A big announcement to be made: this is the final post on this blog. That's right, I am no longer going to be posting about my life on blogger anymore. I am using a new location called WordPress to continue my blogging. If you want to see this new website, go to this link: http://martinmueller.us/.
If you go there right now, you get the earliest look of my own personal website.
Hope to see you there.
Peace our brothers and sisters. -MNM
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Be Gone Winter!
The sun is out, the skies are clear, and Spring is just around the corner. Winter is just packing up its case and getting ready to head down to the Southern Hemisphere for a few months. After about 4 months in the cold, we could finally strip down our layers and enjoy the warmth from the sun while receiving a cool breeze from the North or the South.
I am so happy that Winter is finishing up. The weather has been cold for far too long for me to be in. I had to wear at least three layers (a shirt, a sweater, and a winter jacket) to stay warm and not get a runny nose for me to continually blow every 10-30 minutes. I don't know about your guys and gals, but I did enjoy Winter's beauty through snow and ice in our backyard and on the neighborhood's lake. Mother Nature has amazing talents in creating art and destruction at the same time for us to be amazed and to be infuriated at the same time.
Anyway, I am not here just to talk about the weather that many of us either enjoyed or hated, I am here to just write about what has been going on for me.
To start off, my school has finished trimester two yesterday. We, the students, did our final exams this week. My final exams were in these 4 classes out of the five: Economics, Government A, French 3 A, and Symphonic Band. My A.P. Physics class didn't have a final exam this week because the A.P. test wouldn't be given out until the end of the school year. It is coming fast this year, so you know what that means, I need to begin my studying. Wish me well y'all.
Next topic I want to write about is the ACT test.
For all the juniors out there, I bet you are telling me to not bring up the subject. But this a blog is about my life and experience, so don't nag on me for writing about my life. Anyway, last week, I had to take the ACT testing for two half school days. Tuesday was the multiple choice (English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science) and the writing test. Wednesday was the ACT WorkKey. Did many of you juniors took these tests on the same day as I did? I bet that a majority of you would say "yes."
On March 1, 2015, I ran the Portage Winter Blast 5k race in 23:45. The temperature was 10* Fahrenheit that morning. My fingers and toes were frozen at the beginning, until after a mile, my body heat started to warm me in my jackets. To add the frozen treat, my cross country assistant coach was there. Below is the picture of me and my assistant coach.
On March 2, Pitch Zoo has done its last community meeting. It was the 2nd anniversary of the creation of Pitch Zoo that night. I was there to listen to the final "pitchers" that pitched their business idea to the audience and to hear advice from my dad and the audience on how to make their pitch better. If you want to learn more about this meeting, here is the link to the Pitch Zoo website: http://www.pitchzoo.com/
The rest is just about jazz band and the National Honor Society Recycling. Nothing too special about those. Future update though: MSBOA State is going to happen on March 21 and Japanese Language Lesson is going to begin on March 19.
Sorry about not posting frequently. Things has been a little crazy lately with the tests, the school clubs, and designing the backpack for my Pick'n Run business. I am making a plan on how often I should post on this blog.
Anyway, that is all for right now. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi
I am so happy that Winter is finishing up. The weather has been cold for far too long for me to be in. I had to wear at least three layers (a shirt, a sweater, and a winter jacket) to stay warm and not get a runny nose for me to continually blow every 10-30 minutes. I don't know about your guys and gals, but I did enjoy Winter's beauty through snow and ice in our backyard and on the neighborhood's lake. Mother Nature has amazing talents in creating art and destruction at the same time for us to be amazed and to be infuriated at the same time.
Anyway, I am not here just to talk about the weather that many of us either enjoyed or hated, I am here to just write about what has been going on for me.
To start off, my school has finished trimester two yesterday. We, the students, did our final exams this week. My final exams were in these 4 classes out of the five: Economics, Government A, French 3 A, and Symphonic Band. My A.P. Physics class didn't have a final exam this week because the A.P. test wouldn't be given out until the end of the school year. It is coming fast this year, so you know what that means, I need to begin my studying. Wish me well y'all.
Next topic I want to write about is the ACT test.
For all the juniors out there, I bet you are telling me to not bring up the subject. But this a blog is about my life and experience, so don't nag on me for writing about my life. Anyway, last week, I had to take the ACT testing for two half school days. Tuesday was the multiple choice (English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science) and the writing test. Wednesday was the ACT WorkKey. Did many of you juniors took these tests on the same day as I did? I bet that a majority of you would say "yes."
On March 1, 2015, I ran the Portage Winter Blast 5k race in 23:45. The temperature was 10* Fahrenheit that morning. My fingers and toes were frozen at the beginning, until after a mile, my body heat started to warm me in my jackets. To add the frozen treat, my cross country assistant coach was there. Below is the picture of me and my assistant coach.
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| I was the only Loy Norrix student who ran the 5k race |
On March 2, Pitch Zoo has done its last community meeting. It was the 2nd anniversary of the creation of Pitch Zoo that night. I was there to listen to the final "pitchers" that pitched their business idea to the audience and to hear advice from my dad and the audience on how to make their pitch better. If you want to learn more about this meeting, here is the link to the Pitch Zoo website: http://www.pitchzoo.com/
The rest is just about jazz band and the National Honor Society Recycling. Nothing too special about those. Future update though: MSBOA State is going to happen on March 21 and Japanese Language Lesson is going to begin on March 19.
Sorry about not posting frequently. Things has been a little crazy lately with the tests, the school clubs, and designing the backpack for my Pick'n Run business. I am making a plan on how often I should post on this blog.
Anyway, that is all for right now. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday, February 8, 2015
District MSBOA Performance 2/7/2015
Good afternoon. I am here to give a quick post about what happened yesterday at District MSBOA (Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association). I got a 1 on my ensemble performance on Presto from String Quartet Op. 18, No.3, which is my second 1 rating for ensemble performance in my high school years.
For any of you that don't know about MSBOA, it is basically when a musician or a group of musicians would perform a song in front of a judge for a rating. There are four categories that a judge would grade on: Tone, Intonation, Rhythm, Technique, and Interpretation. There are three ratings (from highest to lowest): 1, 2, and 3. To get the highest rating, you need to get at least three A's in three of the four categories. Yesterday, my sax quartet group got that 1 from getting those three A's or more in those categories.
I first thought that we wouldn't do good because of the small number of rehearsals together, but we did it anyway, ending it with a good rating. Below is a picture of the medal that we got yesterday.
Since we got a 1 on that performance, we are invited to play our song at State level, which is the same idea of District. Tomorrow, I am going to talk with my group if they want to go to State again this year, because it is the same group that I formed last year for the sax quartet and got a 1 in both District and State level. I am planning to go to State to try to get another 1 rating. I will let you guys/gals know about that choice.
That is it right now I guess. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM
Monday, February 2, 2015
A New Years Has Came
Hey hey hey hey! Long time no talk. Sorry for not posting for a while nor on New Years Day.
I hoped that you all had a good Christmas break and a New Year. I wonder what you all did. I am here to describe what I did for my break outside of blogging.
For me, I had a wonderful time with my family up in Colorado for about 3 weeks. The first part of the trip was driving for two days to my grand-mother's house up in Colorado Springs and staying there for a week. My uncle, aunts, and nephews came to stay at my grand-mother's house for about a week.
It was a good feeling to see them again after seeing them in person about 1 to 3 years ago. Just seeing how much they had changed while my family and I were living in Michigan just left me speechless. Anyway, we all caught up with each other about our lives and celebrated Christmas on December 23. My uncle and mom had to get back to their job. My uncle had to fly back to Texas, for he works as a helicopter pilot in the PHi Air Medical. While my mom flew back to Michigan to work back in the RadissonWe didn't see him until New Years Days (9 days after he left) we met up at his wife's family's house up in the mountains. The trip up there was quite snowy and windy. It took us about 4 hours to drive through the sunny and cloudy hours to get to my grand-pa's house in the mountains.
When we got there, we planned to sled everyday by ourselves and with my nephews. The depth of the snow on the golf course was about 3 feet up to my knees; the perfect depth for sledding on small hills, all while making it hard to walk out onto the pathway. Two nights, we would head over to my aunt's house nearby to have dinner and relax in the hot tub. Nothing but easy going with the family.
For New Years Day/Eve, we just had hot chocolate and played some board games. We did miss the ball fall on television in New York. Whoopps.
After our family time up in the mountains, my dad, little sister, and I drove back to Colorado Springs to spend one more day with my grand-mother before driving back to Michigan. The rest of the time was just driving back to Michigan.
That was my break. I hoped that you all have plans for this new year. Keep going and never stop going forward.
That is it right now I guess. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM
I hoped that you all had a good Christmas break and a New Year. I wonder what you all did. I am here to describe what I did for my break outside of blogging.
For me, I had a wonderful time with my family up in Colorado for about 3 weeks. The first part of the trip was driving for two days to my grand-mother's house up in Colorado Springs and staying there for a week. My uncle, aunts, and nephews came to stay at my grand-mother's house for about a week.
It was a good feeling to see them again after seeing them in person about 1 to 3 years ago. Just seeing how much they had changed while my family and I were living in Michigan just left me speechless. Anyway, we all caught up with each other about our lives and celebrated Christmas on December 23. My uncle and mom had to get back to their job. My uncle had to fly back to Texas, for he works as a helicopter pilot in the PHi Air Medical. While my mom flew back to Michigan to work back in the RadissonWe didn't see him until New Years Days (9 days after he left) we met up at his wife's family's house up in the mountains. The trip up there was quite snowy and windy. It took us about 4 hours to drive through the sunny and cloudy hours to get to my grand-pa's house in the mountains.
When we got there, we planned to sled everyday by ourselves and with my nephews. The depth of the snow on the golf course was about 3 feet up to my knees; the perfect depth for sledding on small hills, all while making it hard to walk out onto the pathway. Two nights, we would head over to my aunt's house nearby to have dinner and relax in the hot tub. Nothing but easy going with the family.
For New Years Day/Eve, we just had hot chocolate and played some board games. We did miss the ball fall on television in New York. Whoopps.
After our family time up in the mountains, my dad, little sister, and I drove back to Colorado Springs to spend one more day with my grand-mother before driving back to Michigan. The rest of the time was just driving back to Michigan.
That was my break. I hoped that you all have plans for this new year. Keep going and never stop going forward.
That is it right now I guess. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Fresh Start with the National Honors Society Election Night
Last night a special night for me and for others at my school. It was the celebration for the newly elected students in the National Honors Society. If you remembered from previous posts, I filled out applications required to participate in the program and I found out that I was among the elected students. It was such a pleasure to be elected in this big opportunity of a life time.
So what happened was that a special guest named Mr. Jon Hoadley, State Rep. of Michigan, spoke to the audience about his history, leadership, character, service, scholarship and inspirational quotes about being in the NHS. Along with the guest, our principal, program leaders and students officers gave their own speech. After the speeches, each elected students came up on stage and signed their agreement sheet, shook hands with people and signed the NHS book that was first signed somewhere in 1965.
To top it off, we spook the NHS pledge and my mom took pictures of me with my signed certificate.
So what happened was that a special guest named Mr. Jon Hoadley, State Rep. of Michigan, spoke to the audience about his history, leadership, character, service, scholarship and inspirational quotes about being in the NHS. Along with the guest, our principal, program leaders and students officers gave their own speech. After the speeches, each elected students came up on stage and signed their agreement sheet, shook hands with people and signed the NHS book that was first signed somewhere in 1965.
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| You could see me signing the book |
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| Me with my signed certificate |
I hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving, because I did have a great Thanksgiving with my family and friends.
Are most of you in your next section of school right now, or are you still in a section? Monday, I started my second trimester with some new classes. Either one, still work hard in education and in life to make amazing choices in life.
Before I forget, tomorrow, I won't be able to post anything, because for the whole day, I will be with my DECA group will be working with the basketball managers for a basketball game that we will get to watch after words. I won't be at home until 12:30 in the morning (which that is what my director said), which I am going to be dead tired when I get back. I will take pictures on my camera of the event and post them on the next post to show you .
That is it right now I guess. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving
Hey everybody. Happy Thanksgiving to you all. If some of you don't celebrate thanksgiving, I still want to say that today is a good day to appreciate what we have in life (not material things, but to our families, friends, pets, love, our religion, etc...). Be thankful for everything, from the bottom of the heart. Lets have a moment to think about peace, forgiveness, love, understanding, pureness, life, friends, family and even smiles. Just close your eyes and just think.
I hope that everyone has a simple thanksgiving today. It doesn't have to be something big or special, just give thanks to what you have in life that could not be replaced with material things.
Well, that is it. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters- MNM
Well, that is it. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters- MNM
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Reward for Final Exam
How are y'all doing at this time? Been busy with school or what?
For me, I have been busy with my school's final exams. That's right, my first trimester is coming to an end for me in my junior year. Though, it is not completely done yet, I still have to do two more final exams in two classes: AP Physics (a) and Marching Band. After Monday, I will be free from Tuesday to Friday. The first three exams were not that hard to complete. I was able to finish them before time finished and to dance after school in completing them. Are you guys/gals doing the same thing in terms of final exams? If so, how is that coming along? I hope it is going good for you.
Also, yesterday night, I got to attend my cross country end of season party at one of the member's house. We had snacks and drinks to celebrate for our hard work. Our coaches were there to join in the celebration. It was good to see them after cross country season was over. Now we made our coaches a little surprise that is different from previous celebrations; we used to buy gift cards to a restaurant or a store, but we bought a t-shirt with a quote on it that one of coaches made, "It's a beautiful day to run in Southwest Michigan!"- Coach Savicke. I could tell that they loved it. It is good to pay back our coaches for their time and hard work to make us better runners. To add on the surprise, one of our members made this video of our season: Loy Norrix Cross Country 2014. You could see me in some scenes, both in a race and during practice. Try to find me. :-)
Well, that is it. I hope that you enjoy reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters- MNM
For me, I have been busy with my school's final exams. That's right, my first trimester is coming to an end for me in my junior year. Though, it is not completely done yet, I still have to do two more final exams in two classes: AP Physics (a) and Marching Band. After Monday, I will be free from Tuesday to Friday. The first three exams were not that hard to complete. I was able to finish them before time finished and to dance after school in completing them. Are you guys/gals doing the same thing in terms of final exams? If so, how is that coming along? I hope it is going good for you.
Also, yesterday night, I got to attend my cross country end of season party at one of the member's house. We had snacks and drinks to celebrate for our hard work. Our coaches were there to join in the celebration. It was good to see them after cross country season was over. Now we made our coaches a little surprise that is different from previous celebrations; we used to buy gift cards to a restaurant or a store, but we bought a t-shirt with a quote on it that one of coaches made, "It's a beautiful day to run in Southwest Michigan!"- Coach Savicke. I could tell that they loved it. It is good to pay back our coaches for their time and hard work to make us better runners. To add on the surprise, one of our members made this video of our season: Loy Norrix Cross Country 2014. You could see me in some scenes, both in a race and during practice. Try to find me. :-)
Well, that is it. I hope that you enjoy reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters- MNM
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