S8s1: The creation
It all started for me in 2008. Some of my friends at school started to play an online game called Club Penguin. I remember them all after school talking about meet up times and servers. I didn't really take much notice of it though. But one of my friends who used to come over to my house a lot was really into Club Penguin. One day, when he came over he showed me Club Penguin and suggested I make a penguin. I was more interested in playing the new Lego Batman 1 at that time, so he made my penguin for me. He called it "S8s1", based on his own penguins name. After that, I didn't see Club Penguin for another year.
Club Penguin: The addiction
My friend quickly grew out of Club Penguin and went onto more violent games. But I stayed on games like Sonic the Hedgehog. But it wasn't until 2009 that I started to play Club Penguin. It was around the end of August that one of my brothers friends showed him Club Penguin. He made a penguin straight away. As he started playing at home, I grew more interested in it. I saw him playing all the games like Card Jitsu, Cart Surfer and Catchin' Waves. Eventually, around the end of the Fire Scavenger Hunt but before the Halloween party, I decided I wanted to make my own penguin. I was about to go onto the create a penguin page when I saw a saved penguin called S8s1 with the password saved. I remembered my friend had made me a penguin. I found out the password for my penguin, and I entered the world of Club Penguin. I played around for a bit, and 3 days before the Halloween party, I asked for my first membership.
Let the fun begin!
I remember the first costume I bought was the wizard costume. Then the Halloween party started, and I experienced my first ever party. And I loved it. In November, Norman Swarm Has Been Transformed came out at the Stage for the first time. I remember combining the Gnome Beard and the secret pin with my wizards outfit. From then on, I was totally addicted to Club Penguin. I even remember going to my local internet cafe to get the fourth anniversary hat because my computer broke down and I didn't want to miss the party. I met my first mascot, Sensei at the opening of the Fire Dojo. I remember being on my favorite server, Vanilla, and I was in the Town. A penguin appeared and started to shout "Sensei at the Fire Dojo!" I had heard of Sensei but I didn't know you could meet him. So I went there and I got his background. That's when I became aware of mascots. I played through the end of 2009 and into 2010. But after playing until June, I started to get bored of Cub Penguin a bit. So I searched up three words in Google that would start my lead into Club Penguin blogging. I searched up "Club Penguin Cheats."
Club Penguin blogs
The main blogs I remember are Chrisdog93 and Lebron Jr 23's blogs. That's when I found out about all the other mascots and mascot tracker. At that time I didn't realize that the trackers were updated by people, so if they said Gary was on Mammoth at the Forest, he should be there. I quickly have up on mascot trackers after so many "false locations." So I started playing Club Penguin again. I visited all the parties. But I became bored of it, and stopped playing during July. I started up again October and started playing through 2010 until 2011. But it all really started at the 2011 Music Jam.
The lead up
I read in the newspaper about the Penguin Band's new look and I decided I wanted to meet them. So I searched up Club Penguin Cheats again and went onto Lebron Jr 23's blog. That's when I discovered Xat. I had used it in the past, but hardly any. For those of you who don't know, Xat is a chat system that most Club Penguin players use to track mascots. And thanks to Lebron's chat, I met all 4 members of the Penguin Band. Mascot tracking is why I created S8s2. I used him to camp on popular severs to see if any mascots came on that server. But I use him now for videos and a heap more things. I made heaps of new friends on Lebron's chat. So I came back to the chat to track Rockhopper at the Island Adventure party 2011. I started to stay at the chat in between tracking months. Eventually, I decided I wanted a blog.
S8s1 Club Penguin Cheats
I started working on my blog in November. On the 18th of November, S8s1 Club Penguin Cheats was launched. I also launched my Youtube channel, S8s1ClubPenguin. I was so excited when I reached 100 views. Sometime in December, one of the friends I made through Lebron's chat recommended to me that I should get a Twitter account. So I did. And I found out about a whole Club Penguin community of bloggers. I made even more friends at found out how to make headers, backgrounds, icons and a whole lot of other things important to make a good blog.
In the years since
I played throughout 2012, making my blog better and better. Literally, 5 minutes before 2013, my blog reached 10,000 views. And that's all.
I'm thankful to everyone who's made all my years playing Club Penguin awesome. Lets hope for an awesome 2013!
Waddle on!
~S8s1
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