Football!

Since Friday had very nice weather, I decided to take Willie to the park on Owego Street to play football. Once of my friends, Josh, was nice enough to come to the park and play football with us. Willie thought it was cool to have a guy play football with him and show him a few things about football. We practiced throwing, catching and punting. Then we ran some plays and Willie enjoyed being quarter back. Then the high school softball team came for practice so we left so they could have their field.

Hoxie Gorge

This day did not go as planned. With a set of paper directions and a GPS I managed to get very very lost and could not find Hoxie gorge to save my life because it kept bringing me to his dirt road that was not Hoxie Gorge. After an hour of driving around in circles and down muddy dirt roads in the middle of no where, I finally found it. By the time I got there we only had 30 minutes to go hiking before he had to leave. So today was not good, but I will make it up to him with some football next meeting!

Bowling!

At our last meeting Willie and I went bowling at the 281 lanes and bowled 3 games. At first he was throwing the ball across his body and pointing his thumb incorrectly. I gave him some pointers to improve his form and after rolling two frames of gutter balls, he rolled two strikes!! All three games were very close!

He talked ALOT about country stars and how he is going to move down to Tennessee and work with all the country stars by writing songs for them :) So I told him about how I brought up my guitar and we could start learning songs by his favorite artist as long as it's O.K. with his mom.

His mom was running late and I really needed to sign up for graduation. So he came with my roommates and I to the graduation finale at Corey. He signed the "graduation class of 2012" banner, which I thought was pretty funny and so did he. He always makes sure he wears his SUNY-Cortland t-shirt on Tuesdays and Fridays so he looks just like all the college students, I think that's pretty cool so I make sure to bring him around where there are a lot of students for social interaction and he loves just being at the campus!

Hiking at Lime Hallow!

On Friday before I left for break Willie and I took advantage of the warmer weather and went to Lime Hallow to go hiking. I have never been there before so I wasn't exactly sure what to expect. I thought it was awesome! The trails are all very nice and well marked. Willie liked it and lead the way on the trails. It was a little muddy due to the melted snow, but it was pretty warm. There was a lot of different projects that looked like different groups made or donated on all the trails. After we were done hiking we went to Neubig for some hot chocolate so we could warm up. He also had some cookies of course.