Wow I havent blogged in a long time...

Well I am in grade 9 now and I am not sure if i love it or hate it... I am in the same class as my friends and stuff but for some reason grade 9 is not as fun. I think being with the same people the whole time can be really frustrating. last year was fun because I only saw them before class and at lunch and the few classes that i was with them in like English and PDHPE. Also now all they talk about is skateboarding. it seems like all I hear from them is vans this and kick flip that and , OMG I just jumped a three stair! It gets really irritating. any way I am liking the rest of my life now. I have started broadening my horizons etc. and am now in rugby, and don't just hang out with one group of people (mostly because all they do is SKATEBOARD!) and it has been really fun. I have also noticed that I really like to rant. Any way I really like classes etc. My BI teacher is awesome and so is my science teacher etc. My Humanities teacher is really fun and I have had a lot of fun in his class discussing random things with him. Also a few weeks ago I went to this thing with my church called ruff camp. I was the bomb!!! I had a great time and met a bunch of new friends. I also got to know some of my old friends a lot better and stuff. i also grew a lot spiritually and socially and I am definitely going next year. for the summer I went to Canada where i had a great time with cousins and family and friends etc. I got to surprise all of my friends at school and it was hilarious to see their faces when they realized who was standing their. The girls all screamed and stuff and the guys were all like " holy crap... Is that Matthew?" It felt kinda weird seeing everybody and how much they've changed etc. I also had a great time with grandma and poppa in Campbell River. I got to see my Auntie Chrystal for the first time along with my new cousin Fischer. He is so freakin cute. and while he was their he officially learned to crawl which was really cool. We did a bunch of stuff with grandma and poppa like eat ice cream on the pier and we went to coombs and grandma got me this awesome hoodie and then i bought myself one of those english hats that they wear in golf. I also had a great time hanging out with auntie Tanya and uncle Tyler and learning how to dirt bike and playing with Lucy and Elijah. We ran around and i got tackled by two hilarious little kids. It is not very comfortable to have a 5 year old and a 7 year old hanging by your neck while you are telling them that you cannot breath.
i have to go so i will see you later!

I havent blogged in over 2 months... probably not a good thing but yeah. ha ha. this christmas was awesome. I did so much cant actually remember everything. I went to bali with my grandparents and had a blast just doing nothing there. I love being able to sit and know there is no chores or homework or anything that you have to do and that is nagging you at the back of my mind. we also went to punck for three days and went to taman safari again with grandparents. it was cool . for christmas i got a camera. its one of those little digital ones but i works for me really well. the zoom is awesome. anyway, I had fun. back to puncak we went to this water all thing on the second day and it was really fun.I had no idea that I water fall could generate so much wind!!! I got a bonsai tree but now it is all but dead. I forgot to water it for a really long time so all of the leaves are like brown and stuff.when school started it was horrible because we had to get up so early for it and I cant stand getting up early. I am so not a morning person. school went by uneventfully and I had fun on the weekends. we started doing a unit on photoshop in Tech so that shold be fun. last week we all went to carls house and surprised him for his birthday by throwing him into a pool . except we told him we were throwing him into a pool. it was still fun. we stayed at his house and watced movies all day. he has a bunch of nerf guns so we also had a sort of free for all shoot out. my life is average. his mom and dad invited eric and I out for dinner and so we went home took showers and he picked us up at our houses.we went to this japanese place in th mulia hotel. t was really really good. this week was also pretty uneventful so I didnt really do much. this weekend has been totally lazy consisting of me sleeping eating and going to church with a new hoodie thrown in the mix. :) today i just sat in the house on the computer doing homework... ugh
see YALL
matt

voyage of the dawn treader is coming out in 2010!!!! I cannot wait. I have always loved the narnia books and ever since prince caspian came out I have been wondering when voyage of the dawn treader will come out. Did you know lucy pevensie (or the person who plays her) is my age. she was born in 1995. edmund is 19 or 18, susan is 22 and peter is 23. and in the movie they are all in their early to mid teens. its horrible. have you ever wondered why people cast people who are way older than they are supposed to be in the movie. it always looks the same but why cant they just have them as all the same age. any way today was fun. i sat around doing nothing and then I watched julie and julia for the 2nd time since we got it, which was a week ago. I still love it. it is hilarious. the first time i watched it I laughed sooo hard ms becky probably thought I was a nut case. hehe. maybe I am. last night I slept over at erics house and we prank called people and I watched 2012. it was cool I guess and the special effect were awesome. it wasnt one of those movies you really get into and it would have been better to see in theatres. except we wouldnt be able to see it anyway.... its banned. the Indonesian government thinks that it puts fear into people so malls arent allowed to show it. nut they do anyway.
got to go
.:matthew:.

schools out for idul ahda

I rally felt the need to blog and so I am blogging... imagine that. so anyways, i cant wait for thursday. it is goig to be so awesome having a 5 day weekend. i am dreading tomorrow though becaue their are still 6 more classes until my vacation!!! urrgghhh! My life right now s what youd call average. nothing really big happening at all... haha. I havent bee swimming in a while and I am starting to work out officially. i would occasionally bafore but now \i have a list of the thingsthat i ne to do and it is going to be hard.
I CAN DO 41 PUSH UPS. and that was on a day that I was feeling sick. I cant wait until I get a gold on my fitness test for pushups. but now I have to work on my pull ups and that is really hard. I have to do 11! urrrgghhh again. it is kinda strange how my friend desmen can do a lot more that 11 but he only has one hand.
guess what.I moved up in the drums. I now play the snare, the music stand and the rain stick. yes i actually play the music stand. we are playing tarzan and I had to improvse cuz we didnt have any bottoms of kitchen bans or garbage cans. I am also staring to like bahasa now. its horrifying I know but its starting to grow on me. pak vge has made us do this booklet in math thatis super hard and last last test we almost all failed.either we are all not too smart or he didnt teach us right. when he first gave it o us he told us the grade nines are all really struggling in this area so we are going to give it to you so that you wont struggle with it next year. WHAT! so your going to give e something that grade 9s can barely grasp and obviously the grade 8's are going to uderstand it perfectly. sometimes I dont understand indonesian logic.
john, jun bum (yes thats his name), dawoon and jin jae are being moved up a level in bahasa because they are too noisy. ibu lea send them out of the class and all of a suden we had complete silence for lke 5 minutes, and then they came in again. during that 5 minutes she commented on how quiet it was and I said if she liked it she should just move them up in bahasa and she said "hey... thats a good idea..:)" so she went and wrote ther names on a post it and talked to them after wards. they are all good enough in bahasa but I feel sorr for ibu miny who will have to teach them next

wow long time no blog.

so since the last time i blogged I have written a bunch of essays taken ateleast 5 tests and ... yeah. I have also gone on retreat which is something that i would like to talk to you guys about. for three days every year each grade goes on this thing called retreat where we all go to some random place to eat, listen to devotional sessions and eat some more. not that I dont like the food but.,.. I do not like the food. so yeah. really all you know about the retreat so far is that it is lacking in food and ... there is alot of it. I wish that the worship session would at least be more thatn 2 songs seeing that the session is min. an hour long!
sometimes I do not understand indonesian culture. there is this girl in my class who does not know what a whore is yet she has gone to an english school all of her life. the story is actually really funny. she aks in the middle of class "whats a whore?" so we are al wierding out and so we answer her " its sort of like a prostitute." "whats that" by now you know she has definatly not read her old testament at all. so we tell her to ask the teacher and ... that went well. this girl is a bit of an odd ball.
anothe thing is when we do worship in chapel the worship team keeps making us stand up then sit then stand... and it gets really annoying.
I will blog later then.. see ya

random rantings /non-rantings

church is awesome! and we are moving so that makes it even more awesome . anyway i cant wait until we get to the new location. its in like 3 weeks or something. why did every body put me in charge of our class dance. didnt they see our dance last year. it was HORIIBLE! I have issues with teaching other people dances. ask tara.
life is good here in indo. I have a really cool math teacher who makes jokes and stuff. its totally awesome:)
I also have mrs rebecca as my english teacher and there is so much homework in her class. I guess that that is normal because we are writing our autobiographies and that will take a lot of work. i heard that it has to be like and inch thick and that might be a little bit hard because we are in grade 8. but apparently no one has ever not done it so yeah...
i started watching the office a few weeks ago and I am already on season 4. I sort of skipped season 1 though. ha ha
it is really easy to buy the DVDs here because everything is pirated. it is a common sight to see someone filming the screen in a theater. its kind of hard to get used to. every thing is all protected in America and stuff.
any way back to church. the old building is all bare now and all the air conditioning units are out all ready. really weird.
did I tell you that I was in after school band. anyway I am and it is pretty fun. I play the cowbell. I dream of being a world famous cowbell player and winning billions of academy awards for my acting as a cowbell.
that was irrelevant.

earthquake

Oh my goodness there was an earthquake. It was so cool... I was shaking and my mom said "um we should probably get under cover"... ha ha:) thankfully I don't think anyone was hurt.
anyway, I have had a great first few weeks of school but i have to write an essay in humanities and I have a poster due tomorrow about polyethylene which is the most common plastic in the world. it makes things from shopping bags to bullet proof vests.I bet you really needed to know that.:) Haha.
Candace is here and we have had a blast . when my dad went to have his surgery on his shoulder we watched a bunch of movies. last night a bunch of ladies were here so I was the official photographer and now know that my specialty is awkward shots. haha.
I cant wait until this quarter finishes. it is a short quarter so i think that I will have a lot of fun in jogja at language shool. NOT!!! I am soooo dreading it and I almost wish it would close down from some sort of natural disaster.
anyway I have officially discovered the office. the steve carrel office not some random office at the school or something. that would be weird. it is so funny. we watch it al the time as a family now and it is hilarious.
anyway see you all later
matthew