Boy Scouts

Boy Scouts

            If you read my blog titled,”How my weekend went,” you should have seen that on Saturday, I went to a Boy Scout camp out. This was my first camp out with the Boy Scouts. And this is how Boy Scouts started.

            At the end of October, one of my good friends, Grant, asked me if I wanted to join Boy Scouts. Then I said yes and that next Tuesday, I went to my first Boy Scout meeting. It was okay. They were talking about what food to bring for the next camp out (Not the one that I went to). I couldn’t go to this camp out because we had something to do that weekend. So I skipped that camp out.

The next meeting which was on a Thursday (our meeting could be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. We don’t always met on a certain day of the week.) we did requirements. Requirements are things that Boy Scouts have to do in order to gain badges. There are about 13 requirements until you get a badge. Some take longer than others and some are easier than others.

I didn’t get any that night because I didn’t even have a Boy Scout book. But at the next meeting, (which was on a Tuesday), we prepared for our next camp out (which was the one that I went to). Well at the campout, I got seven whole requirements done. The second highest number of requirements that a person got was one requirement. But the only reason that I got so many was that I had just started and there were some really easy ones in there. Well, I have had a very good time doing Boy Scouts because it is very fun.  

How my Weekend Went

This weekend went great for me. On Friday after school, I had a basketball game. We sadly lost. But then after my game, my family and I went over to my cousin’s house to celebrate New Year. So we couldn’t actually do it on the 31^st of December because my family was in New Orleans. So instead, we did it the 7^th. I had a blast. We got to play a fighting game with shields and we played Nerf Gun Wars and we stayed up until 12 o’clock. Then I came right home and went right to sleep. The next thing that I know, its 7 o’clock and we have to go to my Boy Scout camp out. Basically at the camp out, I get some requirements done. Requirements are where we have to show that we know this thing. I think that the only bad thing was being cold. On Saturday night and Sunday morning, I was super cold. Even though, my dad had brought me a sleeping bag, it was still cold. Then at 8:00 the next morning, our troop headed out. On Sunday, I really did nothing, but stay at home and read and play Wii.

            Overall, my weekend went great. I played a fun game of basketball and stayed up very late to have a party. And then I went to my Boy Scout camp out and had a great time. This weekend was a perfect weekend for me because I was doing something this weekend.  

2012, So Far

2011 was a good year. It had its ups and downs. But this year is going to be better.

            This year is supposed to be when the sun explodes and giant natural disasters destroy the earth, but I am not planning on it. My big plans for 2012 are to learn Spanish (at least part of it), try and be nicer, and to work harder on everything that I do.

            If this means that I must take extra time to do things, I will. Also I am going to be nicer at home. Some times at home, my siblings and I like to fight. We argue and then we fight. It will help out this family be better. I think that by not fighting that they will take after me and stop fighting. I also really wanted to learn Spanish. I have always wanted to learn a new language because it sounded interesting. Well for Christmas, my grandma gave me a Spanish learning system. I started it yesterday. It was awesome because of how it makes learning Spanish fun. You have flash cards that have the Spanish word and what it translates to. I have already learned 34 words in Spanish.