Havre Ice Hawks High School Hockey Team

I have something to talk about and this first paragraph or so is more for clarification then anything, some people get confused sometimes. I might have mentioned before that for nine years before I went to college I played hockey for the Havre Ice Hawks High School Hockey Team. It was a co-ed team where there was only me and one or two other girls on a team full of boys. The way it worked was was there was a group of boys who were one year older then me who I started playing with and then played with every other year til I was in high school. Then there was a group of boys, who were younger then me, who i played with every year I didn't play with the older boys, once again until high school. Then there was a group of boys who were my age that I played with every year.

Last year, my senior year in high school my team got a new coach because our old coach was the father of one of the older boys who graduated so he didn't want to coach us anymore. So we got a new coach and much younger coach, he was 21 compared to our 15-18 year-old players. Needless to say we had some issues with the whole coach respect thing because he was so close to our that we only have to took him seriously. I myself thought he was drop dead sexy so it was hard to take him seriously as a coach.

Because of our team wide lack of respect for our coach it, we didn't listen. Not to mention the boys on my team have egos the size of Jupiter with little to none to back it up with, we don't have anyone who is the next Sidney Crosby or anything, we had our decent players but attitudes got in the way from us being a decent team. Needless to say, we didn't do very well, we beat the teams who sucked super hard but we could never manage to beat the teams who were even at level with us, we ended up in fifth place, which isn't bad but really its because at state we scored more against a really shit team when the sixth place team couldn't score as much against a better team. But its whatever now, at least for me.

I'm back home for Christmas break this year only to find that a bunch of players from last year have quit playing because the same coach was chosen again to coach the team this year. What really makes me upset about this is, the coach isn't the one playing the game boys, the players are. The coach can only do so much before it is up to the players to man up and do something about the scoreboard. I hate that the boys are blaming the coach for their losses, just because they aren't used to his coaching style because he likes to do things a little differently. To an extent i think it has something to do is that he takes it a little bit more seriously then what they were used to before.

This coach likes to bring in his experience playing with a Juniors team, which is probably a good idea, i enjoyed the things we did last year, it actually kind of help me get into the team a little bit more after spending at years of group of boys hating my life. But it was different so they rejected it.

I mostly needed to get this off my chest because I need people to know how stupid they are being, how stupid this entire situation is. I have been pissed at these guys for most of my life so it really isn't anything new, but for them to quit a sport they said they loved because they lost, its pathetic and disappointing. Like even though they were dickweeds, i thought maybe they had a little bit more self-respect and dignity then this.
Oh, also if you think I have just defending the coach because I am basically in love with him, you are definitely mistaken. This coach could be but ass ugly and I would still be appalled by the way my former teammates are acting. Because I know a lot of them are dicks, but I hoped maybe they would be better people then that, i guess I was wrong.

Roommates

So I have touched base in an earlier post about my awesome roommate, Ashley, but I wanted to talk a little bit more about college roommates.

The way my dorm is set up is that instead of having community bathrooms you have what are called suites. You walk into our common area and there are about eight doors around the room. If you step into one of those doors you will be lead to a bath room which has four other doors to go into. One door will lead to the shower, another to the toilet and the last to each lead to a separate dorm. So four people share one bathroom, which trust me, it’s actually pretty awesome. I was a little iffy about it at first but after experiencing it and hearing a bunch of others complain about community bathrooms I feel like as a freshman, I have it pretty good.

In my dorm there is me and Ashley and then next door is Britney and Xiaowei, she is an international student from China. Between the four of us it has been an interesting experience. I and Ashley get along great, I like think that we are pretty good friends and both of us are so laid back and chill that it is really easy for us to get along. Then there is Britney and Xiaowei who don’t exactly see eye-to-eye. The two of them don’t communicate and unfortunately Britney has to leave our suite because she can’t seem to stand Xiaowei. Now me and Ashley are being drove a little nuts by Xiaowei. She doesn’t seem to have any sort of basic social hygiene. I’m not saying she doesn’t shower or anything, it’s just she doesn’t clean up after herself, it mostly pertains to the bathroom, I never really go into her room so I don’t know about that, but that doesn’t really concern me. The biggest problem is that we don’t know how to talk to her about the problem. Neither Ashley nor I feel like even if we did talk to her, it would do anything. We don’t think she would quite understand what we are saying; there is just a big language/communication barrier between us that sucks, hardcore.

It’s been a semi-unsanitary semester but it’s almost over, and we have a plan that might get rid of her, maybe…Ashley and I are just hoping that Xiaowei doesn’t have her other Asian friend move into Britney’s empty space…here’s hoping. Our best bet is that we are going to talk to our RA and hope that helps out a little bit. But we’ll see.

Switching away from Xiaowei, I want to talk about my roommate, Ashley. So basically I and Ashley are basically polar opposites except for the fact that we are super laidback. She is very much a girly girl, athletic, she loves pink and is fairly academic and randomly all over the place all the time along with being pretty into God. Me on the other hand, well I am an atheist girl who has way too much testosterone in her system for her own good who hates pink and would rather sit back and chill with my laptop then go out and party on a Saturday night. Granted we do have some things in common, like I said we are both really laid back and we love hockey (for different reason, but we both love it). We both come from different kinds of family and different backgrounds, but we get along super well.

I guess I would just say to everyone, if you have roommate/suitemate issues, keep the communication line open, Ashley and I didn’t and now we are paying for it so…yea. This may not be my best blog, I don’t really feel it had a point but I’m gonna post it anyway. Have a great weekend and Merry Christmas=D

-Crysta

Someone Shouldn't Have To Die For People To Take Notice

Ok, SO I was originally going to write a blog on my roommate…instead that one will come later and now there is this one. I want to start by linking the following video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg

Next I want to say that I have NOTHING against Jonah Mowry, I applaud him for his courage and I am in no way attacking him or anything.

Here is where my problem starts and the basis of this problem is that a 13 year-old boy shouldn’t have to make this kind of video to make people pay attention to his problems. I have seen it a bunch in the past couple of years, no one will take note of someone and their problem until after something tragic has happened to them.

For example, in May of this year a young girl from my area in MT committed suicide because she had been bullied, and apparently her life sucked (not to be insensitive, just a statement). But then about a month after, some of her friends started a thing, I’m not entirely sure if you could call it a charity or what, but they sold bracelets, made t-shirts had a walk around town in recognition of the organization, the called it Hope4Hailey.

I have nothing against organizations like this, kudos to people for standing up to the issues around them…however, we shouldn’t wait till after someone kills themselves to stand up to the issues around us. Or till after something bad happens to one of their friends or someone close to them. People should want to stand up right now for someone who is being bullied in front of them.

Speaking as someone who has not only been a bully at times but as also been bullied, I know how difficult it is too be a bullied. I know that sounds weird, but I was bullied and ended up becoming a bully to some people at times, I think it was my own little way of getting revenge I think. I hope that I never hurt somebody enough to where they took extreme measures, as far as I know everyone I picked on is still alive and well.

But I was bullied to the point of taking extreme measures. I had a lot of things going on in my life and tried to commit suicide when I was in the sixth and seventh grade. I, like Jonah, pulled myself up and saved myself and my life got better. I can’t help but notice that nobody took notice that I was being bullied, and nobody ever will. Not even the adults around me took notice because that is how the world works. The only way somebody would have taken notice of my problems was if I would have actually taken my suicide attempt seriously, that seems to be one of the few times people pay attention.

So I guess the sum of this blog, without continuing to ramble on, is that we should take notice before extreme measures are taken. A 13 year-old boy shouldn’t have to make a YouTube video to make his friends and family notice there was something wrong. A freshman in high school should have to kill herself to escape her life. Somebody shouldn’t have to be killed in a drunken driving accident for people to take a little bit of notice about the cause. We as people should notice now all the problems that people have before something bad happens to someone we love to take notice.

Procrastination will be the death of me

Yea, that’s right; I'm procrastinating, story of my life. Anyway I know I haven't posted in almost a week, but my life has been pretty busy lately so now that I 'have the time' I figured I should post something. Another reason I didn't post this week was because I had no idea what to post about. Now I had a small idea that is going to change up the blog a little bit, today I am going to write about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Yep that's right, I'm a Harry Potter nerd, Big Time and I am currently sitting in my dorm room watching the Harry Potter Weekend Marathon on ABC family, part of the 25 days of Christmas and I have come to the conclusion that this is my least favorite movie out of the entire series.

It’s extremely disappointing compared to the others movies, not to say it isn't good. I honestly just think they left out so much, like obviously they made it make sense so congratulations for that.

One of the biggest things that really make me angry is Dumbledore. I can't get on the actor for this because I think Michael Gambon is a fantastic actor. But the writers I think just really fucked over his character, in a HUGE way (I think the writers did this to a few different characters, but we will get to that in a minute). But any way, I think they tried to make Dumbledore someone else. i can't really explain how but I honestly just never saw the character of Dumbledore in HP6. I think part of it is that they just made him to all knowing and yes to an extent Dumbledore knows a shit ton, but I feel with just how much he knew in the movie it made him seem a little cocky and arrogant and I just didn’t see Dumbledore like that in the books.

Another character I think the writer’s really fucked over was Ginny Weasley, granted I don’t think Bonnie Wright is too fantastic of an actress, but I think if the writers had done a better job writing for Ginny it would have upped Bonnie’s performance. In the books Ginny is supposed to be this fiery redhead who can take care of herself and isn’t afraid to say what she thinks. In the movie she is an annoying character who ties Harry’s shoelace (by the way, one of my top least favorite scenes in the film). I just find her to be so passive and obnoxious in the film that it completely drives me nuts. Bonnie Wright’s portrayal of her doesn’t make the character any more likeable either. I find that she is very bland and doesn’t really bring anything to the table as far as the character goes and she may have been alright for the shy character that was originally Ginny but she hasn’t really grown into what Ginny should be.

As far as what was left out of HP6, well other than the whole characterizations that were left out, I also find that I hate the scenes having to deal with the memories revolving around Voldemort. Honestly the memories they did have were decent at best, but I was all around unimpressed. Then the ones they didn’t add pissed me off even more. Obviously if J.K. Rowling added these memories into the book it also should be add into the movie. All the meetings with Dumbledore in general make me an angry bear.

Honestly I guess there are other nit-picky things that I find as a Harry Potter nerd that make me angry from the movies but to be honest, I really enjoy all the movies. I understand that sometimes you do have to leave things out, although I do get confused when they leave things out and then add something else, but whatever. So I guess those are the main things that really make me angry while watching the movie. So thanks for helping me procrastinate I hope you all have a fantasbulous day

-Crysta