We start out on the bus, with Harper sitting next to me. During the bus ride Harper and I did some drawings and played with some stickers that I had brought. When we got there we took our stuff to our cabins and started on a hike. The hike was long but we took some breaks. We played a game in a feild and stopped to look at the lake. We had lunch and then zip lining, rock wall climbing and dinner. After dinner we had a professional storyteller tell us some stories and then went to  the Sleeping Bear Dunes. The next day we greeted the elementary kids and spent the morning canoeing. While we canoed it was raining but at least we got to see a beaver. We had lunch, then had team building and human foosball. After that we had dinner and a campfire. On our last day we played a survival game had lunch and left. On that bus ride Harper gave me a makeover. We also launched bottle rockets (but I forget when).

I learned that if bottle rockets don’t have fins they just spin and don’t go very far. If I had done something differently with my rocket it would be to experiment with how much water I put in the top. I learned about teamwork and how to better work with and understand others. You have to work in a team when playing foosball, I mean a mental team as well as a physical one. How big is a beavers teritory, or do they have one? How long should it take the average person to climb a twenty five foot tall rock wall? Where did the Sleeping Bear Dunes legend originate?

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On Thursday my class played Dam It! Dam It is where we turn on the hose at the beach and we watch the water travel around. Then we can build river paths for the water to follow. Before we turned the hose on my science teacher Shane said that she had forgotten her wooden blocks upstairs and that if someone ran up and got them we could build some buildings and see if they would be knocked down. So I volunteered to go and Harper came with me. When we got back down we all got to build houses wherever we wanted. I put mine in front of the hose. When we turned it on it spurted and knocked down my house! After that we watched the water for three minutes without touching anything. Then when the time was up we started to dig paths in the sand for the water to follow. Dylann and Lauren started to build a path going to the water and so did I, but in different places. We connected the paths coming strait from the water to ours. After a bit both of us got our water to go to the lake.

I learned that people would fight about water and that some people pay a little amount of money to suck as much water as they want from the Great Lakes. I loved to see how the ripples in the water formed if there was a root in its way. I had dug a long path to the lake for the water to follow and helped connect some other paths as well. If I had done something differently then I guess it would have been making my  paths as strait and thin as I could so the water would travel faster. What makes water ripple the way it does? If we put the hose in a different spot would the water travel the same way? What makes the clay in the sand turn into foam?