Bailing

When I was about 8 I loved to ski and I was not always the most cautious skier. I liked to go on challenging runs a lot but my favorite part was jumps. I was always looking for bumps and jumps to fly off and I usually didn’t pay attention to the danger. On time I was skiing down a run when I saw a big compression jump. From a distance it didn’t look that big so I went as fast as I could straight at it. At the lowest point in the compression I felt like gravity was tripled because I was going way too fast. I flew of the jump and started to soar through the air about five feet above the ground and that is when I noticed that my skies were no longer attacked to my feet. At the lowest point in the jump my bindings had popped open under the pressure of the jump and that meant as soon as the ground was not there to support the my skies drifted away. At that moment I knew it was going to be an interesting landing because there were no skies to land on. I ended up taking about 2 steps on the snow before I did a full face plant. Luckily the snow was not too hard and I landed without hurting myself.      

Blog 6

Everyone has a story about when they were little and something happened that for some reason was so cool or interesting that they lose control of their excitement. When I was really little I was a very happy baby and I would get excited about all sorts of stuff but one of the times I got most excited was when I got my first pillow. It was a sort of funny event because getting a pillow does not seem like a big deal but I was so happy that I sung happy birthday to me for the rest of the day. I had plenty of times when I got really excited but the most recent time that I saw a child get like this was a few weeks ago at work. There was a little boy shopping with his dad and they were buying yogurt. The funny part was the child started pointing the every kind and he ask his dad if they could get it. The best part was he instead of calling it yogurt he called it you-gert. The combination of his pronunciation and his excitement made very funny. Being a kid is so much fun because everything is new and it is easy to have fun with all sorts of things.    

Christmas

Over the holidays my Family have several fun traditions that we do but one of the most special is Sinter klaas. It is a Dutch Christmas tradition where everyone gets the name of someone else and they have to get them a gift. The special part is how you wrap the gift. You have to find a creative way that represents the person that you are making the gift for. This year I got my cousin and I decided to make a creeper from mine craft for him. I made it out if cardboard and green paper and when I was finished building it I stuck a firework in it so when it was lit it would set on fire and the gift would be all that was left. I like this tradition because it is more about having fun and making fun of people than it is about getting stuff and I believe that is what Christmas should be about.