Going Back

As you know already, I moved here two years ago, which is a long time. in one week I have to go back to Illinois for my oldest sisters graduation from college, but my little sister and I don't want to go to the actual graduation ceremony. Instead, we get to stay with our old neighbors which are our best friends. It will be fun to hang out with them for a week. Though it will be weird, too because some one else will be living in my old house that I lived in for almost nine years. I am so excited because I might even get to go to school with my best friend as a visitor and see everyone that I used to go to school with. I am curious to see if people remember me or not. If they do I can't wait to see their facial expressions. We are going to have so much fun at our two year reunion.

Last Minute Touchups

Last weekend I went across to the Ace that my family is opening in Mukilteo. We went there to do any last minute touch-ups. First, my dad and I set up the grills and outdoor stuff. Then my sister and I whiped dust off of everything. Next we had to clean the bottom of the shelfs. I didn't like getting on my hands and knees, so I remembered we had the store carts for moving the merchandise around. They are about five inches off the ground which was perfect. We layed on our stomachs and rolled around to whipe off the bottom of the shelfs. It was a lot faster, more efficient and more fun. We were done cleaning the store in about an hour on the carts. Then we moved on to putting up the prices. On monday the Ace opened and there were about fifty five people even before lunch and ithas almost been that way all week. It's pretty exciting.

Baseball

This weekend there are baseball tryouts. I will be in Juniors this year which should be more fun because there will be more people I know and it will be more at my speed and athletism. I have been going to baseball clinics for the last two weeks so I am warmed up for tryouts. I was a good thing I did go to the because I even learned some stuff that I didn't know and I have been involved in baseball since I was born. Also I really needed to throw a baseball around because I haven't thrown a baseball around since last summer. I hope I get the good coach because he is really good and has taught me a lot that has helped me. It would be a good year.

New Whidbey

Almost two years ago I lived in Illinois. I came over spring break to visit my Aunt and and uncle. They live off of saratoga road. I haven't seen them in a long timeand I have never met my cousins before either. It was going to be a fun trip but that didn't mean that we would move there. We started to like Whidbey Island. We started to look at houses instead of chill on our vacation. We looked at a lot of houses then we then we found a house with five acresand signed the papers. After our vacation was over we went home and found out that someone else bought the same house for even more, so we gave up on Whidbey. Then a week or so later the other family dropped the house and we signed the papers again and put our house on the market and sold our house then packed everything into a large Uhaul and one smaller Uhaul. My sister and my friends and I had a lot of fun playing in the trucks but then we got serious and loaded them up. though I wasn't quite ready to go yet because my best friend was at camp when I had to leave and he didn't get to drive with us. His sister and his mom got to come with because my mom had a broken ankle and so his mom had to drive the van with us. We drove for four and a half days and the large truck broke down twice on the same day, the last day. So we sat in the middle of nowhere for a couple times. It was quite the adventure, but we finally made it.

Boot Camp (Game)

This game is located in the marvelous Rocky Mountains and you are in training until you find out how to get your first assignment. So you are in the Rockies in a Military boot camp, training and finding all the tools and clothing for this mission. The point of this game is to learn the commands and learn the kind of items you would need in a combat situation. You need to learn how to fire weapons because you will eventually go to war. Next you will learn how to survive by yourself on enemy territory. Though there is no need to worry because it’s not all hard some of the training is really fun. After out have found the items, your next step is to find out where to go. This game is kind of like training for the real training if you ever want to go to military school. My favorite part is the paintball training. Well, what are you waiting for, go get ready for the Inform’s version of Navy, Military, Marines, and Army training all in one!

So far in my game I have three main characters. The first character of course is you. You start off as a military trainee, are pretty strong because you played sports all throughout your life. Now you are out of high school and you wanted to do something good for the country. Your point is to go through training successfully. The second main character in this game is The Man with Secrets. The MWS is a man that can help you if you can find him. He will tell you three things that you need(anything you need) to know. This man is almost like a cheat, he is very helpful, but hard to find. The third main character is a man that you do paintball training with. If you beat him then he will talk to you. He can give you advice through out the training. If you can’t figure something out, you should talk to him.

The goal of this game is to go through military boot camp with out getting kicked out or fail. You first must collect all the tools and items you need in a survival or combat situation. After that you must successfully complete all the tasks that are given to you. Do not under estimate the task because they will appear to be easy, but things aren’t always… as they seem. Also you aren’t just going to train. Every once in a while you will run into trouble like getting attacked or getting picked up randomly to do an assignment. When you are attacked you need to find a weapon and fight off the enemy. Your next choice is to hide, but then your ranking will go down. If you get picked up for an assignment, you must finish whatever it is you need to do and if it is a shooting then you could die or get injured. If you die you will start off in The Sleeping Chamber and loose a couple items and loose a rank. If you get injured then you with start off in the training area and won’t have any weapons, If that ever happens, to get your weapons back you can go to Gun Maintenance and get your weapons back with ID. The main point is to get through training so then you are part of the military and you can move on to Boot Camp 2: The Mission.

California Trip Reflection

Just a couple weeks ago I sent out on a trip to Santa Barbara, California. We were in California for a little over eight full days, but the full trip altogether was a total of ten days. Also, while we were there, we spent part of the trip on an island called Santa Cruz Island, and the other part of the trip we were in Santa Barbara or on a train. I liked this trip a lot, like seeing a new place. Though there were some hard parts to like getting lost on an island. I learned a lot when I was there, too, that I could use anywhere. I am really bummed out that this trip is over because I like being somewhere new.

The most fun part of this trip was going to a place I’ve never been before. I went to California for the first time in my life. The weather was really nice for the whole time we were there and we got to go swimming in the ocean. We also got to go on a train for thirty six hours which I thought was kind of fun because we mainly just chilled and hung out the whole time. The next fun part about the trip was being on an island only with your classmates and one other guy just exploring and doing whatever. I liked having the freedom of being able to go off and explore by myself and not having my parents around or my sister bugging me. It was really relaxing and really exciting looking down at everything from the top of the kind of like foothills.

Even though I had a lot of fun, there were some difficulties along the way. One of those difficulties was getting away from those weird druggies or alcoholic people on the train and in the city of Santa Barbara. One man that was homeless threatened my friend, my teacher and me that he was going to shoot us. It was kind of a weird situation, but luckily we kept walking and ignored him. Another difficult situation that we came upon was getting lost in a canyon. The thing is that we saw a canyon and we weren’t sure where it went, but we went down it anyways because it looked like fun. What we found out later was that it was getting dark and we were going in the wrong direction so we sent two people up one canyon wall and they said it was too dangerous. Next we had to turn around and go back to the trail and now it is dark with no flashlights and we had to get back to camp. Finally we reached camp with what felt like a three hour delay. It wasn’t very fun at all. Though I did learn something from that experience.

After this trip I thought about it a little bit and I found out I did learn a couple things from it. One thing I learned is to saver your money for food when you need it, for example, when you DON’T have any food left, don’t blow it all at the beginning. Second the most important thing I learned is to trust other peoples choices even if you don’t like it, but if It’s smarter then stick with it. I learned that because when we were in the dark on a hill I chose the wrong way. My choice was to follow a fence line down because I went up there before, but it wasn’t really the best way to go. I wanted to go that way because it was faster, but really you never know because you couldn’t see much so maybe you might have to go slow, I don’t know. The next thing I learned was to take deep breathes and thing of good things when something is dangerous or scary because it really works. The first day on the island we climbed a steep, really tall hill and I am slightly afraid of heights I used that technique and I was good all the way to the top. I guess you could say I made it through the challenges that came at me.

Again I have to say I loved this trip. My whole life I have wanted to go to California, and I went there and it was awesome, I even got to go by myself. The really cool thing about Adventure Ed is that I’m pretty sure that no other school get to go places for ten days or even two. This is the best class that you could take in my perspective. This trip was also one of the most fun trips I’ve ever gone on. Though this class sounds like it is a guy hiking class, there were girls in this class. It also is a good workout on your leg and back muscles. I encourage anyone who reads this to go outside and just explore, go walking, see where it takes you and enjoy it.

Leaving For California

This weekend Adventure Ed is leaving for the California trip. In less then four days we go on probably one of the most exciting experiences of our lives. First, we take a 36 hour train ride down to Santa Barbara, then we take bus to the Cadamaran and ride across to Santa Cruise Islandand explore around for a while and do a bunch of day hikes. Next, we go back across to Santa Barbara and take a look around at the College, but when we are on the island I hope to see an Island fox or to because if that is the only place in the world where you can find them, then that would be cool because only a couple people have seen them in person, same, I also want to see some of the other animals only found on the island. Though this trip is going to be fun i don't want to go because it is the las trip and after it's over then Adventure ed is over and I really like hiking and camping out where no one else is around. It's pretty relaxing being away from everyone.