SUMMER

This summer I went to Washington D.C , New York City and The Outer Banks. First I went to New York. I saw the statue of liberty I went to ellis Island and roosevelt Island.Next I went to D.C. I didin't do much there except go to my cousin's house. And last but not least I went to the outer banks! I had so much fun boogie bording ,tuobing and driving a boat!Now that is what I call a good vacation!

camping

[I'm really sorry about this because this hapend three months ago!] Three months ago my class and I went camping. We had lots of fun.Like playing games about the enviorment[not bord games] such as playing a deer game. It was really fun! We slept in log cabins .






p.s We camped at pere marquette state park [in IL]

Cahokia last week

A week ago I went to Cahokia. Cahokia is in consiville IL.It is where a lot of mounds are and that's not it, there used to be an entire civilization there and it was ran by one person,the great chief A.K.A the great sun he was thought to be the sun's brother.

The civilization lasted about 1000 years. YOU can guess how all the people died .nobody really knows how they died. So leave a comment telling me how YOU think they all died.



P.S you will see a sign telling which way to Cahokia [in consivill]

camp

I take a tri art camp. The arts are swimming ,biking and running.We swim at shaw park pool.[Camps can go there but the only other people there are people from clayton.]My favorate thing to do is go of the diving bords.My bike is the color of the letters in this sentence.
the only thing about running is I have Nike running shoes.

My Promotion Test

Yesterday, I had my promotion test. I was testing for a yellow belt with a black stripe. It was really hard because for about three hours I did mostly exercizes. Then we had to sit down and wait for our names to be called but the odd thing was that our hands couldn't touch the floor -- standing up or getting down or when you're already on the floor. Then it was my turn, I was actually the third person, I did two katas instead of one because you have to know at least one kata to move up one belt. I feel that I did great. I also did an odd type of sparring. It was more like wrestling than really using self-defense.

Sparring

I sparred last night.

Sparring is when you compete with other people in your karate class to practice karate.

As soon as you enter the ring, you bow. Then you bow to your teacher. Then you bow to your opponent. Then you shake hands. Then you get in a fighting stance and you either throw three types of punches or three kicks. The three punches are normal punch, reverse punch and head/body punch. The kicks are front kick, side kick and roundhouse kick. A successful above-the-belt kick is two points. A punch is one point.

I sparred three people and I won two out of three. The third person was a yellow belt with a black stripe, and I was leading but then he got ahead of me and it was hard to score more points. If you are interested in taking karate, ask me. You will learn a lot of karate. I'm just a white belt, and I know a lot of karate -- and I've only been there for three months and one day!

My promotion test, which means I'll go to a yellow belt, is in April.

My basketball game

This is me playing defense at my basketball game on Sunday. I am number 50. In that exact same game, I almost stole a ball when it was being bounce-passed to someone else. I hope you enjoy the movie.