Camping with the Cubs

Hello Everyone! Yesterday, I came back from a camping trip with the Cubs. It all started Friday when my dad and I packed our stuff and got ready for our first camping trip of the year. Then Saturday morning we drove down to the campsite.

 We arrived there at about 10:00 AM. Since my dad is a Cub leader we started the campfire and rebuilt the broken kitchen area. At about 11:00 AM we collected firewood and played games.

At lunch we all gathered around the campfire and cooked our hot dogs. Then at 1:00 we made a fire competition to see who was best at making fires. My teammate and I won 2nd place. It was like taking candy from a baby.

Next, at around 2:30 my dad surprised us with bannock, an aboriginal bread, and we cooked it on sticks over the fire. It tasted great. The outside tasted like normal bread, but the inside tasted like cheese.

The next thing that happend was really awesome. The leaders gave us compasses and challenged us to find pieces of papers hidden throughout the forest. On each piece of paper there were coordinates to the next one. I was in the Yellow team so we had to find the yellow paper. We won the race because the other team forgot to pick up their pieces of paper so they had to go back collect them. We also found golf ball (WIN)!!!  From my point of view I think this was to test our orientation skills.

After all that, we started to make dinner (chili and caesar salad). Next we hade some hot chocolate for dessert. It was really outstanding. Then Akela and Baloo told us stories about the monsters who live in the woods. They called them the "Wa-Ha-Hoo-Ees". Some kids got freaked out, but I knew it was only a story.

By that time, it was dark out, so my friends and I went into our tent and started doing everything we needed to do in order to go to sleep. Since it was raining it was a bit hard to fall asleep but eventually everyone was snoring.

Sunday morning, it was freezing outside so we made a fire to keep everyone warm. Afterwards my dad decided to prepare a snack. We actually cooked our own raisin and cinnamon toast! Then we ate the real breakfast meaning; bacon, pancakes, watermelons and even some more hot chocolate. Then, we all packed up to go back home. It felt thrilling to be camping again.

Hope you liked this short story of my Weekend. Next time, I'll talk/show all the badges I got Bye!

Trees Are Important

Every year, 3-6 billion trees are cut down. If there weren't any trees on earth we would all die from a lack of oxygen. Do we need to chop down that many trees in only one year? On one side, there are people who make profit out of it. On the other side, there are people who want to protect the forests. In life you need to buy things made of wood, but the consumers are unaware of the effect. I believe we shouldn't over exploit earth's ressources and that we should only take the wood we need. I believe that we should reuse/recycle wood and plant more trees.

First of all, if we didn't over log we would have cleaner air and we would preserve wildlife habitats. For example, if Americans recycled the New York Times, we would save about 250,000,000 trees per year. Did you know that 70% of earth's animals live in forests? If we cut down all of earth's trees 70% percent of animals would die! Therefore if we planted trees we would preserve wildlife!

I understand that some people desperately need to cut down trees to earn money to feed their families  but that's not the people I'm against. I'm against corporations who make millions without caring about nature.

In conclusion, we are currently over logging, but if we plant more saplings and recycle wood we can have cleaner air and preserve wildlife.


I have planted 9 trees so far and I am 10. I challenge you to plant 61 trees each year and if everyone did it, I would have to give you a thumbs up!

This is a video about Jadav Payeng who single handedly planted 1360 acres of trees in 30 years.


This is a short film about Brendon Grimshaw who lived alone on Moyenne island and made it a national park.