Summer has brought nothing but fun so far. This week I left for Kauai, Hawai’i along with my mom, stepdad, and stepsister. We are staying a little over a week and I’m super excited. We got a nice place on the north end of the island that is pretty close to an awesome beach. It […]
Disneyland! Now that school is out, my dad surprised me with a trip to Disney for my birthday! We stayed for 2 days and spent about 16 hours each day in the parks. We were joined by my aunt and cousin, who come with us every trip. My favorite ride was definitely Space Mountain, which […]
Written by Cooper Riegel
School is finally out! This week was a 4 day school week, with Wednesday and Thursday being finals. I thankfully did not have a final in computer science and instead we watched the Mario Movie. Unfortunately I still had Math, Chemistry, and History. I got high A’s on all of my finals. I finished the […]
Written by Cooper Riegel
This week has been pretty good and pretty stressful. All missing work was due on Friday, and I had about 25 missing assignments for chemistry. It took about 7 hours, but I got all of them done and submitted. This ended up being helpful for review as I have finals next week. For mothers day, […]
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This week one of my friends had a birthday party. The five of us went down to Roseville for an escape room. The room was in a futuristic lab controlled by an evil AI. We held our streak of being about 10 minutes from escaping when the time ran out. We spent the rest of […]
Written by Cooper Riegel
Another week, more rain. This week has been slow, besides a trip to the mall. The highlight of this week was Taylor Swift’s announcement of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). The only thing to report is that my test is otherwise going well, the halfway mark is approaching in a couple weeks which is exciting and […]
Written by Cooper Riegel
This week I want to talk about my personal goal I’ve been developing throughout my black belt test. This goal I set for myself was to learn better responsibility and self discipline. There have been many physical challenges throughout my test but they don’t compare to the mental challenges that one will go through. Responsibility […]
Written by Lucas Grant
This week was a pretty normal week so I will use the blog as a progress report. I have exactly 68 days until my final test! That’s a little more than 2 month, so this is what I’ve done so far, 47,685 push-ups and sit-ups, I’ve ran biked and swam 962 miles, I have done […]
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This week I was able to attend an out of school tournament in West Sacramento, so here’s a run down of what happened. First I participated in kata, and I tied for first place in my division. A funny thing that happened is the same person I tied for first this year, I tied for […]
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This week, I completed my black belt community service project! For my service project, I went to Del Paso Heights Elementary school to put on an assembly by myself to teach pre-k to 2nd graders about anti-bullying. This was a great experience! For my assembly, I went over with the kids what bullying was, what […]
Written by Lucas Grant