The 3 day Walk

This weekend was the 3 day breast cancer walk. I didnt participate this year, but my two cousins walked for my aunt who died a few years ago. Today my mom and I were on our way to church, and we noticed that the route they walked cut across our neighborhood. So my mom called my cousin to see where they were, but we had missed them by about an hour. So we drove to the next checkpoint and waited for them. Seeing all those people walking for a common cause was really inspiring to me. And after seeing something on that large a scale, you kinda take a step back and look at things a little differently. While waiting we saw a lot of people that had come out to support their family members that were walking, and it seemed to really help them out and give them that extra step to continue on. So finally we met up with my cousins, and they told us a little bit about the weekend. They were all bandaged up and out of breath, but after we talked with them and told them we were proud of them they caught a second wind and were really excited to finish up their journey. This year was the first year they participated, and they wanted to get a group together to go next year. So my mom and I said we would join them and get a lot of our other family members to go and walk too.

The Family Sport

This week I was really thinking about what would be a good blog topic, and I couldn't think of anything. So I decided to write about my favorite sport, which is hockey, and how my family is really tied into it. Ever since I can remember I have always gone to watch my dad, uncles, and cousins play hockey, so it was no surprise when I started playing about 12 years ago. My dad and his brothers have been playing their entire lives, and I can remember watching them play every winter in Detroit, at Clark Park, which is an outside rink. I was really excited when I was finally allowed to play in those games every Super Bowl Sunday. I have two older cousins who I grew up watching too. My one cousin played for WMU, and then played for about 5 years in the ECHL. My other cousin played for the Plymouth Whalers, and also played in the AHL, ECHL, and IHL. He currently plays in Italy, and will most likely be playing for them in the 2010 olympics in Vancouver. But one thing Ill never forget is when he was called up to the NHL to play for the Carolina Hurricanes. This all started back in 2001 when my family vacation that year was to travel to Boston for the NHL Draft. My cousin was drafted by the Hurricanes, and played for their farm team for the next few years. In 2003 I remember my uncle calling my dad and telling him my cousin was playing that weekend for the Hurricanes. So of course my dad and aunt flew to Carolina to watch the game in person. The rest of my family went to my uncles house to watch the game. It was a really big inspiration to see my own cousin in the NHL, and playing with some of the best players in the world. Well later in the game, we all got to see my cousin score his first goal in his first NHL game. We all were going crazy and couldn't believe it. And later that night when we came home, we put on sportscenter to wait for the game highlights. And better yet, his goal was the third top play of the week! Hockey has always been a big part of my family, and Im lucky to be so close to them and be able to join in on it. So below I'm posting the link to the youtube video of my cousins goal.
www.youtube.com/v/5rn2ZtUMSMg

The SRB Fair

Well this weekend was the parish festival at my old grade school, St. Robert Bellarmine. And every year, around the middle of September, the festival comes around and it's usually a fun time...This weekend in September is usually the only time in the year that I can meet up with all my friends I went to grade school with and hang out with them. But not so much this year...The festival lasts for three days, and i'm usually there for most of it because I only live a block away, and I have a friend that's close by that always goes with me. Well Friday night we head up there expecting to run into the kids we went to school with so long ago, and there were maybe thirty total people there. And I figured most people would be there on Friday because it was going to be the nicest day of the weekend. But I was wrong. So Saturday we go there again, meet a few old friends, then get caught in the ridiculous rain that never stopped throughout the entire day. It was absolutely the most boring day I may have ever witnessed. So we decided we would just leave and head to the mall, go to dinner, really just do anything that involved being inside and having some fun atleast..The day wasn't totally shot. Well anyway, to make a long story short, I didn't meet up with barely any old friends, and I experienced the worst possible weekend to hold a festival. But there is always today, and as soon as I finish this post I'll be heading back to see what's going on, if anything at all.

My first week of college

Im finally considered a college student. Ive been really excited to start school all summer at UMD because I was really ready to be done with the whole high school situation. And last Wednesday was my first official day, and my longest school day of the week. I can't complain because i did get out at 12:45. That is my schedule for Monday's and Wednesday's, and on Tuesday's and Thursday's i have one class that ends at 11:10. And best of all my Friday's consist of one class at 8:00 A.M. It was very important to me to get all my classes over with as soon as i could because I wanted to have the rest of the day off after class to do whatever I needed to do. So far i'm completely loving college life. I look forward to participating in different school activities and clubs. Most of all I'm excited to pledge my brother's fraternity. I've come to know most of the guys over the last few years, and I think it would be a great benefit to me to join and make new connections and friends of my own. I fully believe that half the fun of college is meeting new people, and I've already met some friends that I'm glad I've come into contact with already. That's basically a small synopsis of what I think of college so far, so I'm gonna end this blog with an explanation of my blog's title, "In the Crease." I thought about what my blog should be titled, and I figured I would have to think of something that was personally connected to me. So I decided to go with something that pertained to my favorite activity, which is hockey. In hockey, the crease is the area of ice in front of the net, which is where the goalie is. I knew that this blog would be a way for me to share my feelings and thoughts to everyone, on any kind of topic, so It's sort of my crease, or my own little area that I'm inviting everyone to be a part of. That's my blog for today, so I hope everyone is enjoying college so far and everything connected to it.