Nature Essay

As i walked out of the school building i didn't know what to expect. I had never been on a "nature walk" with my english class before. It is the middle of October and i half-heartidly expected the weather to be cooler than it had been. Oh my naive self, how i was wrong. The heat came at me like a spider monkey. I felt as if i had just been hit with a ball of fire. It was BEASTLY hot outside. After getting over the initial shock of the constant heat wave, i began to steer my train of thought in a different direction. I thought to myself "Chelsea, it will be cooler in the woods." So I proceeded to follow the class to where the woods began. What a surprise I came into when the woods were the same exact tempurature as the rest of the outside world. I brushed this off as Cauley and I entered the unknown world of the woods. Mrs. Turner told us to go by ourselves into the woods and take on the thought process of Emerson and Thoreau. No disrespect to Mrs Turner or the great authors that have come before us, but i was not about to go off by myself in strange woods and try to think like an old dead guy. I did try this for about ten seconds though, i looked around and saw beer cans and cigarette butts. There were candy wrappers and trash thrown about, I almost did not recognize this as a piece of Gods greatest creation. Instead of hearing birds chirping and the wind blowing through the trees, i heard cars whizzing by on 81 and the laughter from my classmates a few yards away. I had two choices right about then, i could continue to observe my nature-like surroundings or i could see what everyone was laughing about. I chose to see what everyone was laughing about. As i approached the scene of joy, i saw what looked to be a ropes course and what looked to be my stupid classmates climbing the incline then jumping in the loosly bound rope below. i thought to myself "Chelsea, you could do that and forevermore look like and idiot, or you could watch everyone else do it and forevermore call them idiots." I chose to call them idiots. The climax of fun time to me were when Cauley decided it would be fun to do it. Oh... and let me tell you... it was.-Cauley She climbed up, then jumped down. In the midst of falling to her almost death and taking on severe rope burns, she about took out Allie. Haha... sorry about that Al... -Cauley [again] it's okay cauley and chelseaa, this is a really good story. love the hank part -Allieelrod 10/12/07 10:29 AM(again) At the time i thought this to be the climax, that was until i saw Hank climb up the incline. At first I thought nothing of it just another kid about to take on a few rope burns while falling aimlessly to a net. Oh but no, Hank decided it would be fun to get his head stuck in the deathly ropes. This resulted in a few cuts on his nose and a semester spent with his head hung down in shame, that is until his cuts heal. After a few more kids took to falling to the ropes,Mrs. Turner decided it was time to go in. Not everyone agreed. As we were on our hearty way back to the classroom she did a head count, five missing. She reassured the worried that this was not unusual. Two were located already in the classroom but that left three unaccounted for. We gave it about five minutes and came to the conclusion that Luke, ShyNiqua and India were MIA. Mrs Turner said if they didn't come back she would look for them on her lunch break, which was about thirty minutes away. A few minutes passed and Hank and David were orderd to go look for the lost. They were out searching a good ten minutes before returning. Thankfully the little nature lovers returned saving Mrs. Turners career and calming the nerves of many. That my friend is the end of an uneventful day. We became one with nature, some became one with the ropes and others started a promising career of being lost and quickly found.



THis is ROCKIN! lol... I love the relation to spider monkies, they are facinating creatures! lol
Yall act like we were really lost. I was becoming one with the trees.
Oh Chelsea, you are so funny, i love the spider monkey