Zane Christiansen
Mr. Johnson
ELA II
15 September 2015
My Time in Colorado Just last year a couple weeks into the summer, it was time for me to get onto the plane. I had been getting all my stuff together and packed up for about the last week. My mom and I got up early in the morning, on a gray and rainy day. We walked through the airport and figured out my flight and waited for about an hour. I told my mom goodbye as I departed down the hallway to the plane. The ride was boring but quick, being half asleep the whole time. Finally arriving in Colorado, I asked where I needed to go for my connecting flight. Right here at the same gate was my next plane so for about 20 minutes I sat there and waited until eventually getting up and sitting back …show more content…
On the way to the lodge I was walking alone until one of the chaperones, not really chaperones but people who get a small compensation for taking control of a cabin for a term, started conversation with me. She just asked basic questions like who I was and what I liked to do so it was pretty clear, to me, that they were supposed to just go around and talk to everyone, leaving no one out. So a couple days in we went on our first trip. We got drove up to a mountain trail that was through these forest fire woods, for 3 days we hiked up to a clearing and farther across the mountain until we ended up coming back into the main Colvig Silver Camps through a back path. It felt like the longest walk of my life and I was wishing to just be back home by now already. When we got back into camp though, seeing everyone even just from the camp, it felt good, to see more faces of people I knew. At the same time I didn’t really know them. I guess this is what motivated me to talk to more of the …show more content…
The first night we made it just about as far as we were supposed to with no sign of water, it’s good we all had two big things of water. The next day we all had about half the supply of water. We were gonna need more soon, being in this dilemma we almost ended up collecting parasitic water if it wasn’t for one kid, who ended up taking an actual parasite worm out of the water and laying it on a rock to dry out in the sun. Nothing else really happened for the day, we found fresh water, I became better friends with some people. The next day something happened though; me and a couple people were farther ahead and we heard someone tell us to wait. Someone fell and hit their head. Me and 2 other guys, we got to sit there and talk for about an hour. We all seemed to be pretty good friends, for only knowing each other for about 3 weeks. As we started moving on, we had to make up some time, which was hard considering the guy who hit his head was all tired and dazed. We decided to stop, considering that it was the middle of the night, we were on a cliff, and we were, what it seemed to be, the widest as it was gonna
Mr. Johnson
ELA II
15 September 2015
My Time in Colorado Just last year a couple weeks into the summer, it was time for me to get onto the plane. I had been getting all my stuff together and packed up for about the last week. My mom and I got up early in the morning, on a gray and rainy day. We walked through the airport and figured out my flight and waited for about an hour. I told my mom goodbye as I departed down the hallway to the plane. The ride was boring but quick, being half asleep the whole time. Finally arriving in Colorado, I asked where I needed to go for my connecting flight. Right here at the same gate was my next plane so for about 20 minutes I sat there and waited until eventually getting up and sitting back …show more content…
On the way to the lodge I was walking alone until one of the chaperones, not really chaperones but people who get a small compensation for taking control of a cabin for a term, started conversation with me. She just asked basic questions like who I was and what I liked to do so it was pretty clear, to me, that they were supposed to just go around and talk to everyone, leaving no one out. So a couple days in we went on our first trip. We got drove up to a mountain trail that was through these forest fire woods, for 3 days we hiked up to a clearing and farther across the mountain until we ended up coming back into the main Colvig Silver Camps through a back path. It felt like the longest walk of my life and I was wishing to just be back home by now already. When we got back into camp though, seeing everyone even just from the camp, it felt good, to see more faces of people I knew. At the same time I didn’t really know them. I guess this is what motivated me to talk to more of the …show more content…
The first night we made it just about as far as we were supposed to with no sign of water, it’s good we all had two big things of water. The next day we all had about half the supply of water. We were gonna need more soon, being in this dilemma we almost ended up collecting parasitic water if it wasn’t for one kid, who ended up taking an actual parasite worm out of the water and laying it on a rock to dry out in the sun. Nothing else really happened for the day, we found fresh water, I became better friends with some people. The next day something happened though; me and a couple people were farther ahead and we heard someone tell us to wait. Someone fell and hit their head. Me and 2 other guys, we got to sit there and talk for about an hour. We all seemed to be pretty good friends, for only knowing each other for about 3 weeks. As we started moving on, we had to make up some time, which was hard considering the guy who hit his head was all tired and dazed. We decided to stop, considering that it was the middle of the night, we were on a cliff, and we were, what it seemed to be, the widest as it was gonna