Friday at the water!

Friday we got a treat to be able to get out to the water and hangout and try out some wakeboarding! After the day before I was there stictly there to hangout in the sun! I want to Thank Leanne to setup it for us it was a great way to spend the day!!!

Rock Climbing Adventure!

Today! We did something I thought I would never be part of in my life, due to me never really having an attraction to outdoor real rock climbing especially with my size because I am not the smallest guy around! Lol! We got up there and my buddy Vinny and I teamed up together and we took on the day together. We had similar feelings about the situation and the challenge and worked our way though our climbs. I think what made it so challenging is that it is so hard to simulate rock climbing at Ellensburg High School with their rock wall where you have many many grips up the wall where as in Peshastin there was very few grips like what EHS offered. Also I had no idea how to repel until I got to the top and Fred Stanley taught me on the rock and just lowering overall was completely different then at EHS. We worked though our climbs together and were completely supportive of each other the whole day and I am pretty sure me and Vinnie don’t complete our climbs if we weren’t there for each other. Overall we challenged our selves with everything we did that day and got to feel proud for what we did and got dinner afterwards with the volunteer climbers and professors at Gustaves.

Life's obstacles wouldn't be called hurdles if there wasn't away around them!

http://www.washingtonclimbers.org/Climbing/peshastin.htm

Hiked the ridge today!

The class went to the ridge and for me it was a first. The walk got stepper and stepper and higher and higher as we went which meant the more tired i got! it got to a point where you kept thinking the top has to be right around the corner and just would never come and it being my 1st time never knew how long it took but now I do. It was a lot of fun and it was a great way to take in the view!

http://nwjeepn.com/ManastashRidgeRoad.html

Memorial Day Weekend!

In between working this weekend I was able to run back to the west side and see my family for the first time in a couple months and then 2 of my off my brothers went and caught a Mariners game and had a lotta fun in Seattle!

Rock Wall climbing at EHS

Today was a prep climbing day for the rock climbing we will be doing in Leavenworth next Thursday. A man from up there by the name of Fred Stanley came down to help us out and prep us for our trip next week. We practiced climbing, tying knots and belaying today all which is crucial when climbing. I had fun and it was a new experience for me and it made get excited for next weeks climb!

Friday Skit Night

I got to flim one of the skits my buddies Aaron, Jason, and Vinny did at honors camp over the weekend. This one is called Helping Hands which the idea came from "Whose Line is it Anyways" Aaron is showing Vinny who is a forign exchange student how to get ready in the moring with the help from Jason's arms. Enjoy!

Mentos Explosion at Camp

At one of the stops along the map for the quest for the chest we had the students do a Mentos Explosion and I was able to film one of them. Enjoy!

Honors Camp - Recap

So the camp was a success I feel that Mike Mary and I did a great job with the kids and that they enjoyed our session. The Quest for the Chest worked out great. We did have to make adjustments since we had never been there and didn’t know exactly where we were going have our stops along our treasure map. With our session we got to learn about the student’s and connect with them for the limited time we had with them. But for the most part we accomplished what we planned for and it worked out.
We got to participate in the camps skits and the one I put on was the amazing disappearing act! In which we made mike disappear! The trick to the disappearing act was to create a distraction. I had limwell and Jason get into a “fight” lol behind the audience to draw all of their attention by them fighting and having the girls scream and pull them off of each other. Mean while mike ran off stage from behind our sheet. Once we gained the audiences attention again we dropped the sheet to show that mike was gone! It fooled many students and worked out very well!
The Cabins were alright I guess. When I 1st walked into my cabin I had to kill like 8 huge ants and from there I knew I wasn’t in my house back in Ellensburg! Tho I ended up being grouped with the same group of guys I roomed with in our hotels in Tampa so it was no problem. The meals were okay pretty much what I expected. The 80’s dance was a fun way to be able to dress up, dance and listen to some 80’s music with the 8th graders and have a great time!

Overall it was a great weekend spent with friends while also being able to work with students in a different atmosphere then a classroom while going though the whole camp experience with skits, campfire, cabins, trip to the Lake Wenatchee beach, and the dance to create a great weekend and experience.

Honors Camp is This Weekend!

Honors camp is this weekend and we got to see the lists of students signed up for our activities and we sessions that will have 4 students all the way up to 17 students in one session. Mary, Mike, and I ran around town getting supplies for the camp witch included a Shasta cola and mentos explosion trial run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oV4rqjcew&feature=PlayList&p=A1BE129854F9AA88&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2) in a parking lot which with only 4 mentos got the explosion above our head. We went from the Dollar Tree, then to the Party Barn, then to Fred Meyer and then finally to Jerrols. We got back to my place and worked on making our treasure chest and our treasure maps. Check out the photos of our project!

GEOCACHING

Today we we got to learn about the world of Geocaching! (http://www.geocaching.com/ ) If you don't know what it is well?...to make a long story short it is a GIANT scavenger hunt which spans the globe where there is nearly 800,000 Cache's out there which are are all placed by coordinates and the information about the cache is posted online including the GPS coordinates. We got to take our own item bag in groups of 3 and travel across the campus and place it where we want marking the coordinates then we meet up with the group again to share our info, talk to the recreation students, and have some lunch. After that we dispersed around campus again to look for our classmates caches which we had much success. overall we learned a lot about the world of geocaching and got to get out in the sun ( and that Strong Eburg Wind!) and try it out a little.

After School Clubhouse!

The Ellensburg School District has had a unique scheduling setup this year in which they have had several half days on Fridays through this school year. The PE Club has put on an After School Clubhouse at Lincoln elementary school this year. This service is put on for multiple reasons - One for elementary students don't have to go home on half days, parents can pick their children at a more convenient time, students can have more physical activity time added to their day, raise money for the physical eduction club and so us students can spend more time interacting with students in a Physical Education setting. I have got to spend a lot of time with various types of students while doing various activities. I have also got to spend time with Professors at the Clubhouse in more of a one on one situation while discussing teaching methods. here are some photos from the last clubhouse!

http://cwupeclub.blogspot.com/

From point A to Point B

The title for me kinda sounds like the this quarter. I am just trying to whatever I can to get from the beginning to end! but this post pertains to the orienteering course we took this past Thursday. We meet up in the field house and learned all the parts to a compass and how to use it by having to get to targets and traveling in a perfect triangle. The best part was having to use the map to get to different areas of campus while having to get there and answering questions. So it turned into a campus wide scavenger hunt where my teammates Drew and Mike were able to accomplish with quickness and success. As a group we used a lot of teamwork and problem solving skills to get though the list of places and questions! after accomplishing the scavenger hunt I started thinking about how I would love to start off school years with an activity like this especially with students that are new to the school like freshmen in high school. Also since this is out only day spent on orienteering this quarter so by completing the days activities we earned an advanced grade to give me two on the quarter thus far.

Testing Update!

Tested out at Advanced! at in flower sticks which was my 1st test so far. I plan on testing out at intermediate with unicycling and juggling at our next testing session. still have some work to do with the diabolo which I am capable of doing 6 tricks and sometimes 7! lol! but getting it all together as a routine will be the hardest part of the skill assessment but hopefully I will be able to put them down consecutively by testing time. That's all the testing for circus arts so i am feeling capable to test out at the intermediate level for all of them. all for now!