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Middle and High School LinkUp #20

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Welcome to our Middle and High School LinkUp #20 for tweens, teens and their Moms! We are so excited to have a linkup for our children to have a creative writing outlet and for us moms to have a place to share middle school and high school homeschool tips and techniques.  The students are provided a creative writing prompt (usually).  They write their article on their own blog or on their mom’s blog and then link their articles below.  I am so encouraged and excited seeing how their writing skills are developing and their creativity is flourishing!  This has been such a blessing to me personally and to our own homeschool!  Thank you all for being a part of it!

You can link up at any of the following co-host’s sites:

Amy at Homeschool Encouragement

Clara at Clara’s Blue Moon (teen co-host)

DaLynn at Holy Splendor

Jennifer at Royal Little Lambs

Laura at Day by Day in Our World

Trish at Live and Learn Farm

Vicki at 7 Sisters Homeschool

Wendy at Homeschooling Blessings

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!

If you are interested in joining us, linkup your article below. If you want to co-host, email me and let me know.  Our focus for the co-hosting  is for only moms of the teens, or the teens themselves to co-host.

guidelines for the linkup:

  • The link-up will be open Monday through Saturday evening.
  • Please link directly to the url of your post (permalink).
  • Please check back and visit at least one of student’s submissions and leave a comment for them.  Our job is to encourage writing, their Mom (or Dad) will take care of the critique :-)
  • If you don’t mind, please place the button and code in your blog post so others can find out about the linkup also!
  • That’s it!

and now it’s time for the link up!

We will continue with the author’s choice for the rest of this month. So, our children will be sharing their own stories and inspiration. I look forward to reading fiction or non-fiction… whatever you guys decide to write is fine!!

 


Middle and High School LinkUp #18

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Welcome to our Middle and High School LinkUp #18 for tweens, teens and their Moms! We are so excited to have a linkup for our children to have a creative writing outlet and for us moms to have a place to share middle school and high school homeschool tips and techniques.  The students are provided a creative writing prompt (usually).  They write their article on their own blog or on their mom’s blog and then link their articles below.  I am so encouraged and excited seeing how their writing skills are developing and their creativity is flourishing!  This has been such a blessing to me personally and to our own homeschool!  Thank you all for being a part of it!

You can link up at any of the following co-host’s sites:

Amy at Homeschool Encouragement

Clara at Clara’s Blue Moon (teen co-host)

DaLynn at Holy Splendor

Jennifer at Royal Little Lambs

Laura at Day by Day in Our World

Trish at Live and Learn Farm

Vicki at 7 Sisters Homeschool

Wendy at Homeschooling Blessings

 

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!

If you are interested in joining us, linkup your article below. If you want to co-host, email me and let me know.  Our focus for the co-hosting  is for only moms of the teens, or the teens themselves to co-host.

guidelines for the linkup:

  • The link-up will be open Monday through Saturday evening.
  • Please link directly to the url of your post (permalink).
  • Please check back and visit at least one of student’s submissions and leave a comment for them.  Our job is to encourage writing, their Mom (or Dad) will take care of the critique :-) 
  • If you don’t mind, please place the button and code in your blog post so others can find out about the linkup also!
  • That’s it!

and now it’s time for the link up!

This is our last month for the creative writing link up.  So, why don’t we let the last month be all about the author’s choice.  Each week for these last four weeks, our students will get to write their own stories.  I know we have one contributor moving to Germany as we speak… what a great topic to make into a series.  Another just went to her first formal with her dad.  So many wonderful life experiences to write about that I think we would all love to hear about.  So, share away!  I look forward to reading fiction or non-fiction… whatever you guys decide to write is fine!!


Middle and High School LinkUp #17

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Welcome to our Middle and High School LinkUp #17 for tweens, teens and their Moms! We are so excited to have a linkup for our children to have a creative writing outlet and for us moms to have a place to share middle school and high school homeschool tips and techniques.  The students are provided a creative writing prompt (usually).  They write their article on their own blog or on their mom’s blog and then link their articles below.  I am so encouraged and excited seeing how their writing skills are developing and their creativity is flourishing!  This has been such a blessing to me personally and to our own homeschool!  Thank you all for being a part of it!

You can link up at any of the following co-host’s sites:

Amy at Homeschool Encouragement

Clara at Clara’s Blue Moon (teen co-host)

DaLynn at Holy Splendor

Jennifer at Royal Little Lambs

Laura at Day by Day in Our World

Trish at Live and Learn Farm

Vicki at 7 Sisters Homeschool

Wendy at Homeschooling Blessings

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!

If you are interested in joining us, linkup your article below. If you want to co-host, email me and let me know.  Our focus for the co-hosting  is for only moms of the teens, or the teens themselves to co-host.

guidelines for the linkup:

  • The link-up will be open Monday through Saturday evening.
  • Please link directly to the url of your post (permalink).
  • Please check back and visit at least one of student’s submissions and leave a comment for them.  Our job is to encourage writing, their Mom (or Dad) will take care of the critique :-)
  • If you don’t mind, please place the button and code in your blog post so others can find out about the linkup also!
  • That’s it!

and now it’s time for the link up!

The story prompts seem to be working well… so I’m going to continue with these.  Here is a list of prompts I found to help get your creative minds flowing!  I combined two lists to choose from this week (one from Buzzle and the other from Practical Creative Writing):

  • Procrastinate now, don’t put it off”.  Write at least 5 advantages of procrastination.
  • A random cleaning up of the house leads to the discovery of an old diary. What happens next?
  • The new house owner discovers an old photograph in the attic.
  • A spaceship stumbles onto a planet full of aliens who look like flowers.
  • “This pendant is the only way that you can enter the castle.”
  • Compose a piece telling readers exactly how one should go about caring for a pet Komodo dragon.
  • Write at least 300 words on the life of a mosquito.
  • The whole family sat down for the picnic, and the bear sat down with them.
  • She was running faster than she thought possible.
  • The sun set over the rooftops.
  • It was more than just another place on a map, it was where everything happened.
  • She heard tapping on the window.
  • The fire had gone out and the air was cold and damp.
  • She placed it in her pocket, turned and ran.
  • He pulled the rope slowly, not sure what would happen next.
  • The man had seen better days that was for sure. His nose was bent, his eyes bore old bruises and he had forgotten how to smile.
  • The edge of the carpet was pulled back. He bent down to look.
  • It wasn’t far now. She had walked for hours.
  • The sea was the darkest blue and so was the boat. He didn’t want to get in but he had no choice.
  • The tall building seemed to sway but she knew that must be an illusion. Buildings didn’t move.
  • The cows gathered at the top of the field. They knew what he was going to do.
  • The train was packed. She would have to stand all the way.
  • The plaster crumbled around the window.
  • The man whistled so cheerfully you’d never guess he had a corpse in his suitcase.
  • The color green reminded him of home.
  • She went slowly along the corridor, trying to find the source of the noise.
  • It might take a while to finish the task but she knew it had to be done. Unpleasant tasks always have to be done.
  • The owl swooped down and took the mouse, just as she knew it would.
  • His eyes were brown with a tiny fleck of gold at the edge.


Middle and High School LinkUp #14

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Welcome to our Middle and High School LinkUp #14 for tweens, teens and their Moms! We are so excited to have a linkup for our children to have a creative writing outlet and for us moms to have a place to share middle school and high school homeschool tips and techniques. Although most of the moms seem to be so busy, we just don’t have time to pull this off.  The students are provided a creative writing prompt.  They write their article on their own blog or on their mom’s blog and then link their articles below.  I am so encouraged and excited seeing how their writing skills are developing and their creativity is flourishing!  This has been such a blessing to me personally and to our homeschool!  Thank you all for being a part of it!

You can link up at any of the following co-host’s sites:

Amy at Homeschool Encouragement

Clara at Clara’s Blue Moon (teen co-host)

DaLynn at Holy Splendor

Jennifer at Royal Little Lambs

Laura at Day by Day in Our World

Trish at Live and Learn Farm

Vicki at 7 Sisters Homeschool

Wendy at Homeschooling Blessings

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!

If you are interested in joining us, linkup your article below. If you want to co-host, email me and let me know.  Our focus for the co-hosting  is for only moms of the teens, or the teens themselves to co-host.

guidelines for the linkup:

  • The link-up will be open Monday through Saturday evening.
  • Please link directly to the url of your post (permalink).
  • Please check back and visit at least one of student’s submissions and leave a comment for them.  Our job is to encourage writing, their Mom (or Dad) will take care of the critique :-)
  • If you don’t mind, please place the button and code in your blog post so others can find out about the linkup also!
  • That’s it!

and now it’s time for the link up!

The story prompts seem to be working well… so I’m going to continue with these.  Here is a list of prompts I found to help get your creative minds flowing!

  1. Shadows quivered on the wall as the candle flickered, then fizzled to nothing.
  2. I could just make out the windows high in the castle wall.
  3. She SO did not want to be here, especially when. . .
  4. He slammed forward as the brakes screeched and the car . . .
  5. It was the strangest thing I had ever seen, with tubes and wires . . .
  6. The lane was night-dark, even at noon.
  7. He stared at the credit card, numbers blurring in front of his eyes, wondering if . . .
  8. She ducked as the plate smashed against the wall behind her.
  9. She hesitated at the post box, not knowing if she should really send the letter.
  10. It was one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong.
  11. My hand trembled as I punched the number into the phone.
  12. She knelt on the tile floor, carefully picking up the shards of glass. Why did it have to be this one that broke?
  13. Colors swooped and swirled behind his closed eyelids as the music soared, taking him back to . . .
  14. The chattering birds made her smile, until she heard a growl.
  15. The dream last night had seemed so real… it was just a dream, right?
  16. The storm whipped the trees outside and she huddled under her quilt.
  17. Sun, sand, sea—total relaxation. So why couldn’t he let it go?
  18. She tore through the alley, ducked into a doorway, and tried to squeeze into nothingness.
  19. Trapped. A rat in a maze, a tiger in a cage, every cliché he could think of—he was trapped.
  20. The building shook, lurching and jumping, and the little china horse fell off the mantel.
  21. The prickles on his neck told him he was being watched.
  22. The sun was soft and the boat rocked gently. It wasn’t so bad running out of fuel, until . . .


Middle and High School LinkUp #13

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Wow, it is our Middle and High School LinkUp #13 for tweens, teens and their Moms! We are so excited to have a linkup for our children to have a creative writing outlet and for us moms to have a place to share middle school and high school homeschool tips and techniques. Although most of the moms seem to be so busy, we just don’t have time to pull this off.  The students are provided a creative writing prompt.  They write their article on their own blog or on their mom’s blog and then link their articles below.

You can link up at any of the following co-host’s sites:

Amy at Homeschool Encouragement

Clara at Clara’s Blue Moon (teen co-host)

DaLynn at Holy Splendor

Jennifer at Royal Little Lambs

Laura at Day by Day in Our World

Trish at Live and Learn Farm

Vicki at 7 Sisters Homeschool

Wendy at Homeschooling Blessings

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!

If you are interested in joining us, linkup your article below. If you want to co-host, email me and let me know.  Our focus for the co-hosting  is for only moms of the teens, or the teens themselves to co-host.

guidelines for the linkup:

  • The link-up will be open Monday through Saturday evening.
  • Please link directly to the url of your post (permalink).
  • Please check back and visit at least one of student’s submissions and leave a comment for them.  Our job is to encourage writing, their Mom (or Dad) will take care of the critique :-) 
  • If you don’t mind, please place the button and code in your blog post so others can find out about the linkup also!
  • That’s it!

and now it’s time for the link up!

For this week’s linkup theme, here are your options:

  • Alphabet Poem. Write a 26-line poem using all the letters of the alphabet. Have the first line start with the letter “A,” the second “B,” the third “C,” etc.

  • Back From the Future. A knock at the door catches you off guard. Upon answering it, you’re greeted by a man who says he’s from the future—and he can prove it. More important, he says he has information that will save your life.

  • Stacey was bored. It was halfway through the summer and he was fed up, so he decided to go exploring.

  • “Base to Captain SkyFighter, Base to Captain SkyFighter. Come in Captain SkyFighter.” “Captain SkyFighter. Come in Captain SkyFighter. Where are you?”

And a few from last week  prompts I found at Writing Forward., because they seemed to be popular!

  • You’re digging in your garden and find a fist-sized nugget of gold.
  • Write about something ugly–war, fear, hate, or cruelty–but find the beauty (silver lining) in it.
  • The asteroid was hurtling straight for Earth…
  • There’s a guy sitting on a park bench reading a newspaper…
  • He turned the key in the lock and opened the door. To his surprise, he saw…
  • Silvery flakes drifted down, glittering in the bright light of the harvest moon. The blackbird swooped down…
  • The detective saw his opportunity. He grabbed the waitress’s arm and said…
  • There are three children sitting on a log near a stream. One of them looks up at the sky and says…
  • There is a magic talisman that allows its keeper to read minds. It falls into the hands of a young politician…
  • And you thought dragons didn’t exist…
  • Write about nature. Include the following words: hard drive, stapler, phone, car, billboard.
  • The nation is controlled by…
  • You walk into your house and it’s completely different–furniture, decor, all changed. And nobody’s home.
  • Write about one (or both) of your parents. Start with “I was born…”
  • The most beautiful smile I ever saw…
  • I believe that animals exist to…
  • A twinkling eye can mean many things. Start with a twinkle in someone’s eye and see where it takes you.
  • Get a package of one of your favorite canned or boxed foods and look at the ingredients. Use every ingredient in your next piece of writing.


Middle and High School LinkUp #12

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Welcome to our Middle and High School LinkUp #12 for tweens, teens and their Moms! We are so excited to have a linkup for our children to have a creative writing outlet and for us moms to have a place to share middle school and high school homeschool tips and techniques.  The students are provided a creative writing prompt.  They write their article on their own blog on their mom’s blog and then link their articles below.

You can link up at any of the following co-host’s sites:

Amy at Homeschool Encouragement

Clara at Clara’s Blue Moon (teen co-host)

DaLynn at Holy Splendor

Jennifer at Royal Little Lambs

Laura at Day by Day in Our World

Trish at Live and Learn Farm

Vicki at 7 Sisters Homeschool

Wendy at Homeschooling Blessings

 

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!

 

If you are interested in joining us, linkup your article below. If you want to co-host, email me and let me know.  Our focus for the co-hosting  is for only moms of the teens, or the teens themselves to co-host.

guidelines for the linkup:

  • The link-up will be open Monday through Saturday evening.
  • Please link directly to the url of your post (permalink).
  • Please check back and visit at least one of student’s submissions and leave a comment for them.  Our job is to encourage writing, their Mom (or Dad) will take care of the critique :-)
  • If you don’t mind, please place the button and code in your blog post so others can find out about the linkup also!
  • That’s it!

and now it’s time for the link up!

For this week’s theme, let’s choose to write from one of these topics:

write a story that begins with one of the following sentences…

  • You’re digging in your garden and find a fist-sized nugget of gold.
  • Write about something ugly–war, fear, hate, or cruelty–but find the beauty (silver lining) in it.
  • The asteroid was hurtling straight for Earth…
  • There’s a guy sitting on a park bench reading a newspaper…
  • He turned the key in the lock and opened the door. To his surprise, he saw…
  • Silvery flakes drifted down, glittering in the bright light of the harvest moon. The blackbird swooped down…
  • The detective saw his opportunity. He grabbed the waitress’s arm and said…
  • There are three children sitting on a log near a stream. One of them looks up at the sky and says…
  • There is a magic talisman that allows its keeper to read minds. It falls into the hands of a young politician…
  • And you thought dragons didn’t exist…
  • Write about nature. Include the following words: hard drive, stapler, phone, car, billboard.
  • The nation is controlled by…
  • You walk into your house and it’s completely different–furniture, decor, all changed. And nobody’s home.
  • Write about one (or both) of your parents. Start with “I was born…”
  • The most beautiful smile I ever saw…
  • I believe that animals exist to…
  • A twinkling eye can mean many things. Start with a twinkle in someone’s eye and see where it takes you.
  • Get a package of one of your favorite canned or boxed foods and look at the ingredients. Use every ingredient in your next piece of writing.

I found these prompts at Writing Forward. If none of these are of interest, feel free to choose your own.


Middle and High School LinkUp #11

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Welcome to our Middle and High School LinkUp #11 for tweens, teens and their Moms! We are so excited to have a linkup for our children to have a creative writing outlet and for us moms to have a place to share middle school and high school homeschool tips and techniques.  The students are provided a creative writing prompt.  They write their article on their own blog on their mom’s blog and then link their articles below.

You can link up at any of the following co-host’s sites:

Amy at Homeschool Encouragement

Clara at Clara’s Blue Moon (teen co-host)

DaLynn at Holy Splendor

Jennifer at Royal Little Lambs

Laura at Day by Day in Our World

Trish at Live and Learn Farm

Vicki at 7 Sisters Homeschool

Wendy at Homeschooling Blessings

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!
 

If you are interested in joining us, linkup your article below. If you want to co-host, email me and let me know.  Our focus for the co-hosting  is for only moms of the teens, or the teens themselves to co-host.

guidelines for the linkup:

  • The link-up will be open Monday through Saturday evening.
  • Please link directly to the url of your post (permalink).
  • Please check back and visit at least one of student’s submissions and leave a comment for them.  Our job is to encourage writing, their Mom (or Dad) will take care of the critique :-)
  • If you don’t mind, please place the button and code in your blog post so others can find out about the linkup also!
  • That’s it!

and now it’s time for the link up!

For this week’s theme, let’s choose to write from one of these topics:

Write a story that begins with one of the following sentences…

  • They used to tell me that patience is a virtue.
  • I wasn’t always afraid of the dark.
  • She couldn’t hear him over the sound of crashing ocean waves.
  • He spent hours waiting for the call, but it never came.
  • The moon was bigger than usual against the daylight.
  • You think you know someone, and then they leave you stranded in a desert with nothing to drink.
  • He had two thoughts before jumping out of the plane.
  • The street was slick with oil.
  • He ran his first two red lights that night.
  • After everything that happened that day, it was a jammed jacket zipper that finally sent her over the edge.
  • They heard his ringtone coming from inside the trunk.
  • Someone must have set me up – I was in the house all day.
  • Tommy had never learned how to change a tire, but knew he had better learn now if they wanted to escape.
  • She knew every inch of the town, and yet she’d never seen that house in her entire life.

I found these prompts at Udemy. If none of these are of interest, feel free to choose your own.


Middle and High School LinkUp #10

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Welcome to our Middle and High School LinkUp #10 for tweens, teens and their Moms! We are so excited to have a linkup for our children to have a creative writing outlet and for us moms to have a place to share middle school and high school homeschool tips and techniques.  The students are provided a creative writing prompt.  They write their article on their own blog on their mom’s blog and then link their articles below.

You can link up at any of the following co-host’s sites:

Amy at Homeschool Encouragement

Clara at Clara’s Blue Moon (teen co-host)

DaLynn at Holy Splendor

Jennifer at Royal Little Lambs

Laura at Day by Day in Our World

Trish at Live and Learn Farm

Vicki at 7 Sisters Homeschool

Wendy at Homeschooling Blessings

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!

If you are interested in joining us, linkup your article below. If you want to co-host, email me and let me know.  Our focus for the co-hosting  is for only moms of the teens, or the teens themselves to co-host.

guidelines for the linkup:

  • The link-up will be open Monday through Saturday evening.
  • Please link directly to the url of your post (permalink).
  • Please check back and visit at least one of student’s submissions and leave a comment for them.  Our job is to encourage writing, their Mom (or Dad) will take care of the critique :-) 
  • If you don’t mind, please place the button and code in your blog post so others can find out about the linkup also!
  • That’s it!

and now it’s time for the link up!

For this week’s theme, let’s choose to write from one of these topics:

  • Who do you admire the most in the world? Why?
  • If you could live as any one person for a day, who would you choose and why?
  • If time travel was possible, which year would you go back in time to? Give a reasons for your answer.
  • What is your favorite book? What did you enjoy the most about it?
  • Describe your favorite vacation spot. Give reasons as to why you enjoy going there.
  • If you could change any one thing in the world, what would it be and why?
  • Write a paper describing a favorite day you spent with your family. Give at least three reasons why you enjoyed this day so much. Be as specific as possible.
  • What kind of music do you like listening to? What are your favorite singers or bands? Give reasons for your choice. https://www.udemy.com/blog/expository-writing-prompts/ 

If none of these are of interest, feel free to choose your own.


My Love for Soccer

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Hello!  This is the seventh linkup post!  This will be easy because of my subject, my love for soccer!  I’ve played it since I was three and I just love it. I really enjoyed writing this post!

 

Middle and High School Linkup for Students and Moms!

First, let’s cover some of the things I like about soccer.  I like having competition, because in my opinion without any competition there is no fun. Meeting new people, making new friends, and the tournaments are all things I really enjoy. I love tournaments because you can figure out which team is usually in the finals!  I love the challenge of making a goal, weaving my way through the defense and getting past them to score. You get the first kick off, and score first kick.  I also love winning the tournament, I’ve won almost every year, except last year.  It’s very exciting to watch  the goalie.  Sometimes, the goalie on my team catches a ball that is almost impossible to catch, and the crowd goes crazy!

Some of the few thing I dislike are, when one of my team mates takes the ball from you and tries to score a goal.  I also dislike it when, you lose the coin toss, and the other team chooses the side with the sun in your eyes.   Of course, we all hate it when the other team scores a goal, and you don’t have any.  Believe it or not, I even dislike the game being too easy, which happened once on our last match,  last year.  Another thing that is irritating is that last year there was a team called “Navy Blue”, and they were great, they won against almost everyone. We tied once, and won once against them.  We went against them about five times. But I didn’t like how they auto-won the tournament because they already had enough points, I didn’t even know there were points until last year.

soccer

But for you to understand points, you’ll need to know a bit about the rules, although anyone who plays it knows them. The first rule is deciding who starts with the ball, which is settled by a coin toss whoever wins gets to pick their side. They kick the ball when the referee blows his whistle.  Then the team with the ball kicks and they try to make their way to their opponent’s goal.  There are three types of players on the field at once.  Offense, which tries to take the ball and get it in the other teams goal. Defense, who try to defend the goal.  And then goalie, who is the last line of defense, he can pick the ball up with his hands, but offense and defense can’t.  There are white lines that mark the boundaries for the field, and the defense box.  There is also a line marking the goal.  When someone kicks the ball out of the boundaries, the other team gets to throw the ball in.  But, the same person who throws it in can’t kick the ball until another player on either team touches it.  You can’t jump while throwing the ball in.  There is half time and over time.  Halftime, which is a mid-game break, is signaled by two blows of the whistle. Three blows indicate the end of game.   The referee will tell when there is overtime.  Overtime is when you must continue the game even though the countdown has already ended, but it’s only put into use during the tournaments.

Finally, I’ll tell you the exciting story of how we defeated the Mint Team! I had to get to the soccer field early that day, because my big brothers had a game going on.  So I watched their game for about forty minutes, then went over and practiced with the other members of my team .  We tried to make a strategy which worked in practice but didn’t work in the real game. The strategy was I did the kick off’s (Which are like throw in’s but you kick the ball) and someone else would kick it in the goal. Then when the game started we were on the side which the sun was facing toward and that was when we only got one goal. But when half time came and the sun wasn’t in our eyes we scored all of the goals. I scored three of them and the other five of them my friend did.  Then that’s when our coach said that navy one by default and that was our last game.

I hope you enjoyed reading about how I love soccer, my last game, and the rules as well.

I Want to Go Caving

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Hello! Sorry my linkups are a little behind, I’ve been busy and every chance we’ve had to work on them it slips by or something else comes up. This link up is the 7th one and it is the one where I tell you about something I like or am interested in. So, I’m going to tell you why I want to go caving!

 

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Caving is a The worlds biggest cave editedbit of an extreme sport for some, but for others, like the people from my Amazing Caves post, caving is a way to find cures for diseases or fossils. I am really interested in caving for archaeology, but I’ve never been in a real cave. I’ve been in one built at a place high in the mountains called Rock City. It was obviously fake having huge gems in the walls and ceilings, but I can’t say I didn’t try to snag one of those fake gems. I was young when this happened so I was not thinking about how it would be stealing if I got it out. I know better now, and I don’t think I’ll be trying to steal gems from that place if I ever go back.

Anyway, caving is often hard and treacherous and sometimes you even needtiankeng edited repelling gear to get into your cave. There are cave shrimp editedcaves in Guangxi China called Tiankengs and they go straight down to a cave that winds through the ground. Other caves you can not even see because the cave is covered in brush and other times it may look like a normal crack in a mountain. And other times the cave is so obvious and huge, it’s scary.

Caves have a very harsh environment and many times there is hardly in life in them. But there are usually small bugs everywhere they have adapted to survive. For instance, many of them become almost blind but have a great since of hearing or touch and usually they turn white. 

Blue HoleAnother type of caving I would love to do is cave diving! Cave diving is much harder than caving because you have a limited time and you can easily get lost. There are special caves called blue holes that I REALLY want to dive in. They got their name because, from above, they look like well… blue holes in the water. But these underwater caves are some of the most treacherous ever, one wrong move and you might not ever get out. But it is worth it, because blue holes are special, they can hold bones from thousands of years ago. The way these caves preserve them so long is that one half of the water contains oxygen rich water and the other doesn’t and without oxygen the bacteria in the water can’t break down the bones so scientists and divers can recover these ancient bones and study them. 

Caving can be fun but as I said it is very dangerous at times also. That is why there are a few rules that should ALWAYS be followed if caving.

Number 1:

Always study up on the cave you are going in or diving in. There could be loose floors, stalactites waiting to fall like giant knives, quicksand and pit falls, etc…

Number 2:

Do not go alone (especially if cave diving) because if you get injured and can’t get out, a friend with you could help you.

Number 3:

Leave a guide line (again, especially in cave diving). Leaving a guide line is like leaving bread crumbs that you can follow to get out.

Number 4:

Always follow the rules, breaking them can be life threatening!

Number 5:

Be prepared for the worst, as in having a phone, first aid kit, bandages, etc…  And finally

Number 6:

Tell some trusted person where you are going and how long you will be gone, if you get hurt and stay over the estimated time the trusted person will call the authorities, you might want to leave markers to tell where you have been.

crystal cave editedThere is one more cave I want to talk about, it’s beautiful, dangerous, and 122 degrees Fahrenheit and can kill a human in 15 minutes. It’s the Crystal Caves of Mexico that was discovered by miners in 2000. But these aren’t normal crystals. Alright lets say you have a long strait crystal 2 inches wide by 2 inches thick and 6 inches tall, multiply that by 50 and you get the size of the crystals of this cave. That’s right, their huge, bigger then the average human in width and obviously length. And this cave is a paradise for geologist and virologists because some ancient bacteria are in these crystals. And there is a problem with exploring this cave, it will flood soon, so scientist are studying it as much as they can before it floods.

I hope you enjoyed my post on caving! See ya soon!