After school got out this spring, I stayed out all night and hung around with my friends until I had to go to Seattle to visit my dad in the second week of May.

In Seattle it was extra boring during the first week, and I really wanted to come home. Then we started to do some fun things, like travel around town by bus. We also went to an arcade place on University Avenue, and we saw some movies.

In Virginia, though, it was extra boring because there was only sunshine for three or four days out of two weeks. But once we went to this haunted house where at first we thought it was a ripoff because all they were showing was wax corpses and "scary" masks. Suddenly this guy jumped out and scared the hell out of us. It happened a couple more times after that and we just laughed. We also went to this mini golf place and played both mini golf and some arcade games.

The most fun I had this summer was here in Marshall. The day I came back I went to look for some of my friends and we hung around all night until it started to get bright in the morning. A week or two later I went over to the sandbar with Joel, where I tried Dave Andrew's knee board. All of the part of the summer that I spent in Marshall I stayed out late and got into mischief. I also made a "new" bike out of one of Nick Coffee's old bike frames. It went through a lot of repairs this summer because some people don't have respect for other people's stuff. It's working pretty good right now, though. Before I started working on it, it had no back wheel, crooked handlebars, and some bearings were missing from the pedals. I spray painted the whole thing black after I finished it.

I went on a couple of boat rides this summer too, but they were pretty boring. When Jonathan "Yoda" Nick was here we had a lot of fun because he told some of his stories about wiping out on wake boards, knee boards and other things, and about having fun at Pilot Station where he lives. I had some fun visiting my dad and my grandparents, but I would have liked it better if I had stayed here in Marshall all summer.

Maurice Turet