AMAZING SPORTS!

AMAZING SPORTS!

 

Hello, in my last blog post I talked to you about horse riding. In this blog post I will be talking about some other exotic sports that I play. As you see above, and below, horse riding is still on the list. It's a fun sport that I love. Plus, you don't need to do ALL the work. If you want to learn more about my horse riding adventures, go to my post all about it.
Also see the picture above, I think that's going to be my screen saver.

Over the past few weeks, I have been focusing more on jumping. In my last post I told you that I was jumping over a small single bar about ten inches of the ground. Well boy has that changed! I am now jumping over bars at least thirty inches high!

And I'm not only jumping over one anymore. I now am jumping over no, not one, no, not two, but three bars! As seen below, It's a bit confusing with all of them isn't it?

And below is a picture of me hanging on for dear life! Luckily I know how to!

I have also, (kind of) taken up a new sport too! Skating! I did learn to skate about a year ago but I quit and moved on to other things. Here I am playing hockey with my friends. I SCORED A GOAL! For me, that's a really big deal, considering I never really liked hockey. But it's still a fun game.

 

 Here I am trying to pass the puck to my friend, wow, I had no idea my foot could bend like that!

  Also I have started playing badminton. We play with the same friends we go skating with.

Horse riding, yea.

This was me jumping in my last blog post. See the difference in bar height?

I am flying through the air!

 Take off!

Like Entea's braided tail?

And my last exotic sport is, drum roll please, ....... SCUBA DIVING! Yes that's right I went scuba diving! It was at our public pool. Did you know that scuba is an Anacreon? It stands for, Self, Contained, Underwater, Breathing, Apparatus. But over time it morphed into a word.  

Here I am strapping up our tanks to our vests. The boy standing be side me is my friend Liam.

Here we are strapping on our fins. Now we are just like fish!

Here I am spitting in my mask. And yes I just said spitting in my mask. Spit is like cleaning fluid, so you spit in it to make them shine. But don't worry you wash them off in the pool.... which is the same WATER WE SWAM IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank goodness we where wearing wet suits!

My first steps into the underwater world. You would think that that tank would be heavy? But when you're under the water it feels weightless!

Here we all are testing out our scuba gear! See the yellow hose? That is a back up hose in case one of our friends lose oxygen.

Here we are completely submerged! We stayed under there for one and a half hours! Unfortunately, I had to come up cause my mask kept filling with water! But still, that was only for a few seconds!
We also did some exercises. We practiced what to do if your mouth piece malfunctions. We learned how to tell underwater pressure with your fingers. And how to communicate too! We also played underwater frisbee and tossed those underwater missile things.

We have now come to the end of our adventure, awwww. But hopefully when we take our trip to Hawaii, I can explore the sea!

Thanks for reading my blog report. I hope you liked it! Write in the comments on what sports you like to play!

'Bye!

 

 

Halloween

Hello, guess what! It's Halloween. Well was Halloween about 4 days ago. 

Anyway if you are reading this blog you're probably wondering why there are two cartoon characters above this text. Well they are Mabel and Dipper, a pair of 12 year old twins from our favorite T.V. show,

"Gravity Falls."

Above are two pictures of me and my sister with our friend Matraya. Do you see the resemblance from before?

This is my character with out his costume.

Here we are at the mall, the mall was giving out candy. So we went there and scored some extra sweets.

 Here I am in my peanut costume don't I look tasty? And below we are counting our candy, guess how many pieces. Not 100 not 200 not 300 but 500 pieces of candy! After we counted our stash we watched the movie Epic.

HORSE RIDING!

                                           HORSE RIDING!   

                                                                            



Hello, its me Jera again! Remember a while a go, how I said I had started up horse riding? Well in the mean time I have gotten really good at it! And I am doing a whole blog post about it!

( read below )



                                   As you see above I'm trotting on my fav horse Entea. Entea is one of the most stubborn horses in the world! He has his own mind and he is very strong willed. If he does not want to go to certain places in the arena, it is really difficult to change his mind. Also, do you see that collection of trees in the background? Well that's where Entea gets spooked. He is fearful that there are monsters lurking in the woods. He is very stubborn when I direct him in that area.

Here I am learning how to jump. And yes, those poles are low. But this is how you first learn to jump.

I am now trotting around the outer rim. I'm doing a  riding technique called, two point.

Here I'm trotting into Entea's troubled corner. Wish me luck, and hope he doesn't spook.

  Horse riding is a really fun sport, one day you should try it!  

Thank you for reading my blog report, I hope you enjoyed it!

Have a ducky day.

Update Update!

                                                     UPDATE UPDATE!

Sorry for my blog being in abeyance for such a long time. It's been nearly a year since my last post. Anyway, I thought I'd catch you up on the latest news.

The summer was just basic, nothing too AMAZING. Although, we did build a raft out of two inner tubes and a plank of wood, and we sailed it down the river.

I also bought my Ipad Mini which I have been saving up for the last six months.

Ipad mini.

Above is me cutting my birthday cake. I turned 13 years old last August! In the next picture I am with my friends opening my presents! We had a beach party and a sleepover, we stayed up till 4 AM (but don't tell my dad that.)

Also my sister ( Sienna ) and I went on a camp to a place called, Maple Springs Bible Camp. Or as I like to call it, MSBC. We had lots of fun on the camp. We went river walking (it was cold), on hikes, and stepped on a wasps' nest! Luckily, I didn't get stung, but my shirt did! Sienna and I are going back to MSBC this fall for only a two day camp, instead of 8 days like the summer one.

Our cabins as seen behind us.

This the whole camp, can you find me?

                                             
Sienna and I sold cherries at the farmers market this year. We picked them from our organic cherry tree. We were able to sell them for a whole 4 weeks! We made $100!
Unfortunately the worms got into them after a week or so and they rotted.
A couple of weeks ago, we went for a tour of Covert Farm. I found the world's smallest strawberry! (see pic below) It was the size of my thumb nail and so sweet!

This fall I took up a new sport, horse riding. I have been taking horse riding lessons for the past 7 weeks and I'm becoming more adept at riding too. Below is a picture of me during one of my lessons, on Cisco.

It's Oct 24, which means Halloween is coming up. So my family and I went pumpkin picking last week. We picked large variety of different sized pumpkins. Even baby pumpkins too. Here is a picture of a medium pumpkin I found. 
                                                                        

Back to the Halloween topic, this is probably our last year trick or treating, so Sienna and I are going as something together this year. But I will tell you about that in another blog post. 

Yesterday, our family and some of our friends all went up on a hike to Skaha Bluffs! It was a hard climb up there but it was worth it because the view was stunning.
Below is a picture of us looking out over Skaha lake.

 First is Baily (Sienna's friend), then Sienna, next to her is Ben (my friend) then me. Like my hat?

 After a while, Ben and I got a bit bored of hiking. So we pretended that we were in the Zombie Apocalypse and our family and friends had all been bitten and turned into zombies! Our mission was to find "The Shelter." But, when we discovered it, it had collapsed in a pile of rubble. Here is what was left of it.

This is us climbing the clay cliff at Skaha Bluffs. Ben and I created a little base on the side of the wall.

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Thanks for reading my really late report. I hope you enjoyed it! See u next time! :)
P.S. My family and I are going on a vacation in a month or so. If u can guess where, I will mention you in my next blog post!

~Jera's out, peace!

 

Christmas Recital

A few weeks ago we put on a Christmas recital at some of the retirement homes.We all put on the play, The night before Christmas that is a classical book written by Clement Clark Moore.
Some of us played the piano before the play. Below, is me playing, What a Wonderful World and The Entertainer.

Ok, just for the record this has to be the WORST picture taken ever! Shall we look at the mistakes?
1, I have my eyes closed.
2, quarter of the cast is not even looking at the camera!
3, do you see Alex's head down at the bottom? He is barely in the picture!
and 4, a few people are moving around, They are blurred.

Above  is our whole cast taking a bow at one of the retirement homes.

This was a poster on one of the walls at the retirement home. See on the 5? We are the home learner's children entertain.

This is me and ben narrating the play. And below is our whole cast taking a bow at our last retirement home.

Our weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello there its me Jera!!!!!!!!!!
In this post I will be showing you what I did over the weekend!
Below is a picture of me and some of my friends at a Quest Atlantis meeting.
Quest Atlantis is an on line website for homeschooling. It is a place where you can go and do interesting quests and try to save Quest Atlantis!
 Here all of us are there for a meeting, just to catch up on any quests.

Above, is our whole group. The person in the left corner is our teacher.

Below we are leaving Quest Atlantis behind and heading into the wilderness!
We are searching for a Christmas tree! And trust me it was hard to find. There were thousands of trees and the steep slopes made it hard to cut anything down.



Me and my sister have just spotted a tree off in the distance! It is the perfect size and height! We told our dad and he got his axe and chopped  the tree down. Do you see that black thing in the corner below? That's Buddy our dog!

And this is the most sad part of this post........ Below is a moose that was hit by a car. Then some idiot skinned the poor thing! He never saw it coming. Let's have moment of silence for the moose......................................................................................................................................

 On the way back we found some more "alive" animals! These are mountain goats! We found them on the road. The goat on the road is the big Daddy goat we call him, he is in control of the herd.

 

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  Lets feed some ducks!

For science this week my sister and I went to do a research project about estimate the duck population in Penticton.
But you can't count ducks that are scattered all over the place? Right. So the only way to count them was to feed them! Man, those ducks love bread.

Hear are two ducks that were coming for a feed.
Male ducks are the ones with a green head. Female ducks are the ones with the normal/brown head.

Above, is my sister and I feeding all the ducks! Do you see the white duck bye my feet? That poor duck, that I named Marmoo, has a disease that makes his feathers go white. I wonder if Marmoo gets bullied at duck school because he looks different?

And as we came to the end of our feeding I tried to lead the ducks back to there home. Witch was a small lake over near that fence in the right corner. Unfortunately, some of the ducks did not want to budge!
                                               Hear are our results for counting the population

Females: 55
Males : 67

Yeah I know right, that's a lot of ducks. And we only counted the ones that came to feed. There are hundreds of more ducks in Penticton!

                                                                  Maybe you could count the ducks where you live! then we could compare. Just leave your how many ducks are in your city!

            -Jera