My Fish Camp Scholarship Application

Why do you want to go to Fish Camp this summer? (100-150 words)

Several years ago when I lived in Bend, I went to a summer festival. A local fly club had a booth and volunteers taught kids how to make a simple fly. I got to learn how to tie a wooly bugger and I just fell in love with fly tying.
  
I like to do many crafts. Fly tying is my favorite kind of craft, because it it sometimes tedious. It has small details and requires good eye-hand coordination.

Another reason I like fly fishing is because I really like nature. You get to learn about insects. The hooks use feathers and fur which I enjoy collecting when I go on nature walks with my family. You also get to learn some biology and ecology.  You also get to learn about different kinds of fish and where they live.  The flies are like little statues of nature.

What is it about fly fishing that is of interest to you? (100-150 words)

I have always wanted to learn how to fly fish and I think this is the perfect opportunity.  Years ago when I lived in Bend, our neighbor taught me how to cast.  I really enjoyed it.  It was both challenging and fun.

My friend is nervous about staying away from her family overnight.  I want to go to fish camp so that I can tell her how fun it was and all that I learned.  Then maybe next year she will have the courage and we can go together. I also want to meet new friends with the same interest as me.

I would like this camp because I want to be in the outdoors for long periods.  I really like camping out in the open.  I also want to find a life long hobby so I can teach my kids when I grow up.

Orange Jelly Fungi

I found this fungus at Empire Lakes. I was walking along the trail and my brother found it for me.  It was growing on a decaying Douglas Fir branch, I think.  My papa says he thinks it is Douglas Fir, too.The Orange Jelly fungus belongs to a family called Dacrymycetales. It is probably one of my favorite fungi. It lives mostly in moist climates, for example the Pacific Northwest Coast. It is edible, best steamed or boiled.

I learned that Dacrymycetales palmatus is very similar to two other jelly fungi, Tremella aurantia and Tremella mesenterica but those are usually more yellow and grow on hardwood trees which still have their bark, instead of dead conifers.  A year ago, we went on a family hike in the Trinity Mountains and we saw what I think now is Tremella growing on a pine tree.   

I'm trying to do this science experiment and I need a special slime mold, but unfortunately this is not the one that I need. So I ordered a kit from Carolina Biological, and I just got it in the mail yesterday. It was really exciting and the mold has already grown a lot.

This is my first submission to the Outdoor Hour Challenges at Handbook of Nature Study. 

Our First Foreign Student

Today we got to see our first foreign exchange student leave, it was very sad. Though, let's look on the bright side of things. We got our first exchange student. We got to play games and teach her new things. But I would have to say my favorite part was having her here and learning a new recipe on how to make jiaozi (dumpling) filling. 

Her favorite store I think was Michaels. She asked to go three times. She took pictures of everything. We also got to go to Mt Lassen and play in the snow. :)

Minecraft

Minecraft is a fun video game that you can build and mine. It is one of my favorite games along with Plants vs Zombies. There are two different  ways to play creative and surveil. Creative is were you have all the stuff you can in Minecraft you can fly around and make things. survive is were you have to collect the resources and survive also you have to out for monsters that came out and to try to you. My favorite is survive. It is a very fun game. I think you should get it. through it would be funner on the iPad then any other device. The monsters are Creeper, zombie, spider, and skeleton. The creeper is the most well know.

These are just some things you can make.

 Japanese temple

 London Bridge

Postage Stamp Collecting

I love to stamp collect. As you probably know you don't get postage stamps that often. So then how do you go about collecting stamps? You should start collecting just all the stamps that come in the mail.When you get really into it, you can then select a category or a certain topic and collect just stamps that fit into that topic. If you pick birds, for example, then you could collect birds stamps, cancellations with birds, and even envelops with bird artwork in the corner.  You could also  narrow it down and maybe collect only hummingbirds.

Then you probably would want to show it to other people so you can make a nice way to format it on a page and you should have a little information about the category. Then you can display your project or collection at a stamp show. A stamp show is basically is where a bunch of stamp collectors get together and show their stamp collections.  
 

I like to collect birds but now I am narrowing it down just to owls. I am getting some of my stamps from Ebay. Ebay is a really easy way of getting stamps. You can Learn a lot from stamp collecting.

Here is some pics of my stamp collection  

Happy collecting :) (:

A Trip with Grandma

When we were on a road trip with grandma I got to get better at taking pictures. Now I am really good at taking pictures.

This is a picture that I took. It is of a long meadow, and it is were the  McKenzie  River starts just as a little spring. 

This is a up close picture of a flower that hangs upside down.  I had to put my camera upside down and I didn't know how it was going to turn out. So I think I got really lucky.

This is a Indian paint brush flower. I think it is called that because the Indians used it to make red paint with it or it could be because of the shape. 

This is Queen's an Lace. It has lots of little flowers in one big flower. 

This is a Butterfly of some sort.  The key to taking a picture of a Butterfly is always be ready  take a picture so when it opens it's wings you can snap it really fast. 

This is a flower that is just starting to open up. When it is opens it is going to look kind of like a Indian Paint brush but it is only going to be pink.

Here are some river pictures. The 2nd one has two rivers that are coming together  and the other two are close ups of the river.

About my family

我家有四个人，妈妈，爸爸，弟弟，和我。

妈妈三十九岁。妈妈出生在一九七二年。妈妈属鼠。

爸爸四十二岁。爸爸出生在一九七零年。爸爸 属狗。

我九岁。我出生在二零零二年。我属马。

弟弟七岁。弟弟出生在二零零五年。弟弟属鸡。