Sunday, November 23, 2008

Pucks for Scouts

Howdy!

Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. I've been...busy (LAZY!). Normally, I'd update on each day I missed, but I'm gonna cut it down to this weekend.

Saturday:
We had a class at church for the guys in our troop and 1 other troop working on "Disability Awareness". The instructor was from the other troop. We went around the room and asked people if they had any disabilities. He counted glasses as them but other than that there were a couple kids with ADHD, one with Diabetes, and ummmm allergies. Haha. When he got to me he kind of hesitated and I was like "my arm". he kind of looked at me and said yeah and moved on. Hold up, he kind of skipped right over me. The others he asked questions and stuff but he just kind of moved right on. OK THEN! Haha, what's even funnier was the next thing he talked about was being comfortable with people with disabilities. Hmmm, i think he needs to learn himself :p But after that we got to shoot and go get a basketball in a wheelchair. Word of advice: Don't try to roll a wheel chair using one arm, you will just go in circles. Lol, I used my feet.

When we got home I waited up and watched YouTube live. It was pretty cool, although I got lied to by Youtube!:


Link to message:
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GRRRRRRZ! Still no apologies. WHATEVER!

OOOOH, I talked to one of my BFFs..... JAKE! We chatted for a while and it was wicked awesome! So is he!

SUNDAY:
Today we continued our Disability Merit Badge work. However.... this time it was FUN! We (scouts) met at the church at about 12PM and then headed out to Pineville, NC. There we ate a quick lunch and then rode over to the TRAIN STATION! coooooool! I've never rode a train before. We parked our bus (after running over a curb. THANKS TODD!). When we went to get our tickets I put in a 20 dollar bill (the tickets were 1.50 round trip) and it spit out like 18 gold coins., DUDE! I gave 5 of them to my scout master for a 5 dollar bill. We were all laughing when they kept coming out. I had never seen the gold dollars. They look really cool. Except... they don't say "In God We Trust". WOW! That's a first. :(

Anyways, the train ride was so cool and fun. Then we met at the "Time Warner Cable Arena" and were given a tour of the accesibility for handicap fans. Wow, there were lots of stuff for them. We also toured the private suites and it was so cool! I felt like a VIP!

Then we went to our seats and watched the game. It was a little boring except for the fights and the cheerleaders next to us. Then, one dude came over to us with 2 cheerleaders and told us we were the fans of the day. The camera turned on us and we were on the big screen. Then they made us start to cheer for the team. Haha, it was so cool. Except it was weird that hundreds of people were watching us embarass ourselves, lol. Oh well, two hot cheerleaders were sitting behind me so it's all good :)

After the game we rode the train back to where we parked. DUDE! The train was packed full of people! I almost fell over when the train started to move. Todd had to catch me, lol. I wasn't the only one though. After that we ate at Arby's for supper then headed home.

The trip was a lot of fun. So I went to my first hockey game and rode my first train/lightrail in one trip. I love Charlotte, although I'd hate to live there. Too much crime. But I love big, busy cities.

I have pics of the trip but I probably won't share them because I don't feel like editing the scout uniforms to make them unidentifiable. JAKE, I'll email some to you as soon as I'm done with this entry.

Well, that's it for this entry. Sorry it's so short, well, not really. Anyways, I'll try to write/vlog later this week. Only 2 school days, WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!

Love ya!
Clifton

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