It all started out in class: Beginner 1. At first I was trying to pull out some moves to show off and I could do backstroke and crawl stroke pretty good. I was just about the best in my class. For the second session of swimming lessons I got bumped up to Beginner 3. There are two activities that you can do at the end of class, ropeswing and diving board. Every morning you have to go to the shed to get flippers and a kickboard. I am more confident with flippers and kickboard than swimming without them. We learned surface dives, underwater swimming, and breath-holding (I was pretty good at that). Most of the time I took zero breaths. I've been having lots of fun at summer swimming lessons - indoor.
My mom took this picture of me today just before I did a backflip off the diving board. Everyone in my class was like "wow that was so cool!" and they all gave me high-fives.
Someday I want to be like my teacher and do a backflip off the ropeswing. Now that was awesome!
Since I just turned 8 years old I got to go to Scout Camp. The first day I was late and I got to do fewer activities than everybody else. (They said since we registered so late they didn't have room and then called us the day of after it had been going to a couple hours and said to come down.) The second day I was on time and my favorite activity was b-b gunning. 
I shot a cup that was REALLY small and I made my own target. I put a cup in the middle for a bullseye and I shot it once. The b-b was in the cup. I was just about 50 feet away. Not bad for my first time. The third day my favorite activity was archery because they didn't have guns. I wasn't that good at archery because the target was too high. My second favorite activity was parachutes with balls. 
I made my own gumball machine (sanded it, painted it)
