geocaching

Please tell me I am not the only one who hasn't heard of this? For all you that know me, I can be a quite a nerd at times, and I am proud! :) For the last few days I  have had a student who'd been talking all about finding a geocache, or as he spells it gokash :) It all started when I asked him to use the word "log" in a sentence. Being in first grade, I imagined he'd use it as a noun, like "The log is big" or something like that. He comes up with "I log my geocache". I say.... "A geocache? What???" He continues to ramble on talking about it and I don't get it, at all! I make him prove to me he knows what "log" means as a verb. Honestly, I thought the kid was making this all up! He goes on to say that to log something is to record it, or write it down. Okay, the kid knows something. So, I forget about it go on with my day. Today, he brings it up again! I had reminded him the day before to tell me about it later, and, of course, he doesn't forget. I let him talk about it. He keeps saying that he put numbers into a GPS, his grandpa always logs their attempts, he found a geocache that was a small pink car, and still... im so lost! I end up telling the ladies at work about it and Wendy knows everything about it! Her family actually goes geocaching! A geocache is found in a small container. Each container usually has many items in it where you take one and then replace it. You then write down in the log book you where there.  I can't even begin to explain how enthralled I am at this whole process. She even had a thing called a "travel bug" where the point is to get an item all around the world, beginning in one and place and ending back where it started, through geocaching! Of course, I am totally into this. Listening to her every world like it's gold I am going to find! :) I go to www.geocaching.com and learn all about it on my break! To learn the basic meaning of finding a geocache visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocache. Its basically a treasure hunt, for real!!! haha

Even better, I am going to make Dan go find a geocache with me tonight at the old Applewood Theater and then maybe one I found thats at the casino!! haha
I CANT WAIT to tell Dylan about how i "logged my geocache" :)

did i mention how big of a nerd i am? becoming jami means realizing i am a nerd. a nerd who writes long posts explaining how i will use a gps to find "treasures". :)