Day 1


7/7/18
Today I went to sleep around 4 am and woke up at 6:30 am. I went to sleep so late because I was packing and I decided to watch The Last Jedi movie on Netflix, as I hadn’t seen it in theaters when it came out. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I started to feel super sleepy as we waited to leave from Heritage University. Then it was time for us to see a presentation by Jonalee Sequeochs, who talked about the climate change issues that could affect Washington. This made me realize how serious the topic was as although it may not be a direct impact on our environment, even a small shift in the climate can greatly affect the environment, which would be bad for the crops grown in Washington, eventually leading to the jobs based off the agriculture in Washington. That would suck, especially since Washington is known for its agriculture. I eventually fell asleep in the car, but the van hit a bump, and I hit my head on the window so I decided I didn’t need to sleep anymore.
              When we got to Potato Hill, we set up our tents. Then Omar, Pablo, and I had the task of setting up a hammock that would be standing on the ground with support from some metal bars instead of rope from two trees. It was pretty easy until we noticed that it wasn’t very stable and nobody could sit on it. I’m not sure how long we took trying to fix it, but it felt like forever until we finally realized that it was broken. For dinner, we ate some spaghetti that had pieces of mushroom in it. Although I don’t like mushroom, I ate it all as I was very hungry. So now I have to decide whether I like mushrooms or not. Everything was pretty fun, except for the army of mosquitoes that kept attacking us, but I refused to show the mosquitoes that I feared them and decided not to put on any mosquito repellent. That wasn’t a great idea as I ended up with mosquito bites all over my arms and a couple on my face. But we were finally saved as the fire was started and we had smoke to drive away at least some of the mosquitoes.

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