Our Home School Field Trip To The Coast

I went to the Oregon coast with our home school group (the Taylors, Hofens, Applegarths, and us Vaughns) and, I also went to the Tillamook cheese factory!  we even managed to camp in a yurt, but somehow I survived the climb up the stairs in the Astoria Column, and we also decided to go to Fort Clatsop.

     We went to the Tillamook cheese factory and watched Gigantic blocks of cheese turn into regular sized blocks!  I got my picture taken in the loaf love van with John Taylor and my sister Hailey.  Later at the end of the tour I sampled cheese, and it was delicious!  Our home school group ate lunch there, and their food was great.  The part that I didn't like there was that I got ran over by the loaf love van!

     Camping in a yurt was beyond awesome. it is better than camping in a tent because in a tent it gets to cold.  You don't even have to set up a yurt!  inside a yurt it has a really cool bunk bed.  The yurt even has this thing called a futon which my sister calls a crouton.

     The Astoria Column has 164 stairs.  I climbed up those stairs 3 times and went down 3 times witch would mean I climbed 984 stairs!  I even got my picture taken of myself standing about half way in the middle of the column.  I bet you would want to come if I told you it was an awesome view.  When I was standing at the top everyone looks like really small bugs!

     All those cool places made me feel great.  I sure will always wish to go back someday.  I think we all had a very good time.

What I Want To Be When I Grow Up

  I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  being a pastor would be cool.  I might like to be an architect.  I could even be an astronaut.  

     It would be awesome to be a pastor.  If I were a pastor I would tell people about God, and taste delicious food (our pastor gets invited to so many potlucks).  Maybe I would get to baptize some people, and read my favorite bible stories to everyone.  

     I would like to be an architect because I would design.  All I need is a measuring tape, graph paper, and a sharpened pencil with an eraser.    There is even lots of math involved (my favorite subject in school).  You wouldn't have to mess with wood, nails, or any other building supplies.  I wouldn't even have to smell the wood shavings (I think they smell wierd).

     I want to be an astronaut because I'd see things most people won't get to see, and I like hearing the rocket take off.  If I were an astronaut I would explore space.  I'd observe beautiful moons, stars, planets, and lots more things.  I might even get to fly a gigantic space ship.  I may even become famous.  

     All those things would be fun, but like I said I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  They are all probably HARD, but I have a long time to think!

Swimming Lessons

     Finally I get to do swimming lessons.  I like swimming lessons.  Goggles sure do help me.  The group I'm in lets you use accessories.  I have a lot of trouble swimming sometimes.  
     I get to use kick boards. My teacher even throws small rings in the pool, and the rings sink to the bottom, so you have to get all the rings.  You even get to jump of the low diving board.  I use flippers too! 
     Goggles help because it is hard trying to get rings under water if you can't see.  Goggles help you when your swimming on your back by not letting the water go in your eyes. Say you were under water swimming and you didn't have goggles wouldn't you want some so you didn't hit the wall? 
     I have trouble swimming with my face in the water.  When you have your face in the water you will need air. When you get air you have to do a stroke, not only that but also I can't get enough air in between the stroke.  Sometimes I just get confused. 
     All that swimming is tyring but it is better than not knowing how to swim at all.  Cool accessories, awesome goggles, and hard swimming teach me how to swim.  Me knowing how to swim would help me a lot.