The Adventure Ed Washington Coast Trip

This last week I spent hiking along sandy beaches, rocky points, and through trails. It was the Adventure Ed Washington Coast Trip. It was awesome! First of all we had nearly perfect weather. Second of all we had great campsites! And third of all (this one is bad) we had to hike in sand and gravel! The first campsite that we stayed at was called Cape Alava, here we walked out to Cannonball Island where we say round boulders that were the leading edge of a glacier years ago. The next campsite that we stayed at was called Yellow Banks, when we were here we all lay on the beach and sunbathed. We also went into the water and played in the HUGE waves. The third campsite that we stayed at was called Cedar Creek, this is because all of the cedar seeps into the river making it a redish color. When we were here we not only sunbathed but when the tide went out we walked / swam out to this small rock island that was covered in muscles, we collected some muscles and took them beck to the campsite where we cooked them over the fire. The fourth and last campsite that we stayed at was called Chilean Memorial, While we were here we ate all the rest of out food and we just talked about the trip. The next day we got up and hiked back to the parking lot where we caught the bus and went home. All in all the trip was really cool with very minimal difficulties.

My Mormon Settlement Presentation

This is my presentation on the topic of Mormon Settlement. I made this presentation using Google docs presentation. It took me a few hours to make the presentation, and then it took HOURS to read my book, and do the outline. ENJOY

Reflection:

Did you stand up straight but stay relaxed?
I stood up straight and stayed relaxed for the most part. I could

Did you pause for a moment before you began your speech?
Did you look at your audience?
Did you let your facial expressions naturally reflect what you were saying?
Did you use your hands?

For each of the following questions, describe what went well and what you could improve in the area of VOICE. Write two complete sentences for each question.

Did you speak loudly enough so that everyone could hear you?
Did you change your tone to show how you felt (upset, excited) about an idea or to emphasize a point?
Was your speed of delivery too fast, too slow or just right?

General questions:
Write two complete sentences for each question.

Did you practice your speech at home before giving it?
What did you notice that you did well in your speech?
Describe one aspect of public speaking you will work to improve?

Metaphor Face

Eyes – His eye was a worn marble.

Ears - His ear was a sponge

Mouth - His mouth was a gold mine.

Nose - His nose was a withering pear.

Forehead - His forehead was a wind worn sail.

Hair - His hair
was a corn field bathed in sun.

Cheeks - His cheek was a weathered canvas.

Teeth - His tooth was a memory.

Lips - His lip was a owl beak.

Skin - His skin was an old wrinkled road map.

Frontier House

What attracted you to this project?
I feel like this is an important time in history and that my family could complete the four months and that we would be a strong and hard working family on the frontier.

What hobbies and interests do you have?
I enjoy target shooting and hunting and I like to work in my fathers work shop and work with my family on things like splitting wood and hiking.

What image do you have of pioneer living?
I think that it looks like a lot of work and that it would take a lot of cooperation between family and community.

What's the most challenging thing you and your family (or group) have experienced?
The most challenging thing that my family and I have experienced is we, my little brother being 5, and my other 2 brothers went to the washington coast and hiked for like 10 miles.

If you were chosen what do you think you would most miss about modern life?
The thing that I would miss the most would be either the washing machine and drier or my bed.

What qualities do you and your family have that make you suited to this experience?
We are a very close family and we work very hard. Plus we are simple people.

What skills do you have that may help you?
I work well with wood and I know how to work hard and get along with my parents and brothers

What would you hope to get out of the experience?
I hope to grow closer with my family and to learn how to live and work on a farm.

What do you think will be the most difficult challenge of pioneer life?
I think that the most difficult part will be getting up early and working hard throughout the day.

What skills would you like to learn from the experience?
I would like to learn how to raise and butcher animals.

We'd like you to tell us:
What interests you about this project?
The fact that I will be working hard and living off the land with my family.

Do you have any concerns about your participation?
None at all I am confident that my family and I can survive the four monthes and that we will do well.

How much do you know about your family history -- do you have pioneer roots?
None that I know of but I do have family that immigrated from Germany.

How did you hear about Frontier House?
From my teacher who is teaching us about American history.

Peoplemation

This is a peoplemation, called "Her Morning Elegance." It takes place on a bed and they are moving the sheets, pillows, and clothes between each photo to create the affect that she is moving around while still on her bed. It is supposed to look like she is having a dream, so she has eyes closed through the entire movie. This is actually a music video by Owen Lavie but the song is nothing to be proud of. Although they did a great job on the peoplemation video. After doing claymations in school I thought this was very cool and I realize just how much work it took to make this three and a half minute video. It is very cool when she falls into the water in her dream because they change the color of the sheets as she falls to make it look like she actually fell into the water. When you are watching you forget about the rest of the room and you watch the bed like a movie screen. Then at the end she wakes up and they just video it not peoplemation it. It is worth watching! Here is the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

Intimate Conversation Poem

Dear Grandma,

Remember when we used to go to the carnival,
We would walk around,
until we were hungry,
and then we would eat,
until we felt stuffed,
like the prizes we had won,

When we were full,
we would find the mirror room,
and you would laugh,
as I ran around into mirrors,
like a chicken with its head cut off.

But now you are too old,
and I have out grown that,
so all we have left is these memories.

-Adam

This is Just to Say Poem

Dear Lovely Beloved Sister,

This is just to say that
I'm sorry that I ate the huge cookie on the table
It looked so delicious
I realize that you were probably saving it for the fair

I will tell you that it would have won first place
It was as good as hot chocolate on a rainy day
Oh and you added just the right amount of nuts
It was the best cookie I have ever had

It was so,
so,
so,
so,
so,
Scrumptious
Maybe you should make another one...
for the fair of course ;-)

-Adam Baesler

Riddle Poem

I am something yet nothing,
You need me too live,
No one can touch me,
But everyone feels me,
I am invited in, but always expelled,
What am I?

(Highlight under for answer)
AIR

-Adam

What If Poem

My Hair is Cotton Candy

What If.......
My hair were Cotton Candy
When ever I cut my hair I could sell it at the Carnival
Mine would be Green, 'cause that is the best color
I would be the Coolest person ever
But there would be one problem...
I could never take a shower or my hair would disappear!

-Adam

Monster Description

My Sci-Fi monster is maned Mickey Mad, in the following paragraph I will describe, in the most detail that I can, what he looks like. Well to start Mickey Mad is a Floating head he is Mickey Mouses evil brother. He is forever floating in a ball of fire. While his brother mickey mouse is living happily in Disneyland, Mad lives in the fiery down under. He has the same ears and face as his brother mickey
mouse, but the devil lurks within him. His black round ears crown his head. He has a dramatic widows peek creeping down his forehead. His side burns are stretched triangles that jut just below his eyes. His eyebrows are permanently angled down in his fury. His eyes are like a fire, burning into you. His black nose shines with the fire from his eyes. His vicious mouth is like that of the devil. His nearly perfect teeth shine white like the full moon. His horrible smile will scar you for life. His smile never leaves his face forever leaving you terrified. His lack of body is the most terrible part, he casually glides toward you like a ghost. I have just explained what the vicious and terrifying Sci-Fi monster, Mickey Mad, looks like. Here are the pictures, Ben's version(right) my version(left).

Winter Break

This winter break I went shooting with my dad and a few of our friends. We went to one of the Gabiline's property where there is a sand bank that curves like 180 degrees around you and you can shoot at targets up on the bank. We brought about 50 two gallon bottles of water and shot them with all sorts of guns. I have a 17 hmr rifle that is very fast and very accurate.(above is my gun) I was able to pop like five of the bottles from about 150 yards. I brought a twelve pak of root beer and shook them up then shot them. It awesome what would happen to them, the would flatten out! I even got to shoot an AK-47! We shot clay pigeons with shotguns and I even shot a can of root beer with it. I decided that I want a shotgun now and am currently looking at a Weatherby pump action. On new years I went to a dance and stayed up untill like 3:00AM. Oh ya, for Christmas I got Guitar Hero for Xbox 360. I played that with my brother like all of Christmas afternoon and we beet the game after two days on easy. It is a really cool game! For christmas I also got $100 and $60 dollars in gift cards. We had a very good Christmas this year even with the econimy where it is. I wish Christmas was longer, and winter break!

Claymation Reflection Essay

Over the last quarter our class has been working on claymation videos. These are movies made from hundreds of still frame photos played at a high speed. We have finished this project and I am going to tell you about my favorite part, the most difficult part and the most important thing that I learned while working on this project.

First of all the most enjoyable part of this project. I have to say that the best part has been learning about the iMovie software. I had heard of the program but did not know what it was capable of or how it worked. This project was done almost completely on the iMovie program so I learned the just of what this program could do. I was very impressed, it has everything from special affects to pitch changing your voice. For claymations this is the best and simplest way to create a high quality movie. I loved the fact that all I had to do was take the pictures, then I could do the rest on iMovie. I like to learn as much as I can about computers, because I am not very good with computers and I want to be. Another thing that I liked about using iMovie was that I could put music and voice into it so easy. I hope you can see why iMovie was my favorite part of this project.

Of course, this project wasn't all easy. The most difficult part was working by myself. Everyone else had a partner but I chose to work by myself because I thought it would be easier, IT WASN'T! Not only did I have to take all the pictures but I had to do all the voice. Sure the voice isn't that hard but I had to change my voice for the different characters. This was very difficult because I had to be constant with the different characters. Another bad thing about being by myself was that I had to buy all the clay. Also where other groups have one person taking pictures while the other moved the clay I had to do it all by myself so it took twice as long. There was one good thing about working by myself and that was that I could take pictures at my house and not have to be dependent on anyone else. Well maybe I will reconsider next time and have a partner.

The most important thing that I learned while working on this project was that I work better by myself. Even though it was more challenging and even the most difficult part of this project for me. I learned that it made me feel better that I didn't need to depend on anyone else to get me a good grade. Also the fact that I could work on it at my house in my own time made me work harder on it. I talk a lot, and if I had worked with a partner I probably would have talked the whole time and failed the project. Well after learning that about myself I would only have a partner on a project again if they felt the same way. I always get stressed when I have to depend on someone else, especially when they don't care as much as I do. I have to say that working by myself did make the project much more work, but it was worth it to be able to take pictures at home and do everything at my standard. I am very glad that I learned that about myself and that I will be able to use that to my advantage in the future. That is why it is the most important thing that I learned while doing this project.

In conclusion, I have learned a lot while we were working on this project. About myself, the computers and iMovie software, and the pros and cons of working with partners. From all of the things that I have learned from this project I will be able to do much better on future projects.

My Family

I don't have much to talk about so I'm giong to talk about my family. Well I have three brothers and no sisters. My mom has a P.h.d. in accounting and teaches at the University of Washington. My dad works at Whidbey Telecom. My grandpa was a medic in the Vietnam war. My grandma is not my real grandma because my dads parents got divorced. She is korean. My other grandpa has alshiemer. My other grandma makes a mean apple pie. On my moms side my grandma and grandpa come to stay with us while my mom is teaching. My uncle has a stunt plane and is getting a kidney from my mom. My secong uncle is the vice president of Sanyo. And my other second uncle lost his home in both Katrina and Ike. Anyway that is pretty much it for my family but I finally thought of something to talk about. But that is for next time.

Donating a Kidney

This month my mom is going to donate a kidney. She will be donating it to my uncle(her brother). I am kind of scared for her because she will be under he knife for a couple of hours. Also she will be gone for my birthday. This is the second year that she will have missed my birthday, but I wont complain because she will be getting surgery. Also I am sure she would rather be here at my birthday than having surgery. I feel bad for her. My uncle has been at 12% kidney life for a long time and now he is at 11% so he needs a kidney. My mom is leaving in two weeks to go get tested to make sure she can donate a kidney. There is a one in seven-hundred-fifty chance that my mom was born with only one kidney. I hope that she will be ok. Wish her luck!!!!!

Duck Hunting

This weekend I went duck hunting with my friend Mr. Terral. We left at about noon on Friday to go set up the blind. We paddled out to the spot we had chosen before and began to set it up. This took about three hours, and because the season didn't open until six fifty Saturday we did the work of setting up the blind on Friday. Once we were done we paddled back to the car and went home to get a good night sleep, because we had to leave at three forty-five the next morning. Well, the next morning we woke up and got the gun and some shells, then we went down to the lake and began to paddle out to the blind. When we got there we placed the decoys, put on our camo, and loaded the gun. After that we got comfortable and waited for a couple of hours for the ducks to join our decoys and for the season to start. Then, the first shot! The shot rang through the morning, and then boom, boom, boom, boom, boom! The other hunters began to unload on the incoming ducks. The ducks didn't stop coming and and after a few minutes we had shot three ducks. The ducks had thinned out, so I paddled out to pick up the ducks. This continued for hours and the time came for us to leave. Well we paddled out and went home. We had gotten six ducks and we went home to clean them then I had to go home so he drove me home. It was so much fun!!!!!!!!!

My Life Graph

This my life graph, it shows many of the things that have happened to me in my life. The one event I am going to talk about is when I went to Las Vegas. Well as cool as going to Las Vegas was that isn't the reason that I am telling you about my trip to Las Vegas. The reason that I am telling you about this is that I found $500 in an ATM at Las Vegas airport. The weirdest part is that a week before I had a dream that I found a significant amount of money in an ATM. Then low and behold I found $500 at the ATM by the bathroom. Well we had just got off of the plane and we had just got out of the bathroom and we were waiting for my mom when I remembered to check the ATM by the door, I walked over to the ATM and slid open the slot and I saw a stack of bills. I pulled them out and decided not to look at the here because someone might be wanting them so I tucked them away. Then on the way home from Las Vegas I we left a message saying that we had found some money and to call us if they had lost any. Well now it has been five months and we still have not herd anything.

My Weekend in the Tunnel

This weekend my family and I went to an abandoned train tunnel. It was very cool and the saying, "the light at the end of the tunnel" has a brand new meaning. The coolest part was that it was raining outside so that when we went in the first part of the tunnel the water that soaked into the ground would drip down through the roof of the tunnel. Luckily it was only for the first part so we were only dodging water falls where we could see them. After we were a ways into the tunnel water stopped, but it got very dark so we had to bring out the flash lights in order to see. Once we had gotten about a tenth into the tunnel my brother and I decided that because it was so straight we didn't need our flashlights anymore so we walked far enough ahead that the light from the rest of our group didn't light up our path, then we just walked toward the pinhole of light that was the other end of the tunnel, 2.2 miles away. It wasn't very hard to walk in a straight line because we just had to walk toward the only speck of light that we could see. Well as we got closer to the end of the tunnel the small speck got bigger and bigger until we got to the end. When we first emerged we had to wait for our eyes to adjust to the light. Once our eyes had adjusted to the light we saw a small waterfall coming from out of the the rock wall near the tunnel which became a small stream that trickled down the steep hill. I went to look over the edge and saw a part of the track which had been thrown off the hill, so I went down the hill as far as the steepness would let me. In the hill I saw a rotting piece of wood, so I went down to look at it. When I looked at it closer I found three railroad spikes, then I saw another in the dirt on the way up. After I got to the top we took a few pictures then we began the long walk back through the tunnel. The way back was much faster because we had already seen the tunnel so didn't stop to look around. We passed the waterfalls coming from the roof then we went back to the warm cars and began the one hour drive back. All in all the trip was very fun and definitely worth the walk. I will remember my weekend in the tunnel for the rest of my life.

The Story

Once upon a time there was a robot named George. George was a robot from the planet Robotron, he lived with his mother even though he was 40 million years old. He was a one of a kind robot, so he was a reject in society, but he knew that he had a very important mission to do. His mission was to take a message to planet Earth. The message that he was supposed to take was top secret and so that is why his maker made him so different. He knew that the first thing that he had to was escape his mothers watchful eye. One day he was home alone and and so he sneaked out! Once he was out he began his important mission. He knew that the one way to get to Earth was to get a Smocmobile, but he also knew that the only way to get a Smocmobile was to defeat the guardian of the Smoc hanger, Edna vivacious. That ment that before he could go to the Smoc hanger he would have to arm himself. So he went to the upgrade store and he got an atachable beam ray shooter. After attaching it he was ready to go to the Smoc hanger, and fight Edna vivacious!
When he reached the Smoc hanger Edna was waiting, so he hid behind the shed by the hanger and then in a flash he shot his beam ray shooter at Edna. Edna had already seen the ray comeing and wasable to dodge it, and then she turned to George and said in her robot voice,
"how dare you shoot at me". Then she threw an electronic jammer at George. The jammer hit George, and immediatly paralyzed him. George was jammed and he could not move!!!!
"Hahahahaha!" Edna laughed. Then she pulled out the her power knife and rolled up to George. Then she said,"This will teach you to mess with the Smoc hanger". She lifted the knife over George and... WILL THIS BE THE END THIS WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW

Adam's summer

I had an awesome summer. My summer was packed with fun vacations starting with the week after school ended. Here are a few of my vacations this year. First I spent a week at the base of Mt. Baker with my grandparents, here we went on a few hikes near Baker. Then I went to lake Chelan for a week and stayed at a condo. While we were there we went to a water park, and rented a boat so that we could go inner tubing. Next I went to a summer camp for a week and while I was there I had to sleep in a shelter that I made out of things in the woods. After that I went to California and stayed at our friends house, the husband works at Google(he was in the top 25 first employees) there house was huge and very high-tech. While we were there we got to go stunt flying with my uncle in his small stunt biplane, we also got to have a personal tour of Google. Upon getting home from California, I had a week to get school supplies. Lastly my family and I went on one last camping trip at Fort Ebey for memorial day weekend. We then had 3 days of nothing planned before school started. In conclusion my summer was killer and packed with fun vacations.