This summer I did not do school. But I did do Scheduled Summer Learning. It involved Math, Spelling and World Book Reading and questions. I played a lot of video games and read a lot of books. I got a new video game for my birthday and some more controllers which was more of a present to the family. The new video game was called Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It is a game where Nintendo took almost all of their characters and put them all into one fighting game. I played it a lot with the people that came over for my birthday. Now my favorite character is Snake he is a fictional secret agent who throws a lot of bombs and hides in boxes. I also got a new board game for my birthday (which by the way was July 17) it is called Stratego. It is a war game similar to chess but most of the pieces move the same and you can’t see what your opponents pieces are. There are also bombs. The goal of the game is to attack and capture you opponents flag. Our family does a thing where every week we have a subject that we get books from at the library about. We get to choose the subject and most of the subjects I have chosen are different countries. I do the countries by continent and I have been doing Europe for a while now. I did Europe all summer. I went to Boy Scout Camp Rockefeller where I got a lot of Merit Badges. We also did merit badge summer school where I got Chess and Camping (which I had started at summer camp) and almost got Pet Care and Entrepreneurship. We also started a garden back in March. In my section I planted strawberries, watermelon and corn. The strawberries never came up. Of the two watermelon that started growing Mom did not let me pick one because she thought it was not ripe yet, but it became over ripe and burst. The other one we picked early but at least it was still edible. We picked two ears of corn but they had been eaten by bugs. After that a big storm killed everything. Also some friends of ours planted some tomatoes for us but it was killed in the storm too. When we got the plot (it is in a community garden) there was what we thought was lettuce in my section so I watered it and weeded it (ironically) until we harvested it and found out it was a weed! I got to see my cousin and my Dad’s mom about halfway between our cities. We took a train to the middle of the woods and back. I spent some time at my friend Elliot’s house. We played a lot of games.
The Life and Times of the Karman Krew
