Journal entry #1

This weekend was very eventful and fun. I went home for the first time since I’ve been at school. Going home just made things worse because now I’m even more homesick. Seeing my mom and dad and them telling me how much they missed me was very upsetting. On Friday my best friend Amanda and I went to my sisters volleyball game and she did really well, they won and my sister got the winning point. Then we had to baby-sit which wasn’t too bad because I missed the kids that her and I watch together. On Saturday I went to sandwich, cape cod and we looked at boats that my dad wanted to buy. Coming home was also weird because my dad told me his huge plan for next year, he is going to buy another boat, get another house on the pond, that way we can dock the boat at and work on the house. My dad doesn’t want to sell our house right away he wants to build onto the house he is buying and make it fairly big and nice. My dad has these sort of ideas all the time and then he starts to obsess over them, my dad just got a ski boat two months ago and now he wants a better, newer one that the “professional” wakeboarders use. Looking at the boat was really cool because the guy selling it was putting it in the water for us to use, so we got to go on it and see how it runs. The owner of the boat also told us to bring our wakeboards that way pull us around a little. My dad was really excited so he put this gear on and was ready to go. When he was riding the guys couldn’t believe how well he was doing because he was already switching, jumping, and doing 360’s. They invited him to join a junior professional men’s league next summer. When I went I was in shock because the wake from this boat was huge compared to our other boat. With these kinds of boats you can also surf the wave, by holding onto the rope to get you started then when you are on the peak of the wave you let go and follow the boats wave. I am pretty excited to get this new boat and to go with wakeboarding with my dad. My dad and I do a lot of sporty things together because we always push one another to do better. It always makes us a lot closer and enjoys one another’s company. I think that getting a new boat will be awesome, and a lot of fun; I just hope my dad follows through with his new plan.