It has been too long

Welcome back everyone to my blog. It has been way too long for what I had originally promised. I said that I would post every week but I think that it has been a good month since I have posted so lets make sure that this one is good to make up for missed time. Things have changed in the household because my brother Nate has moved out and is now within Job Core which has impacted the family quite a bit. I hate to say it but things in the house have gotten better. Me and my sister Zoe have been getting along better, The chores have gotten easier because there is less mess being made around the house, and the parents seem to be a little bit more laid back in their already quite stressful lives. It seems a little cruel to be saying some of this stuff but anything else would be lying and that just doesn't help anything so there's just one of the things that you have all missed.

Next subject is Camp Kick. I don't remember if I had mentioned this earlier on in my blog at sometime but it's a camp based around Tae Kwon Do. Because of the place being run by ATA not only did we do things like fishing but we also had a lot of exercising to do. This all included polishing forms that we already knew and a ton of exercising along the way. Squats, Lunges, pushups, and much more all before 10:00 on the first day! What made everything even more interesting for me is that I was in the role model group so we were in charge of a ton more things then everyone else. This included carrying some of the little kids up a hill to the pool and doing some squats and lunges along the way. I admit that was pretty satisfying thinking about it but that wasn't the only thing. I have a new found respect for Kristi and her hard job of picking up after us because not only did I help out with the little kids but my entire squad was in charge of picking up after the little kids after each meal and then putting up everything back just to get it all out again for the next meal. Not as simple as it sounds because of the kids nasty habit of never even trying to pick up some of their messes. Enough of the hard now onto some of the fun stuff. I mentioned sports but to be honest with you we all kinda sucked at sports because most of the rules were changed in some way or even left out to make it playable by most of the people there. I did pretty good for someone that has almost never played sports other then in PE so that's just a bonus. The sports included volleyball, basketball, soccer, and ultimate Frisbee. To be honest they weren't nearly as fun as some of the other stuff which included Ninja star throwing, Tie dying, and boating which I will go into more detail right about ...... now.

For the boating I wanted to use one of the Kayaks but I couldn't because they were all taken before I could get one and I didn't really trust enough people in my squad to get in a canoe with anyone so I ended going with the last person into one of the paddle boats meant for two people. The kid I decided to go with had earned his name Special one. It sounds fairly mean but I called him this as well because that was the first name that I had ever heard for him at all and it wasn't just me but the entire squad including the commander called him this because of his constant lack of following directions and back talking. His real name was Evan so that's what I'm going to address him by in this blog entry. Anyway I got into this boat with Evan and we paddled into the middle of the lake easily until he decided that he could make me do whatever he wanted. His way of doing this was planting his firmly with the pedal to the bottom of the boat and didn't go anywhere until I agreed to pedal in the direction that he wanted. I didn't want to ram one of his friends so I ended up using the rudder to try and get back to land until finally Evan gave in and we paddled back to the dock. What made this all the more interesting is that this was all done in a half sunken boat because my sister Zoe had managed to get Water inside the boat because of some problems that she had while she was boating with her squad. Making this all the more harder because the entire time we were halfway soaked.

Tomorrow is my tournament as well which is going to be fairly interesting because this is my first major tournament ever. I am kinda nervous but also I have confidence after my previous tournaments success. This time though they are going to be putting me into a higher ranking group then last time because for some strange reason they are going by what age you will be by the end of the year and not what age you are currently. So instead of being in the 12-14 range I am in the 15-17 range with recommended black belts which is fairly intimidating but no way am I backing down after signing myself up for competitive. Besides I couldn't if I wanted to because my dad paid good money for me to attend this tournament and I have been participating practice this entire time so I have put way to much time and money to not go now and it just wouldn't make sense with the plans I've made. Not like I would refuse to go since I enjoy TKD so much anyways.

I know I talked quite a bit about Tae Kwon Do during this blog and I'm sure I could go on for much longer but I think that too much just wouldn't do any good at the moment. If my entries end up too long I'll lose attention half way through and if I have them too short then there is less satisfaction. I am not only typing this to make sure that you all know that I am still here but also to say that starting August 14 I will be starting up my daily blogs again. It will be good to get back into the swing of things again because I do miss having a routine other then Tae Kwon Do. There will be new experiences, new books to read, new activities, and maybe some kind of job in my future. Tune again here soon to keep and for all of you reading see you soon!