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I am deffinitely not a grinch, that's for sure.  I love Christmas so much, you might even say it's my favourite time of the year.  You get to see your entire family, 2 weeks off school, so much delicious food, presents, and on and on.  Christmas is just such a happy time of year.  Everyone comes together to have a good time and team up to help others who dont't have  a lot and are in need of help.  The goodness inside everyone comes out during the holiday season.  But there is one part of Christmas that i do not like at all.  Shopping.  All the malls are so flippin busy i find myself wanting to knock over everyone who's in my way.  I know thats not the spirit your supposed to have at this time of year, but i can't help it.  Some people just don't have commen sense.  They park themselves and their cart right in the most high traffic part of a store and don't move know matter how many people walk into them.  And there is always that one person you get stuck behind in line who takes forever to go through because they're claiming they should get a better price for something, or they're just angry about something.  Walmart is a whole different story.  It is bad enough not during the holidays, but come Christmas time, that place is a hell hole.  You walk in and are immediately hit by the Walmart smell and then greeted by the over cheery greeter, then you mix in with the oh so great Walmart customers.  Walmart shoppers are probably the worst shoppers ever.  I swear most of them try to get in your way and block off as much of the aisle as they can, just to make things difficult for everyone else.  Then there's the kids who are always running around playing with all the toys or riding scooters around the store and running into me.  Plus the cashiers are always the most pleasant people ever to deal with.   Walmart is probably my least favourite place to be at Christmas time.  I have had to many experiences there.  Here are some delightful pictures of Walmart people found on google.  Enjoy :)
 

The first picture is of a lovely woman shopping at Walmart, the second is another woman shopping in her hospital gown, the third is the classic old man in short shorts, then the last one is a man who thought it would be cool to dress his kid in a diaper, leash and cowboy boots.  I rest my case.

President's Choice

http://obscuresound.com/

This just happened to be the first blog i clicked on when i googled "music blog" but it also turned out to be a really good one too.  It's all about music which was a very good start, then i discovered it was all about good music which made it even better.  This blog is dedicated to new and upcoming artists in the indie genre and exploring all the different sounds of the artists.  They have a top albums of 2010 post that is posted daily in increments of 10, and i thought that was awesome.  I literally read about every album they've posted about so far and loved every minute of it.  Not only was this blog extremely interesting but it was also very visually appealing because of album artwork they have up, different pictures of the artists and just the layout of the site.  Obscuresound is a great blog, much better than the ones you picked Miss Feick.

Feicky's Choice

Well, I must say i didn't hate the 2 blogs as much as everyone else.  However, the one with the letters was really,horribly boring.  Who wants to read about someone they've never heard about doing something boring?  I have my own airline custom problem stories too but i don't share those with the world.  Anyways, i did like the Huffington post.  I found a few interesting articles and posts on there, one was about a man who just sentenced to death yesterday in Connecticut for a really horrible crime, which i will not include for obvious reasons.  And i read other posts about celebrity sex tapes that i otherwise would not have known existed.  But something about that site made me stay on it for about 20 minutes so it was doing something right.  My guess is all the catchy headlines and titles or the pictures that always caught your attention. 

Love of my Life

Jake Sommerville.  Need i say more?  Was it the way he shreds the hell out of everyone on his skateboard?  Was it the way he sang me songs and played guitar for me?  Or was it the way the grease shined on his face when he didn't shower for a few days?  I will never know but something in this guy caught my eye like no other had before.  I have had a huge man crush on Jake Sommerville ever since I first talked to him in grade 11.  We would chill and write beautiful music together in guitar class and then make videos and such in comm tech.  Also, we played basketball and the likes in gym class together.  Jake would always hike up his shorts to his nipples and tuck in his shirt and prance around the gym like a baffoon, but it was so funny!  I love Jake Sommerville, and I will for the rest of my life. <3

The top picture is the Louvre park in Paris, France, and the bottom picture is in a park in London, England.  I have been to both places and they are just unbelievable.  Now when I was in Paris that pond had a lot more chairs around it and there were people in almost every single one relaxing, reading, listening to music, or playing music.  It was such a peaceful place, everyone could share the park peacefully and they all respected everything that was there.  The park in London had so many people walking, running, jogging, horseback riding, biking, rollerblading, kayaking, and so on.  This doesn't seem to different then the parks here in Canada, but the one main difference is the people there.  They all respect everything there.  There isn't garbage all over the ground, there isn't people yelling and fighting with eachother and you can feel perfectly safe there.  And all those chairs in the pictures are left outside all summer long.  Think about it, if we had chairs out in our parks like that they would all be smashed and broken the first night.
     That is why if I could go anywhere for the weekend I would go back to Europe.  Not just for the amazing and breathtaking scenery, but for the people and their way of life over there.  There is nothing quite like going to an english pub and getting fish and chips and a pint of some great local english beer.  During the summer my family and I went to England, Scotland and Wales for 3 weeks.  We stayed at this bed and breakfast in Wales for one night and i would give anything to go back to that place.  The man who owns it was unbelievably nice, and he would do anything for us if we needed.  We spent the night hanging around the bed and breakfast mostly talking to Lindsey, the man who owns it.  He treated us so well that my parents left him a 100 pound tip for the amazing dinner they prepared for us.  Needless to say that got us some pretty good service in the morning for breakfast.  But with all that said if i could, i would go back to Europe in a heartbeat, just to see Lindsey again and to climb the Ochil hills in Scotland again, and if you haven't been to Europe I strongly suggest you find your way there at some point in your life.

You know what really grinds my gears??

You know what really grinds my gears?  Now, this sounds a little bad but i cannot stand when people invite themselves along with other people's plans.  Like now that all my friends and I are bigger, it's hard to fit 3 people in the back seat, and impossible to fit 3 comfortably.  So we try to keep it to only 2 in the back, but always no matter what one of our other friends will be like "Yo! I'm coming!"  and jump in the car.  Sometimes, depending on my mood, i tell them no way and to get out but most of the time i can't say it and they just come anyways.  Or say you and a few friends are watching a movie and your loud friend just comes on over uninvited and  doesn't stop talking the entire time no matter how many times you tell them to.  Or they tell you the ending of the movie and just ruin the whole thing for all of you.  I love all my friends, don't get me wrong, but sometimes they drive me crazy.

My Post Secret

Blooga blooga

This is sort of related to cell phones again but it must be said.  Recently a student at our school, who i will not name for confidentiality reasons, was suspended for 25 days pending expulsion.  This is complete bull.  I will tell you the story and you can judge it how  you will but i think it is absolutely ridiculous.  He was sitting in the cafe with 2 other guys when the hall monitor walked in and asked them all where they were supposed to be.  They said nowhere we have spare, and she left.  Then she came back and told one of them to go to the pass room and the guy i'm talking about to go to class.  He said he hasn't been to that class all year and they won't let him drop it so he's not going.  So hall monitor sent him to the office.  Now i agree with this because he wasn't in class but the office to took it too far.  When he got to the office they said they were going to have to search him.  Now why would they need to search him at all for this?  He was skipping class...  Since he had nothing to hide from them he said go ahead and they searched him.  When they found nothing, they told him to hand over his phone.  Once again, why do they need to go through his phone?  What gives them the right?  When they went through his phone they found a text about something illegal.  The contents of the text were not taking place at the school.  Since they found this text message, he was suspended for 25 days or so and is now facing expulsion.  Aside from this story, i have heard from plenty of other people that have been searched or threatened to be searched for reasons that should not have anything to do with being searched.  It just doesn't seem right at all to me.

Cell phones in class issue

The article itself was well written i think.  It wasn't all out against cell phone use in class and saying thats its the devil in technology form and it wasn't just for it either.  It adressed both sides of the argument and offered examples and experiences teachers and students have had with cell phones in class.  I think this issue is really simple actually.  Texting when anyone is talking to you is disrespectful because there is no way you can actually hear what the person is saying to you when you're busy talking to your friends about something else.  If you were having a conversation with one of your friends face to face, I doubt you would be texting somone else at the same time.  So why do that in class when the teacher is teaching?  Show some respect and actually listen to what the teacher is saying, because it probably is pretty important.  But having said that, I think teachers should recognize the fact that students will want to talk to their friends and maybe let them use their phone when they're doing in class work.  This is the student's time to get their work done and if they want to use that time texting their friends, thats's up to them.  The only time they're wasting is their own.  Cell phone use in class isn't that bad, but there's a time and place for it.

lets start from the very begining

My name is Cole Churchward.  I was born in Sudbury Ontario, lived there for about 2 months then moved to Brampton.  I lived there until I was in grade 6, when we moved to Tavistock. 
I really like playing guitar and singing and music in general.  Its a great way to escape and to just chill out.  I took writers craft in hopes to improve my lyric writing and maybe write some great songs of my own.  Other than music, i love skateboarding, golf, adventuring in different cool places discovering new things and seeing new places, but most of all i love cheese.  You can mix any food with cheese and it will taste amazing.  Cheese just improves everything.