Backpacking Trip

Over the weekend I went on a backpacking trip. It was really hot but it was still fun. The way we had to get our water was to purify it from creeks that we come across on our hike. Although we did take a wrong turn and did two extra miles, it was fun. It was a twelve mile hike in all. We camped by a really deep creek that you could hop from rock to rock to catch stuff in it. It had trout and we brought one rod so you could take turns fishing if you wanted to. We ate dehydrated food as our main meals. It looked gross but it didn't taste that bad.

Creeks and Rivers

On Thursday I went to River Quest which is a program that takes kids out on a boat and they go and test the water they are on. You do chemical tests, take mud and look for living things in it, and take some of the water and look for plankton under the microscope. I liked that a lot. Then on Friday I am in Creek Connections so we went down to the creek and you would normally do chemical tests first and then go and play in the creek, but it was like 80 degrees or something so they decided to just let us play in the creek and look for stuff. Only if we could identify it after we were done. Everyone got soaked and we all came back to school and had to go to 9th period. So everyone who was in Creek Connections went to 9th period wet I think some one was even dripping still. It was fun. This weekend I am going on a ten mile backpacking trip. I leave in about half and hour so I will write about it when I get back.

Happy Earth Day 2009

Plant a tree, hug a squirrel, or kiss a duck! It's Earth Day and this year I am planting two trees and gave one away. In school I joined the tree committee which helps pass out two year old trees to students and teachers to take home and plant. Two of them are White Spruces and one is a Silky Dogwood. Earth Day is one of my favorite holidays. I think the environment and all the animals that live in it are very cool.

Science Symposium

Today I went to the Creek Connections Science Symposium. Creek Connections is a program that takes kids to different creeks to do water testing like pH. You also go to lakes and my group is going up Lake Erie. Today I went to the symposium. I made a tri-fold board with a group about the eight chemical tests that we do at the creeks and ponds. It was pretty fun and I got to miss school for it. Also yesterday I got to miss school because I was chosen with about 30 other kids to go to a baseball game. The game part was boring but we all could go around the park and buy food and play games. My Easter was really good too. I got a new scale to weigh wax for candles with. I also got a lot of candy. Also i got straight As on my third nine weeks report card.

Buddy

My neighbor had a really nice dog that lived for 11 years but yesterday they had to put him down. They thought he had cancer and he was really weak. He was one of the nicest dogs that I had ever met and everyone was very sad when he left. This in memory of Buddy the black lab.