What I did on my summer vacation (Christian)

Today is the first day of school and, while I am excited to start the new year, I am also sad that my summer vacation is over. )c:

One of the biggest highlights of the year was my experience on the YMCA swim-team. I made lots of friends and also improved my swimming skills. The swim meets were really fun, and so were the regular practices. I was surprised to have brought home some first place ribbons also.

Swimming in the pool just for fun was great, also. There is a great, new, high water-slide. Mom gets scared when we go down it because she says we will fall off on the turns, so we are not allowed to ride it very often. The new facilities here are also all nice and clean, so that is good.

I did a lot of things outside of the YMCA. Mom and I painted my room. We decided to paint just one wall and chose a really bright [but dark] blue color that showed through partly to the yellowish color the wall used to be painted. It didn’t turn out that well, so now we are going to repaint it some shade of green and change the bedspreads before we get too deep into the school year.

Dad bought a new riding mower for our lawn that I love to drive. We have a huge back yard, so it is very helpful when cutting the lawn.

Another thing I started this summer was a ‘graphic novel’. While Kelly draws her world-famous Betty Blonde dailies, I work on a strip with a much longer story line about the same characters on one big adventure together. I hope to finish drawing the strip by the end of the semester. It will take a number of weeks after that to scan it all in and publish it.