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Joey Wilbur

Night School

Parasites in Water Filtration System

‘While on a weekend excursion, a group of hikers notice a parasite in their water filtration system.’ Said the camp master, of Camp Amazing. All of the kids around the campfire looked at him with their eyes wide open. ‘The hikers looked around at each other like “What in the world are we going to do now and how long has this been here?” One of the hikers thought of going to the hospital and leaving their camp immediately, the rest wanted to keep hiking since they had just started a few hours before they noticed this. Mike, the hiker who wants to go to the hospital, goes on with a big long story on how bad this could be if it has been there the whole time & that they could die or be injured majorly. All of the other hikers died with laughter, “Mike, make sure your balls are still there, you are starting to sound like a little girl.” Mike got pissed and stormed off back down the hill to his car and in the distance you could hear him scream, “Screw you all, I hope you all have parasites sucking away your life right now.” Everyone laughed, but started to get a little scared about how long it really was there.’

‘That was the last they saw of Mike, everyone joked that he was probably going like 100 to rush to the hospital thinking it was something super serious. Everyone headed to their tent after a long day of hiking, everyone was exhausted. They of course got the parasites out and burned them in the campfire before they all went to sleep. The next morning, they all woke up to the sound of the birds chirping about. The men start getting their gear together and make sure the water was fine by checking everything thoroughly. About 20 minutes later, they were off on the trails splitting up into 2 groups. 3 went on the trails to the left & 3 went on the trails to the right. Keeping in small groups was crucial in case they saw bears, someone gets hurt, or in case someone runs out of water. Ralph, an expert hiker with a big ego, says “HEY GUYS, I BET 20$ NOBODY CAN BEAT ME TO THE TOP OF THIS MOUNTAIN, ANY TAKERS?” Greg, the always cocky one, says “I’ll take you up on that bet,” then they were off. The one hiker left from that group went to the top and waited. You start to see them sprint up the hill until Ralph drops to the ground & starts to pant heavily. “SOMETHINGS WRONG GUYS IM STARVING AND THIRSTY & IM EXAUSTED GIMME SOME WATER, QUICK!” The guys rush to help him out & get him some water & energy bars. They all start to think Mike was right, but nobody said anything. “It might just be the elevations we are at, they might make you dizzy” says Greg “Take me to the hospital now & go get the others to go with us to get us all checked out.”

The three hikers go back to the camp, “GUYS? COME BACK TO CAMP IF YOU CAN HEAR US!!” yelled Greg. Ralph was looking worse, but they only had the one van left at the camp and they needed to get the others fast. They started hearing someone crying in the distance & yelling. They came down back to the camp. “Wheres the 3^rd hiker?” say Ralph. “He couldn’t make it, he was way too exhausted and said it wasn’t worth carrying him & there was no way we COULD carry him even if we wanted too.” They all rushed to the van and got Ralph to the hospital as quick as possible and they all checked in & first thing they did was call 911 to get them to go find their friend. They called his wife & told her what happened before anything happened.’ Now everyone here sees why it’s important that if you see something like a parasite or something wrong with the filtration system, you should go to the hospital as quick as possible and get checked out just in case. “Now I see how serious this stuff you teach us really is to our health.” Says the group of kids around the fire. “Yes, we hope to never actually have a story like this to tell to any of our campers that actually happened.

GREEN HAIR

By Joey Wilbur

The man with green hair,

He is always staring at me here and there,

I want to know, who is this man and why does he stare,

I go to the store, he is there. I go shopping and he is there,

Who is this man and why is he everywhere,

I want to hide from this man but I’m afraid he would give me a scare,

If I run, I’m afraid he will keep following me here and there,

If I go anywhere I’m afraid he’s gonna be everywhere just giving me a stare,

I’m scared he knows I’m a multimillionaire,

Waiting for his chance to rob me if he dares,

He might just know about my love affairs,

This might just be my mind wondering in despair,

These are the thoughts I just can’t bare,

The man with the green hair may just be a coincidence that he is everywhere,

I’ve only seen him once or twice here and there,

I shall test him to see if my judgment was unfair,

I hide in the restroom quick and scared,

I hear footsteps, click, clank, click, clank until I saw what I could not declare,

The pants of the man with the green hair?

I must find out for this is killing me now, I don’t think my mind can handle this much longer just so your aware,

It wasn’t him just a man with a full head of hair,

I go to wash my hands and think I see him behind me but it was just unfair because I thought he was there,

The man behind me says, I like your green hair,

I say, I don’t have green hair.. my hair is brown aren’t you aware?

Look in the mirror and what I saw I couldn’t bare,

I DID have green hair, and how wasn’t I aware?

That man with the green hair was me the whole time, and to think he was following me everywhere,

This was just a silly mistake, I forgot about last night when I felt something on my hair,

That sneaky brother of mine better beware,

Because he will be the one wondering who’s that guy with the green hair.

I had an adventure today. I hike through the trecherous woods across from my neighborhood. Nobody ever goes there because nothing is there and there is nothing to do. I had to go to a friends house so I cut through the woods because it is faster by like 20 minutes. He wondered how I got there so fast. I told him I drove, but obviously I hadn’t. My shoes were extremely muddy and my hair was soggy from the water off of the leaves. We laughed for a few minutes, thinking about something we did a few weeks back and I walked back home.

Fun In The Sun            One time I was out on Summersville Lake on Richie’s, my brother, boat and we were wakeboarding. It was the first time we had ever used the wakeboard. We were both terrible and could hardly get across the wake. The first time I got on, I got up and dropped over the monstrous wave Richie’s boat puts out. I rolled over the wave and dove the front end of the board into the smooth water. I was thinking in my mind “Damn this isn’t gonna feel good.” I smacked face first and felt the pain as I swam back to the top. Richie and his friends were dying laughing. They were all yelling “FACEPLANTTTT!” I laughed after I thought about Richie going on his turn.  I told him I was done and he strapped up on the board. I was already laughing because he couldn’t even stand up with it on. Knowing he was going to wipe out, I got out my camera and turned it on video. He tried so hard to get up but he kept falling forward and digging into the water.  Richie finally got up and everyone was already laughing on the boat. Miraculously, he didn’t fall for a long time. I was amazed when he did better than me and went across the wave a few times. He finally fell; he said “I’m getting old.”             The next day we headed out to the same spot to do a little more wakeboarding. We were pretty good now because we got the hang of it after a day’s of wakeboarding. I could jump half of the wake now and could do a little grab here and there. I went through a lot of face plants to get at the level I was at now. We both wake boarded side-by-side with two ropes and two wakeboards. I would go under his rope and he had the longer rope. I jumped over his rope one time and did a grab. We were being recorded too because everyone said I got so good in just one day. I did get tripped up on the rope once or twice slamming both of us into the thick wall of water. You will never know how hard it actually hurts to fall off until you actually do it. It feels like your running right through a wall. Sometimes you get lucky and land in a good position but if not you might be outta the water in a quick minute. My brother was still at the same level from yesterday. He didn’t really do much except yell at me to do tricks over his rope. They all suggested that I try to do a back flip but; I promised them I would do it next year. The peer pressure for doing tricks is quite intense. If you don’t do it, they will say you suck and you will be pain free. If I did do it though it would hurt for quite a while, and they would probably just die laughing because of how many times I wrecked. Some of the tricks I tried were tremendously stupid. I tried to do a 360 and got ¾ the way around and smack my back straight on to the wall of water. It took the breath out of me. After a few times, I got convinced to do another stupid trick. A barrel roll. It’s where you pretty much just roll in the air and land facing the same way. I tried it first try and busted on the top of my head, I had realized I didn’t get enough air and tried it anyways. The second try, I got all the way around and landed it. I couldn’t believe it, I actually landed a trick that I thought to be impossible. I yelled for joy and dropped the rope. My brother came back around and we noticed an awesome sunset just below the mountains making the sun shine through the peaks and we were all so amazed.

I have a lot of hope in myself. Theres a lot of think I hope to stop or start doing a few things in my life. Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one’s life. I believe hope helps people overcome things easier.

The Columbine massacre seems like kids who have been neglected by their friends and family looking to get back at the world. Rachel Scott was one of the first people to be shot in the massacre. She left journals of her so people to know her story. The tears with the rosebud amazed me that the man called about it before it happened. If I saw that in my dreams I would probally never go to sleep. Rachel has 5 goals for people to accomplish, eliminate prejudice, dare to dream, choose your influences, small acts of kindness, and start a chain reaction with your family and friends.

A couple friends and I went up to Summersville Lake to hang out at my campsite. We ended up going out on my jetski & going to a waterfall people usually jump off of. Once we got there, there was too long of a line because I was very impatient. I came up with the idea to jump off a higher rock next to the waterfall. My friends didn’t want to unless I went first. I finally manned up and went up there and looked down. I felt sort of dizzy because it looked so high. The hard part was making it over the trees just below the rock. I took a deep breath and yelled. It felt like I was in the air for a good minute. I was really nervous and trying to keep my composure so I wouldn’t hurt myself once I hit the water. Once I hit the water, I was relieved. I almost forgot to swim to the top and I almost ran out of breath. My friends were dying laughing that I actually did it and they went back down to the waterfall and jumped because they were way too scared to jump. I felt like I could do anything after I made it back home.

I remember my brother, Ben, and my cousin, Ashley, used to hang out a lot when I was little. We would go to the park and play basketball. Ben would try to teach me to play basketball, while Ashley messed with Ben and made fun of him. Ashley would hang out with us whenever we did things. We even went to a couple high school basketball games together. When I was like 10 my cousin went away to college and my brother got a job for my dad’s work. We hang out sometimes still but not as much as we used to. I just wish we could still do a lot of the same thing together.

My brothers and I went fishing a while back. One of the most memorable moments of my life. We were at Summersville Lake at a fishing spot by my family’s cabin. My brother had 2 liters of Grey Goose with them. It was my brothers Ben and Richie, one of Ben’s friend named Jesse, and me. We got down there at about 10 pm. After a couple hours we started slaying the fish. I caught a catfish big enough to keep and eat later. Ben made a bet with Richie that he could catch the biggest fish. We ended up catching a lot of fish, but I caught the 2 biggest. Richie passed out in a lawn chair on the rock we were on, about a foot out of the water. The rest of us were still fishing and just sitting around talking. Richie falls out of the chair and lands with his legs in the water. Ben gets up and yells “Help, hes about to drown.” I kept on fishing and Jesse got up and helped him. They pulled him out of the water and he stumbled and mumbled around. We packed up while he passed back out in his chair. In the process, Jesse pulled in his line with a copperhead on it. Ben tried to act like Steve Irwin and grabbed it by the tail and threw it back in the water. We finished packing up and left.