Catchup

Hey! Merry christmas, happy new year, ect...... Hows everything? Its been soooo hot, and we've been having water fights ( I brought a water gun today and I can soak everyone Mwwwwahahaha ) yeah. Look at these random pictures I found.





Annnyyyywayyyyy
See you later

*Dan*

Summer!!!

Its almost summer holidays! Looking forward to the sunshine (its raining right now) and the fun things to do! Sometimes in the holidays you don't know what to do even though all through the term you want to do this and that then your mind goes blank in the holidays. Anyway the other day we made a game where we wrote out all these random stuff then we pick five out of a hat then see who can finish them first, yeah its pretty fun. And the other day mum went to Australia for 4 days to see her mum and she brought me a model kit to make a sailing boat and its like making the real thing a a smaller scale and that's going to use time to. So whenever I don't know what to do I am preped.



*Dan*

Yuss, yuss, yuss!!! Last night New Zealand beat Bahrain 1-0!!!! They're in the Fifa World Cup 2010!!! So looking forward to next year, Parachute, World Cup and all!!!!




*Dan*

More news

This afternoon we relized we were out of milk so me and Nate ran to the store (or Nate skateboarded) and brought some milk. The girl at the counter said "are you the one's in the paper? Me and Nate were like "are we in the paper? So she showed us and someone had put in an article about us playing at parachute. We were like????? Who put us in the paper. So we got home and it turns out mum had put it in. So we ended up going to the store and buying the paper. Yea pretty exciting, in the paper twice in about 30 days!! Even more exciting that we are going to Parachute!!!! I'm sosososososo looking foward to it.

Thanks mum.



*Dan*

Great News!!!!!

We (Mayday) are playing at the debut stage at parachute 2010!!!!!!! yus yus yus yus......!!!!!!! =) =) =) =) =) =) =) =) =) . Oh actually its the new Apollo Stage!!!!! I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....... excited!!!! I just can't wait!!! When we heard we ran screaming round the house. And we can't tell Jordan cause he's at the beach (out of cellphone range).




*Dan*

Hmmmmm...

Right now I fell like doing cartwheels... exept for the fact I can't do them.... hmmmm..... what will I do insted??? Stuck


*Dan*

Yay!!!

The concert on Saturday night was awesome as. And also playing my violin in my tux. Anyway, in the paper was a page about the concert and about 1/4 of it was a picture of me playing the violin (in my tux) and my sister and brother singing. Yus I'm in the paper! In a tux! Yus!!!anyway I better calm down ( I don't get in the paper very often).


*Dan*

Whats up?

Well next Saturday we have a concert at the town hall!!!! That's really exciting, we will be playing 3 songs and also I'm playing the violin for my younger brother and sister, I was kindof like playing a song with the little kids not to sure after playing with the band but then mum hierd me a tuxedo which looks real cool with a violin (well that's just what I think).
And then on the Saturday after that we have a show at the Garden and Craft Expo in which we are playing 12 songs (I think).
Any way that's all the exciting things going on right now.
Laters,

*Dan*

I really like

This





also this








Best of all.....




this

pretty awesome aye!

*Dan*

Lost

I think I'm lost..

Bang!

There's that wall again.

Someone give me directions.

What is my purpose in life?
Where do I go?

So find me
wherever I am won't you find me?
I've got myself lost
and I don't want to be roaming in heartache
Please find me tonight

Everyday Sunday

*Dan*

Think about this

I think we are all in a way like birds.

You see, some birds are free and can fly around, as happily as ever,
but other birds are stuck in the enclosed space of a cage.

Some of us are free,
and some are stuck in the cage of their feelings or thoughts

The bird in the cage is a prisoner, but his songs can be free.

Some of us in cages could be mopeing about whats happening to them,
or others could let their songs to God fly free in the world and maybe, just maybe
it might unlock someone elses cage.


*Dan*

Ring out the bells again,
like we did when spring began,
wake me up when september ends

Greenday


*Dan*

My lifes music

DANIELS RHAPSODY

hum dum de dum ba dum da trum da pish hum de ba badoom boom odoom ba dadoom wokum wodok badop todof crish-crish ush tring badosh radom opshin pish da da dom de dom bum bum badum da doom PISH PISH.

Now if you want to listen to real music look up August Rush Something Inside.


*Dan*

Guess What?

In 12 days I will be 12!
In 12 days Jordan will be 16!
I am clever because I was born on Jordans birthday.
Hehehe


*Dan*

Life

Today is soccer, before the game me and Nate were wondering if we were going to get the player of the day because it was almost the end of the season and we hadn't either got it yet. Anyway I'll skip to the part in the game when IT HAPPENED. There were two minutes left of the game and it was our corner, we were wining 3-2 Nate scored two I scored one. Nate took the corner and there was confusion in the box the ball went into the air, I was facing the goal and one of my team-mates was opposite me, he was alittle taller than me (as most people are) and I went to head the ball. He lifted his foot to kick it and my head was in there and he kicked my nose and it started bleeding, it really hurt. I went off and my nose was bleeding everywhere but in the end we won I got player of the day in the end. We went home and put ice and stuff on it and I'm alright now exept for a fat, swollen upper lip and nose.




*Dan*

Tomorrow is my mum's 40 and we are playing at her dance party. Jordans guitar broke and he's getting a new one tomorrow too so hopfully we can get some practice in. anyway....

Happy birthday to you,

happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday dear mum,

happy birthday to you

Love you mum your the best

*Dan*

Medications

If everyone had sunshine tablets the world would be a happier, friendlier place. Though there already lots of friendly people in the world, especially at Parachute, people are very friendly at parachute cos they're so happy to be there, but anyway I think there should be sunshine tablets.

*Dan*

Coldplay

Right now I'm really loving Viva La Vida and Fix You by Coldplay. I love the violin and cello in Viva La Vida. And also there this new band we found out called Owl City and they do this song all about cold hot air balloons.


*Dan*

Don't let things get you down, it just isn't worth it.

Exciting news

Last Thursday we went up to Napier to BATTLE OF THE BANDS, on the way we stopped in Otane to visit Poppa. Then went on to Napier we stopped at a garage to get petrol and also bot chips. We were hungry so we had a scone that mum made, then went on to the gig. We were all excited and thought the gig was going to be big and there would be lots of other bands. There was nine people watching and we were the only band!!! It was a youth church so they did this short sermon then we went on and played Moonlight Shadows then Not Forsaken. They really liked it then wanted us to play some more so we played Collisions Decisions and Other things then Not Forsaken again. Since we were the only band playing we are now in the semi-finals in Wellington on Saturday!



The other exciting news is that I just brought an electric violin!!!!! I can't wait for it to arrive!I am so excited!


*Dan*

Snow

Its been snowing for ages and there is snow on the ground it looks quite amazing.


Let it snow baby, let it rain deer



*Dan*

Shine

Wherever You Can

Shine your light into the darkness

The other day....

We were at the Domain practising soccer and my leg was sore where Nate & Josh had kicked me in other practises and I was really hungry. Then as we were running home I was behind everyone and I was kind of cross when I stopped because I had saw some thing. It was a hedgehog stuck in a wire fence, not moving, it had got stuck and died of starvation. And then I realized I wasn't that hungry and I thought "maybe this is a message from God" and understood I wasn't that bad off, at least I wasn't starving in the streets with no house and hadn't eaten for a day.


Its amazing how God talks to us in a small kind of way that makes us turn around, opens our eyes to see what things that we take for granted would be the world to some-one else starving on the other side of the world, or a hedge-hog stuck in a fence.

*Dan*

Updates

I been finding out how things work on here even though I'm supposed to be asleep and guess what else happened today. I realised; as we (mayday)were writing a song, that the bottom of one of the keys on my keyboard had a chunk missing from it=( though the keyboard still works fine.

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