Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Internship 5
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Internship 4
Monday, January 11, 2010
Internship 3
Internship 2
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Internship 1

This morning I woke up at around 7:44 am. I hopped in the car around 8am and drove to school. after i dropped of my brother me and my mom got bagels and Jamba Juice. I got to school about 9am and was waiting until 9:30 to start my internship. In the beginning of internship me and my mentor (which is my baseball coach) talked about everything I was going to work on through out my internship. When we finished talking about what I am going to do for him i realized it will be a lot of work but should be rewarding in the end. I will be helping out with some of the HTH and HTM sports programs by setting them up and making a website for them. I think that this internship will be benefiting not just for me but for the sports programs in general.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Nature Writing
The goal for Michael Taylor and Steve Skillet was to indeed find the world’s tallest tree no matter what they had to go through. Michael actually quit Humboldt State University to have more time to study and climb trees. After a while Michael realized that he needed to go back to college so he took a loan and decided to go back to college. But college was not going to stop Michael on what his dream truly was.
In climbing trees there is a lot of risks that they took every day to do what they love. One example from the book is that they said since your upper half of your body is heavier then your lower half your body will turn upside down in mid air. The shock from you hitting the ground crushes your skull and breaks the neck and destroys the brain and spinal cord of the base of the skull. Instant death. Mary Antoine one time climbing a tree almost died as she fell 40 feet out of a tree. One big risk that Steve Skillet took is that he lost his wife due to the love of trees. He wouldn’t spend enough time with her and she felt like they were not meant to be anymore.
With tree climbing and adventures Michael and Steve had explored and discovered. Fog Creek, Devil’s Creek, Tom McDonald Creek, Bond Creek, and Elam Creek, were some places that they explored through out tree climbing. When Steve went to field brook valley in front of him as the biggest red wood he has ever seen before. His heart was beating like mad, and he was fumbling with his instrument and all most crying. He started to measure the tall redwood’s top, but he couldn’t see the top. The tree ran out of sight. He had discovered the ultimate tree. Every time they climb a tree they create a name for it. For example one of the names they created for a tree was nameless.
Steve and Michael through out this book go on a lot of adventures discovering things that no one has found before. They went through a lot of obstacles between school, jobs, and regular life. They overcame these to do what they truly loved to do. Climb trees.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Wild Trees
Outline
-Story of falling of kevin hillery and the girl
-mom story of her falling out of the tree (the first anecdote in the book)
Dedication (pg 202)
-michael quit college to focus on trees-bad idea goes back to college



