Hi, everyone!
Great weekend. I'll start off with the Eagle Project. It's finished! We got together quite a few people to help, and almost didn't have enough paintbrushes and rollers. The front of the stage is black and the cabinets in the back of the auditorium are blue (I'll see if I can get some pictures in later). We completed the project using only $170 of store donations and some donations from friends.
Mom said that it made a real difference, having black and blue areas in a 50 year-old auditorium. I'm glad I was able to improve the school's auditorium.
Floaters. . . . . . Huh? What kind of floaters? you ask. There are inner tubes that are attached to a boat by a 15-20 foot rope. 1-2 people will ride on one inner tube. The boat driver tries to knock the people on the inner tubes off by dragging them in and out of the wake and by spinning them in circles. We had 1-2 people on each floater, so it was a race to see who got thrown off first. Dillan Deffense, one of our ward members, was the best at it. He survived the longest and managed the best tricks (it's hard to stand up at 30 knots!).
This was the main attraction on the lake, but we had a quick 1/2 hour break at 2:00 to grill hot dogs on the boat. After that, we had to get a bunch of kelp out of the anchor.
Quote of the Day:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
David
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
School's Out!!!
David Here:
Happy Father's Day, all you fathers out there!
Yes! School's finally out! I can now...work on my Eagle Project, go to swim lessons, practice more piano, clean the house more often, and move. Wonderful.
Well, I'll start off with my Eagle Project. I will paint the front of the stage and the cabinets in the back of the auditorium at Sequoia Middle School. This includes paint preparation, paint, and clean-up. It will take place over the next two weeks.
In swimming lessons, I'm a Shark. There are ranks of levels of swimming, from otter (?) to Shark. I'm at the top. The annoying bit is that this conflicts with my Eagle project, so I had to reschedule the times for after swimming lessons. At least it could be arranged. :)
Quote of the Day:
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill (1871-1965)
David Whitesell
Happy Father's Day, all you fathers out there!
Yes! School's finally out! I can now...work on my Eagle Project, go to swim lessons, practice more piano, clean the house more often, and move. Wonderful.
Well, I'll start off with my Eagle Project. I will paint the front of the stage and the cabinets in the back of the auditorium at Sequoia Middle School. This includes paint preparation, paint, and clean-up. It will take place over the next two weeks.
In swimming lessons, I'm a Shark. There are ranks of levels of swimming, from otter (?) to Shark. I'm at the top. The annoying bit is that this conflicts with my Eagle project, so I had to reschedule the times for after swimming lessons. At least it could be arranged. :)
Quote of the Day:
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill (1871-1965)
David Whitesell
Sunday, May 25, 2008
California Science Center
Sorry I've been away so long. I just can't find anything interesting to write about. However...
Yesterday, I went to the California Science Center. We got to see two IMAX movies, one about Prehistoric Sea Monsters, the other about Mummies. There were very interesting 3-D effects.
There were several rooms, each focusing on a different aspect of science. There was one room on sound, one on transportation, one on light. There was an earthquake room, too.
In the front, there was a lever with ropes and a truck. "Can you lift a truck?" It was 5,400 lbs. It was simple, using the lever.
Happy Memorial day.
Quote of the day:
"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something." -Plato
David
Edited: There was also a high-wire bicycle. The tightrope is from one point to another, and there's a bike on it and a net under it. People are able to ride the bike because the weight at the bottom counteracts any people motion. Teresa was the only one who was able to ride - she was wearing shoes! Kara was too short (barely) and I had velcro-strapped sandals. Halfway through her ride, one of Teresa's shoes came off!!!! (See, velcro would have worked better!) We had to wait 5-10 minutes while they called in the janitor with his long pole to bike out and save the shoe. Wow. and they had ladders right there, for the same purpose. If it had fallen, a person might have been hit by a shoe fallen from three stories high. :)
Yesterday, I went to the California Science Center. We got to see two IMAX movies, one about Prehistoric Sea Monsters, the other about Mummies. There were very interesting 3-D effects.
There were several rooms, each focusing on a different aspect of science. There was one room on sound, one on transportation, one on light. There was an earthquake room, too.
In the front, there was a lever with ropes and a truck. "Can you lift a truck?" It was 5,400 lbs. It was simple, using the lever.
Happy Memorial day.
Quote of the day:
"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something." -Plato
David
Edited: There was also a high-wire bicycle. The tightrope is from one point to another, and there's a bike on it and a net under it. People are able to ride the bike because the weight at the bottom counteracts any people motion. Teresa was the only one who was able to ride - she was wearing shoes! Kara was too short (barely) and I had velcro-strapped sandals. Halfway through her ride, one of Teresa's shoes came off!!!! (See, velcro would have worked better!) We had to wait 5-10 minutes while they called in the janitor with his long pole to bike out and save the shoe. Wow. and they had ladders right there, for the same purpose. If it had fallen, a person might have been hit by a shoe fallen from three stories high. :)
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Minor Catastrophe
Hi.
On Tuesday, after school, I was just walking to my locker. Suddenly, I feel something get into my eye. I don't think much about it, and just do my work. It begins to really irritate me when I can't rub or flush it out, so I go to the nurse. She suggests it might be under my eyelid. Doesn't seem to be there, either.
I go home, and Mom gives me some eye drops. We go to the eye doctor and they do their tests of vision (which I fail for my left eye, the one with the foreign object). They look at the eye and upper eyelid under an microscope and - lo and behold - there's a tiny shard of glass on my upper eyelid. What are the chances of that happening?! Invisible to the naked eye, and it comes to me. Wow.
Hope this doesn't happen to you!
Quote of the day:
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
David W.
On Tuesday, after school, I was just walking to my locker. Suddenly, I feel something get into my eye. I don't think much about it, and just do my work. It begins to really irritate me when I can't rub or flush it out, so I go to the nurse. She suggests it might be under my eyelid. Doesn't seem to be there, either.
I go home, and Mom gives me some eye drops. We go to the eye doctor and they do their tests of vision (which I fail for my left eye, the one with the foreign object). They look at the eye and upper eyelid under an microscope and - lo and behold - there's a tiny shard of glass on my upper eyelid. What are the chances of that happening?! Invisible to the naked eye, and it comes to me. Wow.
Hope this doesn't happen to you!
Quote of the day:
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
David W.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Help the Environment! Stop Global Warming!
Hi, all you blog readers out there.
This could be one of the most important blogs I put out. As you know, global warming has been affecting our world. The average temperature of Earth has risen by 1 degree F. In the ice caps, it's risen over 7 degrees F. It would take a while to reverse the effects of global warming, but it can be done!
One website that I have found that gives ideas is http://www.dosomething.org/node/62554. Some things are simple, easy-to-do things - take showers of ten or less minutes, use recycled paper, only run the dishwasher when it's full. There's more information on http://www.dosomething.org/causes/global_warming.
Some of you like gardening. That's great. Plant a garden. You can get fresh fruit and vegetables when they're in season and get out more often. Beautify your yard. These plants also intake carbon dioxide and give us oxygen, allowing us to breathe, besides saving you money on veggies.
One person's junk is another person's treasure. Donate used items or sell them in a garage sale. Landfills take up a lot of space in our world and (1) Aren't pretty (2) Smell (3) Take a long time to biodegrade, if ever, and (4) can be mostly prevented. Recycle paper, glass, plastic, and aluminum. Use cloth bags at the grocery store and reusable water bottles. Plastic is not biodegradable.
Here are some car things that you can do to prevent CO2 emissions from getting out of control: Keep your tires properly inflated, check the car's air filter once a month, carpool and drive less, and turn the engine off (even in traffic) if you have to wait for 30+ seconds.
Quote of the Day:
"Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it."
-Tony Blair (1953-)
Save the world!
David
This could be one of the most important blogs I put out. As you know, global warming has been affecting our world. The average temperature of Earth has risen by 1 degree F. In the ice caps, it's risen over 7 degrees F. It would take a while to reverse the effects of global warming, but it can be done!
One website that I have found that gives ideas is http://www.dosomething.org/node/62554. Some things are simple, easy-to-do things - take showers of ten or less minutes, use recycled paper, only run the dishwasher when it's full. There's more information on http://www.dosomething.org/causes/global_warming.
Some of you like gardening. That's great. Plant a garden. You can get fresh fruit and vegetables when they're in season and get out more often. Beautify your yard. These plants also intake carbon dioxide and give us oxygen, allowing us to breathe, besides saving you money on veggies.
One person's junk is another person's treasure. Donate used items or sell them in a garage sale. Landfills take up a lot of space in our world and (1) Aren't pretty (2) Smell (3) Take a long time to biodegrade, if ever, and (4) can be mostly prevented. Recycle paper, glass, plastic, and aluminum. Use cloth bags at the grocery store and reusable water bottles. Plastic is not biodegradable.
Here are some car things that you can do to prevent CO2 emissions from getting out of control: Keep your tires properly inflated, check the car's air filter once a month, carpool and drive less, and turn the engine off (even in traffic) if you have to wait for 30+ seconds.
Quote of the Day:
"Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it."
-Tony Blair (1953-)
Save the world!
David
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Success!
NAW PRESENTTING THU WURLDS GRAYTEST SPELLLER, DAVID WHITESELL!
I can spell better than that, though. The Copernicus Report was a success. I dressed up and gave an oral report on his achievements and him.
News Flash: My cousin, Brent, just went off on his mission. He left for the MTC on Wednesday, April 16. He's going to Oregon. Bye, Brent!
I just completed a boxing debate in English class. I was against boxing, and the judge said that we won. However, there is no official documentation of the debate and our judge was not an official representative, so there will be no end of boxing yet.
Quote of the day:
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
-David
I can spell better than that, though. The Copernicus Report was a success. I dressed up and gave an oral report on his achievements and him.
News Flash: My cousin, Brent, just went off on his mission. He left for the MTC on Wednesday, April 16. He's going to Oregon. Bye, Brent!
I just completed a boxing debate in English class. I was against boxing, and the judge said that we won. However, there is no official documentation of the debate and our judge was not an official representative, so there will be no end of boxing yet.
Quote of the day:
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
-David
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Poem
Hello, all you blog readers out there!
Today, I am going to share with you a poem that I made about spring:
Is there poetry in spring? With birds chirping, flowers blooming.
Warm rains come from liquid snows and with them new life bring.
Spiderwebs shine with light from dew, and did I mention breezes too?
There are lots of colors, coming fast, a multicolored sail or mast.
Butterflies flip their tiny wings and bees buzz in serenity;
Soon their honey will bring bears, for licking in glee.
Is there poetry in spring, with animals coming
And with them their friends all come running.
The afternoons are sunny, and the new world brings honey
For the newborn bunny who would like to dip his funny little nose.
All the world is green now; and we see the light of spring – wow.
The Earth is reproducing for a show where we can come and go.
The dew on the grass makes it wet, so you must not forget;
That there is poetry in spring that has not come yet.
The colors range from orange to blue and make me say, “I do, I do.
I really do love this place; from the anchored roots to the tallest face.
Is there poetry in spring? Of course! The answer’s yes!
And never in my lifetime would I settle for any less!”
Quote of the Day:
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Bye,
David
Today, I am going to share with you a poem that I made about spring:
Is there poetry in spring? With birds chirping, flowers blooming.
Warm rains come from liquid snows and with them new life bring.
Spiderwebs shine with light from dew, and did I mention breezes too?
There are lots of colors, coming fast, a multicolored sail or mast.
Butterflies flip their tiny wings and bees buzz in serenity;
Soon their honey will bring bears, for licking in glee.
Is there poetry in spring, with animals coming
And with them their friends all come running.
The afternoons are sunny, and the new world brings honey
For the newborn bunny who would like to dip his funny little nose.
All the world is green now; and we see the light of spring – wow.
The Earth is reproducing for a show where we can come and go.
The dew on the grass makes it wet, so you must not forget;
That there is poetry in spring that has not come yet.
The colors range from orange to blue and make me say, “I do, I do.
I really do love this place; from the anchored roots to the tallest face.
Is there poetry in spring? Of course! The answer’s yes!
And never in my lifetime would I settle for any less!”
Quote of the Day:
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Bye,
David
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