If I could be anywhere in the world right now, I would be somewhere in the Caribbean lounging on a beach. Specifically Costa Rica in a hammock with a fruity smoothie. A cool breeze blowing by, Salt in the air so strong you can taste it. So close to the water that every wave touches you slightly. The reason I'd like to be there is because I'm excited. Excited because I AM going there in the summer for 6 weeks. My dad owns a giant houseboat around the Caribbean and I get to go visit him. I go there every summer and we slowly move south east visiting all the tropical countries along the way. There's no other place that I'd rather be.

Being Lazy

In my spare time I like to do nothing. Just lay on the couch and do nothing. I"ll grab my cell phone my house phone all the T.V. remotes and my xbox controller. I sit on the couch, in control of everything and not having to move at all. Say the phone rings I don't have to get up and answer it, it's right beside me. If A T.V. show ends and I don't like what's on now, I can change it just with the lift of an arm. I get a text, my phones right there. One of my friends might even call and ask if I want to hang out and I'll simply say no. Sometimes I'll even fall asleep on the couch, catch up on some sleep

Spring Break

Over Spring break Quinn and I went to Spokane to go to this sort of amusement park. We stayed in a hotel then went to the park. It was lots of fun, but that's not what I'm going to write about. At the hotel our parents would go to bed fairly early but we didn't want to go to bed just yet. In the hotel they had unlimited coffee, cookies in the lobby, a pool with twenty four hour access as well as the weight room. We went to the weight room and tried our key card but it didn't work. According to the sign we needed a special key card that only worked once. Quinn went to the front desk and asked for the key and I loaded up on coffee. We went to the weight room and tried to open it. Quinn tried the door but didn't leave the card in long enough and the light flashed red. Quinn ran back to the lobby and recharged the key. This time I tried the key and of course the light went green. We stepped in and the room was filled with equipment but that's not what caught my eye. In the top right corner of the room there was a huge flat screen T.V. With the remote on the little table. I turned it on and before long it was three in the morning. Quinn returned the key card and we ran back to the room. When we opened the door they were fast asleep and we didn't want to wake them because we would never hear the end of it. So I grabbed two pillows and Quinn slept on the floor and I slept in the bathtub. When we woke up in the morning our parents were just staring, laughing.

Scribbles

Lyric and I were walking around O.E.S. and a hoard of little grade 3er's ran up to us with a bunch of scribbles on scraps of paper. I picked one up and I looked at lyric and I said "is this supposed to be a bus or an owl?" They got mad and they started attacking. One of the kids bit lyric in the leg and lyric freaked out and started slinging him around. One ran for me and I kicked him so hard he flew and skipped his little head off the tiles. Lyric shook him off and the kid did a double back flip and kicked Lyrics jaw in. Lyric crawled away and I defended him. Lyric cracked his jaw back in place and punched a kid right in the chops. He flew down the hall and bounced off the lockers. A kid ran at Lyric and he did a flying kick and busted his shin bone out the back of his leg. One of the kids jumped on lyric and I punched him in the side of the head and he flew out of the window. The last one came running at Lyric and with ease he Sparta kicked the little kids face right in. We ran away before any punishment was given.

Adrenaline

It was in the summer in mexico visiting my dad for the summer. We were out on his sailboat travelling and we had 6 huge fishing rods. About after 2 hours of towing the lines, one of them got a bite and the tip of the rod bent all the way down. I jumped up and ran to the fishing rod and I tried starting to reel it in. I could see it in the distance and it was a 5 foot barracuda! A jolt of excitement hit me and adrenaline kicked in. I sat on the chair we use to reel in the fish and have the rod a huge yank. The fish quickly responded and gave a huge yank right back. I pulled as hard as I could. My hands were shaking and I reeled it in some more. The fish was only 5 feet away and my dad grabbed the hook used to grab the fish. "One more big pull" yelled my dad and I jerked it aboard. I was shaking all over success overwhelming me. I set down the rod and got a closer look. I was right! A huge 5 foot barracuda around 50 pounds! My dad looked at me with a huge smile on his face. it looks like I caught dinner! It tasted all the much better just because I caught it!

Xbox Abuse

One day I was playing on my xbox and it just powered off. I started it up got the red ring of death. I've had it before and usually all you had to was unplug everything and start it back up so I tried that I turned everything back on and the red light was still there. I took out the hard drive, blew out all the dust, and put it back in. The red light was still there, flashing, mocking me. I picked up my xbox ran to the kitchen tossed it in the microwave and set it on defrost. the machine made a loud whirring noise and there was multiple flashes of blue electricity. the microwave burst into flames and the fire alarm went off. I grabbed a bowl filled it and dumped it on the microwave. The door creaked open and a sizzling puddle of melted plastic sat there in the microwave. What was left of my xbox slid out of the door onto the floor in a slop of wires and plastic. It looked like it had just been nuked. The microwave was okay but i couldn't say the same for my xbox.Good thing i got that extended warranty.

Cooper's Blog

Hey my full name is Travis Tanner Cooper Smith. My real name is Travis but everybody calls me Cooper. My parents called me Travis for the first few days of my life and they said I didn't look like a Travis so my dad came up with Cooper.I was born in Vancouver but other than that I've lived in Oliver my entire life. My mom is French from New Brunswick, my dad is from Vancouver and I am an only child. I go to Mexico almost every summer to go visit my dad, he has a Forty two foot catamaran that he lives on. I also go to New Brunswick with my mom to visit my uncles,aunts and cousins, she comes from a big catholic family, when we get together there's about 25 of us under the same roof , we play games and laugh a lot. Also went to Las Vegas with my grandparents. My favourite subject would have to be math because it's been really easy for me and I had a good teacher. My favourite colours are lime green, blue and orange because they're bright.. I've played soccer for six years, I snowboard and love playing video games.