Hi everyone, just thought I would say hi cos i haven't been on here for ages.

Hi!

How have you been?
Good?
Thats good
This is quite a one-sided conservation

bye


*DAn*

Soccer Tournament

Last weekend the I went with the rep team up to Taupo for a soccer tournament, and we ended up coming second in the worst teams cup. It was fun as!!!!!! We also went swimming twice.


*DAn*

I just realised its a week to my birthday!!









Don't worry, I'm not turning 21 :)











*DAn*

Hello

I haven't blogged for a while so I thought I'd tell you about my not so interesting day.
For breakfast I had toast. Yum!!
Then there was school,
and more school.
And then lunch-a massive omelet with every thing in it.
And then a paper run with Jaws and Nate (it was a half-day at school)
Then band practice, we've half written a song.
Then tea-chicken nibbles
then dishes
then mucking around
and then blogging.
So that is the average day in the life of Daniel.
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That was pretty boring wasn't it.
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*Dan*

I have decided I need more photos in this blog.

So here are some

Mayday!

Cam-Am Spyder RT-S Roadster! Mean!!!!!!!

Shane Smeltz after scoreing his goal against Italy

Mayday @ rockquest

Thats all!

*DAn*

SFRQ

On Saturday we went to Masterton and played a show at the Smokefree Rockquest regional final, we had a 8 minute slot, played two songs, and went hungus as on stage. It was mean!!!! I kept highfiveing the crowd and got them clapping etc.... it was awesome. Then the winners were announced, we didn't get through to the finals but I won a contest for lyric writing with the only song I wrote! Is was soooo mean.


*DAn*

I'm writing a song (kindof) and its sounding pretty good, I hope I can finish it.
We hit the stage on Saturday for rock-quest, and then the studio on August the 3rd,pretty exciting stuff.

what else is happening?




Can't think of anything.


c u

*dan*

Everything

Today we went on a roadtrip to the beach.... it was so awesome
We saw a crab called Walter who scuttled sideways.
We had the chips from the pub which are the best!!!
We got soooooo wet in the rain
Nate and Jords redescovered Lake Duck.
We went to the longest place name in the world which is.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Which means the hill where Taumata, a strong and powerful Maori chief played his flute for his dead brother (I think)
We had ice-cream with chocolate sauce on the way home and got very full.
It was the best.


Tomorrow is Nate's birthday and we are going to watch Germany vs Spain at 5:30 in the morning. GO GERMANY!!!!

This week so far has been Awesome!!!




*DAn*

Whats up?
Yesterday in band practice I jumped in the middle of a song and landed on a thin piece of metal and it got stuck in my toe but I pulled it out. It hurt even though it was so small.
Today I busked with my violin in Palmerston North, I got $14 from playing for half an hour.
Yea....
Its almost the holidays! YAY!!!!!!! Only one more day of school!!





You are all awsome.




*DAn*

Remember?

Remember our space rocket?

Remember our time capsule?

Remember sleeping under the stars?

Remember jumping off the jetty?

Remember today?






*DAn*

Last-night

Last-night we had a sleep-over at the Dempsters and then watched New-Zealand vs Italy at 2am, the score was 1-1! It was mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



*DAn*

On Wensday the rep team (which I'm in) beat the highschool 9-1 it was mean as. I didn't score any=( but i set up a few goals. It was really fun.
Umm nothing else happening lately.
We have a rep game on Sunday
nothing else I think.
Do you like my new template on my blog?


*DAn*

Tje other day I tried to play my harmonica but it failed
Why?
Because I was sick and kept having coughing fits.

But now I am better =-)


(Did you turn you head sideways to see the smily?) =-)



Ha you did it again!





*DAn*

the other day

The other day I walked for ages down a country road.....
It was fun.


*DAn*

Who?

Who likes this picture?

*DAn*

I want

I want to knit a multi-coloured scarf but I can't knit.

I want to go in a dog sled but I don't live in Alaska.


I want to tour the world but I don't have enough money.


I want some of these but they aren't sold in New Zealand

(If you were wondering what they are they are power-bocks and they allow you to jump really high and run really fast)

I would do all of these things if I had the money.

*DAn*

An almost blank post

Rabbit

The lonley rabbit.
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was found by friends
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There aren't strangers here, only friends we havn't met.




I hope this brightens your day


*DAn*

News

Lastnight me Nate and Jaws went to a sleepover at our friends house and stayed up till 3 (actually it was 2 because of daylight saving) it was awesome as!


Happy Easter everyone!

Ummm oh yea our cousins came over (they live in Saudi Arabia) (I hope I spelt that right) they're staying for 9 days.

I think thats about it.


*DAn*

Complications

Why is life so confusing?


As All Left Out say so truly in one of their songs "What is the meaning of life and where do I fit in."


Sometimes I wish I was a little kid and have nothing to worry about.








*Dan*

Yuk

Guess what?
Last night and this morning I threw up 5 times, I have a cold and a headache. I don't know why I threw up though, but it was really yuk.

Daniel

Church camp!

Tomorrow we're going to church camp!!!!! I'm so exited cos on the Sunday afternoon (which is when we leave) Me Jaws and Nate are going to the Pheonix (a soccer team)
with our friend for his birthday!!!! And at church camp we are going to do a petition again!! (It started a few years ago when there wasn't peaches for breakfast so we started a petition for it, then the next year it was april fools so we did the petition for something but used pens which didn't work) This year I got a pen and when you turn it on it gives you an electric shock (actually its just a "buzz" so doesn't hurt its just annoying).
Anyway I'm sooooo looking foward to it.




*Dan*

The ripeness of Apricots

Tonight I sat on the deck eating an apricot looking at the stars. The apricot was still a bit sour on one side. And I didn't see many stars because of the patchy clouds. And I still don't know why I blogged about this anyway.





*Dan*

Songs

Right now I'm really these songs
Forget and not slow down-Relient k
Brothers in arms-Mumsdollar
Awakening-Switchfoot
Just now our computer was on shuffle on windows media player and I really felt like listening to Awakening and then it started playing!!! How likely is that of happening?
I'm hoping we will write a song soon (I made a opening for a rock song the other day) so hopefully we get there.




*Dan*

Parachute!!!

Parachute was sooooo mean, our show, the bands, the atmosphere of it all. Our show was awesome as and we went hard, hopefully I can get pics of it later. Nate got the new Rapture Ruckus c.d that comes out in July but they got 600 copies early for parachute but they sold out before Saturday (Parachute is Friday night, Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning). Me Nate and our two friends were sleeping in one tent and we kept shouting to the tent behind us SOMEBODY SAY YEA!!!! And they said YEA back and we had conversation when we hadn't actually seen them. It rained hardcore on Sunday and one of the youth groups tents flooded and ours did too but we maneged to fit everyone in the tents. Sunday night (worship night) was awesome as. Leeland played and they were amazing (before parachute I didn't really like them)
their show just flowed.

It was so AWESOME!!! I love parachute.


*Dan*

hi

3 days until parachute!!! Stoked as! And tomorrows Dads birthday!!(He's turning 42)And also I added these reeeaaalllllllyyyyyy random fish, if you click on there "tank" it drops food for them, its random as. Tell me which one you like the best.

They are sooooo random.....


*Dan*

August rush

August Rush: The music's all around us, all you have to do is listen. Can you hear it? The music. It's everywhere. In the wind... in the air... in the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do... is listen. Sometimes the world tries ot knock it out of you. But I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales. I like to imagine that what I hear came from my mother and father. Maybe the notes I hear, are the same ones they heard, the night they met. Maybe that's how they found each other. Maybe that's how they'll find me. I believe that once upon a time, long ago, they heard the music and followed it.

Wizard: What do you want to be in the world? I mean, the whole world, what do you want to be? Close your eyes and think about that. August Rush: Found.

A few of my favorite lines from the movie: August Rush
(For those of you who haven't seen it it about this kid who was seperated from his mum and dad (who fell in love at a party one night but didn't get see each other again) at birth and when he's about twelve he go's from the ophans home and meets up with a musician named "Wizard" who takes him in, but wizard really want August for the money so August run's from wizard And joins in a music school and get to show his music with an orchostra at a concert. His mum is also playing the cello there a few acts before him and his dad is there to. His mum is walking off when she hears the orcostra and turns walking back. August Rush's dad and meet at the front line as the music finish's August (who is conducting) turns around and see's his mum and dad.)

Yeah its a really great (and kindof sad) movie about music and its one of my favorite.



*Dan*

Yuss!

Only 9 days till parachute yuss, yuss ,yuss!!!!! I'm so excited!!!


*Dan*

hi

Whatsup?




Nothing much been happening lately, we went to lake Wikarimoana (somewhere in the mountains) last week and had mean fun (got sore legs from hiking). We jumped off a jetty that wasn't used much

The jetty





ran a 30 minute return track in 15 mins, saw a cool waterfall and swam in the ice cold lake below it.

the waterfall




Almost rented a kayak but the place was closed and the store sold gobstoppers! I brought some and they reminded me of when I was younger and played spy's with my older brothers and sister.Soooooo much fun- pity we didn't stay longer =-( .




I was sick this morning so i couldn't go on a road trip with my bro's and beka but by the afternoon I was fine.




Thats about it,




*Dan*

(thanks nate for the photos)

Happy new year!

Happy new year, its going to be a good one!



*Dan*