Dangerous!!!

This was the second time for me to ride a bike. It was a challenge for me to ride on the rocky road. I heard from James, Yunfei,Jinxin and some girls that it was really dangerous and they fell down 5 times. I was really worried, but I still wanted to try. When I got there, it was one way. We couldn't ride really fast. This bike was different from the frist bike that I rode. It didn't have a bell and we couldn't let people know if we needed to get through. When we went back, we were seperated into two different groups. One group went the easy way and the other group went the difficult way.I picked the easy one. We went back quickly and we were all safe. But the other group members like Jinxin got hurt. It was bloody. I was really lucky!!

first day trip

I felt so honored to get into the Hike And Bike group because it was the most popular one. Corona Heights and Buena Vista Park was the first trip we took. I was preparing before this trip; I wore sneakers, brought a bottle of water and camera. I slept for whole weekend to save energy. On the mountain, we saw the whole city and we pointed our school out. I felt like the buildings were so far from me. It was so close to the sky when I was on the mountain. There were a lot of rocks over there. It wasn't stable to walk. I was scared that if I fell down, I would be in the hospital for my whole vacation;I didn't want this to happen to me, so I picked a safe place to stay. The boys were so daring that they climbed up to the rocks and I was admiring them. In Buena Vista Park, we tasted some fruits on the trees; they were sour. I felt like I was back to nature. There were a lot of dogs in that park. We had lunch and hung out with dogs. It was fun to play with dogs.

Biking Frist Day

It was an exciting day for me to ride a bike to the Golden Gate Bridge. I expected a lot on that day. Riding the bike was the reason that I attended this group. This was the first time for me to ride a bike in America. Mr Jose went with us. We had missons for groups during the trip that we needed to take pictures with an egg. We needed to make sure our egg was safe when we were biking. We saw a lot of dogs and they were so cute. The dogs were one of the beautiful views for me. I wanted to spend my whole time with dogs if I could. We met Ms. Jackie and Ms. Sayuri's class at Crissy Field. We had lunch with them. A lot of students from other classes wanted to ride our bikes. After having school lunch, we started barbecuing hot dogs. We played cards with Mr. Jose. Every time he lost the game, he would say "you were sneaky" or " you were cheating". The last section of the trip was flying kites. We did our own group kite before we went biking. Our kite flew the highest and stayed in sky for the longest time. I was so proud of our kite.

"devil" island

To me Angel Island is Devil Island, even though the view is beautiful. It was the last hiking trip we had. My neck tendons were in pain and I couldn't turn my neck to other side. Mr. Mark and Ms.Kirk brought some of us to the top of the hill. The way was so rugged and it had a lot of rocks. It was hot and I was sweating. I was conflicted because I wanted to see the whole island, but I was so tired. I tried my hardest to walk and kept saying to myself " it is the last day and summer vacation is coming." We didn't have enough time to go down when we were on the top of the hill. if we stopped running down, we would miss the boat and we needed to spend 2 hours on this awful island. Even though I didn't have rest and I was out of energy, I didn't want to encumber the other students and teachers. At that time, I felt like my body was really heavy and I couldn't move any more. I also felt dizzy and was almost falling down. I would like to faint and let somebody carry me, but my body didn't allow me to do that. It was a nightmare for me. After I ran down the mountain, My eyes were welling up with tears because I finally overcame it and it was really stressful. I wore out my shoes just in these two weeks.

4 miles walk

Yesterday, we separated into two different groups. One group followed Mr. Vi to hike in the Golden Gate Park, while the other group followed Ms. Kirk to bike through the park. A lot of people went biking and only 7 went hiking and I was one of them. I was one of the students that went on the hike with Mr. Vi and the only student who speaks Chinese. At first, I felt lonely. I tried to encourge myself to talk with other students but as shy as I am, it was difficult. We were so lucky because Mr. Vi brought us to Burger King for lunch. I was so happy that if that was a nightmare, I would still smile in it. Everything went very well for our group. We ate together, talked together and we talked about our summer plans. We knew each other deeply, for example Juan will get a job in the summer and he porbably change school next year. During hiking time, we took a lot pictures of group. I didn't feel tired about walking 4 miles. I was happy about this trip.