I've been staying in Massachusetts for the past week. It's this program called the National Youth Leadership Forum, where I stay at a college for a week and learn about engineering. As I've mentioned, I want to be an inventor, so it's pretty important that I learn this stuff. Most of it has just been sitting in lectures, sleeping in a dorm, and designing a wheelchair. A few days ago, we went to MIT, so that was pretty cool. I'd already been there once before, though, on a road trip with my dad. But, man, their wifi is amazing.
I spent the past week at my family's beach house in New Jersey. My dad co-owns it with his brother, and the neighborhood has some pretty big, fancy beach houses with balconies and stuff. And then there's our house.
Last Friday was the last day of school! Now, for most of you, you're probably not getting out yet. But thanks to my school being a small private school, we get to have a slightly different calendar, which allows us to do stuff like this. Now, if you're a kid, or can remember some shred of what it was like to be a kid, the last day of school holds special significance to you. It represents the end of tedious tests and homework, and heralds a season of freedom. A season for which I have made big plans, and will definitely tell you about when they happen.
On Saturday my family and I went to an afternoon party at a neighbors' house in the country, for the wife's fiftieth birthday. Well, my sister didn't come. She had a concussion, and already had plans to go to a friend's sleepover party in a hotel. But believe me, had the sleepover been at my house, I would have been the one checking into a hotel.
Okay. Today, please, let me rant. Until a little while ago, I had remained blissfully unaware of the changes that SEGA had made to Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yesterday was prom at my high school. I'm a freshman, but it's a really small school, and if they only let seniors in, there'd be a really bad turnout. But as it is, they let in everyone in the school, so like half the school was there, including me.
So. Here I am back in the United S of A. I left Canada on Saturday.It was good in Canada. I got home last Saturday, and it was an interesting two flights back. I could tell you on and on about my adventures in Canada, but if I listed all the stuff I did up there, it could probably fill a thick hardcover book.
On Monday, as part of my time in Canada, I went to the world heritage site Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. It's this deserty prairie place, with a cliff where buffalo would jump off, in Alberta, Canada. I guess it's not all snowy and arctic after all. And the first question I asked myself as I walked inside the museum was: Did only buffalo with their heads smashed in jump off the cliff? Or did they get their heads smashed in when they jumped off the cliff?
This is a little animation I made at the Telus Spark Science Center in Calgary, Canada! It is officially the first time that Zach the Impossibility has appeared animated! Check it out!
So, I'm in Canada for the week. I flew in last Saturday, and I'm staying with my mom at her friend's house with her kids. All in all, Canada's a really cool country, with really nice people. Some will undoubtedly argue that the same country produced Justin Beiber and Carly Rae Jepsen, but I think the Canadians can be forgiven for that.
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