Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Last Blog!
The theme of this blog was basically to just have fun with these assignments and make the best out of it! I wanted to be funny and tell people how weird and crazy my life is. In this blog, I wanted to cheer people up and give people laughs.
Halloween Costumes
Halloween was a blast this year! As usual, I went out with my friends to all the local watering holes in La Crosse. My friends and I decided to start the night out on the north side at The North Star. Right when I walked in, a wave of intense laughter came over me as I notice all the amazing costumes this year. There were Snookis(Jersey Shore) of course, pregnant nuns, and the funniest one was a friend dressed up as "the rose lady." For all of you that do not know the rose lady. It's a 5'5' middle aged black woman who cares around a bucket of freshly picked floors, that goes from bar to bar saying "FLOWERS" to all the drunk college students. This costume was the biggest laugh of the night! I couldn't stop thinking to myself how he thought of that. Now, my buddy who dressed up as the flower lady, is a 6'3' skinny white kid. He had his face painted black, a stocking cap with dread locks underneath and a pleather Wisconsin Badgers coat on. He was dressed to a T when resembling the flower lady. It is going to be hard to top that costume next year. I think I am going to start planning sooner rather than later!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Exercise is important to a long life (illistration)
Exercise is extremely important to living a long and healthy life. Exercising daily will help me in many different ways such as; having more energy, having self confidence, and enjoying my body instead of hating it. Having the opportunity to exercise everyday is difficult with my busy schedule, but I make it point to at least do cardio everyday if I don't have time to lift! Going to the Gym and working out is like a different world where nothing else matters. The gym is a place where I can take all my frustration out in a positive manner, and reap benefits of living a longer and healthier life! Exercises to me is my own slice of escaping reality that benefits my mind body and soul!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Narrative (first time wakeboarding)
Many people all around the world have learned the craft of wakeboarding. In the summer of 2000 was my first experience on how to wakeboard. Wakeboarding to me at the time seemed like an exciting, thrill seeking adventure. Little did I know that it was going to be so intense for someone like myself!
On a beautiful summer day, my friends Chad and Ryan took me out on Ryan's sixteen foot runabout. As we got to the dock and put the boat in, my heart rate went up with fear of, "what did I get into myself, what if I get hurt!" After pulling away, I finally got a hold of my nerves by telling myself, "You can't back out, man up."
After a small somewhat relaxing/nervous boat ride to a location where I have never heard or seen before. This part of the river looked like a wakeboarder's paradise. There were no boats around; there was a perfectly straight stretch of water that was as smooth as glass (perfect conditions for wakeboarding)!
As we slowed down and Ryan shut the motor down, Ryan looks at me with excitement on his face and asks me "are you ready to fall on your face?" I remember thinking to myself "Oh great, this is going be a long day!' Shortly after, Ryan started getting all the ropes and wakeboard ready for me to fall on my face. While Chad was telling me the basics on how to get up out of the water on a wakeboard. First, Chad said “After you get in the water you are going to want to have the front of your board out of the water," (as he’s' lying on the floor of the boat simulating what was necessary to get up). "Now matt, you are going to be sitting in the water with the nose (the front part of the wakeboard) 1/3 out of the water, and as we take off you will want to stand up as the boat is pulling you" While I'm thinking, what I need to do when it comes time to bailing. After explaining on how to get up, both Chad and Ryan start to argue on how to get up correctly on a wakeboard. From what I got from all the fighting on how to get up on this massive looking piece of plywood. I got the drift that there is more than one way to get up on a wakeboard. Eventually they stop bickering and informed me what I had to do in order to stay up, which was to make sure that your knees are bent and you have a firm grip on the handle.
Eventually I got the wakeboard on my feet and jumped gracefully into the water. So I thought. I jumped in belly first, when actually you are supposed to jump in back first. That's one thing Chad and Ryan forgot to inform me of. By this time I was face down in the water like I was about to ride on my stomach. After 5 minutes of looking like a beached whale. I finally got turned the right way (on your butt with the wakeboard 1/3 out of the water point upward). Ryan then started the boat as I was a safe distance from the prop. The rope started to tighten. I thought to myself, “I’m going die, I'm going die, I'm going die!' With butterflies in my stomach the size of watermelons. Ryan took off! As soon as I heard the boat take off I went into a focused state and remembered quickly what I had to do in order to survive this experience. At the same time the boat started to go faster and faster, I made sure that the tip of my wakeboard was 1/3 out of the water and began to stand up like Chad instructed me. "Holy Sh**, I'm doing it!" Screaming out loud! "I did it!"
After getting up at my first attempt, I thought I could do anything! The adrenaline rush was like no other. All I wanted to do was be on this wakeboard for the rest of my life! There was no feeling like getting pulled behind a boat going 30mph on a board that looked like a sheet of plywood with some bindings screwed to it. I was on top of the world!
Now, ten years later I am an avid wake boarder. Every time I get into the water, I still think of the first time of getting up on a wakeboard, and in order to get up you need 1/3 of the nose out of the water Even though the adrenaline is gone. I find it more fun than any other activity that I love to do. Wakeboard has changed my life by installing confidence in me to where I can do most things right the first time just by watching or instructions on how to do something. Wakeboarding will be in my life until I can't walk anymore, then I will be driving and teaching my children and grandchildren how to perfect how to get up on a wakeboard!
On a beautiful summer day, my friends Chad and Ryan took me out on Ryan's sixteen foot runabout. As we got to the dock and put the boat in, my heart rate went up with fear of, "what did I get into myself, what if I get hurt!" After pulling away, I finally got a hold of my nerves by telling myself, "You can't back out, man up."
After a small somewhat relaxing/nervous boat ride to a location where I have never heard or seen before. This part of the river looked like a wakeboarder's paradise. There were no boats around; there was a perfectly straight stretch of water that was as smooth as glass (perfect conditions for wakeboarding)!
As we slowed down and Ryan shut the motor down, Ryan looks at me with excitement on his face and asks me "are you ready to fall on your face?" I remember thinking to myself "Oh great, this is going be a long day!' Shortly after, Ryan started getting all the ropes and wakeboard ready for me to fall on my face. While Chad was telling me the basics on how to get up out of the water on a wakeboard. First, Chad said “After you get in the water you are going to want to have the front of your board out of the water," (as he’s' lying on the floor of the boat simulating what was necessary to get up). "Now matt, you are going to be sitting in the water with the nose (the front part of the wakeboard) 1/3 out of the water, and as we take off you will want to stand up as the boat is pulling you" While I'm thinking, what I need to do when it comes time to bailing. After explaining on how to get up, both Chad and Ryan start to argue on how to get up correctly on a wakeboard. From what I got from all the fighting on how to get up on this massive looking piece of plywood. I got the drift that there is more than one way to get up on a wakeboard. Eventually they stop bickering and informed me what I had to do in order to stay up, which was to make sure that your knees are bent and you have a firm grip on the handle.
Eventually I got the wakeboard on my feet and jumped gracefully into the water. So I thought. I jumped in belly first, when actually you are supposed to jump in back first. That's one thing Chad and Ryan forgot to inform me of. By this time I was face down in the water like I was about to ride on my stomach. After 5 minutes of looking like a beached whale. I finally got turned the right way (on your butt with the wakeboard 1/3 out of the water point upward). Ryan then started the boat as I was a safe distance from the prop. The rope started to tighten. I thought to myself, “I’m going die, I'm going die, I'm going die!' With butterflies in my stomach the size of watermelons. Ryan took off! As soon as I heard the boat take off I went into a focused state and remembered quickly what I had to do in order to survive this experience. At the same time the boat started to go faster and faster, I made sure that the tip of my wakeboard was 1/3 out of the water and began to stand up like Chad instructed me. "Holy Sh**, I'm doing it!" Screaming out loud! "I did it!"
After getting up at my first attempt, I thought I could do anything! The adrenaline rush was like no other. All I wanted to do was be on this wakeboard for the rest of my life! There was no feeling like getting pulled behind a boat going 30mph on a board that looked like a sheet of plywood with some bindings screwed to it. I was on top of the world!
Now, ten years later I am an avid wake boarder. Every time I get into the water, I still think of the first time of getting up on a wakeboard, and in order to get up you need 1/3 of the nose out of the water Even though the adrenaline is gone. I find it more fun than any other activity that I love to do. Wakeboard has changed my life by installing confidence in me to where I can do most things right the first time just by watching or instructions on how to do something. Wakeboarding will be in my life until I can't walk anymore, then I will be driving and teaching my children and grandchildren how to perfect how to get up on a wakeboard!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Week 2
Welcome! Today is going to be a diffcult day because I have my grandfather's funeral to go to, but I am a person who handles death very well. I'm not one to sit there and cry in the lose of my grandfather. Instead I turn it into positive energy. My grandfather was 85 Navy veteran who always had a "smart-ass" comment to say to everyone, and thats why I loved him so much. When I went to visit him before he passed, he was still telling the nurse who was boss! For instence, one of the recently hired nurses came into the room smiling from ear to ear and says "Hello Frank, how are you feeling today?" My grandfather looked at her with confused look and responded saying " go back outside (the hallway where the name tag is) and read that name again!"(with a silly but serious attatude). I haven't laughed so hard when that nurse came back in. Only this time the nurse wasn't smiling, she was red as a ripe tomato and an embarrassing look on her face. That is one of the last memories of my grandfather! Instead of being sad about death, I believe that one can turn death into positive energy. I believe that my grandfathers death has made me stronger as a person for the simple fact that it has made me closer my family that I was not so close to, and also as a person. I know that death happens. Rest in paradise Henry "Hank" Hefti!
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Week 1
Hello everyone!
My name is Matthew Hefti. I am a 25 year old aspiring firefighter in the Fire Protection Program at WTC. I plan to graduate in two years (2012). I've lived in La Crosse, WI my whole life, but I was born in Marshfield, WI (no idea where that is). I work at your friendly hardware store that you all know a Menards. I have worked there for 4 1/2 years and enjoy working there most of the time! I work in the floor coverings department. That means that I get the pleasure of helping people figure out how to properly install floor coverings, and other times, they just don't get it (usually Iowa people)! When I'm not at work or school, you can usually find me playing basketball, working out, on the river, or my favorite place - the library. No, it's not the local watering-hole downtown call "The Library," it's the nice, sometimes smelly place where I do all my homework! I take my schooling very serious, but life outside of school is anything for serious. I am a person who will crack a joke to lighten a mood, do something no one expects just to get a laugh, and always trying to find new ideas to satisfy my need for laughter, sometimes not the brightest ideas I've had. Anyways, now that you know who I am, and what I'm about. I will be blogging about my crazy life for your entertainment! Enjoy!
My name is Matthew Hefti. I am a 25 year old aspiring firefighter in the Fire Protection Program at WTC. I plan to graduate in two years (2012). I've lived in La Crosse, WI my whole life, but I was born in Marshfield, WI (no idea where that is). I work at your friendly hardware store that you all know a Menards. I have worked there for 4 1/2 years and enjoy working there most of the time! I work in the floor coverings department. That means that I get the pleasure of helping people figure out how to properly install floor coverings, and other times, they just don't get it (usually Iowa people)! When I'm not at work or school, you can usually find me playing basketball, working out, on the river, or my favorite place - the library. No, it's not the local watering-hole downtown call "The Library," it's the nice, sometimes smelly place where I do all my homework! I take my schooling very serious, but life outside of school is anything for serious. I am a person who will crack a joke to lighten a mood, do something no one expects just to get a laugh, and always trying to find new ideas to satisfy my need for laughter, sometimes not the brightest ideas I've had. Anyways, now that you know who I am, and what I'm about. I will be blogging about my crazy life for your entertainment! Enjoy!
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