Today is Veterans Day! In school, we made something called the "Brick Wall of Bravery" that is displayed in our auditorium. It consists of paper bricks with pictures and words on them, saying how important it is to honor our veterans and respect them. We had an All-American Heroes Rally yesterday. After the rally and the guest veterans speaking and the playing of the band and orchestra, we went outside to partake in the rally events. They kicked it off by having a photo scavenger hunt. After running around looking for the clues while taking a picture at each destination, we finally got a final clue that lead us back to the auditorium, where we first started. I was talking to somebody I know, and he told me that his class got a clue that made them go all the way to the cafeteria, and the next clue said, "Oops, it turns out we made a mistake. Go back to the soccer field," or something like that. I guess I should be grateful that our clues' destinations weren't that far from each other. There were other events too, such as Boot Camp, Bean Toss, United We Stand (hula hoop game), Patriotic Puzzle (basically, a jigsaw puzzle), and many more, but most of the unnamed activities were inside events nested in Boot Camp. As you can see, they were mostly physical stuff. Except for the Apple Pie Eating Contest. That was funny. Boot Camp had stuff like push ups, sit ups, jump rope, cone zig-zag, and Army Crawl. I did the jump rope. It didn't make sense; what were you supposed to be doing? So we moved on to the other events. I also did the jigsaw puzzle. We tied with the other team. The Bean Bag Toss kinda went unnoticed for me, cuz that was when I spotted my friend and I sat down and talked to him. He was the one who told me the story about his class having to go back and forth during the scavenger hunt (remember earlier?) After lunch of a hotdog, barbeque chips, 2 McDonald's Apple Pies, and a wild cherry coke, my class did the Minuteman relay. I didn't get to see it (where was I when that happened?) Anyway, we won that. But we had to redo the Boot Camp because "our timing was inaccurate." So, our class redid the camp (I was missing again. I forgot where I was at that time. I later found out one of my classmates filled in my position at jump roping. We got the best time for the Boot Camp).
As for the Apple Pie Eating Contest, that was hilarious. It was just apple pie filling and tons of whipped cream, but it was still a sight to see. They seperated the girls from the boys. The girls went first, then the boys. The whipped cream got all over everybody's faces. Oh, did I mention that you're not allowed to use your hands? You have to have them behind your backs. We lost, both on the girl round and the boy round. I was talking to one of my friends after the rally, and she said that the reason they got the whipped cream all over their faces is so that they don't have to eat it. That will make them finish faster. I thought that was funny.
To add to the pain my legs were in yesterday after all the physical activities, we had our Swim-o-Rama today. The Swim-o-Rama is an annual fundraiser our swim team holds to raise enough money to heat the pool through winter. We collect pledges from people and then we swim for it for an hour. Say you got a relative to pledge you 10 cents per lap. You swim for an hour nonstop. Say you swam 60 laps. Then you'd get six dollars. That simple. I managed to get $2.16 worth of pledges. I swam nonstop for an hour and I got 118 laps (a lap is 25 meters), therefore getting me approximately $300. This is a different kind of fundraiser. You don't just go out and ask for money. This is saying you're going to work for it. I did, and I got three hundred dollars, which is one hundred more than the expected goal for each swimmer.
...There is school is tomorrow.
I can't move my legs...
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- Melisa
- I play the violin, and I am on a swim team. I can also ride a unicycle, and I'm on the math team and chess club at school. I like to spend time with my friends, and I try to be responsible, but I'm on the verge of a breakdown from excessive homework. I try to update my blog when I can, but like I said, my homework is bringing me down. But during summer break, expect me to post more. Or I might be lazy. Or busy from other things.
Notes
Things You Need To Keep In Mind:
-If you want to complain, complain silently or to yourself or like-minded others. Complaining all over the place can get you shunned by peers, or in trouble with the teachers.
-Don't put your phone inside your backpack. Get a little pocket to stick onto a shoulder strap. Otherwise, you'll just spend 20 minutes walking all over the school looking for it when it was buried under your books the whole time. I still can't believe I didn't see it at the bottom of my backpack.
-Getting hit in the face with a soccer ball hurts more than a basketball. Unless someone is passing it to you straightforward and you weren't looking, then it hurts more. Also, if you have glasses, make sure to keep them on so you can see while playing, but also be careful not to get them dented by getting hit in the face with a basketball.
-ALWAYS stay at least 10 feet away from a batter at full swing. Trust me, I almost got hit in the face with a baseball bat because the batter was standing right next to me.
-Don't put your books or binders under the rails of middle school chairs. You'll just end up forgetting them later. I forgot my binder under those chairs about 4 or 5 times during my first year of middle school.
-If you have a school library book and you finish it two weeks after checking it out, don't shove it into your backpack and finally remember to return it 4 months later. Never done that before, but it happened to my one of my friends.
-NEVER mess around with settings on the computer that you will have the slightest chance of regret later when your parents find out. Learned that when my parents almost killed me this one time when I was messing around and changed some of the computer settings. :P I mean, can you really get THAT mad at somebody for altering the default font?
-Having everything essential to success with you at school is great, but the back pain is torture afterwards. I suggest you leave your 600 page workbook at school on the cheap shelf provided. Even though that shelf collapsed after a few days...
-If the school lunch looks remotely suspicious, probably safest to not eat it. I bit into an icy sandwich once. Irony, it claims it was oven roasted. Yeah right.
-Try not to judge people. I thought this one kid in my class was bad, but I ended up thanking him later for saving my friend and I from trouble. For once, he was good for something: me.
-If you want to complain, complain silently or to yourself or like-minded others. Complaining all over the place can get you shunned by peers, or in trouble with the teachers.
-Don't put your phone inside your backpack. Get a little pocket to stick onto a shoulder strap. Otherwise, you'll just spend 20 minutes walking all over the school looking for it when it was buried under your books the whole time. I still can't believe I didn't see it at the bottom of my backpack.
-Getting hit in the face with a soccer ball hurts more than a basketball. Unless someone is passing it to you straightforward and you weren't looking, then it hurts more. Also, if you have glasses, make sure to keep them on so you can see while playing, but also be careful not to get them dented by getting hit in the face with a basketball.
-ALWAYS stay at least 10 feet away from a batter at full swing. Trust me, I almost got hit in the face with a baseball bat because the batter was standing right next to me.
-Don't put your books or binders under the rails of middle school chairs. You'll just end up forgetting them later. I forgot my binder under those chairs about 4 or 5 times during my first year of middle school.
-If you have a school library book and you finish it two weeks after checking it out, don't shove it into your backpack and finally remember to return it 4 months later. Never done that before, but it happened to my one of my friends.
-NEVER mess around with settings on the computer that you will have the slightest chance of regret later when your parents find out. Learned that when my parents almost killed me this one time when I was messing around and changed some of the computer settings. :P I mean, can you really get THAT mad at somebody for altering the default font?
-Having everything essential to success with you at school is great, but the back pain is torture afterwards. I suggest you leave your 600 page workbook at school on the cheap shelf provided. Even though that shelf collapsed after a few days...
-If the school lunch looks remotely suspicious, probably safest to not eat it. I bit into an icy sandwich once. Irony, it claims it was oven roasted. Yeah right.
-Try not to judge people. I thought this one kid in my class was bad, but I ended up thanking him later for saving my friend and I from trouble. For once, he was good for something: me.
