Staring at the world through my rearview

The year has come to an end and what a year it has been. In this blog entry, I will reflect on each month of 2009.

January
In January of 2009, I was working on my final work placement as part of the Recreation Leaders Program. I worked in Fort Liard with the Recreation Department. In January the main project I was working on was the soccer tournament. It took 2 weeks to organize and was hoping that the new soccer nets would be here in time. The tournament went as planned and the following weekend, I left Fort Liard to Fort Smith.

Highlights:
-Soccer tournament
-Spending 8 weeks at home
-Making a great highlight video for my practicum placement.
Lowlights:
-Only played 1 game of hockey in Liard
-The cold weather
-New Years Eve first nite

February

The cold month of February was the longest and most difficult month of the final semester of college. It was very challenging to work with one of the instructors of the program. I continued training the PWK Huskies 16-under mens team for the upcoming tournaments. Not much happened this month.

Highlights
-Coaching soccer again
-Purchasing a new laptop
-Getting a $1000 cheque from the NWTRPA
-Aurora College week
Lowlights
-Breaking my laptop
-Back in college
-Cold Month

March

March was a great month for me as there were so many things happening. There was spring break,winning the soccer tournament in Fort Simpson, The Canadian Aborginal Hand games championships in Behcho Ko, working with TEP class
Highlights
-Beating Fort Liard in soccer
-Winning the Connie Loutit soccer touenament
-Spring break
-Placing 6th out of 32 teams in the Hand Games tournament
-Meeting Sherri
Lowlights
-Meeting Sherri
-Injuring my self playing the last hockey game and not playing in the mens division in the soccer tourney
- Almost failing a midterm

April

April is the last month of my college life and it went by fast. I had some family and a close friend come to my Grad. It warmed up here faster than the year before so it was nice to have the warm weather back. My one night thing with Sherri turned into a relationship.
Highlights
-Graduating from College
-Learning to play Guitar Hero
-Placing 2nd in the Grande Prairie Soccer tournament
-Upsetting Grande Praire 4-2 in the tournament
-Riley Mcleod yelling "is he naked" at Sherri's place in front of her room mates family
Lowlights
-Leaving my awesome room mate Felix
-Tyrone dropping out of college 2 weeks before grad
-The whole classroom fight
-Only having 3 out of 6 grads from my class


May

The month of May was a challenging one for me as it was my first month as a Grad Student.
I left Fort Smith on the 7th and I had planned to only be in Fort Liard for 6 weeks. I agreed to Fly to Gameti NWT for a job interview and to see the community. Unfortunately for me, I got stuck in YK for a holiday Monday. Good thing for my my Uncle and Former Grand Chief Gerald Antoine was there. He helped me get on the 6pm flight to Simpson and Shawn and his sister picked me up
Highlights
-Getting to see the community of Gameti
-Flying to Yk for a job interview and getting paid for it
-Getting Drunk and waking up with a mini Keg and $500 on my last nite in Smith
Lowlights
-Getting stuck in YK on a Holiday Monday with only $200
-Vancouver Canucks Losing to Chicago Blackhawks in the Playoffs
-Going to Simpson one too many times

June

June was a so-so month for me. Even though it was my birthday and the start of summer. All month I searched for work with the preference to stay in the NWT for the time being. With no luck I settled for working at the Hamlet of Fort Liard Recreation Department part time. June also marked my 23rd year on Earth.
Highlights
-Turning 23
-Pittsburgh winning the Stanley Cup
-Los Angeles winning the NBA title
-Guest Speaking at the Fort Liard graduation ceremony
-Dehcho Assembly in Jean Marie River
LowLights
-too much rain
-High River levels
-bugs

July

The month of July was the worst one of the year. A lot has happened in this time. I got fired for a BS reason, I was cheated on and dumped, Mentally, I was so beat that I wanted to kill myself. A chat with Michael Pealow changed that. He suggested that I get out of Fort Liard and he said that Im welcome at his place.

Highlights
-CALGARY STAMPEDE
-Going to Simpson for the Mackenzie summer games
-Partying it up in Grande Prairie
-Talking to Mike Pealow
-Winning $300 at Blackjack
Lowlights
-Getting Fired
-Cheated on
-Dumped
-No one being there for me

August

August was a great month for me as well as everyone in Liard. There was the summer gathering which was held at the Petitot River just past the BC/NWT Border. I had a lot of fun there. At the end of the month I ended up working at a place I least expected.
Highlights
-Petitot Gathering was probably the highlight of the summer...so many good memories
-Swimming across the Petitot river
-Winning $140 at a poker game
-Getting $1oo0 in the mail from the NWTRPA
-Working at the School as a teachers assistant
Lowlights
-Tearing my zipper and getting half of my tent soaked

September

In September I started my job at the school and it was challenging. I had to get used to getting up at 7:30. I also had to cut my evenings off in order to get enough sleep. I also started coaching soccer again. Both the 14-under and 18-under boys teams are the teams I am coaching.
Highlights
-Coaching soccer
-Started working again
-High Speed internet came to Liard and XBOX live with it
Lowlights
-getting up at 7:30am
-Going to bed before noon

October

I only focused on working and coaching soccer this month so there was not many things to report on for this month.
Highlights
-Coaching soccer
Lowlights
-Job only lasted til the 28th

November

The month of November went by fast and I mostly focused on coaching soccer and preparing my team for the Arctic Winter Games trials. Nothing really highlighted this month.

December

I was supposed to play in a hand games tournament in Whitehosrse but it was cancelled. I got to spend a week in Whitehorse. I got a new tattoo. At the end of the month I will be moving to Smith.
Highlights
-New tattoo
-Spent time in Whitehorse
-Guitar Hero Van Halen Xmas Gift
Lowlights
- the 3 days spend at -50
-all the BS that happened in this house at Xmas
-Moving to Smith

Thats the summary of how my year went.
Next week I will blog about my new years resolutions