Blog #7 - Toboggan

About when I was around seven years old, one day, I was at one of my really close friends’ house. It was a nice, winter day... And when I say it was ‘nice’, I mean it was quite warm for having so much snow outside. So, we decided to go tobogganing. I’ve always heard that the tobogganing hill by her house was really steep, and there was never younger people like us that usually went on it because people felt it was too dangerous. I sort of understood considering there was a busy highway near the bottom only separated from a couple trees and bushes. We both felt daring, and decided to go for it. At first, I felt extremely intimidated right when I hopped onto my toboggan, looking down the very steep hill... But I ended up forcing myself to go because I convinced myself that I would feel regretful afterwords if I hadn’t gone down. The two of us climbed onto the same toboggan and with just one push, we were instantly catching speed. We went faster and faster until we both felt the toboggan starting to turn on us, literally. The wooden platform started to twist so we were facing backwards and it suddenly got really bumpy going down the hill. We started to scream, both realizing that the toboggan will flip on us at any second so we decided to bail. Without hesitation, I slid off, followed by my friend who repeated my actions seconds later in front of me. As we helplessly slid down the hill, I could tell she was as petrified as I was (keep in mind, we were only seven). There was a moment of silence until we both started to laugh together. We got up to our feet, grabbed the toboggan and decided to have another go.

Blog #6

I remember when Kelsie and I first met Dylan and Jacob in grade six. We quickly became best friends, inseparable like the three musketeers... but with one extra member. Grade six was probably the most fun year ever in all my six years in Calgary Academy. Kelsie and I have always been best friends even back in our old school, but when I moved to C.A., Kelsie came, as well, two weeks into the new school year. I was so glad to have her with me. It is one of those memories that are stuck in your head, the day Kelsie and I first met Dylan. We both walked into the lunchroom and saw Dylan, eating his new bought lunch from the cafeteria, sitting alone. We decided to go join him, trying to be friendly. But the little, naive girls we were, we decided to take some of Dylan’s french fries without asking. It got so out of hand, Dylan got a big frustrated that started to tear up and Kelsie and I got in trouble. Only in the first week of school we got in trouble with Ms. Giles and had to apologize to Dylan. Weirdly enough, the very next day, we all became best friends. Anyways, another strange memory from grade six that is always going to be stuck in my head, is when the time our class started to beat up Cole. Let me clear things up, we didn’t actually beat up Cole, but the whole class toppled on top of Cole, pretending to beat him up because of some odd reason even though the whole scene was supervised by our teachers who weren’t really doing anything about it. I think it was because our class was playing a game where we all had to work together to win some candy and Cole messed everything up on purpose for fun. Anyways, in the end, he got a massive bleeding nose and everyone felt bad. Thankfully, it wasn’t too serious because Cole even had a laugh about it right after, and so did the class. Even just the tiniest memories we still remember always make us laugh once in awhile.