Noah

Noah, a godly man, overcame a great obstacle during his lifetime.  God told Noah there was going to be an expansive flood brought to wipe almost every living thing from the face of the Earth.  Trusting and obeying God, Noah built a colossal ark for his family and two of every creature.  Tired, but continuously faithful, Noah and his family waited for the storm to stop.  Successfully, they survived the storm and God made a promise to never wipe out the Earth with a flood again.

The brown pelican

  What kind of bird scoops its dinner up and out of the water?  This exceptional creature is the brown pelican.  Unlike other pelicans, the brown pelican dives head first from sixty-five feet above water down into the ocean to catch fish.  Other species of pelicans fly close to the surface of the water to find their prey.  Brown pelicans prey mainly on small fish that form schools near the surface of the water.  They will sometimes scavenge dead animals and eat invertebrates such as prawn and shrimp.  Populating on the coasts between North and South America, the brown pelican enjoys living on warm beaches with plenty of fish.  These birds have dark brown feathers and an oversized orange or yellow beak.  The brown pelican is a sizable bird.  From the tip of their beak to the end of their tail both male and female brown pelicans measure about four feet long.  In addition, their wingspan is about six feet wide.  Fascinating humans with their many remarkable traits, the brown pelican is yet another reason to head to the beach!

A brown pelican in flight

Sundae For Dessert

The aroma of chocolate fills the room as sweet sauce gets poured onto a scoop of strawberry ice-cream.   A cherry tops the delicious dessert.  The cold cream slowly turns into liquid inside of my mouth.  My spoon clings against the glass as I scrape the sides of the container, anxious for another bite.  The fruity taste of strawberries perfectly complements the chocolate syrup.  The bright red cherry enters my mouth and makes my taste buds dance.  Just one, two, three bites more and...
                                                         BRAIN FREEZE

The Coahuitecan Indians (essay)

  The Coahuiltecan Indians lived a difficult life.  They lived in southern Texas near Mexico.  The region where they lived was deserted and had very few resources.  Their diet consisted mainly of snakes, lizards, armadillos, prickly pear cactus, and javelinas.
  The Coahuiltecans were nomads, meaning they traveled from place to place to find food and natural resources.  They had very few tools and spent most of their time only surviving instead of spending time making pots, tools, and any other items that you may find the other Indian tribes making.  Coahuiltecans traveled in bands.  Bands were groups of people that lived together.  There were hundreds of bands and each one had about 150 people.
  Because their region did not have many resources, initially no one wanted their land.  This caused them to be weak warriors.  When other tribes eventually started to become interested in owning their land, the Coahuiltecans lost many battles. As a result, the Coahuiltecan tribe disappeared.  Today there are no known members of this Native American tribe remaining.

CCCC (Carolina Creek Christian Camp)

Christian: Carolina Creek Christian Camp was all about learning about God's word and getting closer to him. After every activity we would get together with the girls in our cabin and talk about how the activity was related to our walk with Christ (for example: almost all of the activities involved belaying and we had to trust the belayer to not drop us, so we would compare that to our walk with Christ by saying that we can trust God to keep us safe just as we can trust the belayer to keep us safe)



Crazy fun: There were a TON of activities including a 1,000 foot zip line, a giant swing, and the blob (I will explain that later). They also had kayaking, tubing, and banana boating. There were many more activities. Not only did they have those activities, but they also had two theme nights. The first theme night was nerd themed; they had games set up in the cafeteria room that were supposed to be the games you play on your phone such as fruit ninja or temple run. For the fruit ninja game they had chopped up bananas and apples that the "ninja" would throw at you to catch with your mouth. You would come to nerd night with your nerdiest clothing such as coke bottle glasses and bow ties. The second theme night was Duck Dynasty themed. We watched Duck Dynasty and played idiotic games such as toilet toss (you tried to throw a roll of toilet paper through a hanging toilet seat) and giant bowling (bowling with giant balls and pins) plus we also had a rubber duck hunt. Fun fun fun.



Caring: If you were to do something kind to another camper or if you were to do something godly you would be rewarded with points. These points would be added to your team's (cabin's) points and at afternoon chapel they would announce the team that had the most points for that day. At the end of the week they announced who the camp champs were. Those were the people in the team that had the most points overall for that week.



Cheer: There were cheers that we had for words, numbers, leaders etc. Here are a few:

For any number In this case the number is ten): TEN! one two three four five six seven eight nine ten. oosh ah ah ah ah boogitie boogitie boogitie ah (clap) a ah (clap) a ah (clap) a ah (clap clap) 

For the skit that they would do at afternoon chapel: Ski-it (clap clap clap) (we would repeat this getting louder each time until the people got on stage)

If someone said okay: Okay. Okay. okay okay okay. ooooookaaaay

To say goodbye: Bye. bye bye bye




Pictures:

This is the blob. The blob is basically a giant air filled pillow in the water. Someone sits at the end and the other person jumps onto the blob from about 15 feet in the air causing the person at the end to fly into the water. Because of my expression you can tell that it is really scary to be the person getting "blobbed".

My cabin in nerd gear

nerdy me

a really good picture that I got of our morning chapel stage

there were deer prints on almost every trail

half of my cabin

climbing the rock wall

me and my friend Adrienne at Duck Dynasty night

eating a family style meal at Duck Dynasty night

giant bowling

If you want to see more pictures go to carolinacreek.org and click on pictures then click on creekside week one and go through the days in the week.

11 random questions

1. What is your favorite type of cheese?

I would have to go with cheddar jack. Not only does it taste good, but it looks neat too.

2.  What are you excited about?

Right now we are actually preparing to put our house on the market. I'm pretty excited to see what will happen this summer.

3.  How did you celebrate your last birthday?  

This and this.

4.   What is on your bedside table?

My bedside table is actually a bookshelf. An alarm clock, three decorative mason jars, and some gathering dust.

5. What do you order from the movie theater concession stand?

Typically I will order a large root beer and share a large popcorn with the rest of my family (the popcorn never makes it 20 minutes into the movie).

6.  Do you have a garden?  What's growing?

Bahahahahahah!

Weeds.

7.  Any summer plans?

To get rid of whatever sickness I have right now.

8.  What TV couple are you rooting for?

I'm not really rooting for anyone at the moment.

9.  What's the last thing you bought?

A hat and sunglasses from CCCC.

10.  What's one thing you are passionate about?

Sleep.

11.  What are you grateful for this week?

My family, my opportunity to go to camp, and green tea in my pantry to help with my throat.

The rules say that I must now tag eleven bloggers, so Ms. Alicia, Crystal, Jadyn (on your mom's blog), and Ms. Jessica please help me to reach eleven. Thanks!

A Wrinkle in time Book review

I read the book, A Wrinkle In Time and also watched the movie to go along with it. The book was written by Madeline L'engle and won the 1963 Newbery Medal. The movie and the book have many similarities and differences, but before I list those I will give a summary of the book.
                                 Summary

  In the book A Wrinkle In Time there is a family of five. Meg is the oldest of the four children and she is never pleased with herself because she has glasses and braces. Charles Wallace is the youngest. Somehow he has the ability to read people in a way; he sort of knows what they are thinking. The twins fall in between the ages. While Charles Wallace was still a baby their father had disappeared without any reason. He worked in a secret force in the government. The people who were in charge of the force said that he was fine, but nobody in the force believed this because they used to send him letters and he would reply, though now when they sent him letters he would not reply.

  One night a woman named Ms. Whatsit  came knocking on the door. She was covered in sheets and scarves, she also wore rubber boots. Charles Wallace claimed to have known her, but nobody else in the family did. When she was leaving she said something about a tesseract. This startled the children's mother because the tesseract was joked about between her and her husband who had disappeared. 

  The day after Ms. Whatsit's visit Charles Wallace took Meg to the haunted house where Ms. Whatsit lived so that Meg could properly meet her. Instead of finding Ms. Whatsit at the haunted house they found a boy named Calvin. Calvin was popular being the best player on the basketball team. Charles Wallace invited Calvin to his house for dinner.

  While at the house the three children were transferred to another planet. This type of transportation was called tessering. On the planet that they were transferred or tessered to Ms. Whatsit was there. She explained that a tesseract was a wrinkle in time She used an ant for her example. If the ant was on one side of her skirt then it would take a while for the ant to get to the other side of the skirt, though if there was a wrinkle in the skirt then the ant would get to the other side quickly. After the explanation about the tesseract the children met Ms. Who and Ms. Which. Ms. Who found it hard to speak her own words so she used quotes from other people instead. Ms. Which was wise and would be right about nearly everything. The planet that they were on was beautiful. Ms. Whatsit turned into a creature that looked like it was half man- half pegasus. The children rode on the transformed Ms. Whatsit while exploring the beauty of the planet. All sorts of creatures flew throughout the skies and sang a merry song. Ms. Whatsit flew the children to a place where they could see a big cloud of darkness. The cloud scared the three children, though they later found out that the cloud overshadowed Earth. Meg and charles Wallace's father was on another overshadowed planet and the children would have to save him without the Ms. Ws.

  The children arrived at the planet. Every thing on the planet was following the same rhythm and everyone was doing the same thing. This was caused by something called IT. Charles Wallace was afraid because he could not read these people like he could read the people on Earth.
  The three children reached a big building. Inside of the building there was a man who had red eyes. The man made Charles Wallace think that he would be fine if he drew himself to the man, though when he did he began to be a different person; he had the same body but the Charles Wallace speaking was not the same.
  Later Meg found her father and had accomplished what she came to do, but now she had to get the real Charles Wallace back. Charles Wallace Was taken over by IT. IT was inside of a dome shaped building. When Meg, her father, and Calvin arrived at the building their heart, lungs, and other organs worked at the same tempo. Meg tried to fight the rhythm, but IT was too strong and IT nearly killed her. Before IT could hurt her too bad her father tessered himself, Meg, and Calvin to another planet.
  This planet was colorless. The creatures that lived on the planet came to the three and offered to care for Meg because she was sort of hurt. Once Meg as feeling better the Ms. Ws decided that it would be best that she return to the planet where Charles Wallace was alone to try to defeat IT again.
  Meg returned to the planet and defeated IT using the one thing that IT did not have which was love; she said to Charles Wallace repetitively that she loved him.
  IT was part of the darkness and when IT was defeated the darkness was defeated too.
  In the end Meg, Charles Wallace, their father, and Calvin returned happily back to the planet that was now no longer shadowed: Earth.



                                 Similarities and differences
The book and movie have some differences. One difference is that some people are mentioned more or less in the movie than they are in the book. Another difference that I noticed was that some of the events that happened in the book were either switched around or not mentioned in the movie causing a somewhat different outcome. somewhat different outcome. For example: In the book first Charles Wallace became controlled by IT and then his father was found, but in the book The father was found first. Another example is that in the book meg and Calvin met Ms. Who and Ms. Which after they tessered, though in the movie it was vice versa.



                                             Conclusion
A Wrinkle In Time was an adventurous book about how love can do anything (even save the universe). I thought that it was easy to understand the meaning of the book and that the picture that the book produced was clear. I enjoyed this bok and hope to read the next on in the series too.