End of season...Start of possible boredom

Tommorow morning I will be heading off to Nova scotia for my last cross country race. Excuse me, if I seem to be talking about the sport too much but it has suprised me on so may levels. When I joined the team I had already made up assumptions on how it was going to turn out. I played many sports in high school and middle school, it was never pleasant. It was hard work, overly competitive people, barely no support system between teammates. To begin with, I must confess that the sports gene in my family was definitely not given to me.

My older brother can learn any sport and become fairly good if not perfect. Myself on the other side, I practice, practice and practice to only end up on the bench hahaha. Cross country was another completely different story. As usually I joined with a very limited experience and out of shape ( physically and mentally). I had no idea what I was getting myself into, all I knew and believe was the former experiences in other sports. With that said, I went in with a very negative felling about the sport and the all the teammates in general. This is a belief that i held even before I decided to join the team. My first practice was horrible, I remenber saying to myself the first two weeks " Okay this is the last time I am going to practice, i have to tell Scoot, I AM DONE!". Something that I dont know kept pushing me to suprise myself, to challenge myself and to prove my body that I can do my best. My teammates were the complete opposite of what I had in mind. Everybody was very welcoming(despite me not being in good shape) and very patient ( especially the coach). I never thought in my life that i could actually say that i like my coach and that i like a competitive sport. Now the season is almost over and i have improved beyond my imagination. I still frown at the hills during practices and the saturdays long "hilly" workouts. I can honestly say that this team is simply amazing. Everyone in them. :D

I believe my experience can be related to what we been doing in class so far. We have been reading all kind of stuff (especially "Doubt") and finding what influenced us to come to a certain conclusion. This is what happened to me, going to a sport with an already made up mind. The lesson that I came out with is to never judge anything or anybody from previous experiences. This is ofcourse hard and it's not easy to ingore something when you "think" you know the outcome. I am going to make sure this is my goal, to stop judging anybody or anything from my past experiences. I wont let my past good or bad stop me from enjoying life. I now made friendships that could last forever. This was not a season thing, these are my friends now.

Emmanuel Rutayisire

Sorry for any wrong spelling. :D

My remedy....

Another week past...another to go. One thing i have been learning since I been to university is to take one day at a time. I am such a future seeker all the time, because i get easily bored of the present.

I had a race( UNB opening) this past saturday. I didn't run due to my over worked calves. My left on is the worst and the pain that it produces when I run on it is too much. All I have to count on is self massages and massages from my coach. My coach is amazing when he's giving you a massage. You might ask yourself at times if "this is suppose to help", because at the moment pleasure is the last thing your body is feeling. On thursday I attended an occasion about hunger in America. It was very educational and the speaker was..........unique & kind of lost. Classes been going as the usual, nothing dramatic has happen yet.

The weekend went fast, due to homeworks and other occasions that i won't mention. I am finding myself working late every sunday and trying to get everything ready in time. I wouldnt say that my week/ weekend were bad, but it i had to be "responsible". At times all I trully want to do is eat Banana bread and dance all night. That brings me to another frustrating subject. Why do dance clubs feel that it's alright to close at 2am. Im soory but, at 2am that's when all my energy kicks up. Only if I had my own nightclub. Everybody would be served FREE banana bread( 50 cents , if you want chocolate chips in them) and you would dance until you fell tired.

To end my weekend, I went to do some thrift shopping. Thrift anything has a very special place in my heart. I was lucky enough to find a very nice pair of black dress shoes. I also found my haloween custom/ everyday wear. This is my remedy. Thrift shopping and spending hours in Chapters keeps me sane. ohhhh wellll...."this is it" ( hahaha) for me. see ya next week.

Fourth Week Journal Posting

This past week went very fast and was full of work. The deadlines creep on your very fast without realising it. My main focus for now is to keep up with all the deadlines. Anyways last week we read and talked about " the kingdom of silence" in journalism. The article was very long, but had a lot of interesting information to share with us. We have been since talking about censorship in journalism all over the world. In religious study we read a few pages that pagan wrote and had to answer if would have changed our mind about the play. We discussed about "Doubt" and all its religious connection. English Class we basically also talked about Doubt and how our beliefs influenced the way we read or saw it. We then had to post it up on the website.

Like i mentioned above, last week was full of work. Now that he holidays are over, we get to fully concentrate solely on studies.

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Last week went very very fast. The class was assigned to read a part of the script of a play called "doubt". The reading was very easy to do, mainly because it touched on very interesting subjects (ex: racism, religion, discrimination). On friday i went to see the play and i enjoyed it very much. The actors were really good, the setting, the lighting ect.... everything was 100% good!!!! I finnaly got my journalism book, which i was lucky enough to get one before they all sold out. I am very excited to start with religious studies. I think the course will cause a lot of discussion in class and change people's mind ( or not). During the play this quote stood out the most to me. " innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil " .