Recent update
- Final School Post (But I will keep on posting)!
- Basketball Nightmare
- Geography Fair
- New Science Project
- School Trip to Manuel Antonio
- Down hilling at Whistler
- Lake Tahoe
- Feelings
- How to Survive Spanish Class and Not Fail
- Grumpiness over Spanish Class
Basketball Nightmare
May 29th, 2008 by hammond
On this past Wednesday, we had our finals in basketball. We were the only team who was undefeated in the league and were going to play the second best team (which we had beaten already and have been our rivalry for a couple of years). I can still remember that day at school. I was so nervous that I couldn’t ready in class and didn’t know what was going to happened next. When the bell rang, my feet started trembling like if there were an earthquake that was about to destroy us. Finally, we got dressed up for the game, and I could see the big crowd waiting for us at the stands. Usually, we run some lay-up drills which I could barely make because of how nervous I was. When the game began, I could feel the drops of sweat blobbing down my chin and drooping on the floor. The roar of the crowd was so loud I thought that I was at an amusement park next to a rollercoaster. I wasn’t on the starting line, but I got put in a couple of minutes after the game started. I was trying my hardest: setting screens, playing defense, and giving it my best running up and down the court. After I was in for a while, I sweating like if I had just gotten out of a pool and my nervousness began to go away. But, the only problem was that we were down by more than 12 points! We ran a full court press with all we could and had a huge come-back which caused us to lead by about 7 points! The team was really excited so we started doing dumb mistakes just like the other team, but we lost the ball way to many times leaving the other team very easy points. We were down by one and I was on the bench with a lot of other friends. All I could do was scream like a little boy who just fell off of a swing. The mighty roar of the crowd was getting louder every second. There was 4 seconds left and the ball went out and we only had 1 second let on the clock (but the other team was throwing the ball in). Our teammate DJ intercepted the ball and shot from almost half-court a split-second before we could hear the buzzer. Everyone looked at the ball in amusement. The ball hit the backboard, then hit the rim, but then fell out. We lost by one point and this was a major defeat. But, we still had a better season than them. We had 9 wins and 1 loss, they had 8 wins and 2 losses.
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Geography Fair
May 26th, 2008 by hammond
Last Thursday, I entered the gymnasium where I could see hundreds of people running around with drops of sweat and could smell the wicked scent of curry at one of the stalls from Asia. I was at the Geography fair which is a fair that people in 7th grade must choose a country and participate in. I did this last year and I had Slovakia, which was very hard since I was the first person to have it in the schools history. I had to contact people from Slovakia and from the United States just to get items for my booth. After a while, my booth looked cool and professional. I didn’t want any part of my table and booth showing except for colors. Basically I loved my booth! When I came back this year, I started eating like I had never seen before. I could smell the sweet smell of burning scents on a table and could hear all of the commotion and footsteps of little kids running around and screaming. My heart was beating so hard my shirt was moving and I could feel the drops of sweat dropping down from my head meanwhile my stomach was aching from all the chicken and blueberry bread I had eaten. I felt like if I was about to explode and couldn’t walk anymore. I just felt like if I had to sit down. Afterwards, I went to go and chill at a friend’s booth. She looked pretty embarrassed since a lot of people were around asking her questions and I just sat down on her chair so we just laughed and had fun talking. Later on, I heard so much clapping it sounded like a concert. Yes, I know what this meant. It meant that the geography fair was over and I finally had to go home and study for a test I had to take the next day.
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New Science Project
May 15th, 2008 by hammond
It was 100 degrees; blobs of sweat were drooping down my face like if I had just come out of a pool. I could taste the sour and salty sweat that was now raining off of my chin onto the cheap floor that can barely last a couple of more ears until it collapses. I am in science class like usual on Thursdays, Tuesdays, and Mondays. We usually do not challenge our minds that much and go over 2 chapters, take notes, and answer the bore some questions on the end of the section. We were supposed to have a lab on magnets about the north and south poles and the magnetic field. The ant sized dial and the 2 cm compass was moving toward the north and south poles of the weak ancient magnet. Since this wasn’t working out that well because of the weak and old magnets loosing their magnetism, our teacher told us that we were going to have a lab that was going to last for the rest of the year. Have you ever had finals, this is just like them, you are going to need to know all that you have studied to be able to pass your test, in this case, create the project. I thought that this was going to be a boring, dull, and torturous project that was going to be fatal toward our grade and our day. In my mind was thinking, oh no, not another science project like our last one. We had to create a Rube Goldberg machine with more than three different types of simple machines and make a volleyball knock down some plastic bowling pins. So, of course I thought it was going to be super hard, especially since it’s going to last the rest of the year. No, I am actually more excited than a kid buying a dog. Have you seen that, the kids are so excited that they start jumping up and down like monkeys on ropes with tourists around. So, I am very excited and am choosing one of the four options we have. I will post a part two after finishing the project and tell you what project I picked and how it came out and functioned!
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School Trip to Manuel Antonio
May 11th, 2008 by hammond
During my school curriculum, we all have a fun trip that lasts a couple of days to chill off of the work and steam off grades for a while. This time, we went to a nice beach called Manuel Antonio. I had the most fun of my life during the many activities I had. First of all was the superman zip-line. This was awesome! It is a zip-line but instead of sitting down like usual, you lay down on a special suite that is attached to the line. The line was 1 kilometer long and you could get to speeds of 90 kilometers per hour! If you don’t think this is fun then wait until you hear what activity we after this, we went white water rafting! This was probably the best part of the trip (in my opinion). There were very fun rapids to go on and even though the water was cold I sat in the front with my friend Antonio and had a lot of fun being in the bravest and funnest seat of the raft. After this we ate some typical food and headed to the hotel by the beach. We went to the beach for a couple of hours and got an awesome game of tackle football going on. Later on, we got super tired and went back to the hotel to see who we were rooming with and finally went to sleep. The next morning was very tiring since we had to do community service for about 1 hour and a half (this was raking leaves at the national park Manuel Antonio) but after that we got to hang around the beach for a longer time and played some more football. Finally, we had to go back home. This was very sad since the weekend was just starting and we all wanted to have a lot of fun at the beach, but it was going to have to happen at one point in time.
Thanks for reading!
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Down hilling at Whistler
May 2nd, 2008 by hammond
A couple of months ago I went to Blackcomb Whistler. It is a ski park and a bike park. Yeah, I went down hilling. This is a very intense sport, which my brother enjoys a lot so we gave it a try. This was my first time and my brother had already mastered stuff about it since he practices this sport 24/7. So, we went on black diamond trails. MY sweat was dropping down my forehead meanwhile I was riding on a Kona Stinky with some nice 88’s. This is awesome suspension. I was riding a full suspension bike so on the intense jumps over gaps; the landing was not that hard. This was the most fun I have had. But, on a drop, a bailed and was very soar (it was a black diamond called Dirt Merchant). The only problem was that a very advanced down-hiller was coming down at about 65 miles per hour and almost crashed into me. I had a huge bruise for a while and my arms were to soar to keep on. But Mark and I kept going for a couple more days. At the end, I was thinking about how much of an opportunity this gave me and this moment inspired me to keep on riding. There were other things to do around the town of Whistler Canada. So we decided to walk around. If you guys have been to Florida than you would know what I meant after you walk for days because of visiting or shopping, this gets your legs pretty soar, especially after down hilling for days! So, if you guys want a heck of a work out and you are the type of person who likes extreme sports which you can get hurt on. This is an awesome place that is just right for you! This is a video of some people with a headcam doing Dirt Merchant too.
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