Bills vs Pats

This past Sunday was one of the greatest moments of my life without a doubt. This happened when my favorite football team, the Buffalo Bills, finally beat the New England Patriots for the first time in over 2000 days.  It was so amazing to see them finally pull it out on the very last play of the game with a field goal as time expired. After all of the close losses over the past 9 years or so, they finally were able to beat the team I hate most in the entire world. After the game concluded, I exploded with joy and was immediately hugging every person that I could find with any type of Buffalo Bills apparel on that I could find.  I haven’t fully recovered my voice that I lost from screaming at the game, but that is completely alright with me. The Bills needed all of their fans to be loud and enthusiastic on Sunday when they were on defense, and I accepted that challenge, and really embraced it. But the best part of all of this was knowing for the final 3 minutes of the game that the Bills were going to end up winning the game because all that they had to do was run the clock out then kick a very short field goal. You could completely tell that this was truly aggravating the Patriots and their coaching staff, as they committed a couple of penalties out of frustration near the goal line. Also, Bill Belichick, the Patriots head coach had a timeout taken away from his team from arguing with the referee about a certain call. This made me the most happy out of any event that day, for this man has made me very angry over the years, and it made me extremely happy to see him so angry.

Favorite Foods

I would like to take some time in this blog to talk about my favorite foods. Spaghetti and meatballs is by far without a doubt my absolute favorite food in the world. However, I prefer the sauce homemade and I like the noodles to be whole grain. Spaghetti sauces come in many different flavors and consistencies. Many people like their sauce thin and plain, without anything going on. I prefer my sauce with to taste like an explosion of all different flavors. I like it spicy, hot, and with cut up sausage and other types of meat in it. I also put more than enough sauce on my noodles, because like most, I need the extra dipping sauce for my breadsticks or garlic bread.  However, when I am eating spaghetti, I need to be drinking milk with it. One other food that I really enjoy eating is watermelon. Honestly, in my opinion, it is the best tasting fruit out there. I can literally sit down with a spoon and eat an entire watermelon in under an hour, and I enjoy every single second of it. And it fills me up, so I am satisfied for a couple of hours until my next meal. Also if you don’t like to drink water but you want to get the nutritional benefits that water provides, then watermelon is the food for you. Finally, my third favorite food would probably have to be turkey subs. Turkey subs with just turkey are extremely flavorless and boring. Add some mayonnaise, cheese, lettuce, onions, peppers, and ketchup, and you have yourself a fine tasting sub right there. You can also get your turkey subs on many different flavored sub rolls, but they usually only come on whole wheat or white bread. I personally prefer whole wheat, but will eat my turkey subs either way.

Favorite Season

I love all the seasons of the year. Each season has its own pros and cons, however it is nice to live somewhere where you get all of them each year, this way I don’t get bored of the same season year around. However, one season stands out in my mind as my favorite, and that is autumn. Autumn, in my opinion, has by far the best weather of all the seasons.  It is the perfect time of year to wear sweatpants and hoodies, and the sleeping weather is simply perfect. Nothing beats waking up on a Sunday morning, putting on a pair of sweatpants, and parking it right in front of my television all day watching football. Another reason that I love fall is because its football season for me, which I really enjoy. Fall is also the one season out of the year that I don’t really mind going to school. During the fall I haven’t been in school long enough to be sick of it already, so I sort of enjoy school until fall is over, then I just get sick of it. Autumn in my opinion has two of the best seasons in Thanksgiving and Halloween. Personally, I can’t think of a better holiday than sitting around watching football and eating a lot of food all day. One of the things that I love most about autumn is the fall foliage. I just love walking outside during fall to see all the beautiful leaves all over the place. There is also a very distinct smell that you experience when you are out among nature during autumn, which I really enjoy. Autumn also means that my mother will be buying candy corn, which is probably my favorite candy, and is something that I don’t eat at any other time of year than fall.      

Facebook

Like most of my peers, I do in fact use facebook. Facebook is a fun and easy way to see what all of your friends are up to throughout the day. And it’s also a great place to connect with old friends that you have not seen in many years, and to see what is going on in their lives. Also facebook is useful for adding famous athletes that you don’t know so you can see what their personal lives. Some athletes that I have added over the years are Alex Morgan and Michael
Jasper.  Facebook is also a good place to share pictures that you take with your friends and pictures of special moments in your life.  However Thursday nights during “Jersey Shore” season is not a good time to be on facebook. This is when facebook is most active, and I just try to stay away as much as possible during that particular hour. Also you get the occasional, “dsfjsdjfopm” status, which still makes no sense to me, but it seems to with everyone else.  Some more negative problems that are associated with facebook are that some people use it as an outlet to bully people, which is not a gooid idea. When you do this, that particular kid tells their principle and you usually end up getting into a lot of trouble. So basically it just really isn’t worth it, and it actually makes you look pretty foolish if you decide to bully other people over the internet. Facebook can also be used as a great way to spread awareness about a certain event that is coming up in the near future. You can do this by creating an event and sending it to all of the people that you want to attend it. This gets the word out about that particular event in a quick and efficient manner.

Comfortable writing about

When I am writing, the main thing that I enjoy writing about would have to be sports. I like writing about sports because they are something that I feel that I know a lot about, and as a result I feel like I am good at writing about them.  The main sports that I like to write about are football and the Buffalo Bills, and hockey and the Buffalo Sabres. I also enjoy writing about fantasy football news because I am a very serious fantasy football player, and I feel that I have a lot of knowledgeable and in depth advice to give. Something else that I enjoy writing about is myself.  I obviously like doing this because I think I’m a pretty interesting subject to write about, and it comes pretty easy to me, because I already know everything. To be completely honest, I’d be pretty interested in reading about “Michael Steffan” if I weren’t me.  History is something else that I am pretty good at writing about. I owe a lot of this success to my 11^th grade U.S history teacher Mr. Foss. He taught me how to write a very unique way to write articles about history which I found very useful, and as a result scored very well on my history exam. I also think that I have a pretty good understanding of a lot of historical events, and that helps me succeed in writing about history. Pretty much anything that I think that I know a lot about, I am good at writing about. But besides that, I guess I can write about pretty much anything that is assigned to me, so long as I do a little bit of research beforehand. So therefore, I will write about anything that is assigned to me in this class.

8th Grade

Looking back on all of my years of schooling, I have had a lot of good years, and met a lot of people that I have really come to have a liking for. However, one year really stands out in my mind as the best year. That year would have to be 8^th grade for sure. During 8^th grade, I met a lot of friends that I am still friends with today, and I had some of my favorite teachers. One of those teachers was my math teacher. She taught me how to solve math equations like none other. I learned so much about life in general just by simply being in that women’s presence. Wow, I really liked that teacher that taught me about math. If I could, I would go back in a heartbeat, just to spend one more day in that teachers 8^th grade math class. However, there was more to 8^th grade that I liked besides my math teacher. This year was really fun because I felt like I “ruled the school.” Me and my friends had so much fun being the oldest kids in the school, and not having to try and avoid the bigger kids in the hallway.  Fun nights were also really fun in 8^th grade. In 8^th grade I spent a lot of time playing hockey at the park after school with my friends. We would always pretend that it was game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals and that we were the Buffalo Sabres, trying to clinch our first franchise championship. I was always Sabres Ales Kotalik, because he was always my favorite player. And my friend Ryan was always Teppo Numminen.  Playing hockey was probably one of my favorite parts of 8^th grade. But the main reason that I chose 8^th grade as my favorite year of schooling was because I really enjoyed taking math that year, because I really liked my math teacher that particular year.                         

8th Grade

Looking back on all of my years of schooling, I have had a lot of good years, and met a lot of people that I have really come to have a liking for. However, one year really stands out in my mind as the best year. That year would have to be 8^th grade for sure. During 8^th grade, I met a lot of friends that I am still friends with today, and I had some of my favorite teachers. One of those teachers was my math teacher. She taught me how to solve math equations like none other. I learned so much about life in general just by simply being in that women’s presence. Wow, I really liked that teacher that taught me about math. If I could, I would go back in a heartbeat, just to spend one more day in that teachers 8^th grade math class. However, there was more to 8^th grade that I liked besides my math teacher. This year was really fun because I felt like I “ruled the school.” Me and my friends had so much fun being the oldest kids in the school, and not having to try and avoid the bigger kids in the hallway.  Fun nights were also really fun in 8^th grade. In 8^th grade I spent a lot of time playing hockey at the park after school with my friends. We would always pretend that it was game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals and that we were the Buffalo Sabres, trying to clinch our first franchise championship. I was always Sabres Ales Kotalik, because he was always my favorite player. And my friend Ryan was always Teppo Numminen.  Playing hockey was probably one of my favorite parts of 8^th grade. But the main reason that I chose 8^th grade as my favorite year of schooling was because I really enjoyed taking math that year, because I really liked my math teacher that particular year.                         

This school year

This school year is definitely going to be a lot of fun. It is my senior year, and for most people, senior year is full of excitement and memories that will last the rest of their lives. However, there are a few major goals that I plan to accomplish academically this school year. Number one, I plan on passing all of my classes, and earning my diploma at the end of the year in June. In order to do this I must pass Social Studies, Gym, and English 12. All of which are my strongest subjects, so as long as I show up for school on a regular basis, I should be able to accomplish my initial goal for this school year and graduate. Another goal that I have set for myself this year is to pass a class that is going to be very challenging for me. That class is chemistry. I plan on coming into class every single day and working my very hardest to make sure that I am able to pass that regents exam in June. I am confident that with my unmatched work ethic and determination, and also with the help of Mrs. Geck, I will be able to do alright in that class. And considering it is pretty much the only challenging class that I am in this year, it would truly be a shame if I were to fail it. One final goal that I wasn’t to accomplish during this school year is dance harder than I have ever danced before in my entire life at every single dance. I really enjoy dancing and have my entire life, and given that this is my final year in high school, I will go mall out on the dance floor. From homecoming all the way to prom, my goal is to be the best dancer I can possibly be, and to leave it all on the dance floor.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Summer 2011

This past summer, I did a lot of fun and exciting things. I spent most of my free time with my friends and went to the movies a lot. I went to the beach a couple times with some of my friends and threw the football around, which was fun. I also went to my friend Ryan’s house and had a “home run derby” in his front yard. Being the monster that I am, I hit 6 homeruns with 10 outs and won. Although my competition was not very competitive, however it was really fun just to mess around and get some laughs out of it. I also spent a lot of time playing volleyball at my friend Joe’s house on his new beach volleyball court that he got in his backyard. Much like the homerun derby, I was really good at volleyball, and spiked that ball like a champ. When I wasn’t hanging out with my friends, I was mainly just working out for this upcoming football season. Much of this time was spent with working out at“Absolute Performance”, located in the sports performance park in the eastern hills mall, which is a program that I started in May to help myself get stronger and faster for football. Now that football season is upon us, I definitely feel that working out there was a wise investment because I feel that I am much faster and stronger every time I hit the field. I also got my first job this summer, working at Tim Horton’s. However, I only worked weekends because I learned really early on that I do not like working and would like to put it off for as long as I possibly can. I guess that making frozen lemonades and Iced Capp Supremes just isn’t my thing.