My Birthday and Dance Camp

Sort of recently(as in in this month)it was my birthday! I had a dinner party. To start we painted picture frames. Mine was a bunch of colors making stripes with blue polka dots on top of them. After we all finished our paintings we had dinner, which was lasagna, salad and homemade pickles. Then I got to open my presents! They were all really cool! I got stuff like a rock candy growing kit, earrings, and a lot more awesome presents. Next, we made a fire. We had s'mores and played games. After that everyone left.


A week after that my mom and I left to go to Dance Camp. It was really fun! I met a new friend and did stuff with old friends. I was also in the 9-12's for the first time, even though I was 10(I wasn't at camp last year). The 9-12's is a childcare thingy that people who are nine to twelve years old go to. I had good counselors and did fun activities. My favorite activities were LARP(Live Action Role Playing), and foosball. LARP...is kind of hard to explain. It's like a fantasy world where you are on a quest and you fight monsters with foam swords and spells, but better than it sounds. In the end of LARP for the year we all got a necklace with a shell pendant on it. Dance Camp was really fun!

North Carolina

I told you I went to North Carolina, right? Well, now I will tell you what we did. First of all, we drove there, which was pretty annoying and long. It was over one hundred and ten degrees in Richmond when we were passing through Virginia! We survived the drive, though, and stayed where my grandma lives, which is kind of like a community where seniors live in little apartments. They had an indoor pool and a indoor hot tub. We didn't only see my grandma. One night we had dinner with my aunt and great aunt, too. Then we left for the beach. The ride was much shorter. At the hotel that we were staying at, there was a beach(of course), an outdoor pool, and a lounge where you could play pool and ping-pong. There we met with my grandma, grandpa and my uncle. While we were there we swam a lot, played lots of ping-pong and pool, and just did stuff in our room. It was really fun! But we weren't staying there for the rest of the summer, so we had to go home. It was a long trip back. We didn't stop, even to sleep(we started going back home at nine am)! Finally we got back and went straight to bed. Going to North Carolina is always really fun!

Art Camp Day #5

The fifth day of Art Camp was great! I'm sorry I couldn't post this sooner, But my family and I were in North Carolina, and they didn't have a computer where we were staying. I'll tell you about our trip later. Anyway, on the fifth day we studied Vincent van Gogh(pronounced as Go). My cousin E was there. Van Gogh was an artist who made his art by drawing or painting little lines to form something in a picture. For our project we used crayons to make a sky. Next, we painted over the crayon with either black or blue paint. Then we got a black strip of paper and cut it out to look like, say, a city skyline or a village or something, and then we glued that to the bottom of the page. When we were done we played. It started raining. On the first day we said that if it started raining we would all run to the driveway and lie down so that when we got up the places where we lay would be lighter than the rest of the ground. It worked and was really cool! When that was over we had lunch and acted as human TVs. We ate on a screen porch, so the if you were acting something out, you would go where there was a square of screen stuff lined with wood and act out a bunch of channels with some other people, while the people inside would change the channels. There was no planning, so none of the people channels knew what the other people channels would do, but we just kind of chose one of the scenes to, such as Sesame Street or opera, and acted it out. It was really fun, but then we weren't aloud to go outside so we couldn't do it anymore. After lunch, we started setting up for the end of camp exhibit thing that we do every year. Sadly, it had to be inside because it didn't stop raining. So we had different areas for each of the artists that we did. This year for the first time our parents could do what we did, too! We made watercolor backgrounds for Salvador Dali, got mud from the creek and small cardboard squares for Jean DuBuffet, put out colored paper and scissors for Escher, and put wet dirt in a little dish so that our parents could shape it for Maya Lin. I don't think there was anything set out for van Gogh. After the exhibit we all went home with our artwork and did whatever we did.