Starfield! (and soccer)

If you are Christian (or maybe you aren't), you've probably heard of a band called Starfield. They're soooo good. I think they're one of the most popular Christian bands out there. It consists of David Crisp, Gordie Cochran, Jon Neufeld and Tim Neufeld. The band is from Winnipeg Manitoba. The band started out making demos in a friend's basement, resulting in their first two independent albums Starfield and Tumbling After, which sold more than 20,000 units in Canada alone. Anyway, they have a concert at a church in our area and I am going to it and I'm so excited! I've actually never been to a *cough* concert before... Well I know a few people that haven't either but generally all my friends have been to at least one concert. I'm really excited!
Moving on, we had the last day of tryouts yesterday and I can't say I did great but I didn't suck either which is a positive. The second tryout day was my best but whatever. I really hope I make the team! I didn't actually want to tryout again this year because of what happened last year but when I learned that Anna's dad might be coaching, I really wanted to be on the team. They post the list on November 4th so cross your fingers and/or pray for me!

~Wannabe

At least we got a medal!

Last Sunday, I had my year-end soccer tournament. Generally my team has come in 1st or 2nd or the occasional 3rd. This year, we were 2nd in the league so we felt pretty good that we were going to win. Our first game was at 9am!!! It was freezing cold and it felt like someone was constantly standing on your foot with cleats on. We kept slipping on the frosty ground and Megan, our goalie, couldn't grab the ball because it was too slippery. We lost that game 4-0. It was slightly sad but we kept our hopes up for the next game. The second game, we played the only team the had beat us ever before, again. It started out pretty rough and they got a goal and eventually we got one back but they got another. We couldn't manage to get the ball into the other net and we lost 3-1. We weren't expecting to get a medal because we were fourth but we did and that made it all better! The medal makes all the difference.
~Wannabe

What's a Thanksgiving long weekend without Thanksgiving?

For most people, this weekend would have been a 3 day long weekend but for School district 23, Friday was a Pro-D day so students got a double weekend. Now you'd think since it's Thanksgiving we would have family over, be making goodies and throwing the old turkey in the oven. Nope. Not this year anyway. Let me walk you through our weekend:
Friday - Day of work for parents, day of chilling for kids
Saturday - No soccer (season's over), yard work, chilling
Sunday - Church, Dad watched football and hockey with friend, Dad went to concert, Mum went for dinner at other people's house, Kids made dinner and chilled
Monday - Late breakfast, chilled, kids went to youth, parents went to movie
So as you can see there was a lot of chilling going on. At some point, we probably could've had Thanksgiving dinner but, no, not happening. I'm still thankful for a lot but the dinner makes it feel more complete in a way. I'll probably be the only one in class that doesn't raise their hand when the teacher asks "Who ate turkey this week?". It feels so weird not having Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving. It's one of my favourite times of the year because the family gets together and we eat delicious food! I really do miss it right now. I hope it goes back to normal next year!
~Wannabe

Um...Awkward

In elementary school, Dave and I would joke and laugh and at least chat to each other and now it's like the only conversations we have are through texts. He's in practically every one of my classes and we've only said like three sentences to each other. It's really awkward. We used to talk all the time and now... well yeah awkward. I want to be his friend but all we talk about now is soccer and he keeps bringing up his and Mandy's fight. It's like we can't talk about anything else. I'm just done with the whole him and Mandy thing. I shouldn't have gotten myself involved. It was really stupid of me. Dave should really learn to figure out his own problems sometimes. Sigh...why can't it be like it used to be? Us all getting along and it not being really awkward at all? Oh well.
~Wannabe