Fire!!!

Today I had me PSAT's which took until lunch so I missed my first three classes including my free, much to my disappointment. As soon as the PSAT was over it was time for lunch time and lucky for me I forgot to make my lunch and bring I forgot to bring some money just in case. The reason that I forgot this was that I wanted to read my book that I had just started, Inkheart. Well . . . back to my story, after lunch I had Environmental Issues (E.I.) with Mr. Sinclair who also happens to be my assistant principale. About 15 minutes into class the fire alarm went off, but lucky for me I was in the hall and had no idea of what to do, so I went back to my class and met Mr. Sinclair on the way and he quickly told me and my friend Garry that this was not a drill and to get outside. Once I was outside I talked to my friends for about 30 minutes once I was on the astroturff. At that point we were told to go into the sports hall (the bigger and niccer of the 2 gyms) until further notice. Once the Fire Bragade Marshal had made his investigation we were told the details of what had happened. Apperantly a three year old laser cutter that needed replacing cought on fire in the design technology room (positioned just below the E.I. classrom), the fire was only contained to the laser cutter, and luckly no one was hurt, however because there was alot of plastic in the cutter there were alot of toxus fumes omitted so all of my stuff is still in my classroom so i cant do anything but relax.

The Camino

Despite the earlier post i thought that my hike in the Pyrenees mountains was an amazing experience and it is an experience that i would love to do again. The only time that the weather got to me was when there was snow on the top of the mountain, but other than this experience the weather was fairly nice for Europe in the October. To me it was very nice to wake up have a nice simple breakfast and then walk in the nature all day and to me that is the best thing. The only disappointment to me was that I was only able to do so little of the Camino de Compostela. The food at the places that we stopped however was magnificent the food was very simple but very good and it filled you up quite nicely plus they were 3 meal courses and usually cost about 10 euros.

Snow: the Deception

I am now 16 and I have never seen snow before in my life. Well that used to be true until I signed up for a hike in the Parynese Mountain Range. The section of Comino de Comp Estella which is a religious pilgrimage to Comp Estella de Santiago in Spain, we started in Biarritz in France and did about the first 3 days of hiking. On the first day we had to hike over the top of a mountain, unfortunately it was 1400 meters up so when it rained on the way up it was freezing. Once we got to the top it was sort of level and we began to walk over the top. Unfortunately for me I only had 2 windbreakers and a disposable poncho when it started to rain again, or at least that’s what I thought. Only when I realized that it hurt when it hit me that it was snow, and this wasn’t nice fluffy snow it was razor sharp shards of ice like snow. To make things worse for me the wind was blowing extremely hard, and while everyone had anticipated this I was COLD and WET and MISERSBLE. My opinion on snow that I have finally seen it is that it SUCKS!!!!! And all the TV shows it make seem all nice and cool but in reality it is freezing cold, it hurts, and it officially sucks!