Yahoo! I can’t believe I made the swim team. I was against a really fast swimmer that’s why I was extra nervous. We were doing the free style when the swim team coach said “on your mark, get set, GO!” I gracefully soared through the water like a bullet, but the girl was still in the lead. It turned out that during every race I finished second. The last stoke of the day, was the backstroke. tf is my best swimming stroke, but could I beat her? Whoosh, we were off! When I turned my head I was finally in front! But she was gaining on me, so I pushed and swam the best I could. At the end, I touched the wall first. Yeah I did it, I made it on swim team!!
I tried out for the Swim Team for the first time and I didn’t get it but then I trained very hard and then tried out again this year and I got on. It’s very hard work doing all the exercises, you have to do some bops and do lots and lots of laps. A bop is where you just push up and down in the water with your arms in front of you on the side of the pool and it helps build your arm muscles. I probably swim about 800 metres in all at training and I have training every Monday and Thursday. On Sundays I have swim lessons with Lydia, she is a girl who is from my school and she is already on the swim team and she is very fast. Lydia helped me train to get on the swim team and I want to swim with her still because I like training with her and she comes to my house and we swim at Green Court where I live.
Here is a photo of me swimming in a lake in Finland with my friend Johannes.
When you are on the S.A.S. swim team you get to travel to places like Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia and so one day I might get to do that if I get fast enough.
Ever since I was a little kid I have taken horse-riding lessons in Wyoming. This summer, horse I rode was called Valentine. She was a golden horse but she died this past winter. It was so sad, but my horse-riding teacher bought a different horse named Josie. Josie is big brown horse and she had the cutest colt ever named Star. Star is a gold color and likes to lick me. However, my horse-riding teacher decided to let me ride a beautiful black and white horse named Vegas. At our next lesson, Vegas and I went on a trail ride through the woods. It was a little hard to move Vegas because he kept ducking his head to eat the grass. It was a very nice end to my day.
My family got two hamsters on Sunday 1st of August at a nearby pet shop called “Doggy House.”
One of the hamsters is bigger than the other one and we read on the internet that two boy hamsters together could cause a fight and when one wins the other dies so at first I kept asking if we should take the big one back because it seemed to be a bully but Mum said wait and see.
The cage is really cool because on the top of the cage is a small second floor. a ladder leads up there and the hamsters are pretty happy in their new cage. They especially like running in the running wheel, they go so so fast and it is really funny to watch but they mainly play at night time and they get really noisy. Dad put Olive Oil on the wheel to stop it from squeaking so much.
We’re calling the big one (Mimi’s hamster) Ash and the little one (my hamster) Shadow. I like the names as they really suit them because of their color, gray.
(We decided to keep the big one.) I will put a photo on later when we take some photos.
My family and our friend Jason went to the amusement park in Sweden called Grona Lund. This was the third time Jason has come to an amusement park with us because he also came with us to Denmark and Finland amusement parks.
Dad and Jason went on the scariest ride first, it’s a purple roller coaster that has a weird pattern it has a fair few drops on it that are over the water and we could hear Dad screaming the whole time.
While they were on that I was on a baby ride with Mimi, one of those water rides.
Next we went on the big drop, Mum was so scared at first but when she finished she went on it again and she loved it.
Next I went on a red ride that you sit under the tracks it was really fun and fast and so after I went on it with Jason and Dad I made Mum go on it too and I went on it again.
Here are some photos of us at the amusement park.
After that I went on the biggest big drop in Europe it was even scarier, on the other side of that there was the tilt part of the ride and my Dad really freaked out, he was crying and sort of shaking at the end. Other rides I went on were the Jet Line, the giant swing, the Octopus, the Mad Mouse, the Rock Jet and heaps of little rides with my sister.
I’m in the beautiful countryside of Wyoming with my grandparents. We went fishing in the Aspen Hills pond. I learned how to cast the fishing line out. We waited and waited and we waited. Nothing even botherd to bite. We were almost ready to give up but somthing pulled and tugged then I pulled it out. It was a huge trout! So I put it in a bag and went to my Grandma’s house. The way my Grandpa taught to hold a fish is to put my finger inside of the fish’s gills (ewwww). That night we ate the trout for dinner.
I am in Portugal and I am always in the pool but when I am not in the pool I am watching a T.V. series called GET SMART and its really funny.
It’s really old from 1965-1969 but its not in black & white only the very first episode was in black and white. It is about a secret agent called Maxwell Smart, agent “86″ and he goes on most of his missions with agent “99″ and she doesn’t have a name, her name is “99″. He has very special gadgets, one is his watch-record-player, it has only been in one episode so far and Max opens up his watch and 99 gives him a charm from her bracelet, which is a record charm, and he puts it on the record and starts playing it. If it is not the right sound, then he turns it over. The most common gadget he uses is his shoe phone and he uses it on almost every mission.
In one episode Max goes to the scientist for Control (his spy group) and asks for some gadgets. One is a camera with a hidden tape recorder inside and one is a tape recorder with a hidden camera inside. Max asks the scientist” Why they don’t have a normal camera that takes photos and a normal tape recorder that tapes” and the scientist says “because my mind doesn’t work that way” I found that very funny.
In the chiefs office he has the cone of silence max always wants it and whenever he uses it
something bad happens.
I recommend this show to all that are reading this.
Right now I’m in New York City. Me and my parents went to see the Broadway Musical called ‘MEMPHIS’! It won the Best Musical Award for 2010! The singers were so good at singing. It sounded like angles singing. My mom thought it was great because the actors were brilliant at acting. My dad said, “It was so enjoyable because the dance routines were unique and you never got bored of watching it.” Here are the main actors names: the two main characters are Chad Kimball as Huey and Montego Glover as Felicia. The story was about how black people and white people couldn’t be in love or they would get hurt. Also it was about how black music became popular with whites. But in the end they solved it with music! I loved watching a live show on Broadway!
I went to see the wonderful movie Karate Kid, with my drink and popcorn I was ready to go! It started to get dark it was time for the movie I could feel my legs shaking I was that excited! I challenged myself to watch the violent parts, but it was still an awesome movie, especially at the end when he did a back flip and smacked the enemy. “Yes!” I shouted, waving my hands in the air! I forgot there were people watching too. It was one of those times I will never forget!!! I love watching adventurous moveis like this one! Check out the movie trailer below.
