I read Great Expectations

Great expectations is one of the novels written by Charles Dickens. The story takes place in the 1800’s. It is the story of a young boy, who goes by the name of Pip, growing up into a gentleman. At the beginning of the book he is seven years old and it is near christmas. He had always considered himself a normal laboring boy. He was raised by his sister and her husband. His sister was very mean to him until she got hurt to the point that she didn’t know what was going on anymore. In the beginning of the book he aids a criminal by giving him food and a file. The criminal is later captured and pip goes on with his life.Pip finds out that someone wants to pay for him to learn to become a gentlemen. He assumes this person to be Miss Havishim, but later discovers it was the very criminal that he helped earlier in his life. Pip falls in love with his daughter, Estella, whom mistreats pip and makes fun of him because of his status. Pip is trained to become a gentleman and with his new status he aquires a new attitude to match. Joe and pip were very close when pip was young but with his new status he is emberassed of Joe’s unlearned ways. Later when pip becomes ill, Joe comes to take care of him and pip starts to appreciate him. Pip goes on for several years and later, after finding out Miss Havishim is dead, goes to visit her old house. It is there that he finds Estella and she asks him to forgive her and says she has changed. The book ends with Pip and Estella finally being friends with each other.

Thanksgiving

This year for thanksgiving we went to West Virginia. We arrived on wednesday after several hours in the car. We were delayed two hours by traffic. Once we got there I started making plans for the day. Well that didn’t work out so I just chilled with my cousins. The next day we just hungout with friends and later that afternoon ate a delicious meal. We went to our hunting cabin that evening to stay for a few days and it took about two and half hours to get there. It had been so long since I had been there and I had missed it so much!

We went to bed pretty early compared to our usual time and we got up early too. We ate breakfast and then waited a while and decided it was time for some target practice. I got my rifle and we setup some targets around one hundred shots and went in. We went on a walk later on which is one of my favorite things to do. There just isn’t alot to do at a cabin in the middle of the woods.

Saturday we headed back but had some car trouble so we didn’t leave as soon as we wanted to. We got back and everyone was dying for a shower so I waited in line and finally got to take one. I had plans that night so I got ready and just hungout with my friends while I waited. That evenening I drove to beckley to meet someone at the mall. We hungout then I stayed the night in Beckley and came back the next morning. It was an amazing trip and I can’t wait to go back!

My trip to west virginia

Last weekend my dad had a football game to go to in west virginia. Usually when he has a game he takes me along to spend the weekend there with my family. When he asked me if I wanted to go I said yes of course because West Virginia is my favorite place to be. My uncle and cousin live about ten minutes away and they come with us sometimes and this was one of those times. We picked them up and got on the road. The trip up always seems to last forever; I guess because I am so impatient to get there. We got there and one of the people I have known for a few years was there and she wanted my cousin and I to go see a movie. We went all the way to beckley and watched the movie.

When we came back we talked to one of my other friends that lives close to my cousins and he came over. We chilled for a while and played video games. Eventually we went to the gas station and wal-mart like we always do. We got some food and came back. After staying up until about six we finally went to bed. The next day we woke up at four! We went and got subway and chilled the rest of the day. At night we played guitar hero world tour for a while. Everyone was asleep except for my cousin and I. We had alot of fun just hanging out together and it was nice to go up to west virginia again.

Woods of Terror

Last Sunday I was hanging out with friends thinking about how much it sucked that I had to go to school early the next day. Before church that night my friend mentioned something called woods of terror. I had never heard of it so I asked what it was. It’s a trail through the woods with tons of scary decorations and actors that try to scare you. If you have ever heard of Spooky Woods then its something like that. Well I had nothing else to do so I decided to go.

My weekend

Last week I was playing guitar with some friends when one of them asked me to come over Friday night and play guitar and hangout.  When Friday came I got my guitar and amp ready and put them in the car. I followed the directions to his house and once I got there he was playing basketball. He had also invited another friend that I already knew and he happened to get there right when I did. We went inside and plugged up the two guitars and started playing random stuff. Well my other friend plays the drums and we were in a small room so between the three of us there was alot of noise and we couldn’t hear each other talk. We played guitar for a while and later walked to harris teeter and got some food. It reminded me of West Virginia when my cousins and I walk to Wal-Mart late at night to get something or just chill. Well the next day we went to guitar center and checked out their guitars and drums then I dropped them off at the mall and went home. It was a lot of fun and I became better friends with both of them as a result.

Later that day I went to another friends house and stayed the night. We went to the store and got a ton of drinks and ordered pizza. I still had my guitar with me from the day before so I brought it in and played some. My fingers were sore for the first time in a while from playing so much. It was a pretty fun weekend but it was nice to come home sunday and relax since I hadn’t been at my house much that weekend.

Senior Pictures

This week I went to get my senior pictures taken. We had planned on getting them done earlier but after I had all of my hair cut off we had to let some grow back and it was hard to get a hold of the people that were going to take the pictures.

We finally got an appoinment setup tuesday at 5. We got there about ten minutes early and found out that our appoinment was supposed to be at five-thirty. We were told to sit down and while I was sitting down someone else came in to get there pictures done. We talked for a minute until it was time for me to chance into my first set of clothes. After I got changed I waited at the door since we were doing the outdoor pictures first. After a few minutes a woman told us that the photographer had somehow broken a piece of his equipment and had to find a replacement piece.

My most recent trip to WV

My favorite place to go is definitely West Virginia. The reason I love to go there is that almost all of my family lives there. I have several cousins and one my own age. We always find something to do and over the years I have made many friends by hanging out with new people. My dad had a football game to go to last weekend so we made a weekend of it. We drove to my grandmas house and got there around seven or eight. The cousin that I am closest to, Gabe, was already at work so I hung out with my other cousin until he got back.

My first and only ticket

One night I was at the mall and while walking around looking for a store to go into I ran into my cousin. I was kind of surprised to see him there. We went and looked around for a little while then I had the idea that because I lived so close we should go to my house and play pool or something. We got there and chilled for a while then decided to just go to his house for the night.

On the way there we decided to get something to eat since we were both pretty hungry so I suggested Wendy’s. We ordered our food and I went out the side of the parking lot that you can only make a right out of. It was dark and there were no signs telling me it was one way. There was a median in the middle of the road, however, because of the angle my car was at because we were on a hill I could not see the median.

The Cabin

A few years ago my family built a cabin in west virginia. It belongs to three different parts of my family. I go up there almost every year during hunting season with my dad and one or two of my cousins. There is no electricity so we have to use a generator for anything like television or lights that we want to use but there is always plenty to do without electronics.

It’s a two story cabin in the middle of the woods. There is an outhouse which to say the least is disgusting. There is alot to do there despite there being no electricity. One year I got to shoot a potatoe gun which was made of pvc pipe and a lighter.  Almost every day several people get up at about six in the morning to go hunt. I don’t usually hunt anymore because I would rather sleep but the first time I went hunting I shot a doe and we had it for dinner. There are usually a few people that kill a deer which means dinner is taken care of.

One of the most fun things to do is ride the four wheeler or the mule through the woods. Sometimes we ride down to a nearby cabin where some friends of my family stay and hangout there for a while. At night we go walking through the woods which can be kind of creepy, especially with all the stories our relatives tell us to freak us out. There is a fire pit that we use almost every night either to sit at and tell hunting stories or make smores. It is nice to be able to see family that I rarely get to see. In fact, the cabin is the only place I get to see most of them.  So basically, the cabin is one of my favorite memories and one of the things I look forward to the most each year.