I think that the hardest part about starting a blog is the first post, I feel like I need to come up with some very deep reason about why I am blogging. But I don't really have anything deep, I just want to tell some of the stories that happen in my life to more than my family. Thanks to the encouragement of my family, my youth pastor Kyle, and a colorful weekend, I decided that I could easily maintain a daily narrative that would remain interesting, and hopefully funny or thought-provoking or informative. Without further ado, the story of the weekend of 10/10/08-10/12/08!!!
Every Friday, I volunteer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) from 11:30-3:00, but I leave the house at 8:00 and arrive home around 5:00, which is great fun. On the 3rd, something very, very cool happened, more cool than things that normally happen at the Aquarium. One of the staff saw something floating in the kelp beds just about 50 feet away, and when the staff member looked through a telescope, he saw a squid!!! So in cooperation with Hopkins Marine Lab, which is right next door, a boat went out and brought the dead squid back. It was so cool to feel this squid. The bell, to use the technical term, was approximately 6 feet long, but the tentacles were missing/bitten off, and the tentacles can be up to 20 feet long on this particular type of squid, so this was a very cool thing that I got to see. And that is it for my Friday update. Stay tuned to learn marine biology and get to know members of my volunteer shift.
Once I finished at the Aquarium, I got on the bus and rode all the way to San Jose to participate in a youth event at my church, the River Church Community. The event was a Amazing Race/scavenger hunt with a lock-in afterwards. The race was fun, but after that was way more fun. We played a card game called "Apples to Apples" which was hilarious, and then we played Sardines which was great, and then I played some hard-core Foosball with my dad, Kyle, and one of the youth, Jose. Then breakfast at Kyle's house, and on to the bus to ride home. Now this is where I got the inspiration for what I hope to have as a standard feature....."Interesting Public Transit Person!!!" The first IPTP is "Rooster in Bag Guy!!!", but I'll call him Rooster. I was sitting in the back when Rooster walked on wheeling his seatless BMX-style bike. Rooster sat down and I could smell the liquor exuding from his body, which is not uncommon on public transit, but when he stuck his hand in his backpack and I saw a mass of feathers, that was more uncommon. When I saw the bag moving I figured out two things, 1. that there was a rooster in that bag, and 2. Rooster was someone worth watching. Because I was watching him, I noticed that he seemed to be looking out the window in a rather awkward position. When he assumed the same positon later I noticed that not only was he peeing, but quite a bit, because the pee was on the floor of the bus and every time the bus stopped the pee flowed forward, and whenever the bus accelerated the pee flowed backwards, so that was far more awkward than Rooster's position. As I was sitting there trying to ignore the dancing urine, I looked back at Rooster, and noticed him doing something with his hand near his mouth that looked like he was making a megaphone. As he pulled his hand away I saw what looked like a very sloppy cigarette, and then smelled an unmistakable scent. Not only was Rooster carrying livestock in a backpack, peeing, and riding a seatless bike, but he was smoking a joint, ON THE BUS!!!
Sunday was a much more cultured day, not better, just less weird. The youth group lesson at the River was about the various symbols in a passage in Ephesians and exploring those word pictures. After the lesson Mom and I attended the Liberia ICE mission briefing, which was incredible, and very encouraging, I am looking forward to the trip very much. Stay tuned for updates on that front as well. After the meeting Mom and I ate lunch at Pizza My Heart, then saw a movie called "Call and Response" which was about human trafficking, I highly recommend it. And that was the end of my weekend.
Today was another busy day, I went down to the Aquarium to volunteer at a homeschool day, which was incredibly good. I am tired and a bit sore, so I think I will play football with Al for a bit. Have a great day, more tomorrow!!
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