no matter how far away, family is still there for you

A family is never far away from your heart. Even though I’m 500 miles from my family in the summer, it feels like there right next to me. While at camp Mowglis, my family was never far away in spirit. I was standing on a rock in a cold valley with my camp friends way up in Maine. It was the summer but there was still ice on the ground. I was on a pack trip at my camp, and we were looking at one of the coolest sights Mother Nature could provide. We were on the Mahoosics, a long stretch of mountains that me and my friends got to go on. It was our third day on this trip, and apparently according to older campers, this was the best part. We suddenly realized it got much colder than when we were on the side of the mountain. I looked at my arm to see it was practically shivering. We weren’t prepared for this part, everyone had a shirt and shorts on. Our counselor led the way through rocks massive boulders, we went through caves and lifting ourselves over massive rocks. But that was a piece of cake compared to the last part, on this part you army crawled through a skinny cave. While pushing your pack i front of you. The reason we did this is because the cave was to small to be able to crawl through with you pack on your back, so we had to take it off and push it in front of us making it even harder. At the end we celebrated with lunch. As we packed up I looked back before we went back into the dark woods to see huge boulders covered in ice, this was the coolest thing ever. Even though they weren’t there with me on that trip, I imagined them with me. After the trip I wrote to them, I told them about my experience. Telling every detail I could. I sealed the envelope and dropped it in the camp mailbox. I walked back to my cabin, imagining my family there to, experiencing the same thing I was. It was like they were there. Experiences like the one I had, can be shared and experienced with my family. and can be experienced the exact same way to them, the way I experienced it. No matter how far away I’m away from them in reality. They’re really there experiencing it with me

from sixth grade to eighth

School is like skiing, some parts its like a green circle, nice, smooth and easy. But sometimes it can be a dangerous black diamond, what I mean by this is that there is challenges throughout the year, they can be small challenges, or big ones. Back in my days in 6th and 7th grade i feel like almost everyday was a green circle, one or two assignments, and a rare occasion of a test. 8th grade is a whole other story, i get home having to go straight to homework, usually finish it by 7:00, then straight to dinner and piano. 7th grade’s work load was much smaller and because of that i would have much more free time.

8th grade has a different day, back in middle school you had lunch earlier, you had 3 classes, lunch, then a last class. After that sports and study hall. You left school at 4:00. Now in upper school you get home at 5:30, which changes everything. In 8th grade you also can choose your arts, and there is more options. I chose theater tech for the first term, and am planning on acting and art in the other terms. 

The first month or two back to school is scary, you don’t know what to except. Especially if your going from lower to middle school, or middle to upper school. If your changing from one part of school to another, your fenn career changes.  Everything is different and as you move of in grades the stress and work load gets higher. 

As a 8th grader its as if the kids in the lower grades look up to us. It’s cool how whenever we do something or we say something, they always try to act or copy us. This is not a bad thing, everybody looks up to someone who’s older or “cooler.” Back at my old school the old kids would be cool and “big”, on the bus I would always try to hang out with them because I thought they were cool.

This year is going to be different than others, more stressful. Different topics. But I just hope I have some free time to spend time with friends and not think about school and just think about the other things in my life.

An experience worth remembering

”I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.” -Micheal Jordan

Over the summer I went on trip to Montana, on this trip we were planning a mountain biking trip.  I was very anxious for the day we would do this. On this mountain biking trip we would bike all the way up to the top of a huge mountain then go back down.  We got these cool bikes that had all sorts of functions, such as a way to lower the seat while biking, these bikes were really neat and I was really excited to use them.