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As you might have read in my last blog i and many others lost a friend this morning his name was Riley this is on a personal note just to help me pass my greiving i thought i'd write about it. He was best friends with 3 of my friends Breann, Miranda, And Shelby im kicking myself know from all the chances i had to talk to him. For me living in a small town in Northwest central Alberta Canada this is a pretty rare thing infact i never lost someone i knew before so this came as a great shock to me. Before my teacher read the Letter to the Parents on what is going on out loud she stated "I might cry while reading this" and i knew off the bat that something was wrong. In the opening of the letter it says "It is with great sadness that we learned this morning, Tuesday, November 20, 2007, of the untimely death of a grade 8 student at the River Valley School. The thoughts and prayers of all our students and staff are with the family at this difficult time." each time i read the paragraph even writing it right now brings tears to my eyes. when i heard the first words from our teacher my mind went blank my body ran cold i felt horrible when we found out who it was i quickly looked over at his girl friend. Her face was a shade of grey and she had an unreadable exspression on her face i look over at my friend she has the same look. After his girl friend burst into tears my friend did also i rushed over to hold her in my arms and to comfort her while she cries on my sholder when we leave the class i too finally burst into tears. I cried, I cried the hardest i ever cried 2 hours of tears 2 hours of sorrow 2 agonizing hours of watching my friends break down and bust into tears. I never knew it could happen to me i never knew it could hit so close to home i begin to fear for my friends. In a way Rileys death brought us closer then we ever were. In a way his death caused me to care more about my friends and my time with them. Oh how i keep kicking myself about just saying a hasty "Hello" when my freind introduced him to me my heart fills with regret everytime i remember his face. We all miss him dearly i don't think i can bare to go to school tomorrow but i must for the sake of my friends aid i need to be there to comfort them and support them through what ever lies ahead. Now that im done writing this i have burst into tears 3 times while writing this blog and now i must close this entry with 3 words that i hope i will never say again. REST IN PEACE Riley

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Today in my school, in my grade, we lost a grade 8 student. I had the chance of knowing him, he died this morning in his home. The police ruled his death as suspicious. He was committed to his friends today November 20th 2007 at the age of 13 years Riley passed away. We got the news from our teachers his Girl Friend Paige and his friends Miranda, Austin, Breann, Shelby, and many more will miss him dearly. A few people and I will be making a tribute for him at our school. I wish i had a chance to know him more. May you Rest In Peace Riley.

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Well im awake from a not so long sleep i think im turning into my mom can't sleep. Anyway as i said in my last post i'll tell you about my Rememberance Day cerimonies and well some of my mishaps. I arived at my school in uniform before the bell went, i was searching for Master Corperal Whales and Corperal Botham. They didn't show till later so i went around and showed some of my former teachers my uniform and eventually my principal asked if i wanted to do anything and ofcourse knowing me i always say yes. So he had me stand outside of the library and direct the legion members into there so they can sit on couches and talk. Once they were all in i was alowed to go in with Whales and Botham who finnally showed up. As we were waiting for the cerimony to get set up in the gym we had a chanced to talk to the legion members and their interesting stories of a Canadian Lance-Coperal who had a lion with a crown on his capbadge and he had another crown above it, now he went to britian durring WW2 and when the british soldiers saw his cap badge they suspected him to be a high ranking officer so they had honourguards escort him. It was a very funny story and they told of how their old uniforms had a some sort of handle on the back of their tunic they made jokes about how it would be used to toss them out of bars. after listening to some of the stories a vetran came up to me and said "Where you standing in the rain?" i answered no he exclaimed "Well because you're shrinking" being as short as i, i got the joke pretty quick and started laughing. Just before we were to go to the gym the two RCMP officers walked in decked out in red serge i couldn't help but thinking as i saw them, would i ever get to wear the red serge? Before we entered the gym i was asked to hold open the gym doors for the legion members to walk through. I ventred out of the library to hold open the door as the students where still flowing into the gym the smaller kids looked up at me in awe it was a somewhat great feeling. Once everyone one was in the gym legion members and all we stood at the very back by the bench. The 3 Army Cadets and 2 Air cadets waited for everything to begin. My schools band first played O'canada and as i saluted the news paper guy scuttled over and brought is camera close and took pictures of me saluting, i saw stars for the rest of the day. I felt a little down while my schools band was playing for i was supposed to be playing my Clarinet with them but instead had to march. after the legion members layed their wreaths my 2 fellow army cadets went to ley theirs as well, the air cadets asked if i'd like to go up with them to lay the wreath so im not stuck at the back all the time. And once again i said yes. "You want to chum around with the air cadets?" asked MC Whales "Yes i'd like to chum around with the pigeons do you mind?" i answered back he just looked at me then looked away. as they called the air cadets to go up i went with them carring the wreath in my right hand (bad mistake) with the other cadet carrying it in his left. As we reached the front and stopped i accidentally brought my left hand to a salute it was just about to my eyebrow till i realized what i was doing, i pulled it down as quickly as i could and a funny look came upon my face, one of embarrasment. as we layed down the wreath we saluted again this time with my correct hand, i couldn't see the air cadet out of the corner of my eye. (i held my salute far too long) my face grew redder as we marched back down the asle. (im sure the 2 RCMP officers in the back were giggling and it was clearly visible that my fellow cadets were as well) Oh the embarrassment wanted me to crawl into a black hole and to never return. I took my seat at the back. The school put on a slide show for the ones lost in WW2 about halfway through i started to cry though i was carful not to let anyone see, wiping the tears from my eyes before the lights flickered back on. I'll write more about the highschool cerimony and the lunch with the 2 RCMP officers in my next blog. if you go to my pictures you'll see the RCMP officer (one of them) that i ate with it showed up in the newspaper.

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Judging by the response with the comments i guess i'll go on with my blog (Don't mind the really horrible spelling through out this blog im tired) As i said in my last blog i am in the Royal Canadian Army Cadets i have been since september 10th 2007 so far i havn't attained a rank exsept cadet and i'm still only a green star but i can tell you im probably the most successful person in my rank judging by Cadet Weisses unresponses to orders i guess i'll shoot up the ranks quicker then him (actually my Master Warrent told me that) So far i have been to biatholon though it was only a summer biatholon which meant there's no snow so you gatta run! I'm not so big on the running thing i'm only 4"11 and i probably won't grow past 5 feet (my goal is 5 feet GROW LEGS GROW) Anyway back to biatholon well in total i ran 3 KM (1 mile) we ran a 1 KM loop then shot on my first target i got 2 targets out of 5 in a 10 metre length then i ran the loop again and got 3\5 on the next shot (we where shooting Daisy Pump riffles i swear you can toss the riffle and it'll hit the target before the pellet) and shortly after shooting i ran the KM loop again, well not really ran, i ran about 50-100 meatres then slowed to a walk, a really bad idea. I ran and walked the whole thing until the home stretch, i came around the corner at a run then my fellow corperals and sergeants where pushing me on for the remaining 100m and i can tell you being like me a person who dispises running more then anything, running that home stretch pushed me beond my limit abput 50m in my legs were ready to give out and my lungs wern't takning enough air but i kept running right past the line (suprised the guy was still there because i was the last one to run to the end) Once i passed the line i stopped dead in my tracks nelt over and tried to breath, another mistake, but if i would've stood straight i most certainly would've fainted (which i didn't want to do in front of my leutenaunt) But as we were leaving what the best reward of all, i recieved a bronze biatholon pin which was to go on my uniform (later lost it while switching seats in the van)And later on that day after i begged my captian to pull over in the next town because i had to pee real bad from the 3 letres of water i drank before we left i found out which place i got at the store. I recieved 6th place out of 20 girls my Master Warrant officer would've gotten 1st but instead got 3rd from a penalty for not wearing saftly glasses on the shooting. i was amaized at what place i got even though i came in last on the running i did well on the shooting. I hope you liked this blog i'll tell you about my Rememberance Day Cerimonies and my little mishaps tomorrow. For right now im going to check my youtube account then go to bed.

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I must say it is quite awkward to be creatinga blog but here it is and this is what i'm going to write about for the blog, I am in the RCAC (Royal Canadian Army Cadets) i hope to join the Canadian Reserves but not in atleast 3-4 years yet depending on when i get my grade 10. I also have a youtube account with 77+ videos, care to wonder what i make? I create tribute videos for police officers, firefighters, Canadian Forces (for those serving in afghanistan and left us) and the main one is the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) you see after im done with the Reserves i want to join the RCMP and hopfully fill out a nice career, My oldest brother is planning on joining the RCMP after he's done his collage education. i have 2 older brothers they make me laugh, make me fustrated, thats everything into a brother isn't it? my other older brother hopes to become a journalist if only he dug his head out of his butt and finnish highschool but he is brilliant and smart. I grew up with one Parrent, my mom, there's no other parrent i'd choose then her. Well so far this is my blog i hope you like it e-mail me if you want me to post more perhaps of my stories of my short time with the RCAC.

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