Day Two: Prospect Heights

Today’s report comes from Noya and Lynda.

Before we went hiking, we took a long bus ride around Alaska. We made constant U-turns, changed our destination several times, and had no electronics to entertain our selves. It was totally awesome! There were some people who slept while others told their life-long stories. It was a pretty interesting way to learn more about the people I was traveling with. For example, I learned that Eric is a Rubik’s Cube whiz. He’d scramble the puzzle box for a couple of minutes and then within seconds, all colors were back together again. He did this more than twenty times. Apparently he had been practicing since he was little. Michael and Ms. Brueskie are hard-core gamers. Michael absolutely loves his blood shield, apparently it protects him from a shooting star. Ms. Brueskie prefers video games that have to do with shooting people, so I think it’s best for people to try not to get on her bad side, just in case. Diana is a heavy sleeper who won’t wake up no matter how much you mess with her. Elizabeth forever be having boyfriend issues. Stay strong Elizabeth! LeBron sucks at basketball. Ben likes to sit in a bubble bath and listen to Mariah Carey’s Christmas album. Most of the students on the bus probably don’t go to church, and I say this because we turned into Chapel of the Cross and everyone started screaming that they didn’t want to go to church. God bless America. And last but not least, I learned that there is such a thing as bear spray. It’s a spray that keeps bears away, it’s kind of like bug spray but for bears. And so our long adventure on a cramped bus ended as we went to go walk in the dirt. 

Today we went to Prospect Heights for hiking. For some of the students today was their first time hiking. For example, like me- today was my first time hiking. It was kind of hard, but I tried my best. The staff brought us backpacks, bear spray, and put some snacks in our backpacks. Today was fun, it was a long ride, but everyone had fun. On our way to hiking everyone thought we were going to go to Arctic Valley, but that didn’t happen because the army was doing sniper training there. Write Alaska students have to write a journal about hiking and the Science where collecting plants and take picture of plants. My partner and I were taking pictures of the important things that we saw.

Today Ben divided us into three groups faster, medium, and slow. My partner and I were in the slow group. We tried to figure out how to do our blog.  We only remember places that we went and things we did.