18 June 2013
A sailor's worst fear is not a giant squid crushing a boat. It is not a whale smashing the boat. It is not a great white shark breaking a hole in the boat and eating you.
It is a fire.
We had a near death experience today. My parents smoke. So they bought an ashtray. Now to empty the ashtray they have to wait for the cigarettes to die out first before putting them into the plastic bag. My dad did not wait for this and dropped a burning cigarette into the plastic bag. We now put this bag onto the dingy which we are rowing across to the shore. As we all get on we see smoke rising up out of the bag.
We now have to choose to open the bag and dig though the rubbish looking for a cigarette bud that might just die out anyway, or just row across and sort it out later. So we row across. As we start rowing more smoke is coming out. I can see everyone looking at the bag. I'm sure we all had images of the bag bursting into flames and setting the dingy on fire and all of us having to jump overboard into this toxic waste. As we got to the other side we all jumped into "eliminate the fire" mode.
I got off the dingy as normal. Helped Kyle off the dingy as normal. My dad passed me the plastic bag as normal. I helped him and my mom off the dingy as normal.
Then my dad put some water from the tap on the burning bag not as normal.
20 June 2013
We went to visit my dad's mom again. It's not the most fun day off that I get, but the one good thing is that I am allowed to skate. We went to a bar/restraurant to eat. I thought this would be the perfect time to skate and brought along my skateboard. I skated whilst my mom and dad ordered food. I finally landed my verial flip enough times to say that I can do it!
A verial flip is a combination of a kick flip and a popshoveit. A popshoveit is were the board turns 180 degrees under you. A kick flip is where the board spins vertically 360 degrees under you. So to combine the two tricks was a very difficult task to master. I am now starting to walk into the line of the skating pros.
A sailor's worst fear is not a giant squid crushing a boat. It is not a whale smashing the boat. It is not a great white shark breaking a hole in the boat and eating you.
It is a fire.
We had a near death experience today. My parents smoke. So they bought an ashtray. Now to empty the ashtray they have to wait for the cigarettes to die out first before putting them into the plastic bag. My dad did not wait for this and dropped a burning cigarette into the plastic bag. We now put this bag onto the dingy which we are rowing across to the shore. As we all get on we see smoke rising up out of the bag.
We now have to choose to open the bag and dig though the rubbish looking for a cigarette bud that might just die out anyway, or just row across and sort it out later. So we row across. As we start rowing more smoke is coming out. I can see everyone looking at the bag. I'm sure we all had images of the bag bursting into flames and setting the dingy on fire and all of us having to jump overboard into this toxic waste. As we got to the other side we all jumped into "eliminate the fire" mode.
I got off the dingy as normal. Helped Kyle off the dingy as normal. My dad passed me the plastic bag as normal. I helped him and my mom off the dingy as normal.
Then my dad put some water from the tap on the burning bag not as normal.
20 June 2013
We went to visit my dad's mom again. It's not the most fun day off that I get, but the one good thing is that I am allowed to skate. We went to a bar/restraurant to eat. I thought this would be the perfect time to skate and brought along my skateboard. I skated whilst my mom and dad ordered food. I finally landed my verial flip enough times to say that I can do it!
A verial flip is a combination of a kick flip and a popshoveit. A popshoveit is were the board turns 180 degrees under you. A kick flip is where the board spins vertically 360 degrees under you. So to combine the two tricks was a very difficult task to master. I am now starting to walk into the line of the skating pros.
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