Winter is Coming

Today was my town's first snow. I was excited. In math class everyone was distracted by the snow so the teacher closed the blinds. I managed to save the big plant in a small fish tank with a light so it should be safe for winter. The end of this week is the end of my first nine weeks of school. I am not happy. I want to get straight As but I have two Bs and I wanted to bring them up. It seems the subjects I don't like I don't do as well in.

Closing the Pond

I found out that I didn't get a time at WAADA. I got two new programs for my web site. One is called AdSense. It puts adds on my web site and then I get money for it. The second one is to track how many people visit my web site. I can tell of they used a search engine or what to get to my web site. I can also tell where they came from in the world. Today I had to close my pond. It takes a long time and is wet and dirty. One of the vines I had to pull up had these little potato things on it.

Also when I was pulling up the flowers I noticed that my dusty millers were really big. They are three times the normal size. I think that they just really like the soil. They are one of my two favorite plants.

My water plants were all normal. One was larger than all the other ones though so I wanted to save it for the winter but I couldn't. So instead of having to throw it away. I was allowed to let it live in the water on the pool cover until it dies from the winter cold.

Pumpkins

I didn't get the times yet from WAADA, but I should get them soon. I went to the pumpkin patch and bought three pumpkins. I got gourds too but those are not that exciting. I bought two small one and a big one. I chose the one I did because it is a really bright orange and in some parts yellow. In school I have been doing really well. I have good grades and a lot of friends. We finished Stanford testing just a week ago and now we are taking MAP tests. These one are weird because they are on the computer. After you are done testing you can go and search the Internet for whatever though. Also I have a big reading assignment coming up that is worth a lot of points. I have a B in English and I am really trying to get straight As. There is a big 100 point assignment coming up for English so I want to get a 100% on it so I can get an A. I started to take this really hard merit badge. It is Nuclear Science merit badge. It is hard. There are all these things with atoms and molecular structures and it gets confusing.I think the most confusing part is isotopes.

WAADA

Today I went to my WAADA championship for cross country. The course was the hardest course I have ever run. It was 1.8 miles long and the entire thing was just a giant circuit of hills. I don't have my time right now but I have my place it was 60 out of 82. Tomorrow I will try and put my total results on my blog.

My 2008 Cross Country Results

My Results

Date Time Place

8/29/08 18:49 65/68

9/2/08 ------- 85/90

9/11/08 12:24 37/37

9/18/08 ------- 65/68

9/26/08 ------- 173/219

9/25/08 12:45 58/79

10/2/08 12:09 31/35

10/9/08 13:29 46/60

10/7/08 14:53 118/143

This is all the meets and invites that I have raced in so far. They are from the first to the most recent meet. There is only one more. It is the biggist race of the season and it is called *WAADA*. When I race in it I will put up those results too.

Camping But Not Really

I went on a weekend camping trip but it didn't feel like camping because it was at a public park and it was 10 minutes away from home. Also our camp was in a baseball field that kept the big lights on til 11:00pm. I got to go see a big fireworks display though. My last cross country race was on Thursday and I did pretty good I stayed in the same rank but was going back and forth with the next person up. I am going to an invite today. I get out of school at the end of 7th period. I have testing in the morning so I go to period 4 which is reading, period 5 is lunch, period 6 is study hall, and then the last period I go to is a math class.