Scout camp

After school last Friday, my dad dropped me off at scout camp. The location was Birch Bay, past the Esso oil refinery. When I got there we had a little game of ball tag. After that we had hot dogs for dinner. After darkness fell we gathered around the campfire. Then we had a game of capture the flag in darkness. I didn't use my lantern because I said to myself "light is my enemy" because it would just give away my position. I came close to the flag, and managed to slip past two guards but someone caught me before I could locate the flag and as a result I was in jail for half an hour before I got out. The second attempt was worse than the first because when I was sneaking in the field someone ambushed me from the trees, and I was in jail until the end of the game.
Later that night one of the the leaders was lighting a fire with a candle but it went out, everybody was shouting and clapping but it was ineffective. Then I start rubbing by hands and guess what. I made the fire start with my hands!!!!
After that we sung campfire songs and did skits. Mine (with Brad and Tyler) was about a guy who was bankrupt and a doctor being sued jump off a bridge! We didn't go to sleep until midnight! The morning was rotten, when I woke up I was freezing!!! Brad, Nicky, Tyler, Tried to wake me up. But I wouldn't budge. They got me out of bed by threatening to throw me in a nearby lake. I would die of Hypothermia!
When I got out, breakfast was waiting. After that we went to the activity area. The first one I did was archery. The arrows were blunt but at the right speed the could puncture the human body. Another one of them is the mini zip-line, Only a few feet in length. However it was still fun. The most frightening part was the tower zip-line! There was an other one but the one I went one had a 10 FT FREE FALL!!!!!! Before that you had to climb a ladder.Once you done that you had to cross a wooden bridge, and the wood was 2 feet apart!! When I was on the bridge and ladder my mind was swarming with VERTIGO!!!!!!!! When I went down the zip-line, I was saying "I'm too young to die"!!! After it, I was saying stuff like "I feel sick and disoriented, "CAN WE DO THAT AGAIN!?!?!?" or "THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!!"or "that was scary, BUT TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! It was the most EXTREMIST thing I've ever done in my entire life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN THE OL' WILD BOREAL FOREST

After the first 2 days of Jr. High we went to grandma and grandpa's house in the coniferous forest of the north. Before we left my dad bought a quad but there were some technical difficulties. We weren't the only ones visiting, Mike, Sandra, Daniel, David, Val, Heather, Scott, Dionne, Suzanne and Kirk and their children were all their. The first thing we did was riding on the quads. After that we had a campfire. Some of my uncles left wood on the ground, and the fire was burning it! I said they were MAD! So I ran to the house to warn them of the oncoming Armageddon, but they didn't care. Luckily the area was not burned in a fiery inferno.
The next day we went tubing. Before that I went searching for leeches. I called Thunder Lake, The Leech Breeding Grounds since there were lots of them. When the boat arrived I was the second rider to go on the tube. I went on the single tube and on the first time I went I fell off. You see, a series of waves shook me off balance and caused me to plunge into the lake. The minute my head was above the surface of the water I shouted, "Help! man overboard!!" But I really enjoyed the adrenaline rush.
On the final day in Barrhead we went tubing a second time and I fell off again only this time I flipped. You see, when I was approaching Grayson's tube (we were riding together) my tube flipped and I plunged headfirst into the lake again.
We also did fireworks on one of the days before and I have to say they were really amazing.

THE FIRST DAY OF JR. HIGH!

It's the first day of school. I really enjoyed it! Before I left my eyes spied a hot air balloon with all the primary colors(red,yellow and blue). The minute I got there I went to room 26 where I did a practice lock down and where my teacher explained everything. The first subject I did was drama I explained to the teacher that I had a lot in common with drama then we did a little game to know each other. After that I did math. We did a movie that taught us about facts such as that in the future China will have the most English speaking people and that the first text commercial appeared in December 1992. The next one was Mandarin. I didn't learn any words but the good news is I can finally take Mandarin on the laptop program. If I'm successful I can speak another language. Another subject was science units coming up are planet earth structures and forces etc. Another one was Language arts, where I heard a funny story about a guy who needed to use the washroom and ended up vomiting in the hall! The gr. 7er's avoided it but the students of grade 8 walked through it! Just sick! After the final bell I walked through a small gap in the fence and jaywalked home! Don't tell anybody and I mean anybody that I did that! Or else.