2018 Winter Olympics

I have been watching the 2018 Winter Olympics over the past couple weeks, and I will talk about some of the sports.

The sports I have done, out of all of the sports in the Winter Olympics, are ice skating, and downhill skiing. However, I do not think I am good enough to do those at the Olympics.

I take ice skating lessons, so I was interested in watching the ice skating. I got to see amazing Nathan Chen. On his short program, he did badly, and fell on every jump. On his long program, he did amazingly, and did six of one of the hardest jumps! He almost got a medal, but not quite.

I was also interested about the single bronze medal the United States won for ski jumping. It was accidentally given to another country, but then 50 years later, the correct American received it.

I was also amazed that South Korea did not let anyone practice the slalom hill, so two people lost by missing the gates.

As you can see, there is a lot I am interested in about the Winter Olympics, and I hope I taught you something!

My Trip to the Redwoods

Last weekend, the Boy Scouts took a trip to Little Basin State Park in the redwoods. We got there around 8:00 pm, and in the morning my patrol had a breakfast of omelets.

Then we set off on a hike.

When we got to the top, we had a lunch of BLT wraps, and took a picture with the American flag.

Then, after a dinner of quesadillas, we had a campfire including a Sanders water bottle challenge.

Then, the next morning, we had doughnuts and did a service project of shoveling out the fire pits.

I bought all the food for my patrol. When I bought the bacon and chicken, I pre-cooked it at home, and the scouts thought that was the best idea ever. None of the other patrols did that, and no one else thought of that, so they loved me. The trip was one of the best we ever had. We all had fun, even on the service project. We also had fun with all the games I brought.

Minecraft Helped Save a Forest?

Hello everyone! I was about to start playing Minecraft when in the news reel I found this:

When I read the article, I discovered that the Białowieża Forest, located in Poland and Belarus, was being cut down for logs. I discovered it is a beautiful forest. So, when Oglivy, a Polish advertising company, and Greenpeace Poland came up with a project called The Last Tree Standing, they made a map of the forest including every tree, stream, and flower. Then they got a Danish company called GeoBoxers to make a Minecraft map using the other map to make a life-sized Białowieża Forest. They advertized it and made a video. This is where I found out about it, and you can visit them at http://tothelasttree.com. I was really interested in this, and I hope you will be too.

Comparisons: The Series of Unfortunate Events Books #1, #2, and #3 VS. Movie

To sort of quote Lemony Snicket: Do not read this post. It will only bring you misery and woe, much like eating moldy bread, or in this case, the Baudelaire Orphans. It would be much better to read a nice post about singing rabbits and dancing deer. I have devoted myself to do homework involving comparing books to movies, but you have not made such a devotion. So, I strongly recommend you not to read this post.

Now, I will show an image of Books #1, #2, and #3:

You may notice the covers show a deadly man, an deadly snake, and a deadly storm, so you should not go on. It will only fill you with more fright.

Now, I will show an image concerning the same books, but a movie:

Now, I will talk about my weary comparison. The books contain a story of the Baudelaire Orphans. In the movie, it is the same, but Count Olaf, the hideous man, wants them all dead instead of one staying alive. In the movie, he tries to kill the children by hitting them with a train, and he does not try to take them to Peru. He does not wear his disguise on the sailboat, and the wedding is in the 1st book, not the 3rd. Before the wedding, Violet climbs up, not Klaus, and Klaus does not use the refraction and reflection of light to burn the wedding form. In book #3, Violet uses the refraction and reflection of light to attract attention to the sailboat, and uses her false hand to trick Count Olaf with the wedding form. If you find any more woeful differences, please tell me. I prefer the books because they explain the Baudelaire's troubles more, and because there are more of them.