Oh, summer, I miss you already! Camp, California…I wish I could be back there.

Something that I really liked about summer was California. I liked it because my entire family lives there and I love spending time with them. I also loved it because of my birthday. My birthday was super fun and we did so many fun things. One of them was that we had a really nice breakfast. After that, we went to the Santa Monica pier and I went to the arcade with all my cousins, including my baby cousins who were really really fun. Oh my god, I miss them! One of my cousins, Tyler, was one (he’s now two). Harry and Theo are three and five. After that, we went back to their house and swam and opened presents.

Another thing that I enjoyed was sleepaway camp. When I first met my bunkmates, they seemed really nice and excited to see me. They were playing basketball and I joined in, and they said, “You’re really good!” and I said, “No, you guys are really really good, too.” As the weeks went on, we got to know each other better and had a lot of fun together. Those friends actually matter more to me than the camp itself.

Something that I learned this summer is that when you get older you have a lot more responsibility. Like when I went to sleepaway camp for four weeks I had a lot more responsibility than I had at home. I had to take care of myself all the time. My parents weren’t there to tell me what to eat or not eat; I could have eaten five desserts a day if I wanted to, which some days I did!

I loved camp and I loved my cousins. I’m excited for this school year, but I am already thinking about next summer, and I hope it’s even better!

I read the book called Travel Team. It is about a short boy named Danny. He got cut by his basketball team because of his size. So him and his dad start their own team in the same league as his old team. His dad also played on the team Danny got cut from and actually brought them to the national championship game. The team that Danny’s dad starts is not very good, but they try. They were O-8, which means O wins and 8 losses. There were three more games until the playoffs, but to be in the playoffs they need to be in the top eight. They had no chance, so they were playing for fun. The next game they won and his dad drank on the way to the place that they were celebrating in and lost control of his car and had to go to the hospital. He was okay, but I was pretty sad when I read that part. Then they played against his old team…  But I can’t tell you the rest. I would recommended the book to people that like sports. I would rate it 4 out of 5 stars.

One week this summer, I went to robotics camp. To build the robots, we used a bunch of different pieces, such as axles, lego blocks, connector pegs and connectors. At the end of the camp there is a robo war. That means that you build a robot that attacks the other robot. So I built a good robot with my friend from last year, and at the end we won! My friend left early, so the war was up to me. One robot I flipped and then I pushed it out of the arena. I did really well. It was awesome.

I went to sleepaway camp for 4 weeks at Camp Caribou in Maine. It was really fun. I met a lot of new friends that were awesome. Our bunk was really nice and big. We had three counselors and 9 campers including me. Our bunk was supposed to fit three counselors and fifteen campers, so we had a lot of extra room. We used the extra space to play cards, put our clothes, and just hang out. I learned a new sport, tennis. The people at tennis were super nice to me and I went there almost every day. I am going to start playing tennis when school starts. I also tried kneeboarding which was super fun. Kneeboarding is when you get pulled behind a boat while kneeling on a board. The boat pulls you around really fast, and you try to ride the wake. That was my camp experience.

There are two main characters in the book: Peak and Son Jo. Peak is thirteen. One day he got caught climbing a skyscraper in NYC. He eventually went to prison. So his dad that he barely gets to see got him out of prison and told him we are going to climb Mount Everest. He was really scared. So they got there and right away his dad had to do other stuff. So Peak had his room and met a kid named Son Jo. He was going to climb Mount Everest with him. If Peak can climb Mount Everest before his fourteenth birthday, then he would be the youngest person to ever climb Mount Everest. So they get to the mountain and they meet other people that are going to help them. They got to base camp which is 15 thousand feet in the air. There are six camps and then you have to try for the summit. They made it to camp one which was hard but not too hard. Then it got harder and harder through each camp. When they finally got to camp six with oxygen tanks on and everything on, they went for the summit. You have to read the book to find out what happens!

It is fourth of July and we are in California with our cousins watching fireworks on an island in the middle of the road. We were super scared that a car would just come on the island and run us over so we were making fun of that and having a great time in California. The fireworks were really cool and we had a great view. It was awesome!!!!