The Chronicles of John Trammell

Last night I worked from 6 to 9:30 at a Christmas Tree lot in Bloomington.  Our 4-H club and another is working the entire thing.  I first get there and there were only 4 other people, there where around 200 x-mas tree we where just untiying the string that held the branches.  Then a huge truck came and we found out that there were 600 x-mas trees that we needed to unload.  For the next three hours we unloaded trees.  Some where 5 pounds and most were around 25-75 pounds.  At first it was not that bad but as the night progressed then it got real hard and the pain began to set in.  When I got home my back and sholders where in pain.  Today at school it was alittle hard to work on classwork since my entire arm and sholders where in pain.  Right now it is getting better but I still feel some pain.  I wil get better do. 

These two days  have been just so tiring that I am not really looking forward to the nest three days without school   The 23rd was the day I was going to begin finishing up my college application and to just sit back and relax.  But that is not how the day went.  Since we were having Thanksgiving at my aunts house my sister and I had to go help clean up the house.  So my mom takes us and then leaves us there to work.  So I vaccumed, clean bird cages, and work on the table.  That was it......nothing else to do and we just sit there doing nothing, bored as hell.  Later on our window broke, which is the second one to break in the past week. Today, Thanksgiving, was ok.  In the morning I played video games and got ready for lunch.  We got to my aunts to eat at 11:00 but we didn't eat until 1:00.   It was ok but once again there was nothing to do until then.  We ate and started to see Star Wars III but had to stop because my mom wanted to go home.  So ok.  Then I went to Riverside to my

Today has been a big day for achievements.  First the day starts out turning on my computer and began e-mailing.  Today is the begining of the final plans for a conference that I am in charge of, called Teen Involvement Conference.  After that I began working on a technology known as Geographical Information Systems.  I created my first map on ArcView.  It is a map of all the 4-H county offices in the state of California.  This is the beginning of me stepping to one of the biggest technologies in the world.  Later on in the day I went to see the movie "The Legend of Zorro".  It was good but qualitiy of the screen was terrible.  But the movie was good.  Well that is all that is going on today.  Tomorrow is homework and it is one of my best friends 15th birthday.

This last weekend I was in one of the most beautiful place in the state of  California ,  Monterey  bay.    I left Friday morning and few up to San Joes with my mom.    We met up with other 4-H leaders.    We went in two rental cars down a 1 ½ hours drive to  Pacific Grove   City , located at the bottom of the  Monterey   Bay .    We attended a conference for 4-H leaders and since I am a State Ambassador I was able to attend.    I was also there for the computer corps.    My room faced the bay and the forest goes strait to the ocean.    I have wanted to live here for many years.    I lead two different workshops, one on GIS/GPS and the other on Digital Photography.    As a State Ambassador I was the person leading the closing assembly.    There were lots of raccoons and deer all over the place.    I have sunset photos from the beach that I took.    We stayed at the  Asilomar   Conference   Center /  State Beach .    It was just too beautiful.