Willink - Way of the warrior kid - from wimpy to warrior the navy seal way

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This book is dedicated to

Marc Lee, Mike Monsoor, and Ryan Job,

from SEAL Team Three, Task Unit Bruiser,

who lived, and fought, and died

as warriors.

Tomorrow is the last day of school, and I CANT WAIT FOR IT TO BE OVER!! This has been the worst year EVER! The bad part is that I dont see how next year is going to be any better at all. Fifth grade was horribleIm afraid sixth grade will be EVEN WORSE. Why was it so bad? Where do I begin?

Top five reasons why fifth grade was HORRIBLE:

1.Its school! Im sitting at a desk ALL DAY.

2.I learned that Im dumb! Thats right. All the other grades I thought I was smart. But this year was a FAILURE! I still dont know my times tables! How the heck am I going to make it through next year?

3.School lunches. They call it pizza. I have no idea why. Since when does a piece of white bread count as pizza crust???????

4.Gym class. Most people like gym. But at my school we have tests and I completely stink. Especially at PULL-UPS. Guess how many pull-ups I can do? ZERO! I can do ZERO pull-ups! Im a disgrace to ten-year-oldsand the whole class knows it. Even the girls. Especially the girls that can do more pull-ups than me!!

5.Field trips. Just like gym class, most kids like field trips. Well, we go to one place for field trips: Mount Tom. We go there in the fall before it gets too cold and in the spring when it starts to get warm. But heres the thing: Mount Tom isnt a mountain. Its a lake. Heres the problem: I CANT SWIM! I hid it pretty well during our fall trip. But this spring, kids noticed. Why dont you come out in the water? Why are you staying on the beach? Why dont you jump off the diving board? What kind of person cant even swim? ME: Thats what kind of person! AAAHHH!

6.I know I said top five reasons, but there is one more, and its probably the biggest reason: Kenny Williamson. He is big and he is MEAN. He rules the jungle gym. He even calls himself King of the Jungle Gym or King Kenny!! If any other kids want to play on the jungle gym, they either have to be friends with Kenny or follow his rules.

All the teachers talk about how my school is bully-free. We even had a No Bully Day, where we talked about bullying and how bad it was and how we should tell the teachers if we saw it happening. Well, let me tell you, Kenny is definitely a BULLY, and he definitely is in my school. And no one says anything to the teachers about it!

Those are the top reasons that fifth grade was horrible, and sixth grade isnt going to be much better! I cant wait for school to be over tomorrow so the suffering can STOP and summer can START!

This summer is going to be AWESOME. Yes, it is cool that I wont have to be in schoolbut something even cooler is happening. My uncle Jake is coming to stay with us for the whole summer!

He has been a Navy SEAL for eight years and is getting out of the Navy to go to college. Before he goes to college, he is going to stay with us the whole summer long. A Navy SEAL! FOR REAL. IN MY HOUSE!!!!!

Uncle Jake is the best. First, he is super cool because he is a Navy SEAL. He fought in real wars. My mom says he was on the front lines. That means he was face-to-face with the bad guys. Whoa! Uncle Jake is also awesome because he is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF ME. I am weakhe is strong. I am dumbhe is smart. I cant swimhe can swim with a backpack on! Im scared of bulliesbullies are scared of him!

Anyway, I havent spent too much time with Uncle Jake because we live in California, and he has been stationed in Virginia for a long time. I hope he doesnt think Im such a DUMB WIMP that he wont even hang around with me! Maybe he wont notice?

AAHHHHH!!! Of course he will. He is a tough guy! Im a dork! Well, I guess I will find out soon.

Today was the absolute worst day OF MY LIFE. I know the last day of school is SUPPOSED to be fun, but let me tell you, it was miserable, horrible, awful, and terrible. How can that be? Where do I start?

First, it was Sports Day, which is SUPPOSED to be fun. It means we are out at the recess area all morning playing a bunch of games and challenges and stuff. Not just stuff like soccer and basketball but also things like three-legged races, bobbing for apples, and potato-sack races. We would do each activity for a while until we were told to rotate by the teachers, and then we would go on to the next activity. At first it wasnt so bad. No one was taking it that seriously, and everyone was just kind of having fun.

That meant no one really noticed how LAME I was at all these different sports and games. Especially because Fred Turner was in my group, and he is even worse than I am at everything. So it wasnt too bad.

UNTIL PULL-UP TIME. Thats right. One of the activities we were doing was pull-ups and push-ups and stuff on the jungle gym. WITH EVERYONE WATCHING! So I did what any smart, weak kid would do: I HID! I went to the back of the line and just kind of blended in. When the other kids would jump on the pull-up bar, everyone would count for them. Mike Swearington did eighteen. Billy Hacker did twenty-two! Jennifer Phillips, who does gymnastics, did twenty-seven!

There I was, standing in the back watching, hiding, and waiting for this to end.

Then, it was King of the Jungle Gym Kenny Williamsons turn. He went up and did eleven, which is actually pretty good when you consider how HUGE he is. He didnt seem to care, until someone yelled from the crowd, Hes not as strong as he looks! There was some laughter, and I saw Kenny getting madder and madder. He wasnt sure what to do until he saw me looking at him, and our eyes locked.