My Face Has Been Ripped

My Face Has Been Ripped

Ok it's not that bad, but...it's pretty bad.

So here's what happened:

Today in outdoor education we went tobogganing. The hill isn't very steep, but it's a decent tobogganing hill. There are also a  bunch of bumps in the middle of it.

Because it wasn't very steep, we didn't slide nearly fast enough, but it was still pretty fun :) Most people avoided the bumps, except for a few guys who purposely didn't because they thought it was cool or whatever to be in pain...yeah I don't know what they were thinking.

Then my two friends, Flower and Eggnog (no, those aren't their actual names), really wanted to go down the bumps too. Again, I have no idea why. And being the idiot that I am, I went with them anyway.

Luckily, we missed the first set of bumps at the top of the hill, but then we started gathering speed going down the steep part. We went on the bumps, and the whole time Flower is squealing, Eggnog is screaming and I'm half screaming but also going "ohmygodohmygodohmygod". We slid and bounced all the way down the steep part, and the bumps may be small, but damn they hurt. After that, there were still even more bumps, and this time they jostled us so much, we were flying off the toboggan half the time, but we were still sliding down the hill pretty fast and no one had any control over the toboggan. Then we finally all fell sideways, still sliding, and right when I was about to sit back up, Eggnog fell on top of me, pinning me down, and my face slid on the ground for another metre or so before the toboggan finally stopped.

We got up, and all our butts were hurting so much because of the stupid bumps and the stupid wooden toboggan. My butt was also numb from sitting on the snow, and the right side of my face burned. And I mean burned. I thought it was because the snow was so cold that it felt like my cheek was burning, so I didn't think much of it. I did ask Flower if it was bleeding, though, just to make sure. She said it looked normal, so we just went right back to tobogganing [my stupid friends actually wanted to go back down the bumps again (as their friend, I reserve the right to call them stupid :P ), and when they asked me to go with them, I was like NO WAY].

I wasn't until we all went back to school and I was in the change room that I noticed what was really up with my face. I was looking in the mirror to fix my hair, when I suddenly noticed my cheek. And not just my cheek, but my chin and jawline too. They were practically covered in thin red cuts. Some were tiny dots, but most were half an inch long; some were pretty shallow, while others look deeper, but they're all bright red cuts that because they are all slanted one way, make it appear as if my face has been repeatedly slashed by something sharp. And I guess it has been.

What I thought was just a "cold burn" was actually the burning sensation of a multitude of cuts on my face created by tiny ice shards in the snow slicing across my face as I was dragged along by the momentum of the toboggan.

Imagine how I felt when I saw my face in the mirror.

And when I realized that outdoor ed. was just 1st period.

I would post a picture on here, but lucky for you I've decided not to grace you with the marvellous spectacle of my current face.

Granted, it's not that bad. If you're standing a few metres away, all you'll notice is that one side of my face looks like it's slightly flushed. One metre away and you'll see a bunch of thin, slightly pinkish lines. Any closer and you'll be able to clearly see the cuts.

Getting through the rest of the day was alright. Most people either didn't notice at all, or if they did, didn't say anything about it. I thought that was pretty nice of them. My friend Fishy (again, not her real name) was really nice about it and I'm so grateful she was there :)

My parents weren't very happy about it though.

It's probably going to look worse soon, since all cuts look worse on the second day. Oh, how I look forward to tomorrow *rolls eyes*

See ya,


P.S. Notice how I labeled this one "Tales of My Misfortune"? That's because there are probably going to be a lot more :/

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Why I Love Snow

Why I Love Snow

In honour of the melting snow (I hate slush).

1.  It's beautiful
It really is. One of the things I love doing in winter is to watch the snow fall. It's really calm and peaceful-looking. The little pieces of white fluff gently (or sometimes not so gently) drift down from the sky, and everything gets coated in a soft layer of white. It makes the scenery looks amazing. 

So pretty :)

2. SNOW DAYS

Technically, school is never actually cancelled unless the storm is so big that the power goes out or something, but school buses can still be cancelled if there's enough snow. And then us school bussers don't have to go to school!! =D

Me when I find out it's snow day.

I remember this one snow day back at my old, old school when I was in grade 1. A lot of people didn't go to school that day, but I did because I lived really close. Because my teachers were awesome, that whole day we basically just watched a movie, played in the snow and had free time. No work at all. I know the other grade 1 class actually got to eat popcorn or something, but whatever. It was still awesome :)

3. Sports
Specifically tobogganing (does that count as a sport?), snowshoeing and skiing, both downhill and cross-country. Though the only times I do any of these is at school, and my school doesn't actually have downhill skis. While I'm glad that we have skis at all - cuz I know that a lot of schools don't - honestly, going downhill skiing with cross-country skis kinda sucks. You get like no control and you end up falling A LOT. Or maybe it's just me. Lol ;)

Also, one down point is that wearing snowpants sucks. Combined together with a coat, they always make me look like a marshmallow. So flattering. 

P.S. Is "lol" a word yet? And what about "funner"? That one should definitely be a word. Just saying.

P.P.S. I was right - I'm still not done my homework :(

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What would you have done?

What would you have done?

So I'm supposed to be doing homework, but obviously I am not. Instead, I found this video:

Have you watched it? This did actually happen. The people's actions aren't staged, and the only actor in it is the boy. A hidden camera was filming this the whole time.

I know it's in another language, but the meaning is still the same. With all the things that we hear about happening in the world today, it's quite easy to forget that there is still kindness in the world. This video shows that we humans aren't entirely hopeless :) While it's what anybody should have done, I still find it quite touching. (I actually cried lol. But then again, I cry for everything.) To see those people give the boy their sweaters, jackets and mitts when they saw he was cold was really moving for me. But I also wonder what those same people would have done if it was not a child who was out in the cold. People tend to be more sympathetic toward children, so if it was someone else, for example a grown man who was out there, what would they have done? Perhaps it would have had the same result.

I hope that this inspires you to live with an open heart, just like the people in this video.

What would you have done?

Hugs,

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CANADA WON!!!

CANADA WON!!!

Did you all see that game?? It was the most intense game EVER. 

So for those of you who don't know, it was Canada vs. U.S.A. in the women's hockey finals. For most of the game the U.S. was in the lead, and by 3rd period, it was 2-0 to the U.S.. Practically my whole school was watching the game and I swear, when Canada scored our second goal in last few minutes of 3rd period, we went crazy screaming and cheering, we were so happy.

At that point another teacher walked into my classroom, said, "In case you didn't know, we tied and now we're into overtime." Then he left and closed the door behind him. Two seconds later, he was back. He pushed the door open, jumped a little, grabbed his jersey, screamed "YEAH!!" and then left again. He's awesome :D

Almost the entire overtime went by without a single goal, but it was such a close game, our eyes were glued to the t.v. screen the whole time. There were so many close shots, and when in those last few seconds, Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin scored on the U.S. net, we went ballistic. My whole class was screaming and jumping and hugging each other, and we could all hear the rest of the school doing the same. The very ceiling was shaking with the jumping of the people on the floor above us. Needless to say, it was a happy, happy time :)

So proud, Team Canada :)

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