A Lot to Catch Up On

Sorry about being way behind on my blog but hey, that just meens this one will have tons of pictures and events crammed into it.

To begin with, for my last clinical I was lucky to be able to go to the daycare center “Mothers Day Out” ran by the methodist church in the area. This was a great experience and the kids seemed to instantly fall in love with me (what can I say this happens to me all the time with people). By the end of the day all of the young 2-3 year olds were yelling Gack! Jack! Ack! or some other variation of my name that they could get out. They all wanted to show me their “talents” so I was able to see many dance moves, and acrobatics.

 

 

Great learning experience, and very fun as well.

Finals………All I will say about those is that I am glad they are over. This has been the toughest semester in my college yet and I am quite satisfied with my two B’s.

After working through some events and finnishing up my finals I was able to relax and catch up on my fishing. The crappie pictured is the only one with a specific story behind it so here it goes….. I was fishing for half an hour without a bite with a small 1.5in sanko that was catching me tons of bass and bluegill the day before so I decided to change colors to see if it would make a difference. I then set down my rod on the dock and was scrambling through my pockets for the other lures I had brought when I realized my rod was going into the water. Thinking that my clumsy self had kicked it, I took a dive for the rod and grabbed it before it went off of the pier. That’s when I felt a something strange…….something was pulling on my line! So I set the hook and after a short battle with the fish, I managed to land a large crappie….. which for some reason found my bare hook tastier than anything else I had to offer.

I then decided I wanted to catch a larger fish the next day. After hours of watching monster fish swim by, and only catching little ones, I began to get discouraged. Thats when I decided to go “high tech” on the fish and rigged up something special for them and changed my bait. As soon as I did this my strike indicator shot under the water and I had myself a fight with a monster carp………which sadly ended quickly because it made a bee-line for the dock and I couldn’t overpower the fish to draw it away so it ended up wrapping around a post and snapping my line within 30 seconds of the fight. Despite the loss, I did not give up. I quickly remade my special rig and tossed it into the frenzy of fish that were swarming the area. Instantly my line took off and I set the hook into another large fish, but this time things were different. The fish yet again took straight off towards the dock to get me tangled but, this time I managed to turn its head and force it to swim up and away from the dock. This gave my dad the opportunity to net this “Kitty Kitty”. My Uncle Scottie Whigham also went with me on one of my fishing trips and we helped eachother land a few bass and bluegill. Besides being an avid angler, he is also a fantastic artist and does the best wildlife paintings I have ever seen. He even does custom paintings! Anyways, here are some of the fish we landed.
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Career day at NACC. This was an awesome event for the presidential hosts as well as the high school kids that came. An awesome guest speaker both inspired us, and made us laugh until the point of muscle failure. Here is a picture that he drew on the spot with just chalk.

After a recent trip to the doctors office, I discovered that like many americans…. I have high blood pressure! I was stunned by the fact so I decided to get my eating and workout plans straight……. even though some of the things in my diet are difficult to keep down.

 

Graduation from NACC was a great event that went well and despite severe weather, flowed smoothly as planned. Despite graduation going well…. I had problems of my own. The minute I stepped out of my car, the button of my suit fell off. This was unnacceptable for me because it looked quite bad to have a button missing and my shirt and tie flopping out so I had a mission to fix it. After some critical thinking I decided to look in my car for my tackle box which normally gets left inside after fishing trips due to my procrastination to clean. I was amazed that I had cleaned the car out and had no supplies to work with…. my work ethic worked against me this time. After walking inside and telling my story, another presidential host named Ashley Clark said that she had a fishing rod in the back of her car so we went to see if she had the materials needed to fix my problem. As soon as I saw a hook and line an idea came to me….. with no scissors available I cut the line with my bare teeth, fastened the button to one end of the line and slid it into the slot on my suit. I then threaded the hook threw my suit and hooked it on the opposite side to hold it in place, and keep my jacket closed. Despite this “redneck” approach, it worked flawlessly and I was able to mantain a neat appearance, and had a funny story to tell everyone.

As always, you can contact me at Zach@nacc.edu, but since doing all of this……..I feel as tired as a dog

 

-Zdrak Out