summer doldrums

Well, summer this year, hasn't been all that fun for me. All I've gotten to do is go to morning practice, do work in the morning, and just sit or go to track in the afternoon. All throughout the schoolyear I had been looking forward to a break and summer, but now that it's finally here....it's not so great. I guess the pasture is always greener on the other side of the fence.  I really wish i could go play outside, but i'm always tired from all the physical activity I have to do, and I want to sleep ,. but then I can't sleep because all the physical activity gives me adrenaline rushes. I don't want to stop doing the swimming and track workouts, because they are fun. Summer......oh wow.
Later,

Rohan

yosemite trip

Hey everyone. Just wanted to talk a bit about our recent Yosemite trip. It was amazing, Yosemite is one of those places that can never get old, a place that you never see too many times. I relived fond memories form our school trip, such as life in Boystown and our venture in to the Spider Caves. As a family, we hiked up to the footbridge of Vernal Falls. The waterfalls were amazing. The huge snowpack this year made the water literally gush. On our way there, we enjoyed a light lunch of sandwiches on the side of the road, but everyone wolfed down their food so we could get back en route the park.In total, Yosemite was an amazing experience, regardless of the fact that I have been there ten times already.
Later,

Rohan

yosemite!!!

YAYAYAYAY! Tomorrow our family is going to Yosemite. The reason we're going at this time of year is that the snow this year was way more than normal. There was so much snow, in fact, that the waterfalls are gushing like crazy and the Merced River is swelling. Normally in summer, the falls and the river dry up considerably. I remember one summer when we took our relatives to go see Yosemite and Bridalveil Falls was just a trickle of water. This trip is going to be AWESOME....except for one thing. We're going to be back on Saturday, and the problem is that my dad signed me up for a swim meet the next day. All I'm saying here is I better receive some payment ( a nice sweatshirt would do).

Back to the subject, I hope we do a nice hike. There's nothing compared to a nice hike in the wild with no one else in the bright, brisk morning. Ahh...I can feel it already.

Au revoir,

Rohan

summer track meets

Summer track meets are both fun and not fun at the same time. I get really, really nervous before these meets, and then after the race, I feel great, even if I don't do too well.

The main problem I have is that these meets completely infect my summer fun schedule. Every Thursday I pace around the house, with ten insane hummingbirds flitting about in my stomach. I wait on tenterhooks for my carpool to arrive, and at the meet, I warm up as much as I can. ( to my dad, i seemingly never warm up enough )

I run the mile and 800. My coach says I shouldnt run both of them at the same meet, but my parents force me to :(. However, I am reasonably good at both of them, my records being 2 ;17 and 5 :03 in the 800 and mile respectively. I have another meet coming up tomorrow....I can feel those pesky hummingbirds hatching already.

Au revoir,

Rohan

deathly hallows p2

We watched the Harry Potter midnight show. It all ended. Jealous? I would be too, but then, I was the one who watched. To put it into words...it was FABULONGOOSHOMARVELISHLYWONDERPIPICAL. Yes. It was.

The midnight show attracted a LOT of people, mainly crazed HP diehards like us.Everybody was dressed up in costumes, from owls to snitches to Draco to Dumbledore to dragons. It was amazing. We stood in line for seven hours, but it literally seemed like 10 minutes. We hung out with my friend's family so we could have someone to talk to and play with, and we walked around, looking at people's costumes. ( we took some awkward pictures with other weirdly dressed people)

Finally , the movie started. We had to wait in the theater for two hours while we watched the same set of ads about forty times. It was fun......

But the movie blew everyone away. It was SO much better than the random mishmosh from the Order of the Phoenix and the action sequences were really well done. It was only missing one or two things, as opposed to the full chapters missing from the previous movies. I wished that they hadnt underplayed when Harry killed Voldemort...he just dissolved. If he had crashed dramatically to the floor, the crowd would have cheered, just like we did when Neville killed Nagini. I also had wanted to see when Harry talked about remorse and explained to Voldemort about why Dumbledore died, and all about Snape, and so on. And then Harry randomly snapped the Elder Wand. :(

In total though, this was by far the best movie out of all 8. The midnight show experience was amazing, and I don't think a midnight show will ever be interesting again after this one.

Au revoir!

Rohan