AYE AYE SIR!!!!!

So I'm going to start my string of posts with my latest adventure and work backwards.
My recent at the Academy was very tiring. We woke up at 5:30 every day and got yelled at by actual drill Sergeants. Then we had to eat breakfast in 10 minutes, ran a couple miles, took classes with tests at the end, then lights out at 10:00. Actually I'm joking, none of that happened. Okay. Here's a the short version of my adventures. Details would probably overload this computer.

Monday- Flew in at 9ish. Taken to the Academy where I sat around until five to have dinner. Played some capture the flag. Unpacked. Went to bed.

Tuesday- Met my group (I was in Blue 1). Our leader was 2nd Class Midshipman Jack James. That means he was going into his third year at the Academy. His job was to take our group to all the activities on time. He was pretty cool, especially since he enjoyed pranking people at breakfast. There were 5 other people in my group. 120-140 kids were at camp all together. We went to the Air and Space museum in DC. Watched an IMAX about the Hubble telescope and then walked around for a bit. The WWII exhibit was awesome. After we went back, we took a tour of the Academy. Had a delicious cookout and played ultimate frisbee for three hours. Then had free time and lights out at 11:00.

Wednesday- Took two classes in the morning:Forensic Chemistry and Control Systems.
Two in the afternoon: Cryptography and Sound Waves and Light.
Played sports. Had free time until lights out. Also had Blue and Gold, during which we all gathered and gave comments on the day and had announcements.

Thursday- Classes: Airplanes/Rockets, Fluids Lab, Boat Building, and Brittle/Ductile Metals.
Played sports. Ice cream social after dinner. Blue and Gold at 9:45. Free time until lights out at 11:00.

Friday- Classes: Robotics, Photography, Biometrics, Lie Detector (this was my favorite set of classes).
Played sports, had a talent show (no, I didn't participate because I had nothing to show). Blue and Gold at 9:00, lights out at midnight.

Saturday- Pack, another Robotics class (in which we used a calculator to control a chassis- I know, cool huh?), present our robot at the science fair when the parents showed up, had the awards ceremony and got a certificate of completion, then left for the airport immediately afterward. Immediately as in, get out of my seat, say goodbye, and leave.
One more thing. On the way from Baltimore to Detroit, for some reason I still don't know, I got moved up to first class! It was pretty exciting. Kind of wish I hadn't spent all that money on snacks to take on the airplane because they offered some pretty good stuff.

That's it. A long post, but much shorter than the version I told my parents, which took about and hour and a half to tell. Next post will probably be this afternoon if I have time, which I probably will.
p.s. I probably have a ton of typos and punctuation errors, so please excuse me. I was trying to do this quickly before I left to take my written test for my drivers license. I passed my driving test yesterday (YES!!!!). Hopefully I'll be coming home with a license.

WOW

Wow. That one word sums up my week. There is way too much stuff to tell you guys in one post, so I'll break it down into at least two, probably three. Unfortunately, I can't write very long tonight so this will be a short post.
This week I was at HandyCamp. This camp is for adults with physical and mental disabilities such as autism, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, etc. For one week a camper is paired up with a volunteer. Activities include singing praises to God, praying, dancing, doing woodcrafts, swimming, bible studies, and art/crafts. I first went to this camp two years ago because my parents made me. We knew some people who'd gone and they thought it'd be a good idea for me to go. I didn't exactly agree with them. God, however, used that week at camp to change my life. This year was my third camp and God continues to teach me and I always come out of camp with a stronger relationship with Him.
That's all I'll tell you for now. I'll get into details later.
By the way, I decided to scratch the idea of including a joke per post. Not that the jokes were bad, but I don't want to spend the time looking through to find good ones.
Fun Fact:
Unlike other fruits, cranberries do not show their ripeness with color. Instead, they are sorted by bouncing: good cranberries bounce and bad ones don't.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Today was an excellent day. I first went to get my power chain on my braces hooked back up. It slipped off two days after it was put on about three weeks ago. Plus, not long after that, the end of a wire started poking holes in my cheek. Now I have this spot that's all calloused and hard and it feels weird. Anyway, it got fixed.
Then I went over and babysat. I usually babysit three kids, but today I only had the two younger kids (by younger I mean that the toilet is a foreign object to them). It was great. I got paid seventy bucks for six and a half hours of work. Not bad. I think I might have to go shopping again soon.
Finally, I went to a friend's graduation party. He goes to my youth group and just got out of torture school (High school). I have a lot of respect for him. He loves God and has a great personality that shows it. He makes it into the top ten people I respect the most. I hope that he keeps his faith during college because that time in your life is like a faith killer. I've seen and heard of so many people going into college a Christian and coming out believe all this junk about evolution and atheism. It's really sad to think about it.
One last note. My grandfather got me a book of jokes for my birthday. A late gift, but a late gift is better than no gift at all, am I right *wink*? So expect a joke at the end of every post. Plus, I'm going to try and post an interesting, not so well known fact. It's to further your education and it's good for you.
I haven't gone through the joke book, but I do have a fact for you:
Gregor Mendel, "the father of genetics," twice failed the certification exam to become a high-school science teacher.

THIS SUMMER

Summer should be a time of relaxation. A time to just chillax (relax and chill at the same time) and enjoy the freedom. For me, however, this is not how my summer is going to roll. In June, I'm going to three different camps: One three day camp, one five day camp, and one week long camp. I'm excited about all of them, but it is kind of depressing that I have to wait until July to stay home and do nothing. I'm sorry, did I say do nothing? My bad. I meant have friends from Mexico stay for a week and do stuff with them, have four football practices a week, have youth group events every Wednesday night, and whatever else my mom decides to sign me up for.
Back in my last post, I mentioned that I was going to take some placement tests. I'm trying to get into a physics class at Ivy Tech, but I have to score high enough on a math test to take the class. Well, supposedly almost no one tests into the class. Guess who did this time?! Nope, not Hitler, guess again. Nope, not Santa Claus. Me! Gosh, took you long enough to guess. I tested high enough that I not only can enter the physics class, but I also got a high enough score that I could take their Calculus class if I wanted too. I feel like Einstein, minus the crazy hair.
So expect a lot of posts from me. Since I'll be gone most of June, the posts will be spaced out, but I'll probably spread each camping adventure into several posts so I don't bore you with a post so long it'll make the Lord of the Ring Trilogy look like a children's book.
And with that odd metaphor still messing around with your brain, I shall end this post.

SAT

Okay, so you probably freaked out because I said that if I didn't post my scores, then I didn't do well. Worry no more. I simply forgot to post them immediately (funny how even when I don't have school to worry about, I still forget to blog). Anyway, here are my scores:
Math- 690
Critical Reading- 740
Writing- 650
Total- 2080
Not to toot my own horn, but I must say that I'm pretty smart.
Because I beat a senior in my youth group (he scored a 1700), my youth pastor is taking me out to lunch. We're going to Mongolian Barbecue! I love that place. You can make just about any combination of foods that you want.
That's all. I don't know when my next post will be. Maybe tomorrow. I have some tests I'm taking today to see if I can get into a college class at Ivy Tech or IUPUI.
Wish me luck!

SIXTEEN

Yay! I am now sixteen years old! I'm so proud of myself for having made it this far. Of course, I had help from my family, friends, teachers, youth pastors, and of course, God. Thanks guys!
I had tons of fun this past weekend. On Friday, I had two of my best friends over for a sleep over. We played Xbox and went to see the new Robin Hood movie. It was pretty good, although the plot wasn't what I thought it would be. Still a good movie. Then on Monday night after the co-op's performance I went to another sleep over at another friends house. We walked in a huge circle through some fields. Since it had rained, it was like a mud pit. We ended up taking our shoes off so we could actually make some progress. Then we stayed up watching movies until 4ish. The next day we rode our bikes to Frosty Boy. Yum!
Today, I am going hiking at Turkey Run with some friends from co-op. I've never been, so I hope it's fun.
I get my SAT scores today. If they're good, I'll tell you. If I don't tell you, well, hope my parents haven't killed me yet.

THE END

Yesterday was the last day of co-op and it was awesome. First, we had this huge test in physics. It actually was only twelve questions long, but they were tough. At least they weren't as hard as our teacher could have made them. I know I will only get partial credit on two of them because she mentioned a couple mistakes right after I turned my test in. Oh well. Too late to change anything. This week we have part 2 and part 3 of the test.
Drama went very well. The first run through of the play was not so good. Several people forgot their lines. Come on! It's the last practice before dress rehearsal! Know your lines already! Anyway, second rehearsal went really well. We had only one minor mistake (on my part). Yes, I know I just said that we should have our lines memorized, but my line is really a string of short sentences ("Uh-hu. Thank you. Thank you very much"). I accidentally said Oh yeah instead of Uh-hu. Since I'm supposed to say it like Elvis, I threw myself off track and had to cover by saying something different. At least it wasn't a total flop.
then I drove (yes!) to Starbucks and got a half price frappuccino. Then we went to Caleb's baseball game in which they won by infinity to like, seven. Plus, since it was cold, I ran around the ball park and scored my best time for running a mile: 6.5 minutes! Yes!
That's all. Hopefully once school ends, I will have more time to do things blog worthy.