Boston Marathon

The Boston Marathon was probably the biggest devastation to ever take place in Boston. When I first heard about it I didn’t even believe it at first, I didn’t think something like this would happen especially to my city. I was in shock when I found out the number of people injured and that 3 people died including an 8 year old boy that’s just so sad. He still had his whole life in front of him and it was taken away by a couple of cowards. I still wonder if there was more people involved even though they say it’s only the two brothers.

Boston Strong

What happened in Boston this past week is a disaster. It was the worst thing that has ever happened to Boston. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother Tmerlan Tsarnaev plotted a bombing at the 117^th Boston Marathon and took 3 lives   and one was the life of 8 year old Martin Richard. Clearly this man and his brother have something against the U.S. and are sick in the head if they want to bomb a marathon and take innocent lives. They also murdered MIT officer Sean Collier. After this they were on the run and there ended up being a shootout in Watertown where the eldest brother was shot several times then the younger brother had run him over by accident. Then he wasn’t caught until 19 hours later when he was found in a resident of Watertowns backyard in their boat. 

                 He was under the tarp that was covering the boat and nobody knew until the lockdown was lifted. Then the residential owner David Henneberry walked outside to have a smoke and realized a strap covering his boat was cut which he found suspicious so he went to take a look and saw a puddle of blood and Dzhokhar laying in there. He immediately dialed 911 and the police showed up. They weren’t sure if he had explosives with him or not which he didn’t but just in case they brought in a bomb squad robot to see if he had any and when they knew he didn’t they tossed flash bangs in the boat and eventually got him out and arrested him and rushed him to Beth Israel in Boston.

The crazy thing about this whole thing is he casually went back to his school the day of the bombing and he attended parties and everyone said he seemed calm and relaxed like nothing had happened. That’s what makes him seem like such a psycho. I don’t understand how someone can take four innocent lives and then go hangout with their friends and act completely normal. If one can do that then clearly they have something wrong with them. This whole tragedy is just so upsetting and crazy how it was in our city.

Interview Assignment

             I interviewed my friend Jacob VanDenBerghe on his first year of Norton track and field. I asked him how he likes it so far seeing that it was his first year ever doing track and his response was “It’s fun so far, everyone seems nice.” He also seems pretty optimistic on how their season will turn out by the end of it. The next question I asked was “How do you like your coaches?” He said “I think they are nice and they help out a lot, they especially like to work with you one on one”. The next question I asked Jacob was “What events do you do and how do you like them?” His response was “I throw the javelin and I like it a lot also a lot of the upperclassmen help out and try to get you to perfect your throw.” Then I asked “Is it competitive among you and your teammates never mind the other teams you play?” He answered saying “It’s definitely competitive with my teammates but more so with myself.” He seems he gets along with all his teammates even though they are competitive with one another and want to be better than each other. My last question was “Do you have to be fully dedicated to track to be good?” He answered saying “I don’t think you have to be fully dedicated as long as you compete with yourself and teammates also it really helps to improve my skill with the other sports I play.” Clearly Jacob is enjoying track for his first year and he suggests to everyone to at least try it out because it’s fun.

Malcolm Subban

Malcolm Subban is a back-up goalie for the Boston Bruins but he plays in the Ontario hockey league and is very good. He is only 19 years old and some say in five years he will be the best goalie in the NHL. Currently he plays goalie for the Belleville Bulls and in his second season he finished fourth in the league with a 2.50 goals-against average. Also Subban tied fifth with 0.923 save percentage. As you can see he is a very good goalie and he is only 19 so clearly he has a lot of potential and probably will be one of the best goalies in the NHL one day.

            Malcolm Subban has three brothers and all play professional hockey, one is named P.K. and is on our rival team the Montreal Canadians and plays defense. His younger brother Jordan was drafted fifth overall by the Belleville Bulls in the Ontario Hockey League priority draft. He has just finished his rookie season with them. Clearly the Subban family is just an athletic family of hockey players. He didn’t start playing goalie until he was 12 before that he played defense. Also the reason he wears the number 30 is because of his favorite player Henrik Lundqvist