New semester, brothers' boring birthday and
Olympic memories

Hey everyone! So this past month, or whatever it's been, four things have happened: I started a new semester; my brothers birthdays have gone by and the Olympics have come and past.

So, first thing, school. My second semester started awhile ago and I really like my new classes. I have art, English, math and science.

I like art because it's art, English is really easy for me because it's applied so for all of the reading stuff I zoom by really quickly, but the grammar is much better because we're moving at a slower pace, which can I live because I usually despise grammar.

Math and science are really easy for me because I just find them really easy. Math is sometimes boring because we never do any real math until the end of the class and it's always really late in the class because there's always interruptions. Science is really fun because we get to light things on fire and blow stuff up.

We're working on chemistry right now and to get an extra five per cent I'm trying to learn this song with all of the elements in it. It's really, really fast and sometimes it's hard to figure out what the person is singing, but I'm up to the fourth bar and I have another one memorized in the middle of the song.

The last thing I have to say is that there's not as much homework as I thought there would be with math and science, but I can complete the majority of it in class and have either little or nothing to do for homework.

So my brother's birthday was on the Family Day weekend and I had to comeback home from my friend Siobhan's house and it was then that I found out that my friend's were going to my favourite restaurant Poncho Villa and they were also having a huge brunch the morning after which I also had to miss. If I had a choice, which I didn't, I seriously would have picked being with my friends because I had a really bad time at the "party".

As an unbirthday gift my Aunt Pat gave me a book called "Hush Hush" and ended up finishing it during the party, so I returned it and exchanged if for "Fight Club" which is the second book I've read by Chuck Palahnuik. The first one was "Invisible Monsters" and the third one I'm going to read by him is "Haunted".

I love Palahnuik's style of writing and his overall feel in his books.

So the Olympics. As it turned out, I actually really got into watching them, which is not something you would expect from me since I hate all sports, but I guess I just love the whole spirit of the games.

My television was always tuned into the Games on Channel 7 and I watched it almost every day after school and even when I woke up.

My favourite moment was probably a tie between the first gold we one and the last. The hockey medal was so great and my favourite part was probably Crosby's face when he got the final goal in overtime.

The first gold medal was also great because of the look of pure joy on Alex and his family's faces when he won.

One of the saddest moments I thought was when Jenn Heil didn't get a gold medal in the women's moguls and she had one of the saddest looks on her face that I've ever seen.

Unfortunately, I missed most of the figure skating because by the time it came on I was already asleep. I though it was really great that Joannie Rochette skated in memory of her mother. It most have been incredibly hard for her but she did amazing considering everything she went through.

It's too bad that most of the guys who were on "Over the Bolts" didn't do very well except for Jasey-Jay Anderson who won the gold medal in snowboarding. That was awesome.

Hopefully, I'll be able to go to an Olympics when I get older and cheer on the Canadians in person. Who knows, they may even come back to Canada and I won't have to travel so far.

Well that's it for this column. It's not that much, but it's still something. I'll write again in a month. See you then!

(Maggie Sherwin is 14-years-old and is in Grade 9 at St. Peter High School. To contact the Magster e-mail maggie@orleansonline.ca.)

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