Welcome to Makena’s official blog! I am a grade 9 student, who is currently playing for the Charles Best Field Hockey team. Outside of school, I play BCSPL (BC soccer premier league) for CMF and am on the TCE womens field hockey team. In this blog, I hope to give you some useful tips on how to continue being motivated to reach your goals and achievements in your day-to-day life.
My favourite quote:
My favourite quote is “To live for the hope of it all.” I love this quote because I believe that the only thing we truly have in life is hope. If you ever want to get anything done, accomplish anything, or create great things, you have to hope and you have to want it. Great things are not going to come by you doing nothing, great things come when you work with the motivation of reaching all of your hopes and dreams!
My favourite YouTube Clip:
My favourite YouTube clip is “The History of the Entire World, I Guess.”
I chose this clip because it gives you simplified answers and an explanation about the history of the world. This video has knowledge ranging from the science behind the Big Bang, to the Roman Empire, all the way to the invention of the cell phone. As someone who is very interested in sociology, this video gave me a lot of information that anyone could understand around everything I have ever wondered about!
My favourite picture:
My favourite picture is an image of the painting “The Apotheosis of Hercules”. I chose this because it is one of my favourite paintings of all time. I love to learn about all of the Greek and Roman myths, and this painting includes a lot of prominent figures from those stories, such as the gods. This painting is located in the Palace of Versailles, which is my dream destination spot as well!
My favourite website:
Worldmeters.info is my favourite website to visit. This website gives you information on everything happening in the world. For example, one of my favourite statistics to look at is the current world population. The statistics are constantly changing, which makes it very interesting to look at. There are also other numbers like the number of google searches today, the number of undernourished people in the world, days to the end of natural gas, and many many more interesting facts. If you’re interested at looking at it yourself, click here!
The history of my birthday:
My birthday is on February 5th, and looking back through history, there have been some very monumental things that have happened on this day. I think one of the coolest events that had happened was on February 5th, 1971, two Apollo 14 Astronauts landed on the moon!
Now I know this is not a historical event, but I think that it is very important to mention that February 5 is also National girls and women in sports day! This event mean a lot to me since I have been a girl playing sports practically my whole life, and have faced some struggles related to it. If you want to learn more about the details and history of this day, click here.