This week was Thanksgiving! My family always hosts Thanksgiving, so this year was the same as the rest. It was a great time with lots of super good food. My dad is always the grill master so he makes the turkeys and any other projects he wants to experiment with. This year we had 2 turkeys on the barque and …
Lucas Grant: Week 48
School this year has been going very well, I ended the first quarter with a 4.4 GPA! But challenges of a few big research projects are soon to come. Coming up with research projects in 11th grade is really tough. It’s like trying to find your way through a big maze. Picking a good topic is hard because you want …
Cooper Riegel – Week 28
This week marks the end of my trip to Kauai and my 16th birthday. My family and I have filled our week with adventure. We have gone snorkeling at a couple beaches, which is really fun but also nerve racking. This is mostly due to the open water, but also the population of pufferfish close to shore. I snorkeled for …
Cooper Riegel – Week 27
Summer has brought nothing but fun so far. This week I left for Kauai, Hawai’i along with my mom, stepdad, and stepsister. We are staying a little over a week and I’m super excited. We got a nice place on the north end of the island that is pretty close to an awesome beach. It is super wide open and …
Cooper Riegel – Week 26
Disneyland! Now that school is out, my dad surprised me with a trip to Disney for my birthday! We stayed for 2 days and spent about 16 hours each day in the parks. We were joined by my aunt and cousin, who come with us every trip. My favorite ride was definitely Space Mountain, which is currently Hyperspace Mountain and …
Cooper Riegel – Week 25
School is finally out! This week was a 4 day school week, with Wednesday and Thursday being finals. I thankfully did not have a final in computer science and instead we watched the Mario Movie. Unfortunately I still had Math, Chemistry, and History. I got high A’s on all of my finals. I finished the semester with straight A+’s and …
Cooper Riegel – Week 24
This week has been pretty good and pretty stressful. All missing work was due on Friday, and I had about 25 missing assignments for chemistry. It took about 7 hours, but I got all of them done and submitted. This ended up being helpful for review as I have finals next week. For mothers day, my mom, stepdad, and I …
Cooper Riegel – Week 23
This week one of my friends had a birthday party. The five of us went down to Roseville for an escape room. The room was in a futuristic lab controlled by an evil AI. We held our streak of being about 10 minutes from escaping when the time ran out. We spent the rest of the day up in Auburn …
Cooper Riegel – Week 22
Another week, more rain. This week has been slow, besides a trip to the mall. The highlight of this week was Taylor Swift’s announcement of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). The only thing to report is that my test is otherwise going well, the halfway mark is approaching in a couple weeks which is exciting and almost surreal. Nothing else of …
Lucas Grant: Week 47
This week I want to talk about my personal goal I’ve been developing throughout my black belt test. This goal I set for myself was to learn better responsibility and self discipline. There have been many physical challenges throughout my test but they don’t compare to the mental challenges that one will go through. Responsibility and self discipline were the …