P.E.

In theory, you would think that as the older you get, the more difficult PE would be come, but as as I sit here and try and do my math homework, I am distracted by the middle school students running around the driveway. When I think back to my grade 10 and 11 PE class, I don't think we ran nearly as much as these 8th graders have to.

Just some pointless musings...and a way for me to not do math. (I'm not a big fan of identities...).

Off to calculus!

Blogs

I don't really know why I have a blog...but I found out yesterday that nearly everybody does. I'm not sure why I like having a public journal, but I do. Obviously I'm not going to write about anything extremely personal, or anything that could possibly offend anybody, but I feel like it is a place where I can write anything I want. I truly am growing up in a social media world.

Oh, and only 11 more days until I go to Ghana!!!!! I am pretty stoked...except that I currently have post concussion syndrome..hopefully that will get better in the very near future.(One of the many joys of cycling is crashing...it is just part of the sport.)

Numb

I had a Lumbar Sympathetic Nerve Block yesterday. How was it? Weird. For about four hours I was a total paraplegic...couldn't feel or move anything from the waste down. Apparently the numbness was only supposed to last about half an hour...four hours later... They said I would be ready to leave by 10 am...3:30 is more like it. Yesterday was weird...ketamine is trippy and epidurals are really quite painful.

I guess it is just another experience right? I think I have to do it again to...I don't really want to...it wasn't really fun...or nice...but if it helps the pain then I guess it is worth it.

GO Canada GO

The day I found out that Vancouver was hosting the 2010 Olympics, I was ecstatic. I thought it would be so cool to graduate the year that my province hosted the Winter Olympics...and it I was right.

This past weekend, I had the incredible fortune of being able to go to Vancouver and experience the spirit of 2010. I ran down the street next Wayne Gretzky as he carried the torch out of BC Place, I watched the Swedish Woman's hockey team beat Switzerland, I saw my first Ballet, waited in line to get into the Bay, and watched figure skaters fly through the air. It was a really cool experience, something that will only ever happen once; for three days I was a part of something so much bigger than myself.  

Right of Passage

There are certain things in life that you just have to do, and if you don't...well, then you miss out on a lot of stuff. And there are things that you just must do or else it is difficult to pass into the next stage in your life.

Last Thursday I passed my road test and got my N. I can now drive without an adult in the car...pretty scary, I know. But, it is just one of those things that every teenager has to do, it is something that has become a right of passage. Now...only if I had a car...

Change

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

This is a quote that reminds me that if I disagree with something, if I believe something is not right, then I have stop, go back to it and try to change it. Yet, I have encountered many things that I have tried my best to change, but have been highly unsuccessful. For example, studying plants. I do not find plants interesting, I do not find that the study of them is particularly beneficial to my life, and there is really nothing that I can do that will likely change this. Except, I have discovered that if I think about them differently, if I look at them for the true miracle that God created, then they suddenly become beautiful. They still are not interesting, nor does the study of them pertain much to my life, but I can appreciate them and I am beginning to love them to.


Today, I noticed that a particular activity that was intended to foster school spirit, made me quite upset. It was absolutely hilarious, but it made me mildly upset. Ben, the person who always runs this particular type of school spirit event only ever picks the same people to do it, only every grade 12's, and only ever day students. At first, I was mad at Ben, but then I realized that I wasn't upset with him, I just disagreed with what he was doing. So I decided to bring up in Prefect Council, do something about it instead of fester about it, and hopefully next Monday, the event will be inclusive rather than exclusive. If it is still the same, then I will just have to keep trying until I exhaust every opportunity to change it.



Change what you can, accept what you cannot, but always be the change.


-Kaylynn

6 months

In 6 months I graduate, move on from uniforms and away from the place that I have come to call home for the past three years. Going to SMUS, to boarding school, was the best gift my parents could have ever given me, and I only have 6 months of it left. Everybody wants to graduate, dream about it as a child, and my day seems to be arriving quickly. When I was little I couldn't wait to be in grade 12, to be one of the "big kids" like my brothers, and now I am.

I guess I'm not really done though...I want to be a doctor, so I have 8 years of school left, and two more graduations after this one. Over the next few months, which are going to fly by faster than I can flip the pages of a calender, all I can really do is make the most of my days as a SMUdent: study hard, reflect, train, experience and most importantly, laugh.

"Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference." ~Arie Pencovici

peace like a river,
kaylynn