In humanities we are working on our beowulf projects. Mine is above it is of the fen. We are working in groups and my group has three other people in it. On of my challenges is working on the same piece of paper at once. One of my strengths is taking directions from my other group members. One of my goals for this project is to go above and beyond and to get at least a 3.5
This summer I had an amazing time but I also learned a lot. One o the thing that I learned was how to be grateful for what I have and accept that. But that is not all I also learned how to accept that summer is not a time to slack of there is still work to do for example: the post, chores and getting to camp. also summer is not all work it is a time to be having a brake. I feel that my post show what I have just said.
While I was in Wyoming I watched the stars a lot. I saw my first shooting star, Also because we were so far away from cities the stars were really clear.
While I was on fishers island I watched the stars through a very old and large telescope. ( The one in the photo below ) I could see distant stars unseeable from the naked eye.
While I was at the beach, I learned how to sail. We sailed 420s out into the Long Island Sound. 420s are very small boats; they take two people to sail them. I worked the jib and balanced the boat.
We sailed in the Long Island Sound around Fishers Island, near Flat Hammock (a sand bar) and The Dumplings.
Fishers Island is a place where I feel at home and calm because there is not the feeling of everybody being rushed, there is also not a lot of noise that I am trying to not think about. Some times you hear the ferry and the other boats, but you don’t feel disturbed by that; it is more calming.
While I was at this ranch I learned a lot of thingsbut one thing that stood out to me was the envoronment and what was happening at the time. Though you can’t see it at this time in the week there where forast fires about 300 miles away and later in the week the smoke drifted into the air. (The suff in the air in this photo is mist.)
Another thing that I learned was how to navigate a map on horse back, and how to open gates without dismounting.
One more thing that I learned was how to shoot trap. When you go trap shooting for the first time you get a quick lesson on gun safety and rules of the trap range. They also teach you how the gun works and alot of other things.
One thing I loved about discovery Day Is that we learned but in an active way. One thing that surprised me was how high I was able to jump on the trampoline because the last time that I was on a trampoline I didn’t jump as high. One other thing I wonder about the climbing wall is how the automatic belaying machine worked, because it would not let you fall but it was not big.
This quarter in mandarin we have worked on a lot of things. First of all we have been learning about simple sentences and school surplice, we also learned about the chines new year. Last of all we learned calligraphy. One of the thing that I found most interesting was the chines new year because we learned a lot about a culture that I never new that much about. The thing that I found second most interesting was the school supplies, because that is something I would not have thought about learning.
