The bebe kids...

The bebe kids are hard at work putting the final touches on their projects. Six weeks of shenanigans, and we are going to finish off strong. It has been an interesting summer. Most of the bebes have anger problems, for example, as I am writing this, Nicole is beating the keys of the computer and whining "It won't let me wriiiiite!"Amanda is making weird growling sounds, Marckenson has a deep eyebrow furrow, and the rest of the seeds of Chuckie are in deep thought. Oh, wait a minute... Amanda just tossed her computer to the side. Liz and Rithly think they are Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey but in reality, they sound like Ciara on crack. The struggle... I tell you.

PS: Don't judge the weird hats and wigs, I gave up trying to understand.

If you can't beat them...join them

Reporting Live From Tampa

Hey Guys! Its me again and like I said last week I was going to Tampa. Well I’m here! Today is our second day here and we are having a blast. Yesterday on the way up to Tampa we went to MOSI. MOSI is the Museum of Science and Industry, its not like most museums. Its really cool. At MOSI we got to watch a IMAX movie about butterflies. I learned a lot about Monarch butterflies that I didn’t know before. Monarch’s have a very hard life. Its a struggle for them to be born yet alone survive and have babies of their own. After visiting MOSI we checked in at the hotel. Then my friends and I got dolled up to go out to dinner at Golden Coral. Today we took a trip to Desto Beach. There we chilled and had free beach time. Some of my fellow peers even seen a sting ray. Meanwhile the poor Juniors were doing work, that “Senior Status” was finally kicking in. After that we went to Desto Preserve. At the Desto Preserve we learned a lot about Hernando Desto. He was a conquistador from Spain that came to Florida looking for gold. He didn’t accomplish anything! The native americans weren’t giving up ther land that easily. The native amearcians fought until the end, literally! Many of them were killed by Desto and his men. 


                                                                                                                     - Mystic 

Its Only The Beginning

So last week was the first week of my last offical summer. I'm finally a senior! Last week went just as I expected. Since it's my fourht summer nothing is really new to me. So far though the only thing I don't like is my summer project. Part of the project is creating this blog that I am writing now, making a website and writing a 5-6 page paper. I understand the mentors are making us write this paper to help us prepare for college but really? Who wants to write a paper during their last high school summer? I don't ! It's alright though; I'm going to pull through. I'll keep you all updated.

                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                   -Mystic

Caught on camera: Time Out

Bebe kids get time out...

New excitements

July 10, 2013

We emerged onto the bus, teeming with excitement for our up-coming adventure. The juniors and seniors, nuzzled up, with crust still in their eyes. Yawning and gathering their sugary and salty snacks. We prepare for a 5 hour bus ride towards Tampa. Bugs splatter on the windshield of the bus, our eyes glued to the multiple T.V. screens, socializing our lives away. Our lunch consisted of either healthy, brown bagged lunch or greasy, unknown lunch from a red and white bag, gold ol’ McDonalds. Lovely. Soon, we were on the bus once again, headed to a museum, full of science stuff. Over flowing with dinosaur bones, butterfly fields, and a beautiful, mesmerizing film about an expedition on butterflies. I was amazed by the dome-like screen. After the movie, I was challenged by a fellow senior to an epic battle of air-hockey in the movie theater lobby. Sweat was beading down our necks as we barked out offensive slurs at one another, in a good-natured friendly competition kind of way. We were tied, one win to one win, when we realized we were short on time. Raymond and I tossed our strikers to a couple of juniors and dashed towards the gift shop, to meet up with the others, and for I to get something for my significant other’s birthday. Soon we left for our hotel. All in all, our first day going to/ in Tampa was phenomenal and by the time we got settled into our rooms, I couldn't wait to go to sleep, then awaken to the next breath taken day to come. 

-Leandra

Density lab....Colorful liquids man

So its the second to last week and every thing is going pretty smooth. On Tuesday we had a speaker by the name of  Lisa Pitman and she was a middle school teacher that has taught in Miami-Dade for 12 years and such. Even though she is a teacher she volunteers to the University of Miami whenever she can, which is a lot of time on her hands, and she talked to us as if we were some kids but in my opinion it is nice to be treated like a child you know like you don't have to think about world hunger or like which clothes will I wear that day. Back on topic, Ms.Barbara took us to the wet lab and she gave us this very simple brake down of density and told us we were going to do a lab on it. The lab was very simple, I mean a third grader could do it and not mess it up, all we had to do was pour some liquids into a Beaker and stack the liquids  on top of each other by pouring them slowly into the beaker. The liquids we used were, in order from top to bottom, alcohol, baby oil, corn oil, alcohol, water, dawn soap, Karo corn syrup and honey. It was a very colorful lab and very interesting. Later on in the day we simply worked on projects and went home so that day was very......dense haha see what I did there.....ahhh whatever.

                                                                                                                                       -Raymond Pache

In Tampa

Beep Beep! Now there goes the sound of my alarm 5:30AM alarm clock. Knowing that it’s soon to end with our trips with our class of 2014. Gathering together in the breakfast hall seeing it all go back quickly. Saying good bye to Miami yesterday was fun to leave everything back behind. But as the day go by and we filled with adventure. Our first stop at MOSI (Museum of Science Industry) was quite interesting. Coming from the Miami Science Museum and going to another one was different.  Seeing the difference and similarities of the two was a learning experience.  Coming from De Soto national park and preserve was very informative. Learning about the history of Tampa and a greedy man that use to walk through the streets that we now walk on. Later ending the day at the pool talking as one as we reminisce.  Oh Boy, What a day!

-Rithly