Today is my mom’s birthday, so I’m writing this column for her.  My name is Luke Gaines, I am 10 years old, and this is what I am doing on my summer vacation.  First off, my summer vacation is mostly just driving my sister around, or at least going with her everywhere, because usually one of my parents is working, and well, I’m just not old enough to stay home, and she’s not old enough to drive.  Yet.

I’m also switching schools, and my new school has this thing called the “summer bridge program” for all the new students.  It’s basically summer school so we can get caught up.  This way we won’t feel behind when the school year starts in September.  The good thing is that it’s just three hours a day, four days a week, and four weeks out of the whole summer vacation.  The teachers are nice, but I bet they don’t want to be there either.  I mean, it’s the summer after all.

In my spare time, when I get it, I’ll be going to two camps.  One is a fencing camp, and the other is a camp at the zoo, called Zoo Camp, obviously.  I’m only on the wait list for Zoo Camp.  I’ve been to zoo camp for seven years now, but it’s my first time at fencing camp.  I’ve actually wanted to fence for like five weeks now, and I finally get to!   I’m excited because my friend did fencing and he really liked it.

I also went to Palm Springs for a week, and that was fun.  We almost went to Boomers, which is like Chuck-e-Cheese without the pizza, except it was closed. I went to a water park with a friend recently, and that was super fun. So between going to camp, going to school, riding with my sister in the car, water parks, vacations, friends, and of course, my mom’s birthday, this will probably be the busiest summer I’ve ever had in the history of all my summers!

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