My Five Fave Photos

This blog post is about photos I took that are my favourite.

1.

I took this photo at a field near my house. I like this photo because the foreground is a silhouette, and the grass and the cloud make strong horizontal lines, I also really like the pattern in the clouds at the top of the photo.

2.

This photo was taken outside a church near my old house. I like it because there are strong vertical lines in the background. I also like the way the sun is shining oin the left side of her face.

3.

I like this photo because it has a very simple colour palette. There's a little bit of yellow almost in a rule of thirds spot, and then red is surrounding it. The little bit of green in the top right hand corner is
complementary to the red which I think really unifies the piece.

4.

I took this photo outside my old house. Again, it's a very simple colour palette. I like this photo because it's a narrow depth of field shot. The grass in the foreground is really blurry, then the middle of the photo and the tree stump is in focus, and the background is out of focus.

5.

I took this photo at Casa Loma in Toronto. I like this ohoto because the fron tof the fountain is in focus then the rest of the photo is blurry. I also like the ripples in the water.

Luka Magnotta

On Wednesday, June 6 the hands and feet of Lin Jun were mailed to two schools in Vancouver. His torso was left at an airport in Montreal. This murder was committed by Luka Magnotta. I am absolutely disgusted by this. Committing murder was bad enough but to put his family through even more sorrow and mail out his body parts. It's crazy, some things peope will do..

Harry Potter Books

This is a list of my the Harry Potter books, sorted from my most favourite to my least favourite("least" is used lightly, of course).

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20 of my favourite quotes

This is a list of my favourite quotes starting from my 20th favourite to my 1st favourite.

20. "The one who loves the least controls the relationship."

19. "Let's all think back on what brought us here."

18. "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

17. "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?"

16. "Love is like a song. Whether good or bad, it seems to get stuck in your head."

15. "Trust is a small word with a big concept."

14. "We become aware of the void as we fill it."

13. "Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."

12. "If you're going to talk about me behind my back, don't smile at me to my face."

11. "I close my eyes and count to ten, I hope that it's over when I open them."

10. "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

9. "Isn't it strange how love can be the happiest thing ever, but also cause the most pain? And yet, everyone keeps searching for it."

8. "You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death they'll find anything new and death is just too controlling."

7. "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

6. "But never the rose without the thorn."

5. "Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today."

4. "We think too much and feel too little. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way."

3. "I've heard that the ending is just a new beginning....I'd like to believe that's true.."

2. "Find a place inside where there's joy and the joy will burn out the pain."

1. "I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, we're forced to face the truth. Ourselves."

Why I like Harry Potter

I first read The Harry Potter books when I was 10 and I loved the adventure. I loved growing up with them. This series is the only one that I can think of where we grew up with the actors and actresses that played the characters in the movies. Harry Potter is my favourite book series for a lot of reasons but I think that the biggest reason is because when I'm sad that's what I turn to to get my mind off of whatever is bothering me. The best part is that when I reread the books I always learn something new or remember something that I may have forgotten about. I like the books a lot more than the movies because there's always so much that is left out of the movies. Another thing I like about Harry Potter is Pottermore. Pottermore is a site by J.K. Rowling where the fans can interact and go through all the books in a different way. The best part of the fandom is that it's more than a bunch of people that like this. We make friends with people that live halfway around the world. It's truly amazing in every aspect.

Rowing

Three mornings a week I go rowing with the KCI rowing club. I have to get up at 4:00am, so I'm ready to leave at 5:30am. Once I get to the place where I row, I have to sign out a boat, set up the stretchers, put the boat I sign out on the stretchers and check to make sure there's nothing wrong with it, then I bring the boat to the water and put the oars into the oar locks. Once all that is done it's time to row. The first time I went rowing was unlike anything I've ever done. It's exhilarating. I don't even know how to explain it, but it's amazing. When I first went in a boat by myself it was even more fun, but it's also scary. Singles are really easy to tip so there's that fear at the beginning, but after a while you get used to it and you learn how to keep it from tipping. If you don't mind waking up early, I recommend joining the KCI rowing club next year for everyone that goes to KCI. It is really rewarding.

Amy Beamer - Human Resources

Amy Beamer is a Human Resources Person. They are in charge of interviewing people for jobs.They also deal with complaints from employees. She came to our class and I think many of us learned a lot from her. She told us how an employer can't make you work for less that 3 hours a shift and if you work for more than 6 hours you get 2 breaks. She told us that some employers often hire young people because they think that they don't know their rights, and a lot of us don't. I didn't know any of that until she told us. She also said that you should go into the workplace knowing your rights.