Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow!!!!

Snow Snow Snow, what a wonderfully crystally, lustrous thing. It gets you out of annoying school and makes you happy. I can do lots of fun things on this long fun weekend. I have a strange theory that when our snow plow/blower are blocked as well as when a snow warning is issued for our area, we will get a lot of snow. The forecast here says 10-18" on top of the 1' from this past Saturday, the day my Boy Scout Troop participated in the district Klondike Derby. I'm not expecting school in the next two days so I'm going to build forts and have snow ball fights with my siblings. We had the plow and blower blocked last night so at 6:30 am I helped attach the plow to my dad's truck. 


Right now in all we have about  one and a half feet of combined snow from over the weekend and today and more on the way. By the looks of it we are going to have more than two feet. I can't wait to go sledding in the awesomely cold snow. It's so wonderful being in snow. I love it so much until it freezes into ice. Ice stinks because it makes everything too slippery.

On Saturday January 24th 2015 my troop did the Klondike Derby at Allamuchy state park. The Klondike Derby was originally a hunt for gold in Canada. Sled riders used dogs to pull sleds to win the most gold. The winners won a fortune in gold and others were left in the snowy dust. Today we Boy Scouts take part in a series of activities like setting up tents, signaling via hand signals and orienting maps or finding north on a map. Also we had sled inspections which made sure we had everything, made fires to cook our lunches, tied many knots and identified animal tracks and map signals. We had a fun time and got 5th place out of 12 teams in the junior sleds.

Snow days can really be a ton of fun. I wish we had them every day and school did not exist. Of course, then I'd miss band so I'll take the snow days we get and enjoy every minute.

Person of Inspiration: Mr. Zimmermann

There are approximately seven billion people in the world. A very small portion of those people inspire me. My parents are two and then the one person who inspires me a lot I’m not related to is Mr. Kurt Zimmermann. He is an amazing trumpet player, is a member of the Hanover Wind Symphony, and my band teacher.

Mr. Zimmermann is a great band teacher, and he works at my school. He is teacher of Pep, Marching, Pit, Holiday Ensemble, and many other bands. He uses great puns and jokes in class. In addition to being a terrific teacher, Mr. Zimmermann is also a husband and father. He has one young son.


Mr. Zimmermann helped me improve my playing. He taught me my scales. He helped me learn my notes and rhythms. He also taught me a lot of songs on my trombone. Mr. Z, as his students call him, helped me with my tone quality, and he taught me intervals. Mr. Z makes me want to play in pep (which I’m in) and marching band, which I plan to do next summer.

To get people to play well he threatens to lower grades by five points! But this does not change how much his students and I respect him. In return he treats me and my band mates with respect and like equals. He is always a fun and cool teacher. Mr. Z makes himself available and does a lot of band events, above and beyond other teachers.

Mr. Zimmermann is the person who inspires me.

Christmas!!!!!!!

Finally! Christmas is here. Making awesome food, having many wonderful guests, getting amazing presents, giving many gifts are all a part of my Christmas celebrations. It is all part of the spirit of the holiday cool season. In the house we are busy with two uncles, two sets of grandparents, our one present cousin, and my grand-aunt and grand-uncle who came to dinner the Sunday before Christmas.

Over the Christmas break, so far I have made several dinners including a great pasta dish (spaghetti and meat sauce) and I helped with the 20lb turkey. They were all delicious, and everybody liked them. I thought they were out of this world. I worked very hard on the wonderful meals.

We have had our, almost, entire huge family over. Uncles, our Cousin, Grand-Parents, Grand-Aunt's, and Grand-Uncles. And of course my brother, sister, Mom, and Dad. We are having a great time. Every day my family takes a hike in the woods behind our house. It is great exercise.

I had fun watching my family open their many presents. I gave my brother an invisible ink pen, my mom a #1 mom bracelet that my brother picked but I paid for, my sister a Barbie activity book, and my dad a cutting board. I also had fun opening my many presents. I got texting gloves, a ski cap, a basketball hoop for a door, a stress "man", a trombone liar (clip-on music stand) and trombone stand to hold the trombone at rest. I also got a Bermudian Flag and a chalk board string, Two Lego Star Wars books, a sunken treasure book, fake mustaches, Lego Star Wars General Grievous' Wheel Bike, lots of socks (sports socks, multi-colored socks and normal socks), card tricks, a magic set, a small wooden box with a magnetic lid, calculator watch, sports watch, three ties (Which were really cool), shirts (for ties, a polo and two T-shirts), a bowtie/pocket handkerchief, and bow tie pins/notepad.

Christmas has been fun this year. I hope you had a great one too.