About 2 weeks ago, all the 6th graders in our school went to Outdoor School. Our class went to the Sandy River site, Camp Angelos. We left Sunday, June 5th and came back Friday, June 10th.
We were there for about five days. It was okay, but the days were long and boring. We spent about 4 hours a day doing field study, where we learned about Water, Animals, Soil, or Plants (we switched every day). We also had time with our class and recreation time, where we did stuff like go on hikes, play field games, and do other stuff like that. We spent an hour and a half every day with our cabins, where we had a fort building contest and played field games.
We were up for 14-16 hours a day, depending on how long it took you to go to sleep. We got up at 7 o'clock every morning, unless you had to take a shower, and went to bed at 9 o'clock, although I stayed up to 11 every night because 9 is way too early to go to sleep. I was on the bottom bunk, and the person on the top snored and rolled around, shaking the bunk. Someone in our cabin described him as a young Tony Soprano, because he was kinda big and looked like an Italian.
Overall it was okay, and it was a lot better than going to school. And here are the names of some of the counselors...
Splinter-my cabin leader
Cambria
Banana Slug
Bullfrog-Water field instructor, worked at an after school program I went to
Kumo- Producer for the TV show, The Real World, my friend convinced him to consider a kids Real World
Kintla
Blaze- the best counselor there, everyone in his cabin was a "Blaze Boy", and got t-shirts with that on the front and a jersey number on the back
Vega-Soil field instructor
Grizzly-Plants field instructor, great Napolean Dynamite and Shrek impersonations
Stretch-Animals field instructor, tall
Snake-Camp Leader
Trapper John
Squeeker
Wild
Ladybug- Nurse, helped when I lost one of the lenses on my glasses
Eagle- our teacher
Sunshine- a teacher from another school, found my lense
A long time ago, on a blog far far away... I wrote a review on the new Star Wars movie, Episode three. This spoils the movie, so don't read it unless you don't plan to see the movie or if you've already seen it.
Overall, the movie was good, and tied all the loose ends up very nicely. It told of the death of Lord Tyranus (Count Dooku), the rise and fall of General Grievous, the transformation of Anakin into Darth Vader, the birth of the twins, Luke and Leia, the reason why Darth Sidious is so hideously ugly, the death of all the other Jedi, and Obi-Wan and Yoda going into hiding after the rise of the sith. The lightsaber fights were good, but when Yoda fought it was disappointing to not see him jumping around. And the dialogue stunk! The best line in the movie was Anakin yelling "I hate you!" at Obi-Wan while lying on the ground with his feet sliced off. Again, overall the movie was good, but I think Yoda needed to fight the way the way he did in Episode II. And here are my favorite lines from the Star Wars saga...
"May the force be with you" - Just about every Jedi in the movies, episodes 1-6
"Hard to see the dark side is" - Yoda, episode 1
"The dark side clouds everything" - Yoda, episode 2
"Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me someday?" - Obi- Wan Kenobi, episode 2
"Powerful you have become, Dooku, the darkside I sense in you" - Yoda, episode 2
"Begun the Clone War has" - Yoda, episode 2
"Luke, I am your father" - Darth Vader, episodes 4-6
'You have unusual powers,young Padawan.But not enough to save you this time" - Count Dooku, episode 2
"You're breaking my heart!" - Padme, episode 3