The Chronicles of John Trammell

  Last January, the California 4-H Technology Team decided to move the location of their team orientation from being at the State 4-H Office at UC Davis, to the Nevada 4-H State Camp, on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada.  The tech team invited the CA 4-H State Ambassadors along, so both teams would work on building a relationship with both teams.  The event turned out to be very successful, and the State 4-H Staff had decided to do it again for the 2011 year.  Since the tech team term year had changed from January-December to July-August, they decided to call this event an CA 4-H Winter Retreat.  This would be a retreat for the tech team, state ambassadors, and collegiate 4-H members where all teams would do trainings, build a working relationship between the teams, and have each team meet privately to work on team projects.  This blog post is about my experiences at this winter retreat.  This shall be my second...

 A year ago, I was looking around different places around the state where I could travel too and look for geocaches.  I had discovered that a geocache was hidden inside the Amboy Crater, a cinder cone volcano in the Mojave Desert, off of historical route 66 between Barstow and Needles.  I shared this with two of my best friends Scotty and Jane, and they got interested in joining me to find the cache.  As time moved on, I got busy, and when I had free time, it was too hot in the desert.  A year later, I re-mentioned it to Jane and Scotty and they again were interested.  I took a look again at geocaches hidden out there, and noticed two caches now were in the Amboy Crater, and tons of caches in the surrounding areas.  Last Thursday was the day we traveled out to the Amboy to have a geocaching adventure.  This would be the first major trip I have done with a purpose of only geocaching.            I woke ...

     Most of California has experienced almost an entire week of non-stop rain, about 5 1/2 days of rain, and Highland, the city I live in, was the hardest hit.  For most of the time during this storm, I was very upset, for many of my birthday plans and holiday plans had been postponed or canceled due to the rain.  As of now, I might still be disappointed about my plans being ruined, but I am now thankful that my house, the houses of friends, and other family members were not effected by the floods that took place here today.  I do feel really bad for the 100 people or so who lost their homes in highland to flood waters and mud left behind.  Their holidays have been ruined, along with many of their possessions.      The first of the storm hit on Friday.  When I saw the rain, I got extremely upset, for I knew this meant I would not be going paintballing with my cousin Krystal and her fiance John on Sunday in Colton.  Later on...

On Wednesday, Dec. 8, I received an e-mail from the California State University of San Bernardino.  I have officially been accepted to the Fall 2011 Quarter.  This is some really good news.  This good news seemed to have taken forever to get to me.  It is about time I get this chance to move on, because I am really starting to get sick and tired of Crafton Hills College.  Yes I like the campus, but 4 years there tends to get tiring.  I kinda feel bad that I have been at a community college for 4 years, but what matters is that I am still in school, and getting closer to my degree.  In order for me to get to register for Fall 2011 at CSUSB, I will have to pass all my classes this semester and next semester.  I think I will be good for this semester.  I will have to work my ass off next semester to really make sure I can pass the classes.  I am really not looking forward to Economics Class :(

     I am sitting here at my computer realizing that things are going to be very tough this next month of December.  For those who don't know, since October, I have only gotten 8 hours of work a month, so as of today I have only worked 16 hours in the past two months.  Its very hard for I use way more money than I am making for gas and food alone.  Now I just paid for my spring semester of college, which maxed out my credit card, and I have no money in the bank.  Lucky my parents are going to help me pay for school, but it makes me feel real bad that I now have to start asking for money again.  It has been 4 years since I have really needed to ask for money to help with things like school.      I am currently looking for a second job, but all I can see that is available is seasonal holiday work, so once the holidays are over, I would get fired.  My parents suggest that I wait till after the holidays and try to find a job...

My 4-H Story Written 2010 about 2005-2006 4-H year Age: 18 (At time these events took place)  Year in 4-H: 12      You probably have noticed that I stated this was written in 2010.  Yes, this had been written for this blog series.  The 4-H Motto is learn by doing.  With the 12 years of being a member, I have learned many of my skills by doing many different things.  This last year in 4-H as a member will have taught me something very important that I shall remember for the rest of my life.  I had learned that is it more important to be involved in a few things, and do them well rather than try to do everything and not being able to do a great job on your work.  If you take a look at my last blog post, you will notice that I was running around crazy, and I know that there are things not even mentioned in that story because I had no room to try to place it in there.  By the time summer of 2006 came around, I started to break down and...