Hi. My name is Benjamin. I am 9 years old. This year, I would be going into Third Grade if I weren't going sailing with my family.

I like to go on vacation with my family. We have always traveled a lot. I haven't been out of the United States yet, but I have been to Florida, New York City and Rocky Mountain National Park. When we went to Florida, I remember a big huge beach and lots of big palm trees. I got to bring home a real coconut. Coconuts have ?meat? and ?milk? in them. The meat is the hard white part. The milk looks like milk but tastes like coconut.

I have done a lot of sailing. Last summer, we sailed our boat last summer from Chicago to Mackinac Island. We had to sail all the way across Lake Michigan, 330 miles. It took us five days to get there, and we were in a big storm on the way. I wasn't scared and I slept through the whole thing.