I decided at the beginning of the year to take a freshmen foods class. It started at the beginning of the second semester. So far, it has gone completely different than I expected. I thought that there was going to be a lot more cooking going on, and a lot less paperwork. Yeah, there has been exactly ONE food lab, and much, much more papers than I expected. Hey, I didn't say it wasn't fun, because it is, but I thought that it was going to be much funner. Actually, the class has inspired me to make better food, and make it while thinking about safety. I mean by safety, about cross-contamination, not getting burned, stuff like that.
The foods teacher is great. She is really nice, and she definitely knows what she is talking about. You can tell just by the way she talks that she is a foods teacher. Instead of calling somebody stupid, or dumb, she always says stuff like "No, that's not how you do it! You guys are a bunch of dough heads." But the tone of voice she uses is fun, and there is no way how you could get anything mean out of those sentences. I am pretty sure that after we get all of the papers done about what the names of different kitchen tools, we should be getting more food labs. Well, it should be fun!
Before, there were geese in our backyard. I thought that it was cool whenever they came, but now, they are usual. It's just like seeing a car drive down the street in front of your house: it's not rare to see. They are almost always here whenever I come home from school. I take pictures of them sometimes, and it's pretty fun to see them so regularly!
I thought that 15 geese the other day was a lot. Well, this time there were about 30 geese outside! Yeah, I went outside to take pictures of them this time! I got 30 pictures of the geese, and some of them were as them in mid-flight. Have you've ever seen that Subaru commercial? It's the one about the photographer that sets up everything to take pictures of the birds on the lake, and right when she is ready, the birds fly off. She doesn't even get to take a picture. She just looks at them and smiles, and somehow it relates to the Forester. In most people's minds, it's just another commercial. But in my mind, I think this:
WHY DON'T YOU TAKE THE STUPID PICTURE ALREADY?!? I MEAN, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A COOL ONE!!!
Well I just took that picture. I suggest that you go to my Project 365 link, because if you don't, you're seriously missing out. It might not be as cool to you as I made it sound, but to actually take a picture like that in my situation, then it is cool!
I wish I had another battery for my camera. Either that, or I wish that my camera had an option to switch to AA batteries. I missed the chance of taking many a picture of the 15 geese (or at least I think that they were geese) that were at the back of our house. Oh, well...at least I got a few pictures of the three geese that you can see in my Project 365. Well, maybe they'll bring some friends tomorrow.
From my last post, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!, you could see that I am doing Project 365. Now you can view my pictures that I am going to take throughout the year if you click the link "Project 365" on the right side of my blog, just under the blogroll, under links. I only have a few pictures now, but just wait! In about a month or two, I'll have many pictures! Also it's my brother's birthday today, so...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! One more thing: I got $10 from my grandpa for Christmas, and I decided to buy a protective filter for my camera that I also got for Christmas. I'm having a fun time with my camera, and all of the pictures you see me take for Project 365, will be from my new camera. This will be a fun year!
This is pretty much my Christmas/New Year post. Christmas was very fun. My family didn't go anywhere, we just stayed home and enjoyed it to ourselves. The main thing that I got for Christmas was a new digital camera. It's one of the Panasonic Lumix's. It is so fun! The main functions that I love on it is the image stabilization, the 10 mega pixels, the 18X zoom, and the fact that I also got 2 4GB SD cards! The cool thing is that I have a lot of SD cards. I have a 516MB card, a 2GB card, and now two 4GB cards! I don't think that I could take enough pictures to fill up all of them on a two-week vacation! There is so much memory, so much time....
New Year's Eve was also pretty fun. My dad forgot the confetti guns and shooters, so I improvised. I made a paper cone, took shredded paper from our shredder, and dropped the paper into the cone. Then, I decorated the outside with Sharpie marker. All you do to launch the "confetti" is swing it around. The shredded paper will fly out the big end of the cone! I actually think that, apart from how they didn't make loud noises, they were much better than confetti guns and shooters. Also, we had our favorite New Year's Eve drink, apple cider! My New Year's resolution? Well, actually I don't have one. But I do want to try to work on Project 365 this year. Project 365 is a photography project. You have to take at least one picture every day of the year, hence the name Project 365. Well, I hope that this upcoming year will be a good one for all of us!
It HAS been a long time since I've posted! I really had nothing to blog about! Except that school got out a few days ago for Cristmas -- sorry -- "Winter" vacation. *Eh-hem* Some people take offence in some other people calling it Christmas vacation, because it implies religion! % ) Yeah, anyway, I've got some cool pics from some of the Mindstorms projects I've been doing. I would post them too, but I'm having problems again.
Merry Christmas
Happy Decemberween
Happy New Year
(And for those Scrooges out there) Merry/Happy Winter!
A while ago, I got a GPS. It is the Garmin etrex Venture Hc. It is pretty fun. Mostly what I've been doing with it is taking it almost everywhere I go, and geocaching. I already enjoy geochaching even though I have only found two. I have been having so much fun....
Wow! Lake Powell is so cool! I've never been there before, so it was really exciting to spend a week up there on a high adventure trip with the scouts and my dad! I also overcame my fear of open water. I had so much fun, even though I got a sunburn. One of the days we were there, we went on a swike, which is a "swim-hike." We went for a swim down a canyon, which was fun, until we got to the "gross". There was a whole bunch of little pieces of sticks, wood chips, grass, dead bugs, chap stick, and lots of other stuff, which I called "gross". Everyone else called it "crap." And since the walls were so close to you at some parts, the gross got very thick and sometimes smelly, so it made you think that you were in the garbage compacter in Star Wars, and the compactor monster was going to come up, grab your leg, and pull you under. Anyway, after the swim part of the swike, we, well...hiked. (No duh.) It was still the narrow canyon, like what we were swimming through, but it was even more narrow, and bone dry. Our hands would get very red from touching the sandstone walls, because our hands were still wet, so the sand on the sandstone walls would just stick right to you. It was amazing to look up and see how high it was compared to where you were standing, but then, we turned around, and had to walk back to swim back to the boats. Which means swimming through the gross again. Well, at least the water got clear by the boats. Even though the gross was getting inside the sleeves of my shirt and rubbing against my sunburn, and it was smelly going through the gross, I had fun. Since then I have returned home, and the sunburn on my arms is peeling off. Overall, I consider this the funnest camping trip I have ever been on.