One more Day

I leave tomorrow!! I almost finished packing. Today I got a haircut. It is so low i can almost forget i have hair now. I can hardly wait till my trip.

Check out these pirates of the carribean bloopers i found. They are very funny. They are located on the video bar at the bottom of the page not at the sidebar. Check out my Clustermap. I have people clicking on my blog from England, India, and Australia!

The future looks bright!

I hit 100 page views yesterday!!! I think I'm at 108 now. But sadly I'm leaving on Sunday for Interlochen (see earlier blog posts from last year) and I won't be able to post for 3 weeks. I hope everyone who comes to visit my blog don't stop. I'll be back with pictures and stories about interlochen.
Also, around late September I will be getting an Apple Mac Laptop from my school that has a built in webcam so I can take a picture and put it on my blog in 2 simple steps. Take the pic then drag it onto the blog. Isn't that cool?

Innoworks

On June 27th, I went to a meeting at Colina for the Innoworks camp. I had just been at Atlantis, so i hopped into the car, drove over the bridge and went to this meeting. They introduced us to our director, Peter Blair, our sponsors, and our mentors. Then we had some food and went home. Well, most of us went home, I went to Atlantis. Haha. On Monday, June 30th, I went to Colina and got on the bus with some people i would soon get to know and love. (Yeah right, it was only 5 days). The bus took us to St. Andrews School. Mr. Robert Wade, the principal of St. Andrews School was opening his school to the Innoworks camp so we could use their amazing labs. On the first day I met my teammates, T. Crystal Fountain, Talbot Mckinney, Alonzo Austin, and Tyvonia Adderley. My team captain was Danielle Turnquest. We had a lot of fun. My teammates were really cool. Crystal was a bit annoying, Talbot was funny (We called him Tally) Alonzo was nice, and Tyvonia was really shy. Danielle was the best. Each day we went to a different area of science. Body Expeditions (Biology), Extreme Biomes (Technology), Flight and Fury (Flight) and Extraterrestrial Excursions. In extraterrestrial we launched rockets and made robots.
Check out the video in the sidebar I found of a LEGO MINDSTORM robot solving a rubix cube. It is a bit slow but it's worth it. We built a LEGO MINDSTORM robot but it was nowhere near as high-tech as this. The second one is better!
Then on Saturday we had our open house. We showed all our parents what we did and had some fun shooting rockets into the sky. I got soaked with vinegar.
At the award ceremony I recieved Most Valuable Player on my team and my team won first prize out of the twelve teams in the camp!
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Performance pressure is a very real thing!

As you may already know I play the piano.

This year I changed piano teachers. I now study under Jai Kim. She is a great pianist and musician. She has a club called the Ars Nova Musical Outreach Program. This club has about 20 or so members including me. We have to study every day for at least an hour. This may seem like a lot but there are teenagers out there practicing 8 hours a day! A brilliant British pianist I know, Benjamin Grosvenor, practices for 8 hours. We had a piano concert on June 7th. It was great. I played Bach's Invention #1 in F major, Rhapsody by Margaret Wigham, and A Chopsticks Theme and Variations Duet. The duet I played with my teacher, Mrs. Kim. I will try to get a video of the performance and post it.

Oh dear!

I can hardly believe I haven't posted anything on my blog in over half a year! I apologize profusely to all (if any) of my adoring fans who have bit their nails clean off waiting for me to post.

Ok, that sounds big-headed but it was a joke, I swear!

Well, I've been quite busy the last seven months. It started with the math competition actually.



1,400 students from all over the Bahamas in grades 4-12 came to COB (College of the Bahamas) and took a written math test about 6 pages long. Then 30 of those 1,400 moved on to the finals. 10 kids from each grade group, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12. I was a finalist in the 7-9 group. At our finals, we sat at desks in front of a screen that displayed our questions. I got 8 questions right out of 10 so i won. I got a nice HP Pavillion Desktop that i am posting from right now.



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DAIRY QUEEN IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For some reason, Dairy Queen has been taken away from us in the Bahamas. The one at the plaza on Cable Beach was shut down as well as the one at Harbor Bay. I'm not sure about the one at Town Center Mall but I think it's down too.

Let us all remember Dairy Queen and ... Oh look at that. My mouth is watering.

It is a sad day for Nassau, Bahamas and it's citizens. Especially Jason Williams

My Summer Travels 3

Chapter 3: Fitting in.

Alright, I'm gonna overlap a bit. Last time I told you I helped Joe Eisele get a few of his errands done but that was the next day, Sunday. On Saturday, after I got to Interlochen, my dad and I got my stuff and met some of the teachers I thought I would have. Turns out I would never take that class but anyway. Then my dad left (boo hoo). We headed over to the cafeteria and ate dinner. By the way the cafeterias are really nice. After that we played some ping pong and I learned tether-ball then went home and went to bed. Not a bad day, eh?

Next day, I helped Joe get ready for Interlochen, you know, taking care of forms and getting his uniform. Then we went together to do our auditions. This was about 3:00. Then, it was time for the opening ceremony at Kresge. Kresge is the big performance hall on the main campus where a lot of big performances take place such as Bob Dylan, Guster, and Collage.

This thing was huge! We walked in with our IBL sign which stands for Intermediate Boys Lakeside. There were about a hundred or so Intermediate boys and three hundred Intermediate s. There were High School kids too and in the middle were the juniors. Behind us were the students and then family, friends, and guests. When everyone was settled there were about three thousand people crammed into the place and then it started.

So first the president came onstage and welcomed everyone and there were some small introductions and (oh wait, president of Interlochen. not the united states.) a dance number too. Then, my favorite part. The president told us he was going to call out certain things such as boys, piano, theatre and if these things have anything to do with you, you stand up and cheer. So he said boys, s, women, men, piano, organ, guitar, violin, viola, intermediate boys, intermediate s, high school s, high school boys etc. I stood up for the ones I belonged to like boys, piano, intermediate boys, and new people. Then he said he was going to call out the countries and when you hear your country, you should stand up and show some patriotism. Amazingly, the Bahamas was first so I stood up and cheered but I was the only one. Everything was quiet for a second, then I started cheering again and the crowd went wild.

Ooooh, I've always wanted to say that.

So yeah, that was cool. After that when I met anyone it was

"Hey, you're that Bahamian kid!"

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