Japan, Here I Come!

     Tomorrow, I'm leaving to Japan for a two-week trip with my father! I'll be visiting my sister who I haven't seen in over 6 months. I will also meet some of my family members from my dad's side that I've been waiting to see for 18 years, along with some of his friends! On top of all that, the University of Tokai has accepted to let me train a few times with them, therefore, I will train with the girls, including my sister, and the boys!
     This is my first time going to Japan and everything will be new to me! My dad has somewhat prepared me but I'm sure it will be quite the shock!
     I will take lots of pictures and I'll write of my experience when I get back. I am bringing a notebook and I will be taking notes everyday, hopefully, therefore you will receive a detailed story of my stay!

Wish me luck! Have fun without me!

Ganbatte!

Geocaching

   So today I had my first experience of geocaching.

Geocaching : The recreational activity of hunting for and finding a hidden object by means of GPS coordinates posted on a website.

   I was first introduced to geocaching by my chemistry teacher, M Verrier, who is fascinated by it and is very active in the geocaching community! He's talked about it and showed us many clips and even got me to make an account on www.geocaching.com. Except I have one problem : I don't have a GPS. So it is very difficult to geocache without a GPS, trust me.
   Luckely for me, today we went with our chemistry class! It was a very hot day out and it was fun! We did one cache with the group and then we split into smaller ones. I was with Jacques deMoissac and Denis Bosc. It was fun and we managed to find four, including the group one. We could have found five, but one was missing and due to that, we got back to class late...
   After all this, geocaching is fun, but I don't think I'll be as serious about it as my teacher. I mostly like the outdoors factor and being with friends. I might get the app on my iPhone, when I get it, and from time to time find a few.

A fresh new start!

Some of you might be familiar with the old style of my blog. But if you are new to this blog, this is how it resembled before today!

I know right, pretty AWESOME looking and why would I every want to change it. Well, it was a little to dark and I needed some change. 

The author to "The 7 habits of Higly Effective Teens" would surely agree : the 7th habit is all about renewing yourself. I have yet to complete the book since I'm only a few pages in but that book has really caught my attention!

Anyways, let's hope this new blog appearance somehow helps me write more often!

Resolutions

Here are my long awaited goals of the year 2012. I never would of had the time to make an essay about it. I might try to write one towards the end of the year, as a resume of how I succeeded. Forgive me for not writing one.

Resolutions for the year 2012
- Read a lot
- Get rid of bad habits
- Burping
- Being impolite with my parents
- Chewing nails
- Swearing
- Train hard
- Study hard
- Study Japanese
- Spend less
- Deepen my languages (French, English)
- No more videos games (Except at parties)
- Be nicer to my family
- Be nicer in general
- Have better attitude

Keeping up

It's hard keeping up with all these blogs while having:
- School (Including studies)
- Reading (SO MANY BOOKS)
- Judo (Including all other training)
- Friends... Ish

I did stop playing video games and I'm trying to sell my PS3 from stopping the temptation to keep from crawling back. This was one of my resolutions of the year...

All this to say that I will try my hardest to keep this blog going. I'm going to Japan this sunday for two weeks therefore you will be seeing a few blog posts of my experience there. I will be visiting family, friends, places. I'll be training a few times at the Tokai University for a few judo practices... Yeah I know. Lucky me ;-)!

Knowing all this, please bear with me, I'm a busy guy.

A new day has come

I was just reading my sister's blog, in which I am farely behind, and a few lines made me laugh. I can easily picture my sister doing and acting the way she discribes it.
It's a new year and I have a few resolutions I think worth mentioning, that I will be posting soon. But right now, I just want explain something I've just read in a book that was given to me from my mother for the new year. The book is entitled : "100 Simple Secrets of Happy People" so here goes:
"Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal cententment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch." Now I don't watch TV and thoes who know me know why-We no longuer recieve channels-but I do play a lot of video games and I'm pretty sure that has a very similar effect. I'll go more into depth in a coming soon essay that I will post after both my provincial exams...
My month of january will be so jam packed it's not even funny. Two provincial exams, one week after and other, two judo tournaments, one being out of province, two more exams plus I have to keep training. I'd say wish me luck but I'll be needing a lot more then just luck.

Christmas 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

It's been a while since I've written, sorry, but here's how my Christmas went down.

The 23th, we had Blandine and Jean Dorner come over for a Christmas Dinner. Jacques deMoissac also came and satyed afterwards to play some black ops with me. It was fun and I think he enjoyed it.

The 24th, well I went to a gym for the first time besides the U of M gym. Yeah I know right, who goes to a gym on the 24th? Well I wasn't the only one there. There was at least 6 other people at the gym. It was fun, although a little weird but I guess I'll get used to it.

Later that day, my parents and I went to the new restaurent in Bluemenort, Manitoba called Portokalos! It was pretty good. Our friends own the business and I think that's why we went. But the food was good, and the decoration and everything. Also, we found out that right next to it, in that little mall, there's a massage salon that offers deep tissus massages; what I've been looking for! So I will try it out some time. If it's good, it would be perfect because it is only 15 mins away from my house.

After that, we all took a nap. I slept for three and a half hours. Guess I need that. I wrapped some presents up, wrote cards and looked at videos on YouTube. Found this amazing video of a 7 year old girl that sings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz48U8npOgc&feature=pyv

RIDDICULOUS... First thing my mother asked me after I showed her this was "What are they feeding her?"

Next came the time for our family meeting on Skype with my sister France who's presently in Japan for studies and judo. It was a weird discussion but it felt good to keep in touch with her. Soon came the time to say good-bye and with that, time to leave to go to midnight mass. It was fun since I hadn't been to church for a while. The new priest has, as my dad said, "a very feminin voice". And next to him was a guest priest who had the hardest voice ever so it was quite the transition between the two. I saw some friends and handed out my presents.

As we were leaving, I was surprised at how fast the church emptied. I don't remember being the last ones to leave the church. Hhhmmm, I guess everyone is eager to open there presents!

Speaking of which, I got more then I hope for! But it's not just the quantity, it's more the quality. In my case, I had both, lucky me! Here's a preview of what I recieved.

First of all, here is our Christmas tree that I decorated! I know right, very stylish even though it doesn't change much every year since we use the same decorations...

Then comes the usual crowd that lives at the bottom of the tree.

And finally, my gifts!

My awesome cat!

I gave to my mom a waffle maker! I know right! I master the art of buying myself gifts by giving OTHERS gifts...

And a webcam for my dad so he can Skype with his mom and my sister!