Uni High and Cross Country

Chances are, you're upset that I didn't keep my promise and do a blog post once school started, so to make it up to you, I'm doing a 2 for 1 special. Uni AND cross country.

So first, I've included a picture of the entire eighth grade at Uni High. It's only 69 people this year, but is quite a step from previous years of only around 60. If you count them, you'll come short because some were absent the day of the picture. I'm the guy in the green striped shirt. Go figure.

Monday will be the eighth day of school for us, and boy have we been busy. Assuming I'm out the door by 7:30 AM each morning, I spend 8 hours and 45 minutes at school, and 2 hours and 15 minutes right after that at cross country, I'm away from home for 11 hours a day! By that time, it's 6:30. If I eat dinner until 7:30 and finish getting ready for bed until 8:00, I get an hour and a half a day to get my homework done and maybe get a bit of downtime for myself. Thankfully, it's not quite like that. During school, I get a free period and a study hall each day. Add those up, and I get an hour and 15 minutes to get homework done. Not too bad.

In addition, during my free period (45 minutes long) I could go down the street, stop by Jimmy Johns, get a drink, and just hang out for a few minutes outside before the bell would ring. I'll have to try that. I'm really liking Uni so far.

Every day after school from 4:15 - 6:30 (or so) I have cross country practice. All five grade levels practice together and we usually run an average of 5 - 6 miles a day. However, the subbies have their own meets and all the high school grade levels have their own meets, so it fits in with all the other schools. Well, today the subbies had our first meet. I beat last year's PR by 2 seconds with a time of 15:01 for the 2 mile.

You can pretty much see our school uniform in that picture. Anyway, I think this post is

long enough. It was fun today, but I didn't do any of my homework. Guess what tomorrow will

be like.

Wish me luck.

- The Blogger

Part 4 of 4 of the Most Jam-Packed Summer Ever: Tech Camp

Sorry to leave you at a cliffhanger for such a long time. The fourth and final event of this summer was me going up to Chicago (or an area near it) and doing a sleep away camp for the first time in my life. It took place at Northwestern University and each person got a roommate that they slept with in a dorm. Each day there was pretty routine, but it never quite got old. We played video games for around 3 hours a day and there were a number of camps each person was in. My roommate and I were in the same camp: Java programming. It was a whole lot of fun! The first night was pretty difficult, but after that I just fit myself in the routine and it was all easy.

This is me in my dorm room. Not the greatest picture, but it captures it. I chose top bunk.

This is the final day when parents got to come and check out our work. I made a bunch of friends and despite the fact I'm looking a bit goofy, we all had fun.

This is the room where all thirty of us would spend the majority of the day working and playing games.

That's it. It's nice to be home, and the trip to South Dakota seems so distant now. Would you believe that my mom was actually planning a trip to D.C.?? Fortunately, we didn't carry through with it. Sadly, fun's over and I finally have to start on the book I'm required to read for school this year. I've got 14 days before school starts. There probably won't be another post until then, but you never know.

Oh, and by the way, something is a bit messed up with the Poll of the Month and it just says the question twice. Sorry about that.

- The Blogger