A Big Disappointment

           Today was Field Day at school. In my opinion, this was the worst Field Day in all the years I've been in school.
           For example, the stations were really unfair. They were all supervised by 5th graders. Once, I was trying to do the rope climb, and a fifth grader hurried over and told me to stand in a line. I saw one other person in that line. Then that fifth grader told the new people, who were her friends from the looks of it, to stand in a different line. That line was around 10 people long now. And then she came over to me and the other kid and asked us what we were doing in that line. She moved us to the back of the other line. I also got delayed around 10 minutes on the three-legged race because the fifth grader was too sloppy in attaching the velcro straps, and the thing broke, so I had to wait for the next race. If it weren't for these unfair people, I would have gotten a blackout and a trophy - I was only 4 stations away!
           Also, there were other unfair things. The most ridiculous of them all was the popcorn stand. I arrived there when there were around five people standing around the stand, and the 6-gallon bag was half full. I waited to get to the front of line, and by the time that I had asked "May I please have some popcorn?" there was a large mob of kindergarteners, first graders, and second graders pushing for popcorn. The woman said to a little kid: "Oh, aren't you sweet?" and gave him an extra helping of popcorn. They didn't say please or say thanks. Then she started serving all the others, and it looked as though she wanted to use up all the popcorn in the world on them. So I waited. And I asked again. And again. And finally, when all of them were gone, there came another mob. I was getting impatient now. All of them ran off with lots of popcorn, happily crunching their treats, without so much as a "I think that random kid should get some popcorn too." After the air horn signalling the end of Field Day and the start of the Spray Mr. Spray with Silly String event sounded, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I asked for popcorn one last time, and she noticed me. "We're out." she said, without any trace of sorriness. She scooped up a few kernels from the bottom and gave it to me. To get revenge, I raided the popcorn stand after the event, when the volunteer was gone, and found that there was still a lot of popcorn in there. A lot of people also cheated. For example, they got their hole punch first, and then just ran away without even doing the station.
           To sum up, I despised this year's Field Day because almost everything was unfair in some way.

Lucky Strike

           Today my class drove to Lucky Strike for a field trip. We only played in the arcade, no tickets allowed. Each of us got a 2-hr. unlimited gaming card.
           My favorite non-video game was the Laser Maze. You walked in, selected a difficulty, and then crept  past the lasers to the end, where you pressed a button to see your score. I completed the hardest mode in <10 seconds without hitting any lasers to get a score of 85.
          My favorite video game was "H2O Overdrive", a racing game. I enjoyed the powerful boats and the great power-ups. Best of all, I enjoyed the graphics. I liked to play the game because it promised new upgrades to your boat every few levels, and also that anyone could win (especially if you got the nuclear power-up.)
           All in all, I really enjoyed Lucky Strike for its Laser Maze and "H2O Overdrive".

Egg Drop Challenge

           Today was the school's annual Egg Drop Challenge. There were many entries, like parachutes, eggs in boxes, and even more commonly, eggs in ziploc bags.
           One of my favorite types of entries were those designs with just one egg in a ziploc bag, with nothing to protect it.  The firefighters tossed it down from around 60 feet, where it started freefall. Then, after zooming toward the ground for around a second, it hit the ground and the egg cracked with an ominous pop! It looked like many people wanted to make a big splash this year - there were a lot of that no-protection type of entry.
           Another of my favorite entries was the humongous parachute. The creator obviously spent a long time - it was an around 6 foot by 6 foot square of plastic bag material, or that plastic that is really easy to bend and is used a lot in plastic bags. The lightweight contraption took around 15 seconds to drop, going really slowly. It almost landed in a basketball hoop because it was blown really far away by the wind - it even went past the spectators!
           To sum up, this was one of the best, funniest, and most creative Egg Drops I've ever seen!