China

My spring break was better than most, I got to go to china. One of the games me and my friends played was odds. Odds is a dare game wherein a person issues an outrageous dare to another person, the recipient of the dare must say 1 out of a certain number, demonstrating the likelihood that they will perform the dare. A third party counts the other two people down from 3. After the countdown, the darer and the daree must say a number through 1 and the certain number. If both participants say the same number, then the daree must perform the dare. We played this game throughout the trip. The dares went from to simply to knock on another friends door to photo bomb random peoples selfies to throwing money at a statue of an old emperor. One of the worst things that one of us had to do is in one of the places we went for lunch. Josh Singerman got a chopsticks package with some dried rice to it and someone played odds ageist Josh to eat the piece of rice. He choose the highest number possible 1 out of 100. Somehow they both picked the same number at first Josh was going to break the rules and not eat it, but after a while he maned up and did it. Another example of odds that ended up making everyone laugh was Max. There was a group of women dancers in the middle of the street Max played odds 1 out of 50 and lost. When he joined in most of the women already left so there was only 3 women left. so when he joined it the women saw him and made a really funny moment for the rest of us to laugh at. The End

New Years Revolution

A few years ago I was the skinniest kid round. I was 60 pounds lighter the average weight for my age. I was just skin and bones. My doctor was worried about my bones braking when I fall because I had no muscle around my bones to protect them. So that year my New Year’s Revolution was to get bigger. it was the opposite of what most peoples New Year’s Revolutions. My parents would help me keep this goal. They helped by buying me some of the best protein for gaining weight. I would have some every morning. I would work out every day so the protein would become muscle not fat, because my parents and I didn't want me to become a fat little kid. At the end of January I was still on my plan to gain weight. So far I had gained 20 pounds. I had also made it farther than most people with their New Year’s Revolutions. I continued my plan by mid-February it was getting hard stay on my plan. I had gained 35 pounds but I still pretty skinny, but I kept to my plan. By June I had gained 55 pounds I was almost the average weight for my age, but I was going to keep this plan for an entire year to prove all the haters wrong. By the end of December I had gained 85 pounds I was pretty close to the size I am right now. All my friends were amazed how big I was and I was winning arm wrestles and Chinese leg wrestles against all my friends and family. My doctor was happy and now says that I could get in a fight and not even get hurt. I was one of the few people who had kept his New Year’s Revolutions for the entire year.

 

Boxing Day

This story starts again with my cousins and I. It was the night before Boxing Day Tyler and slept at Josh's because his parents were out of town. Don't worry nothing happened that night with three teenagers and an empty house. We went to bed pretty early for us around 11:00. We got up the next morning at around 6:00. We got dressed and headed out in Josh's car for Boxing Day shopping. First we went to Visions for some speakers, than we walked around market mall look for good sales in the order of the most popular store to the least popular. Buying things here and there. We finished shopping and we were driving home and made the decision to go drifting. So we drifted on all the side roads making our way home. Until we came across a cul-de-sac that was pretty wide and half city park and half houses. So Josh drifted into it and as he was going to switch directions to go around the cul-de-sac, but he had no grip it change the direction of sliding. So we just kept sliding until we hit a tree. Oh don't worry, the tree was only about an inch thick, but it still did some damage. It did stop us and from my perspective of the back seat I thought it was only a small dent because we weren't even going that fast. I thought that Josh would just get out and see how bad it was and back in and then we would go on our marry little way. I was sadly mistaken when I got out to find the whole front bumper on the ground. We ended up getting help from one of the local residence. They let us have some wire to that we could as least put the bumper back so it wasn't dragging. We also used some ducked tape to hold it together. We picked up the pieces that were all over the ground.  We thanked the guy for his helping us and drove home. To this day we still laugh about and we never learned our lesson.

#998 Getting grass stains

Well it all starts at my friend Matthew's birthday party. He was turning 17. It was a family and close friends party so not that crazy of a party. We had dinner and were just hanging out which got boring. So we decided to go to the nearby playground to play grounders with a few of his cousins and siblings. We played grounders and this also got boring very quickly because no one was really trying and there was also a lot of cheating, so the game quickly ended. Shortly after Matthew and I found one of those plastic kid wagons. Two teenage boys just couldn't leave it there without playing around with it first. There was a nearby switchback pathway next to a hill where kids go sledding in the winter. We started by sitting in the back of the wagon and going down the pathway. Seeing who could go down the fastest, like luge. We kept getting around the same times. So it became less and less fun every time we did it. Than I came up with the idea we should go down the sledding hill. It seemed like a fun idea so we went for it. We started with the smallest part of the hill to see how dangerous it was. It was a blast! The wagon would go a lot faster than the times we went down the pathway. Slowly, each time we went down the hill we would go a little bit steeper and higher on the hill. Finally, I took it to the highest part of the hill. The only problem was that there was a fence right next to the bottom of the hill where I would end up, and the wagon didn't have a very good turn radius on the grassy hill. I still went for it because it looked like fun. I took a seat in the wagon and gave it a little push and it started to go down. It was like riding a roller-coaster but with no safety. As I went down the hill, the wagon slowly started to go towards the fence until I was heading right for it. When I tried to turn it, the wheel didn't get any grip on the grass; the whole wagon slipped from underneath me. The next thing I knew, was that I was sliding down the hill.  By the time I stopped I had cut my leg and was covered with grass stains.

Laughing all night

One night last year I was hanging out with some of my older cousins Josh, Tyler, and Chris. We are not the kind of kids that just sit in the basement and play videogames all night long. We do stunts or mess around in the neighborhood, but that night we brought it to a whole new level. Both Josh and Tyler had cars, but all four of us piled into Josh's car with a paintball gun and ammo for it. It's only trouble to have four teenage guys in a car at night with a paintball gun that has lots of ammo. First, we drove to some other neighborhood so that we wouldn't be recognized. Secondly, we took off our license plate so they people couldn't call the cops on the plate. Then put one of the back seats down so you could crawl into the trunk. We took Josh's car because you could open the trunk from the inside. Lastly, we put someone in the trunk with the paintball gun. Tyler went first since it was his gun. We drove around until someone came behind us. The first car that came behind us was a green Volkswagon bug. Quickly Tyler opened the trunk and shot 20-30 paintballs at the car's windshield. The driver freaked out slamed its brakes and almost hit the parked cars on the side of the road. We then drove away as fast as possible. We were all laughing our heads off as we sped away. We couldn't stop laughing we laughed for at least 5 minutes. It was now my turn to go I told Chris to record the whole thing on his phone so we could watch it later. The car that came behind us was a grey Honda civic. As I opened the trunk I could feel the adrenaline pump through my body. I took aim and fired all over the windshield. This guy slammed his brakes, but this time he started to chase us. So we decided to shoot him again this time I shot about 100 paintballs. At this point he couldn't see through his windshield, so he had to pull over. The best part was that we got a video of the whole thing. Later that night we watched the video over and over again until we couldn't laugh any more.

Camping

One camping trip in Africa my five sisters Lucy, Isabella, Marcella, Maria, and Ave and then I Emilio went camping with the two national geographic people name Jim and Alex because we had no people over 18 traveling with us. We took I Jeep deep into the savannah where there wasn't a dirt road within 100km of us and we were 700km away from any civilization. We went this far so that Jim and Alex could get the best pictures of the animals. When we got out of the Jeep you could smell that very clean non populated air all we could smell is a little bit of animal feces. It was as hot as it could be it felt like my skin was on fire. As we started setting up camp you could hear all the animals around you. We set up two tents one for my sisters and I and one for Jim and Alex. As we finished setting up camp a male lion came wondering to our camp. Jim went towards him with the lion spray witch makes the lion run away in pain. Who know that lions where so defensive when Jim went to spray him than the lion suddenly ponced on Jim. The lion torn Jim apart and dragged his dead corpse away. Alex his wife went in her tent and started crying for the rest of the evening. So my sisters and I went in our tent for night. At about 1:00am the ground started to rumble which woke all of us up. We opened the tent door the there was a group of elephants was charging towards our tents. All my sisters starting screaming the elephants heard the screaming and thought it was mice so they avoided our tent, but the elephants ran over Alex's tent. The elephants also run into and over the jeep. Well by the end Alex was dead it was very sad, also we lost our only way out. We all got over all the bad that has happened. Once we ran out of food and we had live off the wilderness. A very nice group of lions took us into there pack and taught us their ways. We learned to hunt and find water out in the savanna. We lived like this for 3 years until we were found by our parents. It was a very emotional moment my parents were crying our new lion parents were crying. My sisters and I didn't know if we wanted to go or to stay.