Summer Summary

At the beginning of summer I promised to read 15 books at San Jose State Library. I didn't complete 15 books, but I got half way there. My little brother, Alex, and I had fun this summer fishing and catching crayfish. I nicknamed him, "CrawDaddy." He caught some huge crayfish at Stevens Creek Park this year, just using hotdogs on a stick. And we did a lot of fishing at Los Gatos Creek Park in Campbell with friends and our cousins. I had fun at various camps,
sleepovers, playdates. I stayed in touch with friends. We didn't really travel anywhere special. Just to the beach and San francisco a few times.

I learned to boogie board and had fun at the beach by the Crow's Nest in Santa Cruz. I met some new friends. I don't like body surfing as much as boogie boarding, but it's pretty fun, too. I talked with my Dad a lot and he says I need to work on writing and problem solving more, based on the STAR test. So, my summer blog is done. The other day we went to Game Stop to sell 8 games because I wanted a new DS game, Legend of Starfy. It's like Kirby. I had to choose between a store credit or cash for twenty percent less. We talked this over and it seems complicated. I finally decided to take cash from GameStop and buy the new DS game from ToysRUs, because their price was five dollars less. He said that comparing prices is an important skill to learn because people do it a lot when they buy things, especially in business. We talked it over a lot. My Mom said later it really didn't make any difference. The only difference was the amount of sales tax. I learned about sales tax. It's 9 percent. And I know what a percent is. Nine percent of thirty five dollars is three dollars and fifteen cents. Nine percent of thirty dollars is two dollars and seventy cents. It's not a huge difference, but I learned what it means.

I went to Samuel's house to spend the night. He moved to South San Jose. We went swimming, and the next morning played hide and seek. There were four other kids there. My Dad picked me up at 10:30 so we didn't get to play that much.