Creative Pursuit #6 "write about a weird day in your workplace"

Basically I am a modern day clown. It is hard to pick just one day that's a weird day in my workplace. I work for a party company and have learned the ways of entertaining children. I can face paint , make balloon animals , run bouncy castles and of course I dress up in any costume I'm told to. One day stands out too me though. It was one of my first events with Par-T-Perfect. We were doing an event up in Kelowna and I was running the face paint station and my friend Amy was running avalanche mountain , this bouncy castle has a fake blow up helicopter on the top of it just for show. As I'm doing my job these five boys come up all asking to be painted as princesses , a little out of the ordinary but i wasn't one to judge. I stamped the boys tickets and off they went. About fifteen minutes later I can hear Amy yelling "get down from there!" so I run over sure enough the five boys have tried to climb to the helicopter which is not only not allowed but its really dangerous because it's super high up. The boys scatter down the castle quickly and try to run off while yelling "attack of the princesses!". So we laugh it off and get back to work soon enough the day is over and nothing I had thought had happened after the once incident we all meet with out bosses and the other two workers and every single one of us asks if any of us had trouble with the five princess boys. Discovering that they had raised trouble at every station in all different forms. Now all of us joke and call it the "princess day" and I do not think I will ever face paint a group of boys princesses ever again.

21st Century Education

4. Describe what you are doing next year.

My plans for next year at the moment are fairly up in the air. For most of my life I've planned on travelling to Australia and becoming and aupair for three months and than travel around the destination for three as well. As of right now I am going to wait until summer break after college to head down under. I am planning on going into the criminology program at Okanagan College and stay in penticton as well as sticking with the company i work for to save money. I will possibly move out but my mother has persuaded me to stay at home which works for me because than i save more money for Australia. I would like to participate in charity events still but it could be a little bit harder because the ones i do now are through Maggie but its worth the challenge. Whatever I do in my life it has to involve benefiting others. The criminology program I am going into is a 2 year program and has great reviews at the end of it I would like to help work with child services or counselling children who have been through traumatic events. Friends and family wise I plan to stay close with the ones that matter the most right now and they have been around for years so I cant picture us all not being friends after graduation. This summer before college starts i will be working full time possibly two jobs just too keep busy and get a feel for the real world. I am both excited and nervous to grow up but if anything I think I am ready for it and high school had a big part in that. I think in high school classes and grades matter to a certain extent but if you can become a bigger and better person with a good head on your shoulders the teachers and administration have done their job because for the most part after high school you forget everything you learned and all the tests you took but life lessons stay with you forever. So work school friends family and travelling that's the big plan for me I cant wait to begin!!

Walk A Paragraph

I could tell by the definite lines in his cheeks that this man had led a happy life. There was no doubt in my mind that those lines had gotten there from smiling and laughing over the years. He was wearing a simple grey sweater , black pants and practical white sneakers the only thing not so simple about his outfit was the hat he was wearing. It was an odd hat something you would see in an Italian mob flick feather and everything. His left ring finger was bare. All I could wonder was why someone who looked so kind was not sharing it with someone else. I watched him put two sugars and one cream into his coffee and slice the top off of his it looked like to be a blueberry muffin this seemed very routine. He had kind eyes the eyes you look into when you are sad and it makes everything okay he seemed as if he was some sort of saint I have never seen anyone look so nice from a first impression. He was playing Keno again it seemed like this was an every day event for him. He did'nt have any distinct facial expressions be he looked very content with his life. Today i realized how much you can tell about somebody by the lines in their face.

Super Power

Hiding from angry moms and teachers, spying on your cheating boyfriend, getting into a party you weren’t invited too. You could do all these things if you had the ability to be invisible. There are so many things you could tune in on and no one would ever know. If you were an everyday prankster being able to be invisible would be a necessity! Also one could never be caught stealing. I won’t encourage that though. I would mostly like my invisibility abilities so I could get into places where I am not legally allowed at this age or for when my mom is having a cranky day and I could just get right past her and out the door! Yes if I could have any superpower it would be the power of invisibility.