Summary # 3

In the past 12 weeks, I learned that leisure education helps me to gain knowledge about the real life. For instance, in one of my blogs, I wrote that I used alcohol to coped my pain and stress, but I learned that it did not do any good to me because it made me feel worst about myself and I lost a lot of friends. I learned a valuable lesson that leisure helps me to discover my true identity and teach me the skills that I will need for my future. For instance, active leisures not just help me to find my strenght and weakenesses or what I am good at, but also help me to know how to prepare myself for any changes by moving on and being positive about my future. Beside playing hockey, I can coach the minor hockey teams, I can be a physical trainer or I can be a gym teacher. As result, I appreciate leisure by opening up different options to myself to enjoy.

In addition, leisure education taught me that I can always enjoy leisure in any where and in any time as long I am motivated, freely chosen and it gives a sense of pleasure or satisfaction. For instance, leisure does not always involve in active leisure like basketball, hockey or Pin-pong, but it can involve in classroom or in a course. I really enjoyed Leisure education course taught by Steven Henle, because it allowed me to socialize, express myself and learn by having fun. The fun factor takes off the seriousness of the atmosphere, and it fosters creativity among the students. The creativity is one of the most important lesson that I gained from this class, I am able to creative with leisure, for instance, I was able to enjoy diversity presentation called Diversity Bazaar by trying out different foods and cultural equipments. I do not necessary always have to enjoy leisure in the Ice ring or in the gym but also I can enjoy leisure in different settings like classroom or at work.

Furthermore, the creativity factor changes my attitude toward leisure because I can use creativity for planing, organizing and impleting in order to promote leisure satisfaction in every area like social, active and passive leisure. For instance, in of my blogs, I wrote that I hate the public transit because the morning buses are very slow and unreliable. In next time, I will make sure that I plan ahead of time; If I cannot drive, I can stay over my friends house or asked someone to give me a lift. Thus, it reduces the intrapersonal and structural constrainsts, and this allow me to go to the games.

Moreover, it helps me to enjoy and experience different leisure. For instance, instead always spending leisure in physical activities, I can enjoy leisure in Tim Horton, watching my favor shows and playing Pin Pong. By knowing what we would like to do for different situations, it allow us to experience different kinds of leisure and gain knowledge from multiple factors like social, intellectual, physical and emotional. Finally, the blogs assignment help me to express myself and discover my weaknesses and strenghts and help me to self-reflect my decisions and opinions.

Thank you Steven Henle and T.A Jessica

I hate the morning bus

I HATE..........................^ RTL

Well, great! I miss my away game to Ottawa because my alarm clock did not rang, then some stupid bus drove so slow in this shinning day. The metro is just shite; i have to wait for another 4 minutes. Then the stupid 105 bus stopped in the middle of no where and told us to switched the bus.Man! If I had my own car, i would fly like a wind. I hate the public transit, they never get along with me very well. Well, that's life. Next time, I will make sure that stupid alarm clock will ring. I could had stay in my friend's house but I did not know all this bad luck will happen to me.

School is ending!

Wow! it is fast! the school will end soon. I cannot believe that half of the semester of is about to finish. I am counting the lucky one, i just finished all my paper today, and now I dont know what to do. I mean that i have to stay at Downdown for my supper, and I dont feel to go the restaurants around my home, every restaurant is so far from my home and I have to take the bus again, no way! It's been a good semester but I like the last semester better, I guess because I had two days off instead one day off. The teachers have been wonderful, I enjoyed the semester. I met new friends and new people, and I cannot believe that I actually have something to leave with me after this semester, what an experience!!! Beside that, well, I did not do much, i guess i have to study for my final exam on Dec 12. Nothing that I did, well, i mean until now. My group had been wonderful, the presentation was good but we know that we could had done better, we did good anyway. I will miss you guys! A fun class, i had never had this kind class in my life except gym in high school. I was majoring psychology in Champlain College, hell, it was intense and not enjoyable. Plus, I didn't even like Champlain very much, most my parents forced me to go there, now it did not even benefit me at all and even made it worst. I finally chose Concordia, the university I want to go and the program that I like very much. I am specializing in leisure science, and I really like a lot and I like Concordia too. I learned at the same time, I had fun. This program and this school are sooooooooooooooooooo for me.

Saturday

Well, today is my birthday and I am going to be 23 years old. Time passes very fast and I can't believe that I am on the way to be a real adult. I rarely focused on my age, I always felt that I was young and still a child. I guess my program made me feel young again because we always had fun even though we are in university. Party, laugh, jokes and group work remain me of elementary school or high school. Every time we are doing an activity, I had so much fun and I could not realize that I am in University. Before, I always thought that we have to do something that we like to do duirng our free time in order to have fun, but not now, I can still have fun anywhere as long I am motivated and it gives a sense of pleasure and it could be in a job, classsroom or in any place. Well, I do have fun in my program and I really like it. The program is really suitable for me and hopefully after I finished University, I can find a job that I love. Leisure program had taught me so much and the memory that I will never forget.

Well.......Time pass fast

Look, we have one week of school left, and we have done of things to do. However, I had a lot of fun in some of my class; I have a wonderful presentation on wednesday, my group and I faciliated a program that everyone in the class were decorating a cake. We divided people into different groups, and each group has a cake and materials to use for decoration. They can decorate all they want, it is very creative and we have a music entire time. As a faciliator, I am happy to see everyone enjoying, then I have a nice piece of cake and it is pink LOL. Then today, I have presentation for my diversity class on Taiwanese Culture. People were surprised that I did not do it on my sport and my passion which is Hockey. I think people would learn much more about me from my culture. So I brought foods, music and posters for people to taste, and also taste other people's culture foods too. There were music every where, people were dancing Calsha and I was dancing too. Even though I did not present on the sport that I love the most, I enjoyed listening to other people's passion such as soccer. There were two people presented soccer and each individual had been selected to play for professional soccer in France and Italy. Wow, it was fascinating and one of them brought medals from national team, he played for both Quebec and Team Canada, and he won a bronze, a silver and two gold medals. To be able to touch the real national Gold medals and wearing them, I felt that I was living in my dream, everyone was laughing and so do I, I had so much fun playing around with medals, it was just incredible experience and to be able to wear something I had never wear, it is just incredible!!! LOL. In addition, there is a guy brought some kind of smoking thing; it is like smoking, you suck something from a large tube thing then you breath out. If you smoked too much, you can get high. Just what happen to me, I smoked too much, I started to dance and fouling around with the soccer medals, that pathetic and funny!

Leisure lifetime lessons

Today, I came home, nothing much to do. I chilled after after a week of hell and my hockey practices are just killing me. Not a lot of sleep, stress and frustration. There is a girl that I met in the bible study, she wanted me to improve her skating ability. She is from McGill and she is doing her Master for teaching psychology. Often, her work can be stressing, I wanted to help her to enjoy her leisure but the family's politic had prevented me from doing so. I don't know..........it is just the way life should be, it sucks for some people. Constantly people underestimate you, and in fact they know nothing about you or they just very ignorant and they just want to discourage. That's constantly happening during my lifetime. I mean leisure has made me learn about myself not just my ability but also the world around me. You will never receive the perfect answer, and even though you do the right things and that's not mean you will receive the right respond. The weekend before, I went to a bible study, and I learned the most valuable lesson and it can be sad depends on you. One of the speaker had told us about his personal experience when he was doing his master. He said that when he was about 20 years old, he worked so hard to get perfect marks. He expected that if he worked hard and get perfect marks, he will have the job that he wants it. He did managed get perfect marks like he received all A in every class, but he did not receive the job he wanted. The lesson of his speech is that don't expect nothing from your life because God has plan for you. It might be hard to believe it for some of you guys but that's true, that's why there is a CoCoLa advertisment that sang about "You cannot always get what you want" I remembered that I used to laugh about that song, don't care about what he was trying to tell me. Now I do, but how I did? It is through leisure, through out my life, I love every single moment in sports. In addition, I was always a top athlete and counted as one most talent player. During high school, I won Ice hockey championship, and I was a top rugby player in Cegep which I had never played rugby before. I was a talent golfer, I never learned how to swing a ball but I still managed to be able to swing properly and hit the ball without any instruction. My dad was impressed, my golf coach told me that if I had started early, I could be the top women's golfer in the professional league. I never knew that how talent I was in sports but also never knew that the things would not go the way you want to. Frustrate as it sounds, but that's the way life is. Some people just don't appreciate what you had done and you cannot do nothing about it. I was not prepared for this, I started to use leisure as a way to escape my pain; I drank heavily during my trip to South Carolina with my Cegep colleagues. We partied every night and each one of us always got drunk at the end. I was drunk in almost every party, I was so drunk that my emotional bursts out so loud in the bathroom that I ended up waked one of the supervisor, I throw up and I could not even walk properly. I looked like a fool, and I was shame of myself. Now, after I took the bible ( as my leisure in the beginning), I am more prepared than before. You have to believe in yourself and work hard for everything you do but don't expect the result. God has plan for you, that one lesson had helped me through out my life, I can use this knowledge to deal with other things in my life. For instance, I don't know what is going to happen to me next year in hockey but all I know that I need to put an effort in every practice and improve myself as much as I can and see from there. I do not expect nothing from now and in the future, but I know what I need to do now. I never expect that I will learn such valuable lesson in a leisure where I spent the least time which is the bible study. One fact that I know wherever is going to happen to me, it's not in my control, but one thing that I know that I will not make the same mistake again.

Nothing

Life is full of darkness
Life is full of dark cloud
Life is just confused
We reach a certain point
We might have to cry
Or else pain will never disappear
As we see
The one who born with fortune
Stay with fortune
The one who born with darkness
Stay with darkness
We have no way to go
Just watch and see
As we grew
We have a child fantasy
But the fantasy turns to pain
A pain will never disappear
We see people born with fortune and fame
But there is one who born without anything
We climb hard to be somebody
But there is always an avalanche turns us down
From being nothing to be somebody
Is just take more than an effort and courage
It's endurance and wisdom
That will help us
But even though
We cannot garantee with a success
But only thing we know
God has a plan for us
We just have to wait and see

Blog Summary 2

“Be Aware of Self in Leisure”

In one of my blog, I was a leisure educator by identifying my friend Jennifer’s preference on sports. She likes to watch sports games rather than playing, and in the past she really enjoyed to watch her brother’s hockey games and her sister’s ringuette games. However, after she had a child, she had not time to watch any sports games. As leisure educator, I identified her constraints and her past participations in hockey games. I created an opportunity for her to participate in a hockey game by inviting her to watch a hockey game in Loyola arena and offering a free ticket. The free ticket motivated her to come to the game by not worrying her financial. Furthermore, I noticed that she had a lot of stress for both school and family’s duty, I helped her to improve her life quality by creating an opportunity for her experiencing leisure and helping her to create a time for her to take a break from family and school. Thus, it allows her to have leisure and enjoying her leisure by watching a hockey game that allowed her to leave her mind from her daily work and enjoying her time outside of home.

“Appreciate Leisure”

Through out my blogs, I always managed to find leisure by eating, going grocery store, spending time with my teammate and writing poems. I understand leisure benefits for physical and mental, for example, writing a poem allowed me to express my stress and negative emotions thus it allowed me to feel better emotionally. As leisure educator, I transfer this knowledge by building options for leisure for those who have trouble understand and appreciate leisure. I have a friend called Katie, she is currently studied in pharmacy in University of Montreal. During the week and weekend, she rarely had a time for leisure and when she was not doing her school works, she did not know what to do. As a leisure educator, I educated her to appreciate leisure by suggesting several possibilities for her to experience leisure. First, I identified her preferences for leisure, she likes to read, hang around with friends and watch sports games especially football games. During this weekend, I called her and suggested several choices of leisure; watch a hockey game in Loyola Arena, spend time in her house and make pizzas together, going out for a movie or drink a coffee in Tim Horton. At first time, we chose to spend time in her house and make pizzas together on Friday, but she cannot do it anymore because she was very busy on Friday with her classes and works. Even though I could not go to her house, I asked if she wanted to go my hockey game on Saturday’s night. Since she enjoyed watching sports game, we replaced making pizzas at her home by a hockey game. Rather she spend entire weekend at home and not knowing what to do, I opened up another option for her to enjoy leisure. From this experience, I taught her to discover different options for her to choose based on her preferences, and taught her to be flexible with leisure by aware several options for leisure.

"Acquire Recreation Activity Skills”

Last year, at Christmas, I invited my friend Katie to skating rink at Bonaventure. I know that the reason that she does more passive leisure than active leisure because she is not very athletic and she does not have any one to teach her skills that require for her to experience skating. Katie told me that she would like to learn how to skate and she really likes to skate but she cannot do it because lack of skill and she scares to get hurt by skating alone. So on last year Christmas, I managed to get a time to teach her how to skate. First, I noticed that she is beginner and she was feeling scared to get on the ice. Thus, I hold her hands to make her feel comfortable as we stepped on to the ice. Then, I taught her the basic of skating by showing to her the “L” shape for beginner’s skaters and asked her to imitate me. After I allowed her to practice and holding on my hands. Once she mastered this technique and I noticed her fear reduced, I started to increase the speed. At beginning she felt the speed was a challenge, then once she matched her skill with the challenge; she was no longer scared, she enjoyed without holding on my hands anymore.My friend really enjoyed her time in the skating rink and after that day, she asked me if we can next month and I said yes.

Tim Horton & Hockey game

Yesterday, i was really not motivated to go but I have to, I have some issue that I have to deal with it and it has not gone well. The issue had bothered deep in my heart. On friday, I had time off from hockey, I went to Tim Horton to drink my favor coffee Ice cappiccino alone, it was a bit relaxing. Then I went home and listened to music and watched the Pirates Carribean movie to entertain myself.I felt that even though I did not have leisure from the entire weekend nor from hockey, i still managed to find leisure. I appreciated leisure by always opening up my options.

Poem: Burden

As you walk

With an innocent face

You see the hatred toward you

You look around

Confused and Sadness

Deeply you wounded

Your love broke

By cruelty of human being

You see and observe

You cannot escape

Deely you are hurted

A tear drops from an eye

With an innocent heart

You know and you know

You see and observe

You do not understand the mortality

But deeply you are hurt

Feeling betrayed

Feeling innocent

You can see how the world can be a cruel place

You yell "innocent"

No one heard and no one understand

The thing that you love

Slowly detoriate at front of your face

You are no longer a star

But the painful player

Who wounded deeply

Who cried in his heart

A tear drops on the rose

Only on the hand of God can help you.

Poem

As life goes on

Feel a deep pain

Shadowed by a large cloud

No ways to go

Feel insanly pain

That I just want to cry out

Through a large a crowd

I could not see anything

I just see myself

Shall thy

I am no longer myself

Through my pain

I learned a lesson

As fast as the wind

No one see

No one heard

No one understand

You saw the blood bleed across the face

You can see the hate

Betrayal is the winner

But you can't do anything

So passively

That all I heard is a scream

From nothing to be somebody

Is betrayal to your identity and your world

But you try to change

The storm strikes through your heart

You bleed

The wound would not heal

You wonder

When the nature will stop to be cruel

And violent will stop through more sun

Less storm and rain

More sun,

More colorful flowers surrounded the garden

Blue sky and white cloud

That's all I want to see

No more storm and rain

But sun shines through my sight

Sunday, Family Dinner

On sunday, my friend and I watched my team played against McGill. It was a good hockey game,despite the big defeat we had against our rival but the game excited us that I totally forgot the time and I did not realized that I had already watched the game for two hours. I thought that the game finished at 4pm but it finished at 5pm and I totally lost the sense of time and I totally forgot to phone my parents; first time I experienced the flow. I really enjoyed watched the hockey game with my friend called Jennifer from my diversity class. After the game, I rushed back home and spend time with my family in my favor chinese restaurant. I could smell the delicious foods passed by; stemmed noodles, fried rice, vegetables, shriemp balls, chicken and vegetables in a hot pot and you could see them boiled nicely in a pot. I chatted with my parents about my day with my friend Jennifer and how excited the game was. Spending my time with my family is a great leisure for me; talked about my feelings, events, thoughts and jokes. We laughed and ate delicious foods; it was great! I love my family and that's why I was there for them.

Ottawa vs Concordia

Yesterday, my team and I travelled to Ottawa to play a hockey game. The season just started, and, we had already a tough game. As a third strike, I am spending my leisure by encouraging and building the team confidence. I could say that I was doing passive leisure; I watched the game, enjoyed and marked down how many shot each team. I really enjoyed the game, seeing the cheerring cloud and cheering for my team. Being there for my team, it is my instrinsic motivation. I love the sports and crowds.Despite the lost. but being there is the greatest thing ever.

Poem for Leisure

Lifestyle
Epression
Incredible
Spend Time
Use Well
Read for leisure
Experiencing a pleasant time

An Empty Friday Day

Nothing really much to do, I done pretty my exam and assignment.Well, I tried to look for think to do, I did not feel to read so I decided to go home. Then, just on my way home, I saw my parents was going to grocery shopping COSTCO. They asked whether I wanted to come with them, I was really tired after the pointless practice that I had this morning, I told myself " Why not? Give myself a credit for my hard work" I know many people would not find grocery shopping would be a leisure, well I do. I mean, I get to spend time with my family, try-out different food and chat with my family. I find really relaxing, afterall, I had been away for hockey tournaments and I would be away again this weekend, and I rarely get to spend a quality time with my family despite my classes started early and finished late. My dad has to work, my younger brother has his only life and my older brother moved out to United States. I am very glad that I did get to spend time with time because in the weekend, I will be very busy again. I think Leisure helped me to define my feelings and it allows me to express my love for my family. I love hockey, I love my program, I love my family as well.

Eating as leisure!

Eat Eat and Eat
Drink a soup
After a stressfull day
Eat chewey noodles
Leave your brain in peace
I love noodles
Noddles Noodles Noodles
Delicious and Hot Passion over noodles
It's just feel so great
With no worry
Eat and Laugh
You feel relieve
It is just cannot be greater than that

Week of Hell

Study, Study and Study. No time for nothing, I had a bit of leisure like watching a bit of T.V and playing hockey. I still need to find a time to go to Le Gym in Downtown, so far I still training in the little gym back in Loyola and I ran 5 km this friday. Today, I had a golf class on the golf course, how pathetic! There are 15 holes and we did not play not of them. My coach told me that it is worth of while to pay $50 for this activity, instead he taught me how to swing a Sand raquet and swing pudding. What a waisting time! It's a horrible leisure decision for this coach to make, he made me come all the way from Brossard to La prairie for some stupid lesson about sand raquet and swing a pudding. Plus, today, I almost got hit by a ball from my dad. OMG! One chance I have a quick reflex and I re-acted very quickly by getting away. I was angry and freak out, he could almost kill me or at least I could sended to hospital. Horrible experience, the most horrible leisure experience that I had ever have in golf history. On top of that, I had assignment, projects and studies to do and I was right for not wanting to go to golf class, I would rather spend my time with teammate for hockey fundraising in today's football game. Dam! what a week!

RoOkIe NiGhT on Saturday! Party, Party and Party

Wow! Amazing night. This saturday, we had a rookie night for hockey. I was having so fun, we played games and we dressed up very ridiculousily. At begining, we have to play games like finding pucks in the arena, singing, dancing and making 7 turns by using a hockey stick and trying to run around the corn after the 7 turns. It was so funny, I falled after 7 turns, I was dizzy that I could not even stand straight. Dam! I always lost, and every we lost, we have to pick ' a deal or no deal' on the following chart. One of my teammate ended up picking a new hair fashion style, and her hair ended up with two bony tails; one big and one small. I was so laughing so much that I ended up with that hair style too, that was hilourious. One of the activity that we have to do, it is put our face in a bowl of bowder and tried to a skittle in there. With my hilourious hairstyle, my face and my hair was covering in white powder. In the reality, there is no skittle in the powder. The most funniest thing from this activity, I have to dress up as most ridiculous old lady. I have to wear a big bra with water balloon in the bra, I have to wear three years children bicycle helmet, shinny make-up on my face, spendex pants(purple), and I have to walk around with ski boots. The most scariest thing about this, it was that we have to walk around in the bar with this costume. This not over yet, after that night, I was really drunk that I did not realize that all my clothes and shoes were in the arena. So what happen is, next morning, I wake up in my teammate and I realized that my clothes, shoes and bag were in arena, I wanted to study for my monday class, so I decided that I have to a wear my grey shirt with a wet sports bra and purple spendex and I have to wear ski boots to walk all the way to the arena. That's was very embarrasing. From all the way, I heard laughter and staring. What a day, at least I know it is not happen again.

Blog Summary 1

“Leisure is a state of mind, freely chosen that results intrinsic feelings of happiness, satisfaction, pleasure and/or enjoyment.”

Throughout my leisure, I noticed most of my leisure involves in active and passive leisure like watching the movie “The Four Feathers” or doing sports like playing hockey. Moreover, I came to noticed that some of my non leisure events are also involving in active leisure such as my rugby experience. After I reviewed my blogs several times, I came to understand that most of my leisure activities are involving self-determination, freely chosen from external factors which resulting self satisfaction. For instance, in one of my blog, I find hockey is a leisure for me because first, I chose to try-out to get into the hockey team and practice with team (freely chosen), second I always give my 100% in practice to improve myself (self-determination), third, by playing hockey it allowed me to realize my childhood dream like becoming Martin Brodeur (self-expression ) and finally I have a great time with teammate and proud of my achievement ( satisfaction). In addition, passive leisure also appeared a lot on my blog like studying bible or even going to class. The passive leisure like going to class or studying bible affected my state of my mind; they gave me relaxation and an internal happiness. For instance, I always motivated to go AHSC 350 class because I really like the course and my program, I really found the course enjoyable because we mix fun with learning and always left a smile on my face knowing that I had gained a new knowledge.

“Another aspect of leisure appreciation is acceptance of the idea that leisure does not require a special timeframe in which to occur and an understanding that leisure can be experienced whenever the opportunity presents itself during the normal course of the day.” by John Datillo

Even though I had experienced several leisure activities, some of my leisure activity is constrained by intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural constraints. For instance, my rugby experience, I was not able to enjoy this recreation because sometime I found this sport is boring; I tackled everyone down, and I never enjoyed getting hurt and force myself to play because I want to win a reward. This is not Flow because my skill is too high and my challenge is too low. I also experienced interpersonal constraints, for instance, in my last blog, I was really angry at myself because I was not able to attend my own training in downtown because I have to attend team tournament for my teammate and train with my teammate. I also constrained by structural, for instance, in my rugby blog, I wrote that there is no hockey team in Champlain therefore I was not able to play hockey. Although, several constraints prevented me from participating and enjoying the leisure activities, I was able to be flexible with my leisure. For instance, The Movie Night, even though there was raining during day, my father and I were not able to enjoy golf, I managed to find other events that I can enjoy. I do not need a special schedual or planning to find out, I simply aware other options; after I finished my school work, I walked downstair, I noticed that my father was watching a movie and the movie seemed very interesting to me thus I replaced the golf by movie.
The example of the movie night also showed how I value leisure. I never stopped doing leisure, I consistently aware different options that I have. For instance, besides spending my recreation time in hockey, I watched T.V show with my brother, I studied bible in Sunday’s morning and going to class. John Datillo said that we do not need a special time frame, we can enjoy leisure everywhere. For me, I never really have a plan for leisure, I just randomly pick a day for myself to do an event that I want to do and enjoy, but I always have a habit of having an hour or two for myself. However, I have a fix plan for my recreation like Ice hockey. In addition, if I do not enjoy an activity, I will pursue other leisure activities. For instance, after two years

“I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.”

After all the blogs that I wrote for a month, I gain knowledge about myself and educate myself through leisure.

I am so piss!

Le Gym, I Miss you

I am so piss, i am not able to go to the "le Gym" in Concordia downtown, I had been busy with school works and hockey. I love to train in the gym in Downtown in my own time, but I can't. Most training that I done is for my hockey training, and I had been gone away for tournament in Toronto last week and this week, I am going away again. So how the world I gonna have a time to do things that I want it to do. Studying and pratices, Oh! my god! I miss my old day. I miss le Gym, feel good after a hard work and see the beautiful unset in the city after the training.

Leisure Science poem

Fun Fun Fun
Discuss and listen
Playing and learning
We listen and laugh
No chemistry and physics
No mathematics and old man's lecture
No rocket science
We get to play outside
And learn how to be a world's leader
Lead the world to a better place
Where everyone is relieve from stress and troubles
We are all in one world
Where a world is not always about reality
We can create our own world
And free from our trouble
Step into our imagination
And we live with it

Hockey, is my leisure.

After all the complains about rugby, I finally can say about my favorite leisure which is hockey. A lot of hockey player may not see hockey as their leisure time, well I see it. There is never a constraint that bothers me from playing hockey. This year, I am made to Concordia stingers hockey team as third string goalie, and I love it. I don't know how happy I am and how grateful that God gives me this oppunity. I love this game, this sport and this leisure. I am always first in the locker room, excited to be on the ice. I had never miss any practice and games so far. I have choice, but i chose not. Always excited to be on the ice, and motivated to do well and give my 100%, and it's never a problem. By putting 100%, I know it gives my teammate a trust and satisfaction and I also improve my skills and reach my potential to be the best goalie. That's had always to be my dream, to be able playing on the ice and realized my dream. Every time i am on the ice, I feel that I am children again, playing with the joy and hope and not worry about anything, but all I know that I am going to be Martin Brodeur. Live in my dream and realize by playing it, it's the best feeling ever. Hockey gives me happiness, every time I am on the ice, I just feel joy no matter how hard it can get to be, and I always have a smile on my face. I love the entire dynamic of teamwork, everybody is caring for everyone and cheering for every one. After the practice, you can heard the laugher and every one makes every one laugh. One of my teammate asked me " Why you always laughing?" " are you crazy?" I turned and I simply told her " I am just very happy, I don't know why it makes me so happy, I just feel so happy to be here." First time in Stingers team had been taugh for me, not just pratice but not able to see my friends and my best friend Katie which she is currently in Université Montréal and studying in pharmacy. But none of these bother me. Even though, a lot of time I do feel a bit lonely in the team but it's never an issue for me. I do not feel interpersonal constraint can prevent me from playing this sport, I really love this sport and truly enjoy it. Purely chosen from my will, I can choose to quite for my friends but I never do, it's not because I don't love my friends because deeply I know I can't put friends with my passion.

Rugby! Two years leisure?

" Leisure is not win or lose, goals or no goal, medals or none medals, it's about pleasure"

While, let's say that today's class really gets me to think about my leisure hmmm. Sports have been my leisure for most of time. I had always been intrinsically motivated to play. freely chosen and got a sense of satisfaction like feeling of accomplishment no matter the results. I like many sports especially I love hockey, it's my passion. However, I had encountered an incident during my Cegep Years ( Champlain College) , I did a recreation activity that I did not really enjoy it. First time in my life, for years I had never dislike a sport, but now I do. As the professor Henle said that we cannot put an "activity" in leisure definition because there are people will not enjoy the same activities as we do. While, perfect example for this, my rugby experience. Through out my two years in Champlain college, my head got hit on the ground, I got big purple blues on my left eye, two legs got twisted and my stomach got hit by soccer cliques. Coaches refused pulled me out of the game when I was injured on the field. Is it plaisant? While for me. no. I was a winger and defense. That's not the position that I wanted to play, that had already ruined my fun. I was a really good player but I did not enjoy this sport. I mean, I don't see how we can have fun by throwing yourself into somebody else legs or bodies and being vulnerable to all kind of injuries no matter what you do ( no equipments and no helmets). So why I did it? Since Champlain did not have a hockey team, I decided to give a try for rugby, why not?. In the pass, people told me that I should try rugby but I was just too afraid. Without noticing, it did not turn as well as I thought. I was a good player but I just disagree with this sport. Some of my teammate kept telling us how fun is and how she was so into this sport. One girl even told me " Oh man! I am so into rugby, O i love Rugby and I will play rugby in university." Once, I even saw a girl weared a t-shirt saying " I love Rugby." Sometime, I told myself next time I should wear " I love hockey," on rugby field. Man, I just don't feel same way as they are. Rugby is a special experience because first, I never played before and second I just want go with the ball and score. I never played with ball since I am goaltender for hockey and I had been in the net for very long. Go with wind to score, sounds interesting. However, again, it did not turn as well as i thought. During my second year of my cegep, I got my first goal against marianopolos, I was so excited, I jumped and waved my arms. However, all I have is a " high five," for one second, then kept on playing. Wow?!Even though we did won against marianopolos, big victory, but I did not feel good about myself and my existence seem doesn't matter to the team. My coach told me that in rugby you are not suppose to celebrate no matter what, it's not like hockey or soccer. After this experience, nah, I am not going back for another four years. By the way, sometime my position is boring, I tackled down that came to my way, and there's no challenge anymore. Boring!

Golf adventure!

Wow! what a shinny day! Today, I took a golf class in Candiac. The golf course was windy and hot. As always, my coach was always first in the golf course. After the entire morning that I dedicated to the reading for my psychology class, I finally can get my new blue golf equipment and go play some golf! Golf is a relax sport for me, when I am not playing hockey, golf helps me to take my mind off from school's pressure and enjoy the nice weather. I was quite excited to start golf class again. Coach came to me and told me " Fu-Chen, we will start with raquet number 5" At begining, I screwed up my swing by hitting too close or sometime I missed my swing. My coach is a PGH professional golf coach; by looking at your swing once, he can know right away where is your mistake. He told me that I should not moved my hip after my swing and keep my arm straight. As I swinged, I felt my energy started to rise and my hip just naturally move soflty like a wing, as I hit the ball, I can heard a "click" The next moment I saw my ball flied about 100 miles. As I got more practice, I started to feel much more comfortable with my raquet. As I swang more, I started to get a grip on, my swings started to get further,my furthest with the number 5 was about 120 miles. Then I switched to wood ( the biggest raquet which is 1). With this long raquet, I felt my body was much more balanced; as I lifted my long arms, then I hitted with my arm force, I saw my ball flied high then landed about 200 miles into the field. I was so proud with this shot and I enjoyed my freetime in this nice weather. Golf had made me felt confident on my athletic ability and felt as very much "hockey player."And my coach always told me " Do you know the fun thing about golf? People love to play golf and golf makes people happy because each time you hit, people will applause you no matter what" He always repeated this phrase, at begining, I did not know why he kept mentioning about this phrase, I don't know what he met, but until I started to read the " Leisure Education Program Planning" AH! I finally got it !

Monday's Training in the rain! Is it leisure?

Oh man! Before the training, I did not feel to go training and I was not all motivated. Then, one of my teammate came in and told us that our training coach was going to work on our cardio. In the locker room, i was sitting alone in little corner and looked very stunt and I told myself " Oh no! this is going to be a nasty training today." At the begining of the training, we ran six labs. It was shining, I told myself is not too bad. Until, we started to do the jumping and lunges exercises, the rain started to pour like crazy. I was really exhausted after an hour of jumping then speed running without stopping; for the bonus my t- shirt and shirt were wet. I was breathing so hard, I was feeling my heart was beating and I was feeling that I was going to die of exhaustion. I was soufficating and in that moment I was feeling that I wanted to quite right way. However, despite my aspiration and determination that I done all year long, I told myslef " I cannot quite, I will do it for the love of hockey even though I hate this training" The rain was still pouring and we finished the training by raining six more labs. The rain was becoming stronger and stronger, I could not see anything, only the color of shirts. On my fifih finally on my fifth lab, my assistant coach finally told us " Girls, last lab, keep it up!" You don't know how happy after I heard this. On my last lab, I started to exalerate my speed to 80% then to 100% to finish this painful training. O lalalala, rain then exhaustion! What a day!

Bible Study in St-Hubert

"I cried to him with my mouth,
And he was extolled with my tongue.
Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer
Nor His lovingkindness from me"
by Psalm 68; 17, 20.

Today, I went to the Jehova meeting in St-Hubert, and as always, I was always the first one who made it there. Before every meeting, I always get to know different people and meet new friends. Nobody is discriminating one and another, every one is opened minded and different ages and nationalities are all presented in this meeting. I met so much people from all over the world and from very young to old ages. Today, I met a man called "Ivon," he is electricity engineer and he is 40 years old. He talked about how his work functions and what his work about it. We talked about politics about new re-election is coming up. Each one of us interacting very openly, I had never received any negative remarks from him. Each one of us had listened to each other attentively. After this conversation, I felt really proud of myself and I found that my knowledge about the politics were not after all bad. Then I met a wonderful lady called Shana. She is about 60 years old, she is so funny because it took a while for her to spell my name.She often called me "Fu Lam." Today's bible study is about the Jehova witnesses go to door to door and their experience s. The fascinating issues about this discussion is the determination of these witnesses. During Roman time, the witnesses of Israel went to door to door and tried to spread the words of God. Even the Roman government threatened to stop by sending armies, they never gave up on God. Until now, it is amazing to know how the witnesses still doing the samething , they preached door to door , explaining and respond the questions of people. In 1920, there were only 25% of people were studying Bible in the United State, but now the percentage is twice more. The study not only taught me to have a faith in God but also have a faith in anything that you do and believe. Never give up on them because a person or a problem that are trying to stop you, keep on going and never loose faith on you. As I get close to God, I feel comfort and my wisdom increases every time ı attend to this meeting. It's not just bring peace to my mind but also it helps me to guide through my life. To know someone is beside you and love you, you never feel that you are alone. I strongly believe in God and I believe he knows my pain and difficulties. Now, I have so much worries and problems, but each time, I called his name, I know he is listening. My determination is like the action of the witnesses in Israel, and he will be there from storm to shining day. I know he will bring light to my life once again.

The Movie Night!

Hi everyone!
Today, I supposed to play golf with my father, despite the raining day happened in the late afternoon, therefore we canceled the activity. However, after hours and hours of doing school reading, my father and I watched the movie called "The Four Feathers movie." It is a war and romantic movie. Half of time, I felt that my tears were going to drop and half time I felt a lot excitement. As my leisure time, beside doing sports, I like to watch excited movies like horror or war movies. They help me to leave my mind out of school and enjoy my free time. Usually, after I watched the movies, my brain is fresh and relaxed. Laughing, crying or enjoying release my daily stress. My family values harmony and respect for each other. By watching the movie with my father, it strengths my relationship between my father and I, and I can spend some time with my father which we don't do it often. Often, my father is away for work or doing travel for work, I rarely doing an activity with my father, but the movies reunited my father and me. My father and I share a lot common characteristics, and I can learn a lot from father by interacting with him and asking questions about the movies. We really like to watch historical movies, my father is really good at history so do I, and I was able to gain a lot of new knowledge which I did not learn in school. What a afternoon! After all, it is as good as playing golf in the golf course :) .

Hockey Training!

What a nice day today! There were not too much wind and the sun shines right to your face. Hockey is my favour sport and I really like to play during my free time. I enjoyed a lot, especially outdoor hockey during winter where every one is laughing and chasing each other. No one is left out from the team and every one is enjoying. Well the best part about hockey is that I really like the teamwork where everyone is helping each other and we all go through challenge together. In addition, I like challenge because I will never feel bore and I consistenly challenge myself to become a better player. After I finished play hockey, I felt good about myself because I felt that I achieved my goal and what i need to improve for instance, before I had trouble with butterfly slide and now I can slide like a wind without hurting myself; feel good :). Like today, I was having a pre-season training session with the stingers, I did 12 times bench press for 95 pounds! What an improvement! Last year, I could not even do one and now I can do 12 times! After the bench press exercise, I told myself that I could had done better because I thought that I could not do anymore therefore I stopped at 12. However, the positive side is that I achieved my goal for this year. My goal for this year was to be able to lift 95 pounds, so along year plus this summer, I spend an hour to two hours in the gym on my cardio and muscle. One thing that I noticed that helps me to achieve my goal was determination. I was very determinant after disappointing start but I was able to bring myself back from the dark to light. I am very happy and proud of myself. Despite, my B test (the endurance test) did not turn well as I thought could be but it is still good because I did not understand the instruction very well. Well now, apparently, I have to work on my cardio with my assistant coach, and it would be much more harder and sweat. I know that I can do more than it was now, but one thing that I learned from this exercise is never feel afraid to express yourself and if you have a problem for a situation or an issue, please ask someone to help you, never stay in your little bubble and expect to be solved. YOU HAVE A PROBLEM? solution: ASK.

Big Brother Baby Activity You Tube

Hi Everyone!
Apparently, I cannot download the Episode of Big Brother in my blog, however, I have a website address that you can go on if you interest to watch. It would be very funny!
The Web address:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=D_GL-tKXPvw
Take a look!

September 2

Hi everyone! Today's evening, after supper, my brother and I watched our favor show called "Reba." It is a family show. My brother and I love this show because we find this show shows a lot of harmony among family members and every one in this family express their feelings and thoughts by using sense of humor. Most time, my brother and I do not see other a lot, however, every time, we watched this show, it helped us to feel integrated and it enriched our relationship. We all laughed together, and we got a chance to talk with each other which we had not done for so long. It was really a great time. When I have a free time, I like to play Ice hockey, table tennis, soccer, and going to gym. My brother likes to spend time playing computer and hang around with friends.
Therefore, we find a way to spend 'brother and sister' time by watching our favor. Even though, my brother and I do not have a lot of common personalities with each other, we all love the same show. This allows us to enjoy and feel no barrier to hang around with each other. Not just Reba show that we like, we also love to watch Big Brother 10 and Family Guy. My favor character is "Stewee" he always makes me laugh and makes me feel happy when I have a bad day. By wacthing family shows, my brother and I spend a good quality time together because we all get to talk with each other and share our humor. The most fun part is that when we were watching the show called Big Brother 10, often we saw a lot of funny activity like Baby activity. The "Baby Activity" is about mixing different participants' facial characteristics into one baby face. For example, there is one baby has a participant's bold and another participant's big blue eyes, and one of the participant has to label with correct combination by labeling correct participants names. I have the "YouTube" that you can watch about the "Baby Activity," it will be attached with my post. Take a look! Tell me about it. My brother and I really enjoy this part and we would like to share with you. Enjoy!