Have you ever found yourself soaring through the air? Have you ever heard a crowd screaming and yelling and then just not hearing it because you're so  focused on one thing? I feel these things every day. Whenever I play basketball, I have no worries, no thoughts other than basketball. When I pick up the ball, I don't think about what I'm going to do with it, I just do it. Basketball feels natural to me, I feel like I'm in the right place. My parents always used to tell that they couldn't believe that I could dribble a basketball when I was so young. I even remember dribbling around my deck with a basketball when I was 3. Basketball is my passion, everyday I strive to be better at it because I want to be remembered as one of the greatest players, up there with Michael Jordan, Lebron James and Kobe Bryant. Now I know this sounds pretty farfetched but It just feels right to play basketball. One day, I watched this show on how Lebron James put his city on the map, how he got into the NBA at 18 years old. I got inspired by this and started to not just play basketball for the fun of it but to improve and become better. 

A few days ago, my school basketball team played our first game of the year against another school, during the game I started dribbling around one of my teammates, I made it look like I was going in for the layup but I didn't. When I saw my check standing behind my teammate, I felt my body take over, It felt like it was in slow motion, I couldn't hear the crowd anymore, all I could think about was the shot. I focused my eye on the net, I positioned my hands on the ball, jumped up from the 3-point line and took the shot. I could almost hear the ball flying through the air. I saw the ball go in without touching the rim or the backboard, it was nothing but net and instantly, it sped up again and I was back in the game. When I see that open lane and I go in for a layup, I feel Weightless, I feel as if I can make any shot I want, it just feels natural. 

I know it is going to be extremely hard to get into the NBA but that is why I want to be in the NBA, to show that I can work hard and persevere to do what I love. Some basketball players are so amazing, it seems like a children's story when you talk about them (such as Michael Jordan)

Basketball is my passion and I don't know what I would do if I couldn't play basketball. 

"Sports are more than just games, they are opportunities for greatness" -Kyle.C (myself) (I hope)

Over the winter break from school, I had a lot of fun. in the beginning of winter break, I went to the White Rock beach to go fishing with my friend. We didn't really think we would catch anything because it was so cold out but we went anyways because in the summer time, the fishing is great. So we're out there just casting away it was nice but we still didn't catch anything so we packed up our stuff and tried a different spot, we walked up the ramp onto the pier and starting fishing off of the pier. I started reeling up a little bit when I feel a huge tug, I start freaking out because I thought that I had a fish, so I start reeling it up and its really heavy and then I hear bubbles and feel it loosen a lot, so right about now I'm thinking that the fish got off the line, so I reel it up to check if I still have bait and I see that my hook got hooked onto the tag from a T-Shirt, and attached to it is the end of a T-Shirt. That's when I noticed that I had a soaked T-shirt on the line, that's why it was so heavy, and then when I heard the bubbles, the T-Shirt ripped. We tried fishing for a little bit longer and since we didn't catch anything, we left. A few days go by and then it's Christmas Eve, I spend the day with my family and after dinner, we go to our friends party, we play some party games and at the end, when everybody leaves, my friend and I start playing a game of chess. Both of us were a quite a bit rusty because we haven't played in a while. The game ended up with just my king against his rook, king, and bishop. Since he was a it rusty, he thought that he won when actually, he made the game a stalemate. after the game of chess, my family goes home. As soon as I got home, I went to sleep because we stayed over there pretty late. In the morning, I wake up and the whole family starts opening presents. After we opened presents, we opened stockings. The day goes by and then we have Christmas dinner, it was my favourite food, Schnitzel, corn, noodles and asparagus. On boxing day, I go shopping a little, drop my sister off at the ferry terminal because she was going to Victoria and then I went to my cousins house. While I was at my cousins house, he showed me his brand new crab trap that he got for Christmas. I tied it up and then we went to the white rock beach to try our luck again. This time, it was really nice and sunny out, but this time, we didn't even get a shirt! When it came to new years, my cousin came over to celebrate it, we had a bonfire outside while we waited for 12:00. We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows and we also listened to music. When it was 11:59, we started screaming 60 SECONDS and we started counting down when it was officially 2015, we ran down the street screaming and we danced on the road. In the morning, my cousin and I went to the White Rock beach to do the polar bear swim, we were in the very front and we sprinted in the water, my cousin got in the water and as soon as he dunked his head, he ran out of the water. I stayed in the water for as long as I could and when I couldn't handle it, I got out and ran right back in, it was absolutely freezing, when I got out and put my shirt on, I couldn't feel anything. I bet that if someone pinched me, I wouldn't have noticed. 
I had a lot of fun during the winter break and I only hated one thing about, you've probably guessed it by now because of the title but I wish it snowed! Come on! This is CANADA! EVERYBODY KNOWS CANADA BECAUSE OF HOW COLD IT IS!!!!!!!!!   

To me, the holiday season means everybody being happy and helping each other. It's the one time people can all gather around a tree, sing christmas songs and put up decorations. You can go drive around looking at all the lights and all the decorations and you can bake cookies whenever you want. But the best feeling of all is when you wake up on Christmas day or whatever holiday you celebrate and you go up to someone and give them a gift, if they genuinely like it, the feeling of them smiling and saying "Thank You" is priceless. The only possible thing that could be better than that is something that I wish would happen more often, SNOW! I absolutely love the snow, it's the one time of the year when you can run around throwing things at your friends and doing slides and dolphin dives onto fluffy pillow like blankets of snow without getting hurt. You can also make enormous men or women out of snow but the best part about the snow is just laying in the snow looking up at the trees covered in snow, It's absolutely beautiful. I wish we get a white christmas this year 

Over the summer my friend Steven invited me to his cabin on Bowyer Island. I usually get invited every summer and it's always fun but this time I had a lot more fun because I did a lot more dangerous stuff. We did a ton of things but the most fun things to do were snorkelling, while we were snorkelling, we saw a ton of things like pretty big crabs, starfish, shiners (a type of small shiny fish) and we even swam right next to a seal, it scared us! Another thing we did was go pier jumping, there is a pier that leads to the dock at bowyer, it is pretty high up and you can climb up a ladder to jump off of an even higher point, we jumped off the pier every day. We also went fishing off of the dock for shiners, although we had fishing rods, we used a fishing line with a hook on it that we called shiner lines, we caught probably over 40 shiners in 20 minutes! One of the very best things that we did was going tubing, we went tubing behind a 115 horsepower boat, although it went pretty fast, it was so much fun because there were big waves on that side of the island. Stevens family friend, Jay, had a boat specifically meant for speed, while we were tubing, he was doing doughnuts in his boat that was next to us and made absolutely ginormous waves, it was hilarious because there were 3 people on the tube, Steven, his sister Jordan and me. I looked over at Stevens sister while we were all yelling STOP!!! STOP!!! SLOW DOWN!!! and saw her yelling, I looked back at the giant wave coming towards us, heard a loud THWAP, looked back at where jordan was sitting and saw that because we didn't slow down, she just jumped in the water to avoid flipping on the tube. Steven and I laughed so hard that we almost fell off of the tube. When we were just before the wave, we were screaming and laughing at the same time, we saw the giant wave towering over us and then we went flying along with the tube, I was so surprised that we didn't fall off and then rubbed it in jordan's face. We also went fishing on their other boat for sockeye salmon, everybody caught one on their first try except for me, I lost like 3 or 4 fish! stupid fish why do they hate me! Overall it was a lot of fun because everyday we would be doing somethingdifferent and it's really nice to get away from all the technology and not use any technology for a while.