Assignment #1

Memories in my Skin

• First trip out of the country
• Going to cape Cod Massachusetts, U.S.A
• Picking up lots of sea shells 

Salty breezes and cool skies

  

  It was my very first time out of Canada, actually my first time even out of Ontario. My family and I went to Cape Cod Massachusetts, U.S.A. for a summer vacation back in 2006. Every morning I would wake up and inhale the scent of the salty air flowing all around me. I loved it so much, being so close to the sea, just steps away from me. Being in Cape Cod was an awesome experience and I really would like to go back again to see the different scenery and to take more high quality pictures of different things.

  

  The beach was really beautiful, especially at sunset and sunrise. The colors in the sky at those times were incredible. Once in the water you had to keep your mouth closed if you went underneath the water, because it was the ocean so it was saltwater and believe me the water doesn't taste good if you accidentally get some in your mouth. So of course I only swam twice the whole two weeks we were there because I really hated getting saltwater in my mouth and almost every time I swam I opened my mouth by accident. The sand was really a pain and also the seaweed because both would go everywhere on you and in the belongs you had brought. I remember it traveling all the way back to the cottage at one point.

  While I was there I had to have picked up over 100 seashells because every time I looked down I found a seashell that I loved and wanted to take back home with me. My mum told me before we left to go back home I had to find somewhere to store them because they weren't allowed in the car in plastic bags just in case the bag broke and have the shells go everywhere in the car possibly. So in the end I had filled up four coffee containers and two of the containers lids couldn't close properly so I had to use four rubber bands and try to close the lids that way because I didn't want to leave any behind. Some of the seashells that I picked up were broken or missing the other half of it, like the clams that I picked up some didn't have the top half. The shells were all different colors too like, light purple, blue, dark blue, and white.