Jacques Yves Cousteau-explorer extrordinaire

Jacques Cousteau was a french explorer.  He explored the oceans.  Many people have heard that he used to have his own T.V show.  But that's not what this post is about.  This post is about how he became to be a explorer.  Lets start when he was a teenager.  When he was a teenager world war two was going on.  He was very brave and helped the british spy on Germany.  He was very successfull, so a couple years later he was going to become a naval pilot.  But when that was about to happen he got in a really bad car crash.  He puntured his left arm in five different places broke three of his ribs, paralyzed his right arm, and worst of all killed his dream of becoming a naval pilot- he couldn't fly with his right arm paralyzed!  As soon as he got down from the mountain he went strait to see a doctor.  The doctor told him that this was a serious ingery and that it needed to heal.  Jacques Cousteau asked him how and the doctor said to swim so the doctor lent Cousteau some swim goggles.  As soon Jacques felt up to it he went down into the ocean.  In just a couple seconds cousteau relized that he had a new passion to replace flying.  A couple years later-when cousteau was old enough to have his own boat he leased one.  The ships name was Calypso.  Cousteau leased it for less than one dollar every  year-but that was back in the olden days!  After that Jacques Cousteau kept exploring untill he died on June 25 1998.  But there is absolutly still room in peoples brains for him, afterall he is extrordinary!  

The Canucks get crushed

The Canucks did not have very much skill as they played Chicago in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.  Chicago must have been practicing really hard because they beet the Canucks twice in a row!  The first time they beet the Canucks the score was 7-2 the second time they beet them the score was 5-0.  I don't mean to be mean to you Luongo but you are the absolute worst goaltender in the world.  My advice to your coach is to put your buddy Cory in net from start to finish, unless he was as bad as you were, Luongo.  Also, I think that we need to start getting less penaltys and more power plays.  Players like Torres, Bieksa, and Glass should try not to be as aggrssiave.  Last but not least, I think are defenders such as Edler, Erhoff, or Bieksa need to work on passing the puck up to their offenders at center.  I think this because the Canucks are having trouble clearing the puck while the Black Hawks are on a power play.  If you are a fan and care for the Canucks help them and tell the owners what they need to work on. 

Spring Break

Over spring break I did many things.  To me I think the most interesting thing I did on Spring Break was go to Palm Springs.  The day we got there me and my sister Grace got signed up for tennis lessons.  We did our tennis lessons on court four(there are very many.) As soon as we started we met our coach.  Her name was Katie.  She's a really good tennis player!  Since I'm a beginner so she was a big help!  She taught me pretty much everything I need to know to get a good start at tennis.  She taught me the rules, the for hand, the back hand how to hit balls at the net and many other things.  Since we were doing a lot of tennis over the week we decided that we should go to a tennis show.  The tennis show was about 45 minutes long.  All the staff that worked at the tennis courts put together very funny tennis skits.  My favorite skit that the staff put together was my teacher, Katie hitting balls really hard.  She hit the balls so hard that some of the balls went over the fence!  I think that one of the reasons I liked it so much was that they taught you things and gave you advice while doing funny things.  One of the last things I did while I was in Palm Springs was go to Disneyland. 

 We stayed in a hotel called the Grand California.  One of the things that was cool about the hotel was that it was inside the park.  When I say 'inside' I  mean it, you could literally step outside the door and you'd be inside the Disneyland park!  My favorite ride I went on was California Screamer. Even though I wanted to stay on vacation and keep relaxing I knew that I had had enough.

the mystery of the stained shorts

One day before  my sister and me went to gymnastics something real funny happened to us.  My sisters shorts she normally wears were dirty so she needed to wear her pink shorts.  Right before we left for the rec center my sister realized she had a big black stain on her shorts.  She did not care very much because she luckily had another pair of pink shorts.  My sister ran to her locker ( because we were late) grabed her other pair of pink shorts and put them on.  She was surprised to see that they had a big stain on it to!  Were we being haunted by stains?  My sister did not care so we left. 

gramy awards

The Grammy awards took place on Sunday February 13, 2011.  Lady Gaga performed a song for the first time called Born This Way.  Another big thing that happened was Justin Bieber that preformed a mix of Baby and Never Say Never with Jaden Smith and Usher.  The winner for best rock album was Muse.  The winner for best vocal song was Lady Gaga with Fame Monster.  The winner for best country album was Lady Antebellum.  After, Cee Lo green performed a song.  They preformed it with puppets!  The next person to sing was Katy Perry, she sang Teenage Dream.  The winner for song of the year was Lady Antebellum.  Again?!?  Finally the person I was waiting for: Rhianna and Eminem!  Best people yet!  As you can see many interesting people performed at the Grammys. 

Whistler kills 100 dogs

A company in whistler killed 100 dogs.  Why did they do this?  Well, the business was really popular during the Olympics but got pretty low after.  The problem is that this company (a dog sled company)got 100 dogs to run all the sleds when the Olympics were going on.  But since they did not keep doing well they could not afford to feed the dogs.  The owner of the company ordered or forced an employee to kill the dogs.  People were shocked to know that this event happened in April 2009.  There though is one more question people are dying to know the answer to Where is the man that killed the dogs?   

Canada vrs Russia

In the world juniors playing for the gold medal was Canada and Russia.  Canada was dominating in the first  and second period.  Going into the third Canada was up three nothing.  Unfortunately Russia started putting on their game faces and started making a come back.  They scored a goal early in the third period making it one to three.  Once again Russia scored to make it two to three, and then again to tie it up.  Canada called a time out.  Russia scored two more goals after that making it five to three for Russia.  Russia beat Canada!!!  I am sure that quite like I all the Canadian fans are pretty bumed out.