Into the Wild...

What happens when you add:
    34 teens +
     5 annoyed adults +
     A WHOLE lot of chips and salsa +
     and a dorm room cut off from everyone else's =

    An amazing week at an environmental learning center (and some hi-larious Man Vs. Wild remixes....) Last week my eighth grade class went on a week long over night trip to an environmental learning center in northern Minnesota. It was absolutely fantabulousyawesome (If that's even a word). Anyways, there was never time to be bored, because we were:

That's me on the ropes course ☺

• Rock-Climbing
• Ropes-Coursing
• Hiking
• well... learning :)
• Chips and salsa eating
• Truth or Dare playing
• Star tipping
• Endless talking.....
• Picture taking (duh ☺)
• Getting Lost
• Playing Frisbee

        This list goes on and on and on. One of the best things at ELC wasn't a class. It was our liaison, Danny. Danny was very interesting to say the least. He just came to Minnesota in August from England, and he looked like Harry Potter! (Maybe he was secretly Daniel Radcliffe) Danny also taught our birds class, and showed us his bird mating dance. We were about to pee ourselves with laughter.

I'm the short one on the end

        One of my other favorite things at ELC was a class called Voyageur life. We all got a character and had to remain completely in character for the whole three hour class. (Lucky for me I got to play the only American character because everyone else had to attempt to use French accents.) My character was Mr. Daniel Harmon, the American clerk for the Northwest Company. We hiked in sleet to this replica voyageur camp and made biscuits and played voyageur games. It was really fun, but my toes were very numb afterwards.☺
Speaking of coldness, the weather there was really weird. The first day it was almost 70 and we were wearing shorts, the next morning we woke up and it was snowing. Only in Minnesota...

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Have you ever been on a field trip where you've stayed over for a week? Does where you live have as wacky of weather as Minnesota? Have you ever been to an enviromental learning center? Do you like my blog? Please comment with your answers! ♥♥♥♥

PEP Fest!

          Every year my school, like most schools,  has a pep fest. At my school though, everyone thinks its boring. Except the Eighth Graders. I am finally an eighth grader.  As an elementary student, we thought it was wicked boring and biased, as the eighth graders won all the contests.

This year:

• Screaming Contest = Eighth Graders won
• Culver's Lunch = Eighth Graders Won
• Spirit Flag went to the... Eighth Graders

No wonder the little kids find it boring. No wonder the Eighth graders love it so much. We dress up like crazy freaks, put on war paint, eat a bunch of junk, play against the teachers in dodgeball and volleyball, and of course, run around the gym with the spirit stick. As say, a second grader, we absolutely dreaded the pep fests. We didn't know any of those wacky eighth graders, we never won any contests, and we didn't care who were on the the basketball teams. 

A Volleyball team gets ready to take on the teachers

Do they you do anything fun for Spirit Week at your school?

ELF Yourself!

    Check out this video I made on http://www.elfyouself.com! It's of me and some of my buddies dancing like crazy elves! Try and make your own, and if you get a really good one, email it to me :)

Wait for Christmas Lilly!

Every year at school we are given a gospel to make a movie about for religion class.
This is the one I was in this year. I am the devious adorable 5 year old :)
I had a lot of fun throwing a fit in "Target". I thought it was a pretty awesome movie.
Our gospel was from the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A.
The gospel was about being patient.
(Keep in mind, I don't act like this in real life)
I thought this movie fit well with last week's post about me being so excited for Christmas.
It was fun to film, but we had some issues, like the fact that my dog attacked the camera man, forgetting the camera at my house, and that it was raining freakishly hard and I had to run outside during the movie.
Other than that, enjoy the movie:

Well.... what did you think?? Please comment and tell me! Sorry that the filming was shaky in some parts,
again the camera man was chased by my dog... probably traumatized...

The First Snow...

Normally in Minnesota, we have snow by at least October. We finally got some snow, but it was really late this year, and there wasn't very much. I took the chance to go out and take some pictures with my dad's old camera. It works a lot better than mine. I also had my little model Becca, and even though she normally hates getting her picture taken, she actually cooperated for once. At least at first...

Becca started out cooperating...

 And then Becca started a snowman..
(Now keep in mind, there is nowhere near enough snow to make one...)

Becca's finished snowman...



"Hannah! The doggy ate my snowman!"

Now Becca's normally crazy...keep in mind that she gets weirder on camera... 

"Are you serious?? More pictures? I better get hot cocoa after this Hannah..."


All in all, it was a pretty fun snow-day.
 

  

DODGEBALL NIGHT!!!

At my school Dodgeball Night is extremely imporant. Let me tell you the three rules:

• Balls hitting above the head don't count
• You should must dress up
• The Purple Cobras will always win

      We just had dodgeball last week, and it was pretty amazing. My team was the 80's are back (which was very fun to dress up as I might add) We didn't do well though. Despite our faboulus looks, we came in dead last. All the rules were followed, which also meant, the purple cobras won. They have won twice a year every year since their first dodgeball night in sixth grade. The purple cobras are a team made up of all eighth grade boys, and they treat it as an honor to be asked on it.We had 4 boys on our team, but two of them left, becasue they had the honor of being on the purple cobras. Even though they kick-butt when it comes to dodgeball, I feel we beat them costume wise. If only our teacher wouldn't have forgotten to award the costume prize...

What lovely 80s ladies...

Uhhh..

Double Uhh...

Hello to you too, Tim...

Waiting for Christmas...

I know its crazy,
But already I've been thinking a lot about all I can think about is Christmas!
I know, I know you're thinking "Hannah, Halloween just past, can't you take a break before obbsessing over another holiday?" The answer is no, no I can't. I was playing Christmas music so loud on my Ipod, my Dad came downstairs and took it! He said it was crazy to be thinking so much about Christmas before Thanksgiving. My mom thinks I should get excited about Thanksgiving. I said "How can you get so excited, all you do on Thanksgiving is overeat!" and thats why Thanksgiving is my sister's favorite holiday. Don't worry, I won't make you suffer, I won't change my blog background to Christmas for at least another week :).

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon going to craft shows. There were probably eight of them all over town. And so what if the wind was harder than it has been all month, and so what if your mom refuses to give you a ride so you're on your bike, and so what if you are the only one at the craft shows younger than 60, it was fun.

The only person I ended up seeing that I knew was my grandma.

Take Me Out To The Ballgame...

On Friday, I went to a Twins game with my family and some people from my town.

It was really neat to see the new stadium, but it was pretty cold :) We got back really late, and  we definately had fun...

but that didn't keep our Twins from losing 1-3 :(

How to start, how to start...☻

What is up? no... How's it Hanging? zipo... Suppito?...

How about,  Hi! Welcome to my new blog. I hope you enjoy my videos, (and find them somewhat funny) feed my imaginary pets, and enjoy this earth God has given us.
 Well how was that for a start?
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Well since this blog is called Hannah's videos, well you were probably expecting to find some videos.

Well... me too. I'll work on that.

Well, until I figure out how to get this dang computer to function...

Bye!

P.S. Well, do you think I say well too much?