Tristan's Blog

If I couldn’t listen to music I don’t know what I’d do. When music is playing I just want to dance and sing. I like rock music best but country music and some fast classical music are also good to dance and sing to.

Music is played in my house a lot. It’s been like that ever since I was a baby, but it was probably like that even before I was born. Ever since my dad got his iPod music is played even more. My whole family likes it and dances and sings with each other. That sounds a little crazy but it’s so much fun. I like seeing my family’s different dances and when my dad pretends he’s a rock star it’s pretty funny. Sometimes I break dance and my sister likes to do ballet. My little brother likes to look like a rapper which is hilarious because he’s only 4. My mom likes to dance with us and spin us around. Sometimes she dances all crazy and makes us laugh. My dad likes to pick us up and then he dances while he sings to us. I’m getting a little too big to be picked up so that really doesn’t happen for me anymore. That’s OK though because I still like to dance on my own.

There are lots of really good songs that I love to listen to more than others. Three of my favourite bands are The Killers, Nickelback and Green Day because I like their sound and they have a strong beat in a lot of their music. I don’t really have a favourite Killers song because I like them all. I like some more than others like The River is Wild, Spaceman, and Read My Mind. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake me up when September ends, Know your Enemy, 21 guns and American Idiot are my Green Day favourites and Saving Me and Gotta Be Somebody are the Nickleback songs that I like best. I have to be careful when I sing some Nickleback songs because they sometimes swear so I either lip synch them or not just pretend they aren’t there. That way I won’t get into trouble or people might think I’m a rude kid and I don’t want my little sister and brother to learn these words from me. When I play these songs they make me feel happy and I just want to sing! There are other songs I like from Marianas Trench, Stabilo, The Watchmen, Hinder and other bands too, but if I listed all of the songs that I like it would probably take a month to write them all down. Who wants to sit and write for that long? Not me. That’s for sure. 

On my last birthday I got an mp3 player too so I can listen to these songs whenever I want. I have to get better at remembering where I put it last and to recharge it so I can play them whenever I want to listen to music. Since I can take my mp3 player anywhere I just need to remember where I am because suddenly singing and dancing in Wal-Mart or Superstore might seem a little wierd.

What is your music to listen to?

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I think my dad is awesome! He’s lots of fun because he knows a lot about board games so I learn to play them with him. My favourite ones are Battlelore, Zooloretto and Settlers of Catan. These games are really different from each other but I enjoy learning strategies to help me win. In Battlelore I like being a rock monster and battling giant spiders, in Zooloretto I like the pandas and building my own zoo, and in Settlers of Catan I like building settlements that I can turn into cities when I get enough resources. My dad owns many more games and really likes playing them. He gets them from specialty game stores or online and most of them are made in Europe. A lot of his games have won different awards too. He finds out if they are good games on a site called Board Game Geek.

He also makes the best tea biscuits ever! They are so fluffy on the inside and delicious. They taste best when they are fresh out of the oven with Rogers Golden syrup. If you’d like to know how to make them here is his recipe:

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup milk (but my dad uses water because my mom is allergic to milk)
• 3 cups of love

After you mix the ingredients together you bake them at 425 degrees F.

My awesome dad also makes really good pancakes and they’re so delicious that I always have at least two of them, but I often end up having four. He also helps me on video games when I get to a really hard part like on the Boo house in New Super Mario Bros. Wii because he’s really good and his skills are legendary. 

My dad travels to places I’d like to see one day and always tells me stories about them when he gets back. He has already been to France, Spain, Italy, and Greece in Europe. He saw the Roman Coliseum and ancient ruins in Rome and the statue of David in Florence, the Parthenon and Temple of Zeus in Athens and the ruins in Delphi, the Eiffel Tower and Louvre in Paris, and the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. He’s also been to Las Vegas twice. In Las Vegas he was close to the Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon but he didn’t get to travel to them. My dad took photos to show us where he went and he brought back books for the family. He also brought me a yo-yo, a lollipop and a couple of t-shirts. I hope I can travel with my dad when I’m older.

I love my dad he’s really cool. What do you love about your dad?

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