1/9/13
This is my value essay. And I’m supposed to go on and on about, basically me and my life. And if you care enough, keep reading if you don’t then goodbye. My music is so important to me and if I didn’t have it in my life then I wouldn’t be who I am today. The Pioneer Valley Ski Club In south Hadley on the Connecticut River, is one of my favorite spots in the whole world. Every summer, thats my spot I never move.
My music. If i didn’t listen to it as much as i do or enjoy it as much as I do, I might be going completely insane. Music to me is a different language, it compares to nothing else. It’s a place for me to get away from the world and all my problems and actually relax. “Now i use music to pray with no word” by Emblem 3. Its one of my favorite lyrics because of the meaning of it. It means so much to many and a lot to me. When i’m trying to do something important or anything really and its quiet, i will just turn on the radio or put music on my phone. When i’m for example writing an essay such as this one i would put in my headphones to block out the outside noise to concentrate on this and only this. It gets me into “the zone” as some people might call it. Music is just my way to get away for the day and just be me.
You really have to know who I am to really know the real me. The Pioneer Valley Ski Club is a place that i have been going to since i was born. Everyday of every summer rain or shine I’m there. This is the place where i’ve learned so much like swimming, wakeboarding, how to drive a boat, fish and in the winter go sledding down a hill. It’s a place of many firsts. The PVSC (pioneer valley ski club) only allows members and the only way that you can be family with only some exceptions. And if someone does try to join they have to be very good friends with the family and everyone who is a member has to okay it. And it has only happened two times since we have been down there which i believe is four generations. Every day in the summer I’m with my grandma and grandma Norris. Grandma Norris isn’t really my grandmother she is just such a good friend of my grandma and has been for so long so she basically is a part of the family. I am with them every day except mondays or tuesdays. On those days i go up river with my aunty Lisa and we spend the day together. And if she brings friends i get to bring friends so its a win win situation. When we go up river we meet so many people and make so many new friends it’s kind of surprising on how many we have made. The PVSC is my second home in the summer. My real second home is my family friends house the Calkins’ but i will get to that another time. The PVSC has so many different things like eight campers, nine boats, two sheds, a swingset, a sandbox and a dirt road full of a kids dreams.
My two values are not that much the same but if I Didn't have them in my life then i would be where i am or be who i am today. And yes i have said that a lot but it is incredibly true. I have been listening to music and at the Ski Club for as long as i can remember. Almost all of my childhood has to do with music and or the Ski Club. There are only a handful of people that know the real me.
My music and my boat are similar but they are very different for the real thing. I obviously listen to music more than i go down the Ski Club because i mostly go down in the summer and not the winter. The Ski Club is very important because its what I’ve grown up knowing. That all i have ever know as a child and if i didn't have the ski club i would probably be one of the laziest people that you would know. I get up before eight in the summer to go down there. Yeah you read that right eight in the morning. But that is my life. My life consists of me being a “river rat”. If you don’t know what that is then i will gladly explain it. 
The Ski Club and my music have always meant so much to me and they always will. If i ever lose one of them then my life would never be the same. That is how much i value them. Also the Ski Club means so much more to my 80 year old grandma. Her whole life has been down there literally. She grew up on Alvord street, which is along the river. She has put in so much in to the Ski Club and she can’t wait to pass it off to her grandkids. Her mother started brunelle’s Marina. The Lady Bea was named after my great grandma Beatrice. My whole family grew up on the river along side of me learning my way to life. It’s all i've ever known. And thats okay with me.