Thank you, Dad

     My father is forty three years old. He is a businessman right now, but he was a soldier when he was young. He is a serious man, he seldom laughs at something. I think it is because of his job. He is easily distracted; he usually forgets to bring home some important things. I think it is because he needs to remember too many things.    I really need to thank him because he taught me a lot of things what I cannot learn in school, for example, how to trust a person, how calm down when I get angry, and how to study.

     When I was eleven years old, I did not want to trust anyone except my parents. I did not trust my friends; in truth I did not have any friends at that time. I still do not know why I was like that at that time. When my father discovered my problem, he felt very strange yet and found a way to help me. He started to not believe in me, nor did he trust everything I said. I learned through pretend this lesson if I trust no one, I would miss out. Then, I started to change myself.

     Last year, I am easily angered, I do not why, but I could not control myself. When I was angry, I would throw things at the wall. If someone pushed me very hard, I would fight with him for sure. My father noticed this, and again taught me by to be mean to me every day. At first I felt very strange; I did not know why he was like that. Then I realized I was that way to everyone.

    When I was eight years old, I did not know how to study, I only knew how to write, write, and write. So, I learned very slowly. Then my father discovered that, and taught me a lot of good ways to study. I am very happy to learn some different ways of studying from him.

     A lot of people taught me something what are really important, I also want to thank them. However, my father taught me most of the things, so thank you, dad.

Camping Exprience

    Have you ever had an unforgettable experience? I think everyone has. I have. I went on a camping trip with all of the 8^th graders from my school. That was a great trip. We had a lot of fun. This is the first time I went on a camping trip with my schoolmates. I did not know a lot of things about camping. I think the camping trip is not just a chance to have fun, because I learned a lot of things from the camping trip. For example, I learned how to set up a tent, how to hike correctly and how to make an ant catcher.

    
     When we arrived there, we needed to set up our tent. However I knew nothing about that. I did not know how to strike the nails for the ground pad. I did not know how to use the stick which should be the tent’s strut. The classmates who slept in the same tent with me were Gene and Victor, so Victor taught me everything about the tent. I think that will be useful for me. When we set our tent, we discovered there were a lot of ants around our tent. Victor Gong said he wanted to make an ants catcher for us, he thinks that will be useful. Then I saw he make a cave first then put some cookies and water in the cave. That is very easy to make, but I think that is really useful.  

I went to many camping trips for take photograph of nature with my photography teammates. However, we have some Jeep cars, so we slept in car. So, I think the skills are new and useful experiences for me.

     There were two rainy day when during our camping trip. The first rain let a lot of tent got wed, so some students slept in the restroom. When the first time I heart that, I think that’s funny. However, later I think that is a very good idea, restroom was very warm, and it was very clean. So, after the thing, I think sometimes we should change our mind a little bit, we may choose a different way. Maybe that’s batter and more useful!

     We hiked beside a river. The small road was very difficult to walk. I did not bring a pair hiking shoes. I just wearied my basketball shoes for hiking, so I always slipped. Mrs. Vail told me that if I tie some rind of tree under my shoes they will get batter. Then I tried it, it was really useful. I am very happy to learn the smart skill. However I still do not know why it worked. Anyway, I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot of skills from the camping. I will remember it forever.