My Identity

There's a lot that shapes who I am. Music is a really big piece of me. Music is pretty much everything to me, I can socialize with people around the topic, I can listen to music that can pretty much distract me from anything that Is going on the world right now or just something I can just purely enjoy. I enjoy playing music and making my own things just as much as I enjoy listening to music. I feel like biking or being outside is a big part of me, I really enjoy being outside and just biking or skating around is just really fun. Also anything really with Technology makes up a big part of who I am, technology is all around me and it's something that is pretty much around me constantly. I am a big brother (not the best) which is also a lot to me because I have someone who l see every day and someone who I have to teach or influence to be the best possible person they can be. There is a lot that makes up who I am but I feel like these are the things that are the most important to me and just make up who I am.

"Falling" for Canada

It was Spring break 2 years ago. The house was full of a Spring breeze flowing through the windows. The house was silent until my dad yelled, "We're going to Canada!". I was super exciting! The feeling of taking a trip to a different country and going to a different place was just crazy. It was pretty sudden but boy did it make me super anxious to leave and get on the road. After packing my family and I prepared for a 12 hour drive. Now 12 hours for me seemed like nothing but after in the car, I was ready to just jump out of the car. As we made stops, took breaks, and drove through different states. We slowly got closer to Niagara Falls. Finally, after 12 hours of sitting in a car in one cramped position I was so relieved to see a sign that read, "Canada Border, 3 Miles". I had never been more relieved in my life! We finally made it! As soon as we crossed onto a bridge connecting New York and Canada we saw the falls. In my mind everything just stopped for a minute, everything tuned out and all I was focusing on was The Falls. It was truly amazing, we rolled down the windows to let in a gust of cold wind and a light mist traveling over the road. After being in total amazement we checked into our hotel and saw the amazing view from the hotel of The Falls (Image here). After

admiring the view we all fell quickly asleep.

(That was the hotel I stayed in and in the back of the building we had a view seeing inside the falls)

The next day we went out to be the tourists we are and explore a part of Canada know as Niagara Falls. It was truly an amazing place and was full of pretty exciting things to do there. We first went to the this sort of museum/sort of viewing deck. We had gone through a gift shop which led to an entrance to the viewing deck for the falls but the entrance to the view decking was also kind of like a mini museum. After exploring inside we finally got the to viewing deck and oh was it amazing. It was truly really amazing. The cold air and mist blew over once again and the sound of loud rushing water filled the sounds around you. After taking photos and admiring the falls we ended up at this seafood place which of course, with my luck, got me kind of sick. The cold weather also didn't help with that but afterward we just called it a night.

The next day was our last and final day (we actually stayed 4 days but nothing exciting happened one day but) we found this comic book store and I am a huge nerd so I was just in amazement at the store. The store was pretty big so I think we were inside the store for about an hour and a half. After doing some shopping and exploring we did this family photo but it was inside of a shop where they had old era clothes and different types of themes you could dress in. So my dad wanted us to dress up in old gangster (Al Capone themed) and it was pretty cool, we took the photos and from there we left to head back to Illinois. This trip was pretty amazing for me and I had a great time. Also, as we got home we didn't even unpack or anything we just all fell asleep right away which was kind of funny to me. This trip just meant a lot, do you have any trips that are memorable to you?

                          

In 10 Years

In 10 years I hope that I'm pretty much done with school, honestly I really want school to be over with, hopefully with the skills and knowledge I gain from school I can move on with my life and do the things I want to do. I also hope that for college I can go to a school with a good arts or music programs or maybe a good engineering program. Now for after school or during my own time I like playing the guitar and playing/listening/making my own music so I hope in 10 years I hope I'm still doing that. Maybe I'll have my own album or something. Another thing I hope I'm doing in 10 years is still biking, I really love biking and I bike whenever I really can. Maybe I won't have a car and I'll just have a bike in 10 years. I really don't know a whole lot about what I'm going to do in the future but technology and music are both really big things in my life so maybe I can create something involving the both of them or maybe just doing something that involves either one of them. In 10 years I honestly just hope I'll be okay if anything. (Dream Guitar down below)