Edmonton Election

In this post I will give any recommendations I have for the election next month.   Some people when giving recommendations would recommend a whole bunch of different people.   Not me, I'm just recommending one person over and over and over and over and over and.... You get the picture.   The person I recommend is (drum roll please):

Carla Smiley

and she is running for Edmonton Catholic School Trustee for ward 72.

Her website is: http://www.carlasmiley.info/
If you can vote for her I highly recommend it.


P.S.  Wow, I used the word recommend 7 times

Les Miserables

Well, I was looking through my previous posts and I saw that I didn't have any posts about Les Miserables.   This post (and the next couple) are going to fix that.   I'm going to start with a list of the characters followed by the "official" story.   First, the characters:

Jean Valjean
Javert
Marius Pontmercy
Cosette
Fantine
Thenardier
Madame Thenardier
Enjorlas
Eponine
The Bishop of Digne
Compeferre
Brujon
Factory Foreman
Factory Girl
Bamatobis
Claquesous
Montparnasse
Babet
Feuilly
Courfeyrac
Joly
Grantaire
Lesgles
Jean Prouvaire
Young Cosette
Young Eponine
Gavroche
Fauchelevant
Friends of the ABC
Tons of choruses

Now the story:
ACT ONE

PROLOGUE: 1815, DIGNE

After 19 years on the chain gang, Jean Valjean finds that the ticket of leave he must display condemns him to be an outcast. Only the Bishop of Digne treats him kindly and Valjean, embittered by years of hardship, repays him by stealing some silver. Valjean is caught and brought back by the police and is astonished when the Bishop lies to the police to save him. Valjean decides to start his life anew.

1823, MONTREUIL-SUR-MER

Eight years have passed and Valjean, having broken his parole and changed his name to Monsieur Madeleine, has become a factory owner and Mayor. One of his workers, Fantine, has a secret illegitimate child. When the other women discover this, they demand her dismissal.

Desperate for money to pay for medicines for her daughter, Fantine sells her locket, her hair, and then joins the whores in selling herself. Utterly degraded, she gets into a fight with a prospective customer and is about to be taken to prison by Javert when the ‘Mayor’ arrives and demands she be taken to hospital instead. The Mayor then rescues a man pinned beneath a cart. Javert is reminded of the abnormal strength of convict 24601 Jean Valjean, who, he says, has just been recaptured. Valjean, unable to see an innocent man go to prison, confesses that he is prisoner 24601. At the hospital, Valjean promises the dying Fantine to find and look after her daughter Cosette. Javert arrives to arrest him, but Valjean escapes.

1823, MONTFERMEIL

Cosette has been lodged with the Thénardiers, who horribly abuse her while indulging their own daughter, Éponine. Valjean pays the Thénardiers to let him take her away to Paris.

1832, PARIS

Nine years later, there is unrest in the city because of the likely demise of the popular leader General Lamarque, the only man left in the government who shows any feeling for the poor. A streetgang led by Thénardier and his wife sets upon Jean Valjean and Cosette. They are rescued by Javert, who does not recognise Valjean until he has gone.  The Thénardiers’ daughter Éponine, who is secretly in love with the student Marius, reluctantly agrees to help him find Cosette, with whom he has fallen in love.  News of General Lamarque’s death circulates in the city and a group of politically-minded students stream out into the streets to whip up support for a revolution.  Costte is consumed by thoughts of Marius, with whom she has fallen in love.  Éponine brings Marius to Cosette and then prevents an attempt by her father’s gang to rob Valjean’s house.  Valjean, convinced it was Javert lurking outside his house, tells Cosette they must prepare to flee the country.

ACT TWO

The students prepare to build the barricade. Marius, noticing that Éponine has joined the insurrection, sends her away with a letter to Cosette, which is intercepted by Valjean. Éponine decides to rejoin her love at the barricade.  The barricade is built and the revolutionaries defy an army warning to give up or die. Javert is exposed as a police spy. In trying to return to the barricade, Éponine is killed.  Valjean arrives at the barricade in search of Marius. He is given the chance to kill Javert but instead lets him go. The students settle down for a night on the barricade and, in the quiet of the night, Valjean prays to God to save Marius. The next day the rebels are all killed.  Valjean escapes into the sewers with the unconscious Marius. After meeting Thénardier, who is robbing the corpses of the rebels, he comes across Javert once more. He pleads for time to deliver the young man to hospital. Javert lets Valjean go and, his unbending principles of justice having been shattered by Valjean’s own mercy, he kills himself.

Unaware of the identity of his rescuer, Marius recovers in Cosette’s care. Valjean confesses the truth of his past to Marius and insists he must go away.  At Marius and Cosette’s wedding, the Thénardiers try to blackmail Marius. Thénardier says Cosette’s ‘father’ is a murderer and as proof produces a ring which he stole from the corpse the night the barricade fell. It is Marius’s own ring and he realises it was Valjean who rescued him that night. He and Cosette go to Valjean where Cosette learns for the first time of her own history before the old man dies.

Not Back To School Party #3

Well, I'm a day late again, but this time I have a good excuse.   After the party, we stayed at some friends in Derwent.   At the party, a friend and I sang songs like "Blow the Man Down" and such like.

Not Back To School Party #2

Well I'm a day late, but that's because I was so tired out after this party that I just went home and went to bed.   The party was quite enjoyable.   Also, one of the families that was at the last party was at this one,   o we talked a bit about the "movie".   There was also a girl there who is in my Latin online class, so we had a bit to talk about as well.

Not Back To School Party #1

This is the first post in my three day posting spree. It is also the first NOT Back To School Party out of three. This is not in fact a coincidence. I will dedicate one post per day to each of the three parties. And now, what I did today. Some people will, when asked, "What did you do today?" give a very boring answer like, "I got up, had breakfast, went to school, got home, had supper, did homework, went to bed." However, I am not one of these people. What I did today was:

1. got up

2. had breakfast

3. went to the corn maze (It was a-maize-ing)

4. had supper at a friends house

5. went to a NOT Back To School Party

6. starred as a doctor in a tiny movie making fun of TV shows like House or any other hospital drama. I can't tell you about it because it is eventually going to be on youtube. I will, however, post the link when it's up.

7. went home

8. posted this

9. went to bed exhausted

Jackie Evancho

And now #3 Why I liked Jackie

To answer this all I have to do his say watch this:

America's Got Talent

Although I'm a little late to be writing this (the finale was yesterday night) I decided that since it's better late than never I would write down 1) Who I wanted to win. 2) the results. and 3) What I thought about the person I wanted to win.

Starting with #1 Who I wanted to win out of the Final Four (Jackie Evancho, Prince Poppycock, Michael Grimm, and Fighting Gravity.)

I personally wanted Jackie Evancho to win because she has, out of any person I've heard to this day, the most beautiful voice ever.

#2 Results.

In 4th place was Prince Poppycock

In 3rd place was Fighting Gravity

In 2nd place Jackie Evancho (a very big surprise for everyone)

In 1st place surprising even himself Michael Grimm

Number 3 will be answered in my next post