User:Ozzieborrero96

I started my summer on june 1st finishing my sophomore year at Saint Thomas More. That Friday I got out of school and packed up the car and let the summer begin. I spent the next week visiting my friends, playing hockey, and fishing. I that weekend I played in a hockey tournament in Marlborough Mass for the Connecticut Rednecks. It was a good tournament to start of my summer hockey even though we didn't win the whole tournament. The guys on the team were from other boarding schools such as Trinity Pawling and Hebron. We always love playing in the tournaments in the summer because we get to see each other after not seeing each other for most of the school year.

The next week while I was home I started driving school at Meadows Driving School in East Longmeadow. I went to driving school monday through friday for two hours from 7 to 9. Driving school wasn't the most enjoyable way to start of my summer, but I needed to do it to be eligible for my license in December. June 12 finally came my birthday. On my birthday I woke up and made sure the first thing I did was go and take my permit test which I did and passed my first time. I couldn't wait to take my permit test because I have been dying to get behind the wheel of car all year long. After my birthday I had to days to pack for a family trip to Puerto Rico to see family and to Punta Cana for relaxation time.

June 14 my family and I went to the airport to fly to Puerto Rico to see my grandparents on my moms side. We stayed at my aunts house with her family and visited for three days in Puerto Rico. I finally got to see my Grandparents after so many years. I met my five year old cousin Ceasar for the first time ever since i haven't been to Puerto Rico for seven years. My family and I enjoyed seeing family memebers in Puerto Rico but our three days were up and it was time to fly to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

When we went to Punta Cana we stayed at a beautiful hotel which had tons of pools and a nice beach that had stores going down it. The weather was scolding hot which was one of the things i didn't like about Punta Cana. The way to beat the heat was to jump in the pool. Most of the days that week we spent laying out by the pool soaking up the sun, but other days we went on tours. We took a tour around the dominican and saw Shikara's house and Alex Rodriguez's house on the ocean. We took a boat ride out to an island were we went on banana boats and the mega wing. We then watched a show of people dancing meringue. After the show we took the boat ride back and headed back on the bus back to the hotel. After our ten relaxing days in Punta Cana it was time to fly back home, but first make a stop in Puerto Rico for lay over then to Massachusetts.

A lot of my vacation was spent hanging out with friends and at the gym. I hung out with Jay and Kiera all the time which we went to mall, to the park and to Jay's house. We went would go night swimming all the time trying to do tricks off the diving board such as front flip, back flip and the gainer. It was always a blast going night swimming and if it was to cold we just went inside of the hot tub to relax until we were to exhausted to stay up any longer. On the Fourth of July we went to go see fireworks at a baseball field with other some other friends. We saw the firework show which was awesome. After the fireworks we decided to go night swimming at one of our friends houses. We had a blast for the rest of the week with just relaxing enjoying the summer.

Fishing and airsoft warrs was also a big part of my summer as well. Most of the weeks in July for me were spent fishing with my friend Tyler. We would always find places to go fishing from lakes, ponds and streams. We never really cared what we caught, but we would always have competitions on who could catch the biggest and the most fish for the day. We would take a paddle boat out in the middle of Congamon Lake and fish for hours on end or we would go to a stream where we would walk into water that would go up to our knees and fish for trout. We would mostly catch rock bass but we did catch some trout and the occasional pumpkinseed. After a good day of fishing we would play airsoft with Tyler's younger brother Brandon. We would have Brandon and one of his friends hide on us and we run through the woods

The next big thing to do during vacation was just a couple of weeks later which was playing in the Junior Chowder Cup for the New England Thrashers. The Junior Chowder Cup was a hockey Tournament for 96's. We did okay with while winning two of the four games we played. It was a change playing with kids you have never met before, but it was worth it just to get on the ice. For the next two weeks after the Junior Chowder Cup was a Connecticut Redneck tournament and the Senior Chowder Cup Tournament. The Redneck tournament was just a tournament for fun where all of the guys would just fool around and just enjoy playing summer hockey. We won two games and where disqualified out of the tournament for a bench clearing brawl which made our team and the other team disqualified. The next tournament came along which was the Senior Chowder Cup which a lot of guys from Winchendon played. We lost the first game, but this tournament was a good way for me to meet a lot of the guys. I got to see how the kids at Winchendon played hockey and how the guys are off the ice to. We ended of the tournament on a good note with a win.