Ethan's swag blog

Danny got sent to a summer camp where the best kid in the nation go to basketball camp with his friends, Ty and Will. While he is there he re-meets a kid he played in the travel team championship that looks a lot like Allen Iverson. When He goes back to his bunk he meets a kid a lot like him. He is super small, really good ball handling skills, and a great point guard named Zack.

So for my b-day I got $35, new clothes, and some new Curry 1’s. It is also the start of march madness. That is a giant tournament for collage basketball. Tell me who you picked to win and why. Maybe that can be a journal prompt for you!

Now I have to do a real journal prompt. since there is none for March I picked one from February. There is a quote by Henry Ford that says, “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”

I think that this means to always keep your eyes on the prize and to not worry about the obstacles. There is a reason that it is a prize. Of course it is not easy! If it was easy it wouldn’t be worth anything.

Now I would like to share a story about a time I had to overcome an obstacle to meet my goal. it is actually happening right now. I have a goal to go to zones in swimming. Zones is a meet where the state will pick the best 10&Under Boys and girls 11/12 Boys and Girls and same for 13/14 year olds. They take them down to Hawaii (at least this year) and race all the best swimmers in the zone which includes California to Washington to Arizona to Utah and many more states. There are countless obstacles to overcome in a race, the swimmer beside you, fatigue, and sloppiness. If I plan to be getting on the zones team I can’t loose to someone of the peninsula. If I get tired I will go slower than I could have gone. And if I am to sloppy than not only will I not go fast but I will also get DQed and my time will not count. But there is one way that will help you out in almost every situation. Hard work. If you out work them  then you can rise above the competition. If you work hard consistently  then you will get more stamina. And If you practice more you get the technique down.

But what if you have talent? Well, there is a quote by Kevin Durant that says, “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” For example I am going to talk about some shooters in the NBA. Ray Allen will do 3 to 4 hour warm ups before a game. If you do that much work consistently I don’t care how much talent the other guy has Ray will beat him 10 times out of 10.

Today is my birthday!!!!!! YAY 😀

Can you believe that 12 years ago from this day I was born! That’s not even the coolest part. My birthday was in 2003 which means my birthday was 3/3/03! Cool right?!?! The next time I do a post I will tell you about all the cool things I got for my birthday. One thing that I not excited about is that on the swim team whenever someone has a birthday it is a tradition that you get on the blocks the coach says go and you try to get off before someone spanks you with a kickboard.

So I will talk to you later! 🙂

So we have Mrs. Severson for 4 days now. Mr D will be back tomorrow and things will be back to normal.

Now I would like to talk about what is going on in my life. On Saturday I had a swim meet. I swam the 1000! I am also starting to training for zones in August. Zones is a meet where the state takes the top 4 kids boys/girls for each group to a meet somewhere in our zone. This year it is in Hawaii! And the best part is, the state pays for it! We will stay in a Japanese style estate.

Now I wanna talk about our lack of snow. I am now hoping that all the snow all melts away. I have given up on the snow.

My Birthday is tomorrow! I don’t know what I should do or want for my birthday. 🙁

Today I am going to teach you how to catch a fish. The first thing you need to do is get all the necessary gear for fishing. Today I am specifically teaching you how to fly fish. You need you fly rod, fishing hat(just in case the fly comes flying at you), and the fly appropriate  for the occasion. In this case we are fishing at a lake so you will want mosquitoes. Now that you are at the lake it is time to fish. When you are fly fishing your rod is the minute hand going from 11:00 to 1:30 on a clock. Once you get your line out a good distance it is time to catch the fish. Start to do tiny twitches. Your fly will look like a donut to the fish and should immediately go for the fly. Once it bites quickly set the hook. Fish on! Fly line doesn’t stretch so it will be easy for the fish to be able to break you line so you have to play it, let the drag tire the fish out. In some cases you can be fighting the fish for an hour. Start to real the fish in. Nice catch!. Take a picture, remove the hook, and let the fish go. That’s how you catch a fish.

Today we are doing the CBM’s, we just did the math ones this morning. I am just about to do the reading one. I will get back to you once I am done. Bye.

(Random entertaining music while Ethan reads.)

I just finished :D.

Now I would like to talk about those events last Saturday. If you don’t know what I mean then look at my last post. So let’s start with the Basketball game, we lost in the semifinals by about 15 points. :'( Now on to the swim meet. I was able to swim all of my events because of loosing. After that meet I swam a 36.28 50 yard Breaststroke which means I am 1st in stats among 11 year olds and I also swam the 100 Breaststroke and got a 1:19.?? which put me In 1st place for 11 year olds. I am now also 3rd in stats in the 200 I.M. #L.A.B.

How’s your day going? Today I the first time in a while that I have been able post whatever I want. This afternoon we were talking about cyber bullying and how to avoid it. I have also finished math facts yesterday.

I would also like to talk about what’s been going on this week. This week is my last week of basketball. It is playoff time! So far we have won the first round (where I scored 27 points 12 rebounds 8 steals 5 assists and 7 blocks #L.A.B) and are now in the semifinals at 10 A.M. and if we win Finals @ 12 P.M. The only problem with this is I have a swim meet that day starting at 8:45 A.M.

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Today was the last day of I safe (YAY) we were talking about our digital footprint. Tomorrow is Friday and I get mission accomplished for staying in at recess.

Happy New Year!!!!!!!! So today I was asked to write about if there was a Drinking Straw Olympics what would some of the events be. One event I might choose is to see who can drink 1 gallon of water the fastest. Another one I may  do is using only straws and duck tape, see which team can make a structure that can hold the most weight, and in the case of a tie it would be judged by height.

So again Happy New year and tell me in the comments below some traditions you family has on new year.

Oh yea, I almost forgot, tell me your favorite thing that you got for Christmas and tell me of you best Christmas and why it was you favorite.

My favorite dessert that includes brownies is…. wait for it…… BROWNIES!

I have just made this new category called weekend post, this is where I will make stories over the weekend and publish them every week. If you like this idea then comment and I will start doing this. Thanks for reading.