Do you ever have those moments where you look at yourself in the mirror and you see your flaws? Have you ever compared yourself to someone else and hated the outcome?

My family and I go camping every summer on a long weekend! My cousins and friends also come along. It is far a way from my house. It is like living with no electricity.

She always gave me a smile on my face when I would see her. Her chapattis were the best (next to my mom’s though she rarely cooks them anymore). Then one day we got a call from another Tanzanian uncle saying that she was in the hospital.

On Thursday October 17th, 2014, I had a scientist in the school. A Scientist in the school is when a scientist comes to our school to teach us about science. A pedologist came this time. A pedologist is a type of scientist that studies soil. One of the things she taught us was about earthworms.

School is an institution for educating children, any institution at which instruction is given in a particular discipline. This is part of the dictionary definition of school. My definition of school however is a bit different, a bit more than that.

“Hey, guess what I heard? I heard that the administrator of this blog holds her children hostage and forces upon them roasted worms and crunchy beetles to consume if their blog articles are not completed on time to be posted.

Two weeks ago there was an Intermediate Boys Soccer Tournament for the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. Well, I had the opportunity to be on the intermediate (grade 7 and 8) soccer team of my school and I played center back.

Have you ever played piano before? A piano is a popular instrument that is used by tapping your fingers against the keyboard. It has 88 keys that are white and black. It can be used to play different kind of music such as jazz, classical, rock, soul and more! I started playing piano since I was around 8 years old.

Every Tuesday, I look forward to my gymnastics classes. Gymnastics is my favorite sport. I started gymnastics when I was two and a half years old. After gymnastics I feel sweaty and a little tired but fresh.

At the dinner table on a Monday, my parents told my brother that he was to receive an Altar Sever Award for Outstanding Achievement - Archdiocese of Toronto, Northern Region. Even though it seemed that I wasn’t happy for him, in side I was really happy for him.

Food is very important for everybody. If you don’t eat you might die. So we should eat healthy foods more than junk foods. Everybody knows that you should not eat junk food everyday because you will get fat and sick. But you can eat junk foods once in a while.

D IS FOR DREAMY A IS FOR ATHLETIC N IS FOR NEAT

One day at our school, the announcements were saying that there was a student council meeting for running for the positions in student council. At first, I did not care about it, so I did not go to the meeting.

I have written about which gender I think are more superior beforehand in my previous blog piece “The Superior Being” and, as you might or might not already know, I think that the female gender in more ways than not is more complete than the typical male gender.

In memory of Vanessa Yasintha Wambura (August 2003 – August 2023). What do you think are important life skills for everyone to have? This might be a vague question with endless answers and that is ok. Not to worry! Well, what I want to talk about is simply the skill to handle stress.

Do you feel that at school once lunch is around you feel useless and bored?! Well did you know that at your school, if you want to take responsibility at lunch, you can monitor one of the younger students?

Vegetables are healthy, eat them every day. Vegetables make you strong and are very good for you. Veggies will make you grow tall. My mom says that if I eat carrots I will see better.

On Thursday October 2nd 2014, I got the most amazing opportunity to attend We Day 2014. It was at the ACC in Toronto and hundreds of youth were there along with some very important people, and some famous celebrities.