Blue and Gold Hockey

Men's ice hockey is the only D 1 and probably the biggest sport at school. The blue gold is their first match of the season, the team is split into two and they play against each other.

It's a hockey stick

Puck drop.

So I've never been to hockey before but there's five people plus a goalie on each team. It's really fast paced and they can hit the puck up to 100mph.

The Zamboni smooths the ice before the game and at half time.

Lots of the team are from Canada Eh.

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Hall of Fame

Today was the annual Nanook Hall of Fame induction ceremony. One of Coach's past swimmers was one of four inductees, so we got two tables brought out for us to attend. It was held in the ballroom of the Wedgewood resort.

There was a breakfast buffet with reindeer sausage.

Heres a link to the event info: http://alaskananooks.com/news.
Of the four inductees one of them was Jamie Gray, a nanook alumni and 2012 Olympic gold medalist in rifle shooting. So adding to my collection of famous sports people's autographs I now have Jamie's and Pat Spurgin (now Pitney) who was gold medalist in 1984 also for shooting. She is also a friend of one of the girls on the team. Even in America its a small world!

Care package

Just because you're in America doesn't mean mum won't send you the essentials.

To share or not to share?

More snow

Third day of snow, thought it wasn't going to stick but it was snowing most of the day yesterday and again ths morning.

They put these up as a mark of the first day of snow.

And this guy was putting salt on the stairs and paths.

In America

You can walk out onto the road and cars won't hit you.

Halloween candy in September

I ordered a small

You can also chew gum, wear hats and sit on tables in class. Shout out to Mrs T from Pahiatua School, I can handle the gum, but not bums on desks. And hats mess up my hair anyway.

For Andrew

Proof I am not just hiding at home.

Moose are much more docile that you think.

Bit this guy freaked me out a little bit.

Business 151

Intro to business starts off with chapter one, the world of business. It decribes the types of business, inputs into a firm, GDP, the business cycle and types of competition. This is a first level class, and so far the first week has been stuff from year 11-13 economics.

As you get towards the end of the chapter, there is a whole section on 19th and 20th century Business in America. Are you sure thats the WORLD of Business? So I had to brush up on a some federal laws but Im sorted now. Thanks to Roosevelt in the 1930s, the economy recovered well after the depression. Great news.

There was a 'pop quiz' last week. 10/10 thank you. 8.5/10 for participation ie putting your hand up. Good start, but since the class is out of a total 1000 points (with 50-75 extra credit!) there is only 980 points to go.