The countdown begins by Lord Levi

 So it's been like 10 months since coming here and I get to go back home to the U.S later in the month, my school is starting to give us the end-of-semester tests and tying up loose ends. My mom said I should do more activities and extra things for my CV so last weekend I did the Duke of Edinburgh external activity with my friend Cameron. DofE is where they teach you a little about expeditions and camping. They started by training us and getting the 50 people into groups for the next 2 days. Since there is a whole pandemic and stuff they couldn't give us the full experience but they did what they could. So on the first day we did team-building activities with our groups, like this one game where there is all of the members of your group and one hula hoop and you have to get all your members through the hula hoop in like 8 seconds - we failed at doing it. So after, we did more of those type activities and ended the day with tug of war (which my team won) and it was alright. The next 2 days though were kind of uneventful but really cool, I got to explore Mugduck park and see all of its glory and vast beauty. Each day my team would walk around 10 miles around this park and see all it holds. It was pretty cool but really tiring. It was a great expedition and the DofE completion will look good on my CV so that's cool.

            The next day I had completely off so my mom and I  planned to walk to Glasgow Green. It is a park like 1.3 hours away from where we live. We left Monday at around 12:00 and walked all that way to get there. 

Once we got there the sunlight was gleaming and beating down on the smooth fields of trees and grass the park offered. We saw a lot of cool and pretty things there, its a great park!

 We found a nice shady spot under some trees and just hung out. Reading, laying down, and just chilling. 

This is the exit that we left through.

This is from the walk home.

On our way home we stopped at Big Licks ice cream store. It was my first time there and I have got to say, they have really good ice cream. I got cookie dough and it was probably the best ice cream I've had in a while.

    On Tuesday it was sports day and I went to school and immediately got on a bus to go to my schools playing fields.  How they do it is they say the events that will happen in that day and you say if you want to do it, then they mark you down for it and you do it when it comes up in the day. I did long jump, high jump, and javelin throwing, as well as a 100m sprint. I waited in the seating area for half the day because the events I did were all first and so I got a lot of time to just hang out and talk to friends. The first thing I did was long jump where you just jump as far as you can over some sand. I had never done long jump but I somehow got 5th out of my whole year group so that was something. The next thing was the 100m dash which I got 3rd in and then there was the high jump which I also got a medal for (3rd).  Then the last thing I did was Javelin throwing which was hard and I absolutely failed at. So overall it was cool and something new to do.

    On Wednesday, I had an Army day at Mugduck park again with my military group and funnily enough we did the exact same stuff as DofE; walked around for like 2 hours reading a map. Everyone in my group hated it. It wasn't all bad though because I got some more experience on reading maps and a very good exercise. 

    So these past times have been eventful and pretty fun!  I have roughly 2 weeks of school left and I am so ready to come back home.

Only 19 more days!

-Levi