journalism assignment

Amy Jones

April 29, 2006

The Pink Assignments

#4 – Attend a game or watch a game on television and write the story as the game progresses.

            The Calgary Flames and the Mighty Ducks faced off tonight in the 5^th game of the Western Conference quarter finals.  Calgary started off very quickly on the right foot.  Before the clock had reached six minutes into the game, Tony Amonte (#10) scored a goal that was assisted by Matthew Lombardi (#18) and Roman Hamrlik (#4). Not 10 minutes later, Jarome Ignila (#12) scored a goal on a power play assisted by Andrew Ference (#21) and Daymond Langkow (#22), making the game after the first period, 2-0.  The Flames started out the second period well too.  In under a minute, Jarome Ignila (#12) had scored his second goal of the night assisted by Kristian Huselius (#20) and Daymond Langkow (#22).  The crowd was told at first that it had been Daymond Langkow (#22) who had succeeded in getting the goal, but after studying the goal some more it was determined that Jarome had tipped the puck into the net.   

            At this point in time, Anaheim was getting a little nervous so the coach pulled the goalie that had been in net for most of the game so far, Jean-Sebastien Giguere (#35) and sent in instead Ilya Bryzgalof (#30).  Bryzgalof did not let any more pucks into his net, and in the third period two goals went in for Anaheim.  The first goal that was scored was done by Andy MacDonald (#19) and assisted by Teemu Selanne (#13) and Francois Beauchemin (#23), while the second, scored by Rob Niedermayer (#44), was assisted by Samuel Pahlsson (#26) and Francois Beauchemin (#23).

            The Flames ended up winning the game, making the series now 3-2 for Calgary, although, so far there has been a pattern of whoever is home gets the win.  This may in fact end up being a bonus for Calgary since they started at home and will finish game 7 at home.

So I have been debating writing this post since last night.  Not because I am not in the mood to write, because I am always in the mood to write, I just don’t know how to put my feelings on paper.  So I went to supper and than the Sisterhood with Alisha, Sarah, Darshana and Angela.  Supper was a blast other than it was rushed, but that was all good, cuz you know, it was OBVIOUSLY Angela’s 17^th birthday yesterdayJ.  Yay for free dessert.  Anyways the movie reminded me so much of my life.

            Bailey’s death reminded me so much of Rob.  Ecept Tibby wasn’t scared of going and talking to her, Tibby got her last felings in, I didn’t.   If you have seen the movie you will know when Tibby and Bailey are lying out under the stars and Tibby asks Bailey if she is afraid, and Bailey says no, not of dying, but scared that she wont do what she is supposed to do here on earth, shes scared she wont find why she came here.  Rob found that, and he fulfilled it completely.  And I miss him, I miss his smile, and his joy for life.  And I hate myself, and I will never forgive myself for not saying how much he meant to me when I had the chance, I will never forgive myself. 

            If you know the storyline of the book/movie at all, you know that three of these girls leave.  Last night, I could feel for the first time in my life how the 5 of us connected, and I don’t think I will feel that again for a long time.  I am going to miss Angela so much.  And I know what it feels like to move, and I know she will have a great time, and I hope everything goes amazing for her, and I know I am kind of being selfish by complaining about it, because she is leaving so many more people.  But Angela is such an amazing person and I am going to miss her so much.  And I do not know what I will do without her, I really do not know.

            There was a sign in the movie.  Those of you who were with me know what it says.  It killed me, I saw it and a surge of pain literally went through me.  This sucks, and yet at the same time, I know this is right.  AHHH!

So this is my official Hawk nelson blog.  Recently, after begging the staff at the Baptist Bookroom, I went in, and they had Hawk Nelson in stock.  Thank goodness.  So, I bought the CD! Yay!  Okay, so, I have found so much of what they talk about I can relate too. So, I am going to comment on the parts I really relate too. So you can see what is going on in my life.

And these are the things we go through

Let's take control and be ourselves

Let's not waste time wondering about 

How we're gonna make it out

I love those lines.  Live your life for now.  Carpe Diem.  It’s funny, for those of you who know me, I worry about a billion times more than I should.  I always think the worst is going to happen, and because of that, I do not try many things I have not tried before.  “Let’s not waste time wondering about How we’re gonna make it out.”  What a perfect line for me, I know how I am going to make it out.  I know I am going to spend eternity with my King. But so many people do not know.  I need to start focusing more on that, than on myself.

I saw him yesterday

and I never felt a feeling

like the one I felt today

and now 

he's taking over me

I've never met anyone like you

he's been on my mind (he's working overtime)

he's got perfect reason's

says he loves to talk to Jesus

I think I believe him when he says

life could be so simple if we all just learned to pray

he's got every little thing I wanted

and it still feels just like the day it started

I'll say good bye to the broken hearted

and I could never express the way

I felt before tonight

he's not an ordinary boy,

I see it in his eyes

I'm just an ordinary girl

God must have heard my prayers last night 

Ahh, alright pretty self-explanatory here.  I switched the sexes though, because I am talking about a boy, not a girl.

I may never know how it feels to stand beside you 

Or take your hand 

When I need some direction 

And I may never know what it's like to see you smile 

Back at me 

Or know you'd be proud of me 

It’s funy when you want something with someone, but know you will never be able to have it.  To know it is impossible, at least for now.  To know that no matter what you do, it would never work.  It hurts so much, and yet you know at the same time, that God has a plan through all this.

Take a good look at Tommy, he’s a track star 

Good role model, had a chance to go real far 

Then the school made a budget-cut 

Cut out the track team 

Now instead Tommy is a crack head 

Alright, so whenever I hear this I laugh, because it goes from one extreme to the other.  But when you really think about it, it is not funny, it is remarkably sad.  I was sitting the other day, watching one of my friends go through deprivation from drugs, and it made me so sad, I couldn’t look at him.  I just wanted to shout out to God, make God take the longing for the drugs away, but I know it wasn’t God’s choice, but instead that of my friend.

What you said to me late last night 

I’ll remember for the rest of my life

Every night when I close my eyes

I see the ways that you’ve touched my life

And I want you to know that I’ll

Always be right here

This section is specifically for two of my friends who are moving away this summer. And I mean it a billion trillion percent.  Because, you guys have so impacted my life in ways I cannot express.

'Cause I need you more than ever 

I need your help to find where I’ll be going wrong so far 

Take me under your wing tonight 

Make me so perfect in your eyes 

Hold on 'cause it will be alright 

Your not alone 

I need God more than anything.  He created me, and He is the only thing that is keepin me alive, and I know I want more than anything to spend eternity with him, and I know that I want evryone else to know, how I feel in his presence, and the joy He has given me.

for the first time in my whole life 

i'm not afraid of feeling alive 

for the last time i'm falling behind 

and nothing out there will change me

Im no longer nervous when other’s see me talk to my King.  I am not afriad of others knowing I am a ‘Jesus Freak’ because I met this great bunch of people who have accepted my love for my Saviour just as I accept that they haven’t met him…yet.

I won't forget that night I saw him at the movies 

He has this way about him, he smiles whenever he walks  

He has this glow about him you catch it whenever he talks 

Okay, so I haven’t really listened to this song before right now, but these lyrics are perfect, like I cannot even describe it, they fit him perfectly.

honest promise you will be missed

This is the perfect last line.  Honest Promise you will be missed.

          So, I went to X-Posed last night, and it made me realize a whole lot of things…and I am completely guilty of all of them, so Im really just talking to myself here.

        How often do we say, “I want her/him to notice me”, “I want to be friends with her/him”, “I want her/him to hang out with me”, “I want her/him to ask me on a date”, I want this to go farther”.  Because we think it will make us happier, we think it will make us more joyful.  We think, but we are deceived.  See, I don’t need any guy’s love.  I have survived 17 years without it, and I will survive probably many more.  Sure, I really want it, but I can survive without it.  The thing is though, there is one love we cannot survive without, that is Jesus’ love.  I would not be alive today, if it was not for my best friend, my father, my King, my Jesus.  Can you imagine what the world would be today, if your teacher’s knew Jesus.  What the world would be like, if the quiet girl who sits in front of you in math, fell to her knees at the allpowerful of Jesus.  What would the world be like if that guy, the really good looking one who parties his weekends away, and is killing his brain with the drugs he takes, gave it all up, for a better high, a Jesus high.  What would the world be like if we all turned to Jesus, tears streaking down everyone’s faces, pouring out their hearts to the Almighty King.  A revolution that starts here, in your heart.  We don’t need boyfriends or girlfriends.  We don’t need drugs, sex and alcohol.  We don’t need to have the riches of the world, because they do not lie in our hands but instead in the hands of Jesus.  They lie in the torn, broken hands of a man who has hung upon a cross, endured the most painful death, to save you.  He has a gift, and so many of us have accepted this gift, and thrown it into the backs of our closests.  Thrown it into a place where we will be able to retrieve it, when we need it.  But not now, not on this date, not for this party.  But we will retrieve it, when our cousin is dying of cancer, when we can’t find our keys, when we have a huge exam and have not studied for it.  But than there is this whole other group of people, who have maybe heard of this gift, but have never accepted it.  Never wanted to, because they would have to change.  We are supposed to be the generation of change.  We are supposed to be the generation that yearns for something bigger.  Yearn for Jesus.  For those of you who have thrown that gift into the back of your closest’s.  Take it out, dust it off, and tell the world.  Tell the world that Jesus lives, tell the world that He died for them.  Jesus says we will endure the worst hardships, but stand strong.  Stand strong in your faith. Stand Strong when others are making fun of your Jesus.  Stand strong, when others are making fun of you, because you serve Him.  Stand strong when others are conforming to the sex, the drugs, the alcohol.  And instead of conforming, be transforming, into a stronger, and better God follower. Because if you are searching for love, you need to realize you are searhing for Jesus.

   ⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. ⁸Love never fails.