This blog is for the 3rd day of the socal trip. I woke up around 7 am and we went to the same starbucks near the airport for breakfast. Since the bagel place next to the starbucks wasn’t very good, I got a coffee cake from starbucks instead which was much better. We then […]
This blog is for the second day of my trip to socal from a little more than a week ago. I woke up in the hotel room at around 6:30 and we went to a get breakfast at a starbucks that was down the road. Coincidentally, this starbucks was also right next to the […]
Written by Jake Ross
(this was written in notes app on my phone. the wifi at the hotel wasn’t great) Today(friday) my aunt, my mom, my grandma, and I flew down to orange county for my cousin’s high school graduation. Our flight was at 1420(2:20pm) since it was going to be basically impossible to get my grandma to the […]
Written by Jake Ross
Today is day 181 of the test, or a little over 6 months. It feels crazy that these 6 months have gone by so quickly. I want to take this blog post to reflect a little bit on these last 6 months. This challenge is the most difficult thing I have ever done, and it […]
Written by Jake Ross
About a week ago the school district released the start date for the upcoming school year, which will be my senior year of high school. School is scheduled to start a whole 8 days earlier than normal on monday august, 19th. School isn’t ending 8 days earlier either. Instead of the normal 180 days of […]
Written by Jake Ross
Next week, us juniors have to take SBAC/CAASPP testing. Of course this lines up perfectly to be right after AP testing which is kind of annoying. Next week is also AP makeup testing, which I don’t have to do, but I know people who do. It really is such unfortunate timing. There are four days […]
Written by Jake Ross
I went to the Gold Rush Tournament hosted by sensei Bennati’s dojo about a week ago in grass valley. It was great see all of the people from the dojo there. We had a really good showing at the tournament, it was actually the most people from our dojo I’ve seen at a tournament that […]
Written by Jake Ross
Last week and this week at school make up the AP testing weeks. This year I am only taking one AP test, which is AP calculus BC. I took that test yesterday, and I feel really good about how I did on that test. I think I at least got a 3, hopefully more though. […]
Written by Jake Ross
My birthday was last week on Wednesday, May 8th. My birthday is a very special day especially this year because I turned 17 so just one more year until I’m an adult. I love my birthday for so many reasons but the main reason is because I get to see and talk to a lot […]
Written by Brody Hocking