Akiem
a.k.a.Stacey
About me/My biggest challenge/photo gallery/my favorite and worst part of trip/journal entry
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My name
is Akiem Fagon, I'm from the South Bronx and I attend Chelsea High school
in Manhattan. This is my first year of high school. I picked this
school because of their engineering program and the fact that it
is far from my house so I get to travel to different places. I Play
basketball for a hobby and do other contact sports but basketball is my
favorite sport. My favorite basketball team is the Portland trailblazers.
Most people say I'm a funny person
with a sense of humor. My favorite kind of music is rap but I'll listen
to other music sometimes. I like traveling to other places. My favorite
way of traveling is by plane. The best place I've went to is Jamaica. My
favorite food is fried chicken.
My Biggest Challenge on this trip
was not just one thing, I had many problems to overcome.One of the biggest
things was hiking. We would hike many miles which is very different from
walking the streets of the Bronx. The Bronx has hills but those were
mountains we climbed, they were very high and steep.Hiking would not be
so hard if we did not have to carry those 40 pound backpacks. When we first
put them on it was very heavy, but after hiking with them for a long time
it felt lighter.Washing in the woods is a big problem because you see animals
swimming in the water while you are washing and that is not good at all.
Sleeping in the woods is ok but I would rather have my bed because the
ground is very uncomfortable and when your in the Bronx you might hear
cars, trains,or people but in the woods you hear owls, crickets, frogs,
and other things. Surving in the woods is hard because you have to adapt
to your environment
.
My favorite part of trip is when I got be around other kids it was fun everyone had there own personality they made this trip better than I thought it would be. The worst part of the trip is when I was slowing the group down the last day of hiking when my asthma was acting up and it slowed us down.
Day 2 7/24/01
9:50am
Last night was the first time we
slept in the tent since we were got here. In the woods it gets real dark
and it very hard to see anything without a flashlight it was hard to sleep.
All those nosies are very annoying.When we wake up its always cold and
the insects are not around because its to cold for them. It gets very cold
in the morning and if it rains its even worse.