and my family very happy.

To start off I can say that my was summer was amazing. I didn’t really go on vacations until I came here so I didn’t really go on a trip, just before coming here I went to Houston for 2 days, then I stayed in Vancouver for like 5 days and lastly I arrived to Victoria. Just few days before leaving school I was thinking of what sport should I do this summer since I really didn’t want to go to the gym anymore, because I got bored. For like 3 weeks after leaving school I did indoor cycling, I liked it, but I wasn’t really exercising as normally I would. Just then like 1 week after I thought “what if I start swimming again?” That happened on Thursday and just then on Monday I went back to my club to start again after a year of quitting the sport. I was happier than ever doing the sport I love the most. That’s what I did during weekdays and on weekends I was always hanging out with my friends or sometimes even with my cousins. June and July was basically the same stuff all over again, but August was very different. I didn’t realize that in like 20 days I was leaving for months. On August 2nd I went to a match in the BBVA stadium where it played Atletico de Madrid vs Real Sociedad, and that same day like 2 hours before the match I met Joao Felix and he signed my Chelsea jersey. Then like 2 weeks after I got my braces taken off, I had a “party” with my friends before leaving and then I just had to say bye to my best friend which was kind of hard because there is probability that we don’t get to see each other in December until July next year which made my kind of sad to think about that. Once I got to the school the first weekend was just to meet everyone, make friends, get to know the area which actually was fun, I really enjoyed going to the mall, meeting new people especially the ones from Mexico. I’m very thankful to be here. 

About a year ago, I went to Quebec for the first time with my mon and my brother . I was excited for the snowboarding part because I had never tried it before. The first day, I took a begginers class where they explained my brother and I the basics of snowboarding. After many falls and laughs, we finally went to the first green diamond slope. We managed to finish it in about 15 minutes but were so ttired. We went to eat at a restaurant downhill. After eating, we became crazy and went directly to a black diamond hill (the hardest one of the mountain). My brother and I did not stop slowing down all the way down, so it took us like 20 minutes to get all the way down. That travel was really fun and memorable; It was my favorite vacation by far.

Approximately 2 or 3 years ago I started playing soccer, I was very nervous because I was a not big fan of American Soccer, so I didn’t even know how to play, but it caught  my attention, so I remember  that when I trained    on the team,  they gave me a physical test, so I passed them, and then about a month later we had to train equipped but I had never played like that so when they hit me for the first time it hurt so much that I ended up crying but I didn’t tell anyone and I continued and made very good friends then every time we reached the playoffs We didn’t get past the semi final so before coming to Canada I set out to reach the championship but we lost.

Last year I convinced my family to go to Roma, I was super excited to go. The first day we arrived I was impressed by all the buildings, the food, the nature and the people. I already knew Rome is one of the best cities in the world, but when I got to see it on person it was a lot more beautiful than I expected. As I went in spring, all the trees were the kind of green color that gives a feeling of peace, happiness and serenity all together. There were many flowers I hadn’t seen before, I don’t know if my family name has something to do with it but I love flowers more than anything, seeing all kinds of flowers in their best way, being each one of them more colourful than ever was a shot of serotonin. We visited the Coliseum, Pantheon, many churches, Palatino, Vatican City… and being honest I really cannot decide which one of all the things we saw was my favourite, I can just say that it was the best trip in my whole entire life and I would repeat it a thousand times if possible.

On August 10th this summer, me and my father got on a plane to Australia. It took 15hr30m from Vancouver to Sydney and when we arrived it was the morning of the 12th. It didn’t take long for me to adjust to the time zone. It was my second time going to Australia but we went to Brisbane last time in 2019 but we were not going there this time. We went to Australia to go birdwatching and I saw 366 species of birds in the three weeks we were there for. We did a lot of domestic flights and covered a lot of ground. From Sydney we drove down to Melbourne, flew to Perth, flew to Darwin, flew to Alice Springs, then flew back to Sydney. The weather was very different every place we went. Since the seasons are switched there, it was there winter. The coldest days were in the south when it got to 0 degrees and the hottest days were in the north when it got to 38C degrees. We only went to go birding but we did see lots of animals like kangaroos, bats, wombats, lizards, crocodiles and a dingo and I even touched an echidna. The day we were supposed to fly back to Vancouver, our flight somehow got cancelled and we spent 5 hours at the airport trying to figure it out. Sadely we missed our flight so we had to stay an extra day but we did get on the plane the following day. By the time I got back to our house, it was the afternoon of September 4th and I was so tired because of the time difference and less than 24 hours later I went to school. Overall, it was a fun holiday!

At the start of summer, my parents decided to take me to West Edmonton Mall with one of my friends from my old school. It was my first time on a plane, and my second time out of B.C.

When we arrived at the airport I was exited to go on my first plane ride, and since I had never gone to an airport previously, I thought that we wouldn’t have much of a wait. instead, we had to wait around an hour and a half before boarding. when the plane first took off, there were practically no clouds in sight, so i got a great view of Vancouver island, the best part was the fact that i got the window seat, and the window was perfectly aligned with my seat so it was easy for me to look out. the first moments of takeoff felt kind of like a roller coaster, with the stomach drop feeling surprising me. for most of the plane ride I was just listening to music, and the ride took around an hour and a half. once we landed in Edmonton, it was raining so it wasn’t that nice. We called a taxi to take us to our hotel after getting all of our luggage. Then we had to go to our hotel and put everything away.

Once we arrived at the mall it was deafeningly loud, probably because there was a huge hockey ring right in front of the entrance. After navigating our way around the mall, we found the food court, and we ate. After we finished our food, we decided to go to some of the shops in the mall. In the mall, there were over 800 shops, and it housed the one of the biggest indoor waterparks in north America. There was also a huge amusement park called galaxy land, and since nothing much happened on the first day, I’m going to skip to the second day. On the second day, we got our wrist bands that allowed us to go to galaxyland. the first ride I went on there was this yellow roller coaster that went across most of galaxyland. The ride was probably a 6 / 10 in terms of intensity, and I went on that ride around 2 times. The ride was decently fast, and the carts spun around in a circle. My friend that came with me decided to go on a drop tower called the “space shot” and it had around 2 g’s of force in it. When my friend went on it, he got rocketed to the top in around 1 and a half seconds. I obviously didn’t go on it because it was way to intense for me. the most fun ride in galaxyland was probably that yellow roller coaster, but there were also around 5 more rides I went on, but I forgot the names of them. On the 3^rd day of west Edmonton mall, I went to the waterpark. The waterpark was probably the most fun part of west Edmonton mall, and there was a massive wave pool there. When I entered the waterpark, I was overwhelmed by the sheer size of the place, the place was 20 square kilometers, and it was the 4^th largest indoor waterpark in the world. there was a glass dome covering the whole top of the water park. when the waves went on, they reached probably around 1 to 2 meters in height. The wave pool took up most of the waterpark, and there was a zipline over it, which I went on. There were also around 15 different waterslides, and I went on probably 3 or 4, the tallest waterslide I went on reached to the very top of the waterpark, which I estimated to be around 50 meters up. before something happened. It was all fun, before some kid decided to contaminate the water. We thought that everything would be back to normal in around an hour, but we were so wrong. Instead, the entire waterpark was shut down for the day. That was my last full day of west Edmonton mall, before we went back home.

Hello everyone, and welcome to my first piece of personal writing.

Ever since my family moved to the Highlands, we’ve been astonished at the amount of wildlife. Coming from suburban Ontario, it’s been quite a shock, as the only animals we saw there were a few squirrels. Although all the flora and fauna here are a bit odd to us, the strangest thing has to be the deer.

Every night, anywhere from 6-8 PM, deer will just come to our property. Sometimes they sleep, sometimes they fight, but most of the time they just sit there. They aren’t aggressive, and sometimes even come right up to us. We’ve asked around and this seems to be abnormal, even by BC standards.

Maybe the previous owners fed them every night, or maybe it’s because our property is in an area with lots of exits, in case of a cougar attack (which are extremely common in our area.) It’s a mystery that we may never find the answer to, so we can do nothing but enjoy the company of the deer.

Ely. This personal writing is about Ely. One of my silly little monkey friends. She has long black hair, small eyes, mono-lids, pink lips, small nose, thin eyebrows, a very judging face. She loves to judge people and likes to cause drama. She needs lots of attention and help. Ely reminds me a lot of my other friend Tiah; They also look alike (Ely says that’s racist but she said thought I was Asian so it cancels out). Her phone got confiscated by her step-dad because she woke up late. Ely is really funny and every morning she goes straight to the bathroom as soon as she gets to school just so she can see herself. Ely also has a crush on someone really ugly, she has admitted it herself. Ely also has ADHD so that why she’s always spacing out a lot and she has hearing problems.

We love Ely <3

-Eva M

I’m going to tell you when I went to Dallas to see a soccer game, I went to Houston to my cousins house and we were there for several days. Then my cousins and my family went on the road to Dallas to see the Barça vs Madrid game. when we arrived in dallas we went to the mall and then the next day it was the game I was very excited, the day of the game I got up super early because we had to get to the the stadium was far away, we saw the game and then we went to eat at a restaurant that was delicious then the next day we returned to Hoiston to my cousins house and the next day we returned to Mexico, this trip is one of the best I have ever made because I had a great time and enjoyed a lot of time with my family

When I was 7 years old my parents organized a trip to Whistler with my friends, we were very excited because we were going to ski for the first time and we were going to watch snow for the first time, When we arrived we were very happy and we started to play with the snow until we got very cold, we went inside the hotel were they gave us some warm cookies and hot chocolate, at night we went to sleep to get ready for tomorrow because we were going to our ski lessons , The next day we were very cold and excited and we took our lessons, after some skiing classes we finally learned to ski and we enjoyed learning something new, After some days of learning how to ski we finally learned and we went skiing for some days and at night we would have dinner and after we would play with the snow, When it was time to go home we were sad that the trip was over but we were also happy since we got to see snow for the first time this is definitely a trip I will never forget.

My father has went to Costa Rica, lately I’ve been waking up late. my showers take longer and I’m so much slower. fortunately on the weekend, I got to spend my time with my friend Devin, it was her birthday and we went to butterfly gardens. I got to spend time with my favorite bird, Chili. Chili is a grey feathered parrot whom makes radio-like noises. I took plenty of pictures on my phone of the garden, including some of the bird on peoples arms. they had a flamingo, pretty and pink and tall, of course we could not touch it. after butterfly gardens we went to Mayfair mall and spent money, I got a frog hat and red sunglasses, which is on the lock screen of my phone. we got to eat out and drive while blasting music, it was very fun until I felt the pillow under my head, reminding me its school tomorrow, I will have to wake up like every week day; at 6AM, tired and done. then I will have to push through the classes and have homework, soon enough I am sure I will have no memories of being a kid, just a teenager, waking up everyday for the same heartbreaking routine, doing nothing but trying to survive through the school. I cant really remember the last time I ran through the summer grass.

I’m going to talk about my trip to The Bahamas. Like in 2018 during spring break, my family and I organized a trip to the Bahamas for my sister Sofia’s 15th birthday and everyone was very excited. So since I live in Puebla I had to drive two hours to Mexico City to catch the flight. Everything was going well until they announced to us that the flight had been canceled. All the people were angry and my dad was no exception, we waited 7 hours to be taken to the counter and we looked at the stopover options, and we only had to go to Merida (Mexico), then to Huston (USA) and finally Nassau (Bahamas). So we made that whole trip but since we stayed the night in Merida we were delayed for 2 days. But apart from everything we had to go through, he was great and I had an incredible time.

Before entering to school, I went with my parents to Vancouver to know a little about the place, we went to an aquarium and a park called Capilano. In the aquarium I saw a lot of different types of fish and jelly fish, also we saw a shark that was biting the fin of another shark, and it didn’t let it go until approximately 15 minutes later.

Capilano is so beautiful, the park is full of trees and plants. When I was at the park’s restaurant, a squirrel suddenly appeared and stole my cookie. That made me really angry but at the same time it was pretty funny.

Hello, or welcome back to those who have read the introduction! The topic is going to shift, into more of a winter focus; primarily skiing, and a little bit about winter in general. As an individual who loves winter, I am lucky enough to have family in Smithers, BC, which is paradise on earth to winter lovers, and miserable for anyone who does not like the season. Winter there can be interesting sometimes, especially in polar temperatures. In this temperature, cars need to be warmed up for a minimum of 90 minutes, and long exposure can cause hypothermia. This small community also has a ski hill, known as Hudson Bay Mountain, despite it being nowhere near Hudson Bay. The mountain is known for their unbelievable snow, hence their catchphrase: “It’s always been about the powder”. With my dad’s side residing in Smithers, the ski hill made up a sizeable part of my childhood, as I also learned to ski at the hill at around 4 years old. As a child, I always remembered the crisp negative 30 weather hitting me upon arrival via aircraft, as well as the numerous cups of hot chocolate whilst playing a board game. The trips were about a week at a time, with many runs on toboggans, skis, and snowmobiles. The terrain on this hill is good, especially on the right side of the Skyline Chairlift, which consists of the more advanced terrain on the hill; personally my favourite. I remember the hectic t-bar rides, the epic runs through the glades, and watching my cousins launch off of jumps while losing both skis.

I hold those memories dearly, and things have changed over the last few years. In 2021, I had my first ski trip on Mount Washington, when COVID was rampaging. I went on many ski trips, and 2021 happened to be one of the best years in the mountain’s history; with an impressive 390cm of base over the course of the year; approximately 13 feet. The following year was below average, only having about 140cm, or about 4 feet. Last year’s ski season ended strong with 230cm, or about 7.5 feet. The month of December and the month of March are always the best times for skiing, with lots of light snow for my jumps. The best ski area on the mountain is called The Outback; consisting of amazing terrain and fully filled with double black diamond runs. Whenever I ski the Outback, I always find new spots that I’ve never skied before. On top of the terrain, there’s also no line-ups, so I can get the most out of my ski days on the mountain. The problem, is that the Boomerang Chairlift is usually only open on weekends. If I skip a Friday to ski, I can only ski the front, which is alright, but there isn’t as much terrain compared to the back. But overall, Mount Washington is a great place to ski, as long as you have the right day. Sunsets on the mountain are also very impressive if you night ski at the right time.

Since the age of six I had been forced to participate in competitive swimming by both of my parents. Prior to one of the greatest and worst year’s of my life, thus being 2020. At first, I loved to swim. Being able to race and win who ever I was racing, was everything I could have ever wanted. However, this turned out to be the main reason of my short competitive swimming career. After years and years of always having no one I felt who could compete with me in my same age range, I stopped caring and started to become bored. Up until 2020, when all public buildings closed down in my area because of Covid 19. Therefor forcing my parents to finally take me out of swimming, without being able to do anything about it.

I was thrilled, no more lessons, cancelling plans all because they landed on my swimming days and most of all, no more having to beg my mom not to let me go to classes! Nevertheless, it wasn’t all wonderful, as I had previously imaged. Without swimming I had nothing to do after school or even in general. As it was for many people, I started to spend an excessive amount of time on social media. Nine, ten almost eleven hours I would spend of my small bright blue screen given to me that very same year. It didn’t matter this was what I had wanted for so long. I still felt like there was a lingering feeling inside of me that there was something I should have been doing. After the lockdowns were lifted nothing had changed. I didn’t go back to swimming every week, and the feeling obviously never left my side till I got back into the competitive water five years later.

As I felt the cold smelly water dripping down my back as my coach yelled our lesson was over, I felt a sense of home over taking me. Before this I had never understood why people get so inflamed about different sports. They all looked stupid and greatly immature through my point of view, yet I had felt all different types of emotions within the span of two minutes. Angry, I hadn’t started sooner. Sad, I wasn’t as nearly as good as I had once was and lastly joyful I had finally learned to love to swim once again.

 

August 18th or 19th, I went to Mission (a place in the Mainland) it’s near Fraser Valley. I went there to visit some family on the first day we settled in and chilled inside.

On the second day everyone at the house (maybe 14) went to Cultus Lake Waterslides. I went on a waterslide with 3 other people inside a tube and it was amazing, I kept on going on a few different ones then I sat down at our bench and ate some food and chilled then my brother told me I should go with him on a waterslide and I asked him “which one” and he pointed at one quite high up and apparently you go all the way down on your back. I went with him cause it looked alright and once we got up my brother said you’re gonna have to take off your hat (I usually wear hats to either look good or I just haven’t done my hair) when I was near the top though I didn’t have anywhere to put my hat so I saw how people were going on their backs so I put my hat on my stomach while going down. Right before going down I didn’t think much of taking a deep breath because I thought I could breath. Short version: I couldn’t. Near the bottom I started to struggle from not being able to breath. once I got to the bottom I tried to open my eyes from the water and could barely see, I took a deep breath and got out and then I put back on my absolutely soaking wet hat.

The next day we had even more family over (around 25 people) my grandpa made a baron and beef roast on the barbeque and others made some broccoli and got buns ready and made some cake and cupcakes. When I finished I asked for the cupcakes and I guess people were waiting for someone to ask because right after I did the cupcakes were gone in less than 5 minutes. I had some fun with the kids Odin and Bjorn, Bjorn was not quiet. some people even went in a pool in the back, I didn’t though. that night was very fun though, I was being stalked and followed by Odin, Odin’s clumsy but amazing. I probably stayed up around 12-1 am.

I stayed there for one more day and then went back on the ferry. I walked on the Ferry for the first time and went with no parent for the first time (and almost lost my luggage at the end). The way back was pretty fast and it only seemed like 20-30 minutes. I somehow knew we were close from looking at a specific tree though, I don’t know how but I guess that tree looked familiar?