Relay Carnival

If your a fast swimmer on your team you should probably know about the relay carnival or something similar. The relay carnival is just a swim meet that all teams from your division gather at to swim multiple relays. Not everyone on your team goes to the relay carnival, only some of the fastest in your age group go.

The pool we went to was very impressive, it had 2 diving boards, a 13 ft. deep well, long distance laps and it was a very big pool. The only bad thing about the pool was it's bathrooms. They were only were very unsanitary and there was a giant lack of privacy. You had to pull on a string to get water, the urinals had no stalls and it was overall really dirty.

All the teams in my division were there, with 6 teams in total. When we started the events they were way more interesting than regular events because of the fact that they were relays! In most relays my team got in 2nd or 3rd. Rarely we got in 1st, 4th, 5th or 6th. There were a lot of people cheering so the the whole pool area was really loud. After a while it was time for intermission.

After intermission our team was in 3rd overall for the standings. We continued to swim more relays and soon it was my event to swim. My relay was the 11-12 boys Individual Medley relay. I was swimming breaststroke while my other three friends were swimming other strokes. Once I jumped into the water it sprinted breaststroke as fast as I could. Then someone else took over so I could rest, so I watched the relay. We got 3rd, or at least that's what it looked like. Soon I found out that we got disqualified because of the fact that someone had a foul start (NOT ME!). Still this was a fun day to swim relays and a good experience!

Minecraft

Minecraft is a 3D sandbox game that Mojang built to let people have fun, express creativity and teach people the basics to survive somewhere. Notch originally founded this game and never thought it would be this popular for more than 10 million people playing it. Soon Jeb took over Mojang so he could make some major changes on the game while Notch did something else.

Many people use Minecraft to have fun by playing with friends, going on servers and simply just play by themselves. In Minecraft you can fight monsters, build giant structures and fight other players (PvP). If you get bored of playing on worlds you can install mods that add things to your game or go on servers that other people from around the world play as well.

People can also be creative in Minecraft by building things. For many people they go to creative mode so they have unlimited everything and then they build anything they want from Mario statues to ghosts to tractors. Also if people want to get very complex in building you can use this thing in Minecraft called red stone which is this type of ore that is like electricity in Minecraft. You can power things so you can move blocks, light things up and a lot of other things. But the only downside is that red stone is very complex so it can be pretty confusing and you can mess up a lot.

Minecraft can teach you basics in surviving the wild because even though this game is fictional there are realism points in the game like having a life, you can die, hunger and other things that can be very useful in the wild. It teaches you that you need tools and need to conserve your resources to be successful in the wild. Even though there may not be these fictional zombies, skeletons and other hostile things in real life there may be angry animals and bad guys that can come and kill you. The bad thing about Minecraft is that it doesn't teach you about about thirst, but you can download mods and lots of new things will be added.

Minecraft is more than just a game, its more of a passion and a hobby since some many things have been made for Minecraft. Shirts, websites, costumes and much more have been inspired form Minecraft as well as many other games. So go try out the Minecraft demo here!