Hello Again!
Happy 4th of July! As many of you will know, my mind is always running, so as we celebrated the 4th as we usually do, with fireworks, food, and fun with the neighbors, I thought about all the different ways people celebrate, and how this is related to a desire to fit in. For instance, I feel right at home at our little neighborhood party, but at the Molalla Rodeo I went to with my friends a couple days earlier, I am 99.9% sure I was the only one with a Nike shirt on. While the rodeo was a completely new experience for me (one booth advertised "Are you going to heaven? 2 question test!" and a popular food item was a fry brick) it is a way of life for others who live in the country or small towns, where more people have cowboy hats than a lawn with green grass. Why do we have a desire to fit in to our surroundings instead of branching out? Of course, this isn't the case for everyone. One of my favorites of the cowboys was from Alaska.
In a follow-up from my last blog, I have now been to 2 dances. I don't think experience helps, though: I'm relatively sure I am still an awful dancer. That doesn't mean it wasn't fun, though: I still had a great time. One thing I learned is that dancing may be more tiring than most of the sports I do! It is now 20 days until we leave for Pinehurst, and I have been playing a TON of golf already this summer. I may have stayed in more hotels in the first weeks of summer than ever before in my life! I have loved getting to know all of my golf friends more, and we hang out now even out of our program. On a side note, North Carolina will complete my coast cycle. I wonder if the Atlantic is really warmer than the Pacific?
On that note, I find myself thinking about global warming a lot. Does anyone else worry about this? It seems like every time I turn on the Weather Channel, it's either the hottest summer ever or the least rainfall ever. This is not good, people! Find out how you can help save the planet! (This PSA comes to you from Mason Bonn). What has you guys worried? Comment!
Anyway, I leave you with my 5-item Summer To-Do list. Feel free to do any of these things
1. Go to the library and enjoy being in the presence of other voracious readers. Read as many books as possible, as well as finishing the Harry Potter series.
2. Stay in a beach house. Feel the wind in my hair and the sand in my toes. Swim in the Pacific.
3. Watch golf in the Olympics for the first time in a century, then go play golf of my own and imagine being on the world's biggest stage.
4. Make the people around me happier by keeping a positive attitude and smiling or cracking jokes.
5. Hang out with my friends. Make sure no one has their phones, because it is better to tell stories in person and enjoy each others company.Signing off for now,
Mason B
