Blog #7

For several years, my family and I owned a condo up in Canmore in three sisters village. Across the highway from where our condo was, there was a hill that my mom took my brother and me every time that we went up there. The hill was incredibly steep and went up about a kilometer or so. In retrospect, I am surprised that my mother let my brother and I go on it at all considering the environment of the hill. The left half of the hill was for the most part flat, but the right half had multiple ramps and jumps that propelled some people an excess of 5 feet into the air if they hit it straight on. I usually kept to the left side of the hill, but on the last run of the day (go figure) I went down the left side of the hill but about half way down the hill, a little kid about three or four years old stepped out from the treeline that lined the hill. I put my left foot out from the toboggan and pushed myself away from him, but straight into the right side of the hill and into the path of the largest jump on the hill. Normally I would have endured the jump and hoped for the best, but as fate would have it, someone happened to have wiped out right in front of the jump and was just standing there as if he were the only person on the hill. Rapidly approaching, I yelled at him, but he didn’t hear me because of the helmet that he was wearing. With no other option other than plow into the man and risk injury myself, I threw myself off the side of the sled and rolled another 10 feet or so before I even slowed down. The sled hit the jump, missing the oblivious idiot standing at the base of the jump as if nothing had happened. With a hot head, I stormed down the hill grabbed my sled and stormed back to the car. Although I was angry at the time, in retrospect, it was kind of a fun and memorable experience.

Blog # 6

When I was young, my brother really wanted an R2-D2 robot from star wars so for his birthday my dad and I drove around the city for hours looking for this little robot for my brother. We finally found it at a toys R us. It was a voice activated robot that was about two feet tall, did dances, and had a little cup holder that deployed out the front of the robot. When we gave it to my brother he was the most excited that I have ever seen any child. It made me happy to see my brother so happy. With that being said, after a small amount of time, I felt like the tiny little robot had begun to replace me. With that being said however, I was still very happy that we got that for him. For the entire rest of the week he lit up like a light bulb every time that he saw that little blue and white robot. Also when he had his friends over, he had this impeccable sense of pride in this toy whenever he got the opportunity to show it off to anyone who would pay attention. That is definitely the happiest that I have ever seen any kid.