I’m Soaring

This weekend has been very busy for me.

Friday night was spirit night, which was totally awesome. Three-forths of the stuff we played, was written by me, and everyone seemed to love it. Everyone acted like it was fun to play, so hopefully we’ll use some of it next year for marching band. I might be re-writing Cadence ‘99, the one we’ve been using for 6 years. It’s an awesome cadence, but its getting a bit old and outdated…maybe I can fix that.

After spirit night, I went to Amy’s and we watched Ice Age, because it was the shortest movie that I hadn’t seen, that she had at her house. I didn’t have much time at her place, so thats why we found a short one. It was super fun, as usual, and we mostly talked instead of watching the movie.

Saturday, after sleeping in, I went with my parents to go get a couple cakes, and run some other errands. I also spent last night writing some thank you’s and stuff. What are the cakes and thank yous for you ask? The main point of this post.

I don’t mean to brag or anything, but I thought everyone that doesn’t know, should know, that I’m an Eagle Scout, and today I had my ceremony, aknowledging that fact.  Now I know what all of you are thinking: “Boy scouts are f4gs, you’re g4y.” “All the stupid people are in scouts. Etc.” So yeah, I guess I’m those things, and wasted TEN YEARS of my life for this.

If you subtract out all the “not-so-cool” people in scouts, there are some worthwhile people, and fun times to be had. I, luckily, am in a troop full of some cool people. I would say that the “wierd person:cool person” ratio is 2:5. I don’t have anything against the wierd people. In fact, I feel a bit sorry for them, becuase people don’t think too highly of them, and they aren’t treated like they should be…and most people seem to think that scouts is just another reason to make fun of someone. I disagree.

My scouting experiance was pretty awesome. It was a TON of hard work. If you think we sat on our butts, had 100 words said to us, and signed a paper to earn rank, you are totally wrong. Various tasks included camping, leadership skills, various merits, following ideals (that would make the world a totally awesome place if everyone followed them), and tons of other things. I’ll tell you, I learned the following things (and more), that I can use later in life, that I wouldn’t of learned without scouting:

1. Wood Carving
2. Astronomy
3. Aviation
4. Cinematography
5. Dog Care
6. Emergency Preparedness
7. Electricity
8. First Aid
9. Journalism
10. Law
11. Music
12. Mammal Study
13. Personal Fitness
14. Personal Management (money/finances)
15. Rifle Shooting
16. Shotgun Shooting
17. Sculture
18. Coin Collecting
19. Swimming
20. Plus over a hundred others…some which I have earned, MANY that I haven’t.

I promise that you cannot find that kind of exposure to such a variety of skills and knowledge anywhere else, besides perhaps a university ($$$).

I could go on and on about this, but I would probably bore you, and if you are going to be somewhat convinced at all, you probably already are…and if not, you probably wouldn’t be if I kept going on. ALL IN ALL, scouting has done many things for me, that I couldn’t of gotten anywhere else.

Also, at my ceremony today I got more than 20 cards and gifts. I want to thank everyone who gave me something, and more formal thank you cards will be on there way. A VERY thought provoking gift was a journal I got from someone (you know who you are). Its like 200 lined, blank, pages, that I have no clue what to write on. Perhaps I should make a drum journal, or a personal journal (although thats what this is). Also, I realize that writing all this on this blog probably isn’t as permanent as ink on paper in a vault or something. The servers that this data is on could crash tonight, and my writings could be lost forever. I’m considering printing off all my posts every month or something, and putting them in a file in our safe here at home. I also already count on Cole to do database backups for me (*clears throat*). You better be doing these COLE!!!

So any comments are greatly appreciated, especially about that darned journal .

As always, thank you VERY much for reading…this has been a long one.