My history With Basketball

If you did not know my favorite sport is basketball and it has been with me for my whole life. Right from the start I loved basketball. It was and still like heaven to me. Once my dad put a basketball in my hand for the first time, I felt like I can do anything. I started off by playing in YMCA for the first couple of years. But mostly I learned how to play because of my dad. He would always practice and teach me at the same time. I learned how to shoot the quickest. To this day, I am known to be a very good shooter. My dad saw a lot of potential in me, so he never gave up on me. So after my YMCA days(I was about 4 when I started and around 8 when I ended), I thought it was time to play at a harder level. So I decided to play at Tarzana Park. I had a lot of good seasons there. I have lead my team to many championships that we have won. I have been to 4 championships and have won 2 of them. One season I got chosen to be an All-Star for Tarzana Park. That team ended up winning the valley region championship while winning the city of Los Angeles championship! You can go to Tarzana Park today and see my name on a huge banner in the gym. I currently play at Tarzana Park with my dad being the coach. We have not had our first game yet, but we are soon to have one. In conclusion, you can see that I love basketball and I will never stop. This is my history with basketball.

Becoming A Scout

This is my first blog ever and I am very excited. This blog will be about my journey to becoming a boy scout. You might think of boy scouts as selling cookies and stuff but its not. Boy scouts get badges and they get ranked by the work they have done. But thats not all. Boy scouts do big hikes, over night camping trips, backpacking trips, make their own tools, and help other people. I am in the Boy Scouts of America program but for the Armenians (I am Armenian). At my first scouts meeting we met at this Armenian school called Ferrahian. We meet there every 3 weeks. Technically I was not a scout for the first 3 weeks but I have worked to become a scout. So now on Sunday I will get my scout ranking badge. I have worked really hard to get to this point, but this is just the beginning of my scouting career. A couple of weeks ago my scout troop and I went on a 6.5 mile hike in the Malibu Creek State Park. We hiked to the M.A.S.H set (a TV show). That was one of the biggest hikes I have ever been on. I navigated my troop through the whole hike with a compus and map. When we got back we were so tired that we couldn't walk! It was a really fun hike because I hung out with my friends and we did a hike. The next weekend our troop met at a park in Granada Hills and at the end of the scout meeting, my troop leader call me over for a master conference meeting (a meeting were the troop leader puts you up a ranking). At the end of the meeting I became a scout. I was very excited that I finally became a scout. This was my journey to becoming a scout.