Classes. You know that word. Some kids hate it. Some love it (If your one of those people call-me). Now I don’t mind some classes, but honestly I hate some. If I could change my schedule to anything I want it to be, it would be this:

First, I would make school start later, at 10 or 10:30 pm. But since I can’t just cut off 2 hours of classes I would take that two hours and put it at the end of the day. Now I know a lot of people who wake up Monday morning and are like, “School/Work! NOOOOO!” So I would make Monday something to look forward to. Next, I would make my school day to have five periods, each one sixty minutes long, with 65 minutes for lunch and recess, and finally between each period a five minute break, so I can get ready for my next class or just to talk and hang out for five minutes. Here is what my schedule would look like:

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10:00	A	B	C	D	E
11:00	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
11:05	B	C	D	E	F
12:05	Lunch/Recess	Lunch/Recess	Lunch/Recess	Lunch/Recess	Lunch/Recess
1:10	C	D	E	F	A
2:10	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
2:15	D	E	F	A	B
3:15	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
3:20	E	F	A	B	C
4:20	End of Day	End of Day	End of Day	End of Day	End of Day

That’s probably a lot to look at so here is something simpler, you pick your classes and put them in their own blocks. First, for me, I would delete some classes from my schedule right away, like LA, RK, History and Health. So my Blocks would be: A=Phys.-Ed., B= Math, C=Science, D=French, E= Geography and F=Spare. Now your classes may be totally different than mine. Also, you aren’t restricted to the number of classes you have, there is no mandatory amount of classes you would have. And you can double up on classes if you wanted.

In conclusion, if I wanted to anything to change my classes or my schedule, I would take out LA, RK, History and Health. Also, I would make the day start later, and have the ability to put the classes that I wanted wherever I wanted and have them whenever. If you want to comment on this blog maybe you want to tell me what classes you would have in what blocks.

Wyatt

The CRTC

“Blue 22, Down, Set, Hut”

“Brady gets the ball from Koppen, back in to pass, pump fakes, throws, caught by Moss at the 40, dodges a tackle, makes it to the 50, the 45, the 40, he’s still running at the 30, the 25, the 20, the 10, TOUCHDOWN! THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS WIN THE SUPER BOWL!!!...

“We interrupt this program to give you an important message…” And your NFL Super Bowl presentation is cut off to show you a commercial, about a car or make-up! I mean com’on! If you haven’t noticed already I’m going to talk to you about why the CRTC should not interrupt programs because we need to broadcast Canadian things.

The CRTC stands for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and, unfortunately, is required in the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts. The CRTC, I think, should not be enforced by the law. I think if you want to broadcast Canadian things, we should have more Canadian shows like Flashpoint (based in Toronto), Hockey Night in Canada, and my local station carries Kitchener Ranger games. Now, those are Canadian shows. Maybe you should approach Jerry Bruckheimer (executive producer of all three CSI’s) or Shane Brennan (executive producer of both NCIS’s) to make a CSI: Toronto or a NCIS: Vancouver.

But maybe the CRTC is a good thing. The CRTC gives the local community, of the TV station, a chance to voice what they do and how they help the community. But maybe they should let us off the hook for the Super Bowl. If you have never seen, even one Super Bowl commercial then you should go to YouTube and type in Super Bowl commercial, and sit back and have fun. Maybe then you will agree with me that the CRTC should be illegal, not required by the law.

So in conclusion, I think that if the Canadian Government wants to get Canadian things out to the Canadian public, make Canadian shows. If you aren’t going to make shows like that, then either stop the CRTC or make some shows that have always had funny/meaningful commercials, let them air the funny commercials.

Who Would I Be.......?

This week I’m writing on if I could spend a day in the life of somebody I would probably be somebody who is athletic and contributes to the community, a.k.a. Roger Neilson. He was a great coach, rule-bender and started the idea of watching video tapes of games.

Roger Neilson was born June 16, 1934 in Toronto. He started coaching kids when he was just seventeen years old. His last game that he coached was in April 2002. That means that he coached for fifty-one years. Now although Roger Neilson didn’t win a Stanley Cup, he made it to the finals once and he made it to the Conference Finals three times. Now when Roger first started watching video I think that some people would have thought that he was crazy to do this. But nowadays, every team in the NHL uses video replay and almost every team in major junior hockey uses it. This is why I think Roger Neilson is one of the best coaches ever.

Now Roger Neilson didn’t just live in professional and major junior rinks he spent a lot of time in amateur rinks and even started his own hockey league. This guy didn’t only change the lives of all of the NHLers and kids that he coached. He taught kids and adults how to play hockey at his hockey camps. He used strategy to win hockey games. He shared his knowledge and love of the game by teaching coaching clinics. This is how he gives back to his community and the game of hockey.

So in conclusion, I think that I would want to be like Roger Neilson when I’m older, because he coached hockey, created/started the use of video review and gave back to the hockey community. While Roger Neilson never played professional hockey, he is remembered for his passion and devotion to the game and for his leadership and contributions to sport in general. Being a successful athlete is great but leading successful athletes is what I would like to do. Even though Roger died June of 2003, his sprit lives on in all of his hockey camps and every play that is reviewed.

So, What Does it all Mean?

China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world. Now why do I think they will become number one? Because China is teaching English in school, as a second language? No the reason for this is because of the sheer numbers in China. They estimate that there are 1 338 612 968 people in China today! In the next couple of paragraphs I'm going to talk to you about what this means.

The profound number of people in China could mean good things and bad things. The bad things could include increased rate of crime, more/bigger gangs and deadly fights. This may mean war for the countries surrounding and including China. This could turn out to become a repeat of the Rwandan Genocide. The good things could include more companies, more jobs and more produces. This would help the world get out of the global depression that we are in.

Even though Mandarin and Spanish are the most spoken languages in the World, English is still the most globally spread language. The Chinese are preparing their children to be able to speak the 'World' language (English) and one of the most common languages (Mandarin). China is also doing this because when you read English, you go left to right, when you read Mandarin, you go right to left, so it may be hard to learn something, backwards. This is why I think that China wants to learn English, now with their kids rather than later while being adults.

There was another quote I read that said, 'If you are one in a million in China, they are 1 300 people just like you.' So if one person knows English per million, in China, that means that there are 1 300 people that know English, and there are more than one person per million who already speak English. So in conclusion, I think that this means that China is just this huge that, in a few years there could be millions of rankings that are first in China, population wise.

Ben Fanelli's Hit: What Went Wrong?

On the first of November 2009, Ben Fanelli got hit from behind in the head with Michael Liambas’ elbow. Ben had to be airlifted to a Hamilton hospital and was immediately put in intensive care. He was in critical but stable condition and today he is at home in fine condition. He has skull and facial fractures and a laceration above the eye which was the cause of blood loss. Mr. Liambas is currently suspended for the rest of the season, which ends his Major Junior hockey career. But I’m not here to talk to you about what happened, I’m going to explain some of the things that both Ben and Michael did wrong before the hit occurred.

I think that Ben could have been more prepared before the hit, both mentally and physically. The things that he could have prepared more for mentally would be not turning around and not ducking before the hit. If Ben would not have ducked then he would not have gotten hit in the head, and if he hadn’t turned around then he would not have gone head first into the boards. But the one major thing that Fanelli could have done was do up his chin strap tighter, because then his helmet wouldn’t have stayed on and his head would not be fractured.

But we shouldn’t judge Michael because of this one hit. This kid gets straight As in school, works around the community and cares about a lot of people. When he injured a kid a different time the team (Erie Otters) looked all over the arena and could not find him. It turned out that he had paid a taxi to take him to the hospital so he could apologize to the other player.

I think that the way the OHL punished Michael is unfair. A whole year! Why? If Ben didn’t get hurt as bad as he did, then Michael wouldn’t be suspended for as long. It is based on the injury the person got instead of what the person did. I think that one of the best ways of deciding the suspension would be to match the suspension with the length of time missed by the length of the injury. I think that this is the fairest way to decide this because if you injured someone then you should be out as long as they are. But if the leagues cannot decide on this rule, then they should not look at how hurt the injured player is, they should look at the player that made the injury occur.

In summary, I think that first, Ben should have been more prepared, second, Michael should not be judged just based on this play, and finally, why did they have to suspend him for this long.

Now I’m going to ask you a few questions (if you have not already seen this hit that you should type in ‘Ben Fanelli hit’ on YouTube). Whose fault do you think it is? Do you think Michael should be punished this way? What honestly do you think was going through both of their heads before this hit happened? Thanks, Wyatt.

Eva Olsson`s Presentation

“Never hate, dislike if you must, but never use hate!” Dr. Eva Olsson. I think she is right in so many ways, some people hate anything that’s green and crunchy, a.k.a. vegetables. Some people hate their new hockey stick or their house because it’s just boring. I think that’s very right, why hate something when you can just ignore it. You never need to hate because hate started almost every war that has ever went on in the world and has killed over 202 295 000 people died in the most major wars and rebellions in the world, including the 1^st and 2^nd World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the An Shi Rebellion.

But Eva Olsson’s fantastic, moving speech did not only tell us to use the word hate, but it was very emotional too, telling about her ride to Auschwitz-Birkenau in small boxcars with over 100 people in just one. How her mother, grandmother and almost the rest of her family was ordered left, going only to find the gas chambers. Only Eva, her youngest sister, one of her brothers and her father made it to the right and were turned into slave labours. But later her father and brother died, only leaving Dr. Eva and her sister alive. That’s when she said her second message, “Hug your family today, because tomorrow you many not.” Some kids go their whole time being a teenager not hugging their parents because they did not give you a brand new Xbox 360 or iPhone or iPod Touch. She didn’t get to hug her parents for the last time. She just watched her being sent to the left while she walked away from death.

In conclusion, I found to very important messages in her speech that I will try to do today. I have dared my family to never say the word hate in the month of November and December, and hopefully it will rub off into the hands of my class, grade, school, wherever. And today I will go home and hug my parents and tell them I love them.

The Team Day (Norval)

Monday at Norval, I think that our team worked well together. The only difficulty we had was deciding how we were going to climb up the wall. We had to talk and discus options and ideas. We had to communicate. We had to agree. We had to practice. We had to work together and support each other.

We had to climb a fourteen foot wall. As well, each of us had four ropes attached to our body and we had to swing and grab the four balls lying on the ground. On the fourteen foot wall, I think that our team worked well together. We had to communicate while pushing somebody up the wall. Also, when we were swinging a person to get one of the four balls, one person would yell out, “Black and green pull up, white and other green let out”. This was the best time we communicated all day.

I think that communication is the key to doing anything well in a group. Communication is important when playing sports or just having fun together. If you can communicate as a group well, you can accomplish almost anything. In hockey for example, if you’re taking it around the net and your other defence partner says, “REVERSE,” then you know that you should pass the puck behind the net. Another thing that helps you work well as a team or group is to plan and practice. When you prepare you need to practice communicating as well. For example when we were pushing people up the wall, the first, second and third people were very hard but by the end we were pushing people in record time.

Norval was a good opportunity to learn and exercise my communication skills for school projects. It was especially beneficial because I was learning and practicing these skills with the people that I would use these skills with at school.

In conclusion, I think that the two most important things to working well as a team, on any type of team, you have to communicate well and practice things before you do them.