My Summer Adventure: Surfing

I just got back from gymnastics in West Hampton. My mom was at court and she was driving home to pick me up so I could go surfing with Maya and Bo. Maya is my friend and Bo is our instructor who was weirdly at court with my mom. We had a lesson 2 days ago. Today we were going to Ditch Planes. It’s really rocky and there’s about a hundred people surfing and a hundred people swimming. It has really good waves but it’s not my favorite place to surf.

Around thirty minutes later my mom came home with Maya and Bo came a few minutes later. We hopped into his truck and started driving to Montauk. We got out at the entrance where the East Deck used to be and carried the surf boards on to the beach. There were no parking spots so Bo parked somewhere else while Maya and I put on our wetsuits and got ready. Once he came back he decided that the waves were better on the other side of the beach so we had to carry our heavy surf boards all the way down the beach. Finally we got in the water. I paddled out and it was fine. I surfed my first wave. I was fine. I surfed a few more. I was fine.

After one big wave I surfed I got stuck in the impact zone. (The impact zone is where all the waves crash. Usually the crash pretty hard.) I started freaking out. Bo had the come save me. I was freaking out. I was terrified. I had a choice, I could walk out with the sharp rocks on the ground or I could paddle back out to Maya and go over really big waves and probably fall off a lot more. I had to choose quick because the waves just kept crashing onto me. I chose to paddle out. It was tough but I got there. After a few more waves and a few more Piper recuses we went back in.

Making Websites

In dlab we made websites. My is a really, really random website of pretty much nothing. Here’s a picture of it:
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I thought that making these websites was really fun. I struggled with figuring out the coding for the first time but after repeating it a lot I got the hang of it.

I would like to make websites again but I would like to try to make a harder type.

Tessellations

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This is my tessellation. We made our tessellations in an application called geometer’s sketchpad.  We started out figuring out angles with other shapes. Then we started finding angle sums. After that we started making our tessellations. A tessellation is a bunch of shapes together that make another design and it repeats forever.

 

 

 

I Live in New York… But What do I hate???

Bikers and Skate Boarders…

Bikers, they are so annoying. When you’re crossing the street and they’re just speeding across. But skate boarders… They’re even worse. They are always trying to impress people with their super cool skills but really they are just annoying people. They always come on the sidewalk and do a trick. And you’re just like, “DUDE! GET OUT OF MY WAY!” One time one landed on my foot. And once a biker ran over me and didn’t even check if I was okay.

When People Just Put Their Old Stuff On The Street…

I HATE when people will leave their old clothes and furniture just sitting out in the middle of the sidewalk. It’s drives me crazy. For example: I’m rushing to school and all of the sudden there’s a couch in my way.

People Who Smoke…

OH. MY. GOD. These people are so annoying. Not only are they polluting themselves and they don’t even know it. They are polluting everything and everyone around them and making people sick. Then they throw their cigarettes on the ground and animals can eat them and get really sick but also there are now just a bunch of cigarettes lying around on the ground.

When You Just Miss a Train…

This happens to me so often that it feels normal. Even though it feels normal doesn’t mean I like it. For Example: I’m about to get on a train but the doors close just as I get there. Even though they could still open and it would only take a few seconds. It just rides away.

So there are 4 thing I dislike about NYC.

 

 

T-po Inc.

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T-Po just came out with two new products. The first thing that they are selling is called Bristles. It’s a ponytail holder that is gel infused. It stretches all the way into a headband. You put it on like a headband and with it’s bristles it will smooth down you hair and then snap down into a perfect pony tail. It come in 8 different colors and it come thick and thin.

The 2nd product is a hair net. It is gel infused and has bobby pins sticking out of it so you don’t have to stick them in after. The whole hair net=bobby pins are all clear.