December 15, 2011 THURSDAY

After all, I thought that our performance wasn't really unacceptable, at least we didn't trip and fall, forget moves / lines, accidentally laugh out loud on the stage, and do all those embarrassing things. However, there were still a few awkward moments... or LOTS of awkward moments I should say... Phoebe dropped her microphone base 3 times onto the ground which caused some embarrassments. Also, when Howard was running out onto the stage, he also dropped his microphone base, which caused some noise on the stage. Anyways, I thought we didn't do good, but thanks to Ms. Padachie's last minute help with our performance (like last year), we did a little better and got the audience to clap with us... YAYY!!! I just thought it was a lot better than our rehearsal yesterday. By the way, I'm also very happy with our costumes that we made ourselves, that satisfied me. :D And also, Ms. Ruperez was an amazing host this year at our Christmas performance.

Although I thought that our performance was okay, I thought that the school's activities like sports day and Christmas performances are all getting worse and worse. That's what I think about our school these days... Ms. Pamela is probably sick and tired of working as a CEO kind of person and started fooling around and not being serious for performances or activities. For example, the sports day we just had this year was horrible... First of all, we don't even have our own track and field so we had to go borrow another school's track and field... Second of all, there were no food, no water, no fun activities where you could pay and play some mini games and earn little gifts. Third of all, we had to do the activities that SCHOOL had ASSIGNED for you!

AS A STUDENT, I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH THE CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE  SHOW THIS YEAR AT PAS...

December 14, 2011 WEDNESDAY

Like I promised yesterday, I'll tell you a little about yesterday... Yesterday, Ms. Padachie, Ms. Ru, Mr. Joubert, and all the 7th grade students went for a dinner and a movie together... I ate a big chicken burger and chocolate milkshake at the dinner, and a tiny little cup of coke at the movie... Anyways, the movie REAL STEAL was as good as the last time I watched the same one... It's very exciting, and I can watch it again without falling asleep!

Anyways, today we had Christmas Performance rehearsal, and guess what? IT WAS A MESS!!! We got on the stage... and forgot our chant... Ahh!!! I'm not talking about this day anymore to embrace myself... so... GOODBYE

December 13, 2011 TUESDAY

We had fitness test today, Darren threw up again from exercising to much without any food in his stomach... And then 7th grade had dinner and watched a movie together. Today was supposed to be a day where I can explain everything in a novel, but now that I am extremely tired from this whole day, I can't remember any details from this day... I KNOW I CAN THINK OF SOMETHING... tomorrow maybe... Now I just want to sleep because we've came home late from the movie and my eyelids are already closing... Anyways... I will tell you the whole / complete story of today with tons of details and explanations... GOOD NIGHT...

December 12, 2011 MONDAY

Today my group for the PAS commercial project stayed after school to finish up our project... We did a lot more today and I'm glad about that. Now I am pretty excited and sad at the same time because first of all, Ms. Padachie is bringing all the 7th grade students for a movie and dinner, that's why I'm excited. However, I'm sad because we have PE tomorrow and there is fitness test. NOOOO!!!! I hate fitness test... So I hope it can just rain and rain and rain all day tomorrow until the bell rings and 3:10 to send us to dinner + movie... But I don't think it'll rain tomorrow... NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

December 11, 2011 SUNDAY

At first my family planned to go back to Koushong this Saturday and Sunday, but it turned out that we didn't go to Koushong and went to a mall to shop for things we will have to bring to our trip to Canada this winter break... (which is coming up soon!) Anyways, I was pretty happy that we didn't have to go back to Koushong because everytime I go there, I'll just have to read all day, sleep all day, or walk around all day in the house. But I'm also sad because I always loved sitting on the stone chairs beside the big stone table in grandma's garden, enjoying the cool breeze under the shadows of grandma's trees, looking at the fishes in the little pretty waterfall tank, and enjoying the smell the roses and other flowers in grandma's garden with my good old grandpa who always tell me about himself and his partners' fight in the second World War. Last time he told me about how he saw one of his best friends die and got shot himself in the back when he was running towards his friend. Grandpa is always filled with his stories, but this time I didn't get to listen to any of his "sad-but-exciting stories"...

December 8, 2011 THURSDAY

Today a person from England came to our school and taught us "Shakespeare for beginners"... It was absolutely fun!!! That dude was awesome, he was extremely good at acting and also funny. I was called up the stage along with Darren, a 6 grade boy, to act out romeo and Juliet. One of the phrases I said was... "Romeo! Oh Romeo ~" IT WAS FUN! Although everyone laughed at me and Darren, I enjoyed copying what the dude told us to. Also, Dylan acted out the Hamlet, he was also very funny... Cool and fun... But a very amazing thing I found was that the cool dude could memorize all those Shakespeare plays in his mind!!! He's awesome. I really really wish that we could have another day to spend acting with him... HE'S REALLY HUMOROUS...

December 7, 2011 WEDNESDAY

I have to admit that I'm not a good student because I keep talking to myself these days think about how I'm going to be like or how I'm going to spend my time during Christmas break... I know... I'm a bad student... But I really want my winter break, I'm tired and I need a break from school... I really do... I don't really know how to express my feeling but I feel tired and frustrated and... I feel like no matter how long I sleep, I'm always still tired... AHHH!!! I need my winter break to go on forever.... And plus, I'll have to take a shot on my first day of school... *sigh... I HATE... LIFE? SCHOOL? HOMEWORK? VIOLIN? HOME? I don't know what I hate... But I just... HATE...

I'm TIRED... and I'm QUITTING... but am I a QUITTER? I DON'T KNOW!!! I don't want to QUIT but I'm TIRED!!! I'M TIRED OF ALL THESE THINGS THAT OCCUR IN MY LIFE!!!

December 6, 2011 TUESDAY

Noooo!!! I just found out that I didn't do my journal yesterday, which gives me 3 strikes in total now... So If I get another strike before my winter break, I'll get stuck out and all the time and work I've spent on my journal from this quarter would be wasted... So I hope I don't forget to do my journal this week and the following week.

Anyways, today during PE, we had a treasure hunt in a huge university next to our school. When we were heading for our treasure/lake, everything was just fine, however, when we thought that we won, we were missing our jojo, so suddenly we looked around, and found our little jojo climbing towards us slowly. Later when we were heading back and trying to find our way back to school, find Mr. Li, and claim victory, Me and Phoebe slowed down because our legs sore and could run fast from all the running that happened during sports day. And later we lost track of them... I felt horrible because I was the captain of my team, and it was my responsibility to keep my group together, but I lost them... that time I thought that maybe they're get lost or something dangerous happens, but as me and Phoebe made our way through the school while searching for our team members, we found no luck... So we hurried back to school, but when we got back, we found that the other people had already arrived for a long time along with our missing Kathy, Darren, Joseph, Willis, and Lucy... THEN... I was relieved... It was not a cool game because my legs sore like hell when I ran, uphill... downhill... upstairs... downstairs... all over the place... And guess what? While I was hiding from the other team, I got 6 mosquito bites!!! Horrible... I hate that university... That place is filled with mosquitoes!!!

December 4, 2011 SUNDAY

This morning we had sports day, and there is one way to describe it...TREMENDOUSLY-AWFUL, why? Well, because I am an extremely slow runner and for the races I've been in, I had to race against two 8th grade girls from the basketball team, and PHOEBE... As you might know about phoebe, she does not look VERY tall, however, as you may have discovered in every sports day, she is the fastest girl I've seen before... She's amazing... Although she doesn't specialize in arts, dancing, singing, and things like that, every time I see her run, I feel ashamed and sad for myself... Every sports day I've had before had been horrible... I'm always the one who gets blamed on if my teem loses... Well, EVEN IF We win, they still blame me for slowing everything down for THEM... I hate sports day... AND PLUS... We had to arrive at sports day early in the morning into the cold out of my warm fuzzy bed and onto the field... I HATED TODAY... But anyways, I'm also happy because IT'S OVER!!! YAAAY!!!!!!!

December 1, 2011 THURSDAY

Today is the first day of December, and the weather has finally felt more like winter. In the past weeks, even though it was already winter that time, it felt just like summer. But now that my favorite season WINTER has arrived, my bed seems like heaven since it gets all nice and cozy once you get in there for a few minutes. Anyways, today we discussed about sports day at school, and I am in the GREEN MAMBAS!!! AWESOME... However, as excited as I may be about being in the mamba teem, I'm also not happy because I have to do four activities while most of other people just need to do a maximum of 3. And that's not the worse, I'll have to have a long jump competition with 3 big and tall high school students... AND I AM ONLY A GIRL IN MIDDLE SCHOOL... Now that I can't change anything, I'll just hope that all my opponents will fail their jump and trip and fall... But I don't think it's possible that all 3 of them fall the same way... So I think I'll just do my best and get ready to loose and ruin Green team's chance of winning... :(

November 30, 2011 WEDNESDAY

Last night I had a weird dream... And here's how it went...

I ran from the flames that were starting to spread across the kitchen, dad was still at work, mom was buying groceries, and my brother was sleeping... I grabbed the heavy fire extinguisher, pulled out the safety lock, pressed down on the handle and swung the pipe around! But nothing came out of it... Then I ran to my brother's room, screamed and continued slapping his face as he slowly woke up, then I ran out his room holding his hand and was about to reach the door leading out the building when the refrigerator crashed down right in front of us blocking us with flames hovering it that was smoking me to death... So me and my brother covered our mouths and noses with our wet shirt caused wet by our sweat, and was crawling on the floor to the other exit with all our might when I woke up from my dream to go use the restroom...

November 29, 2011 TUESDAY

These days I've been counting down for winter break, but it always seems like forever when I acctually try to count down for it. So just this day when I got home, I decided to stop counting down. Anyways, today it was awesome at school, we had our final game for football, and my team won!!! YES!!! It was such a fun game, but I mainly just blocked off a few people like sometimes Lucy and Darren, and I was just going to shove Lucy to the right side to make a hole through our enemies' defense line, but I accidently shoved too hard and slammed her to the ground... oops... Anyways... FUN GAME... FUN GAME... FUN GAME... FUN GAME... But today my legs started to sore when I came home from school today... Like how it also hurted yesterday... But today it wasn't as bad... So... Anyways... I'm looking forward to my winter break.

November 28, 2011 MONDAY

At school, I discovered my last Spanish test score... IT WAS THE WORST SPANISH TEST SCORE I'VE EVERY GOT!!! I thought that it was pretty easy and that I did pretty good on the day I took the test, but when I looked at it... I WAS ABSOLUTELY STUNNED... I got a whole section wrong because I forgot the include "A" in the front of every sentence in that section... I couldn't believe how I could have forgotten to include that... I HATE MYSELF NOW!!! I HATE MYSELF......

Anyways, today after school, my right leg was sore like hell... So I tried to finish up my homework as fast as I could then go take a nice hot bath, but it grew worse as I continued, so I stopped in the middle of my process of doing my homework, and went to take a hot bath... After that, my leg felt better, but as I continued on my homework, it was sore again... I HATE MY LEG!!! The pain is killing me... Now I've finished my homework, and I am planning to take another nice hot bath... *chuckles...

November 27, 2011 SUNDAY

This Friday, or two days ago, we didn't have school because the teachers had PD day, which means we had a 3-day-weekend... Yay!!! But guess what... my three day weekend seemed like a 3hour weekend, and now my weekend is about to end... Nooo!!!.... :( I am really sad that my weekend doesn't go forever, but I am happy that time is passing fast because winter break will be coming up soon, and I will be going to Canada!!! Yay!!! So... overall, there's two Yay!!!'s and one Nooo!!!'s, so Yay wins... Which means I should be happy now and look forward to the future, also known as... WINTER BREAK!!!

November 23, 2011 WEDNESDAY

OH MY GOD!!! I REALIZED THIS MORNING WHEN I GOT TO SCHOOL THAT I FORGOT TO DO MY JOURNAL YESTERDAY!!! Now I only have 2 more chances to miss doing my journal, then I'll strike out... Anyways... These days I'm really really excited for winter break even though it still seems so far away... I'm going to Canada for 11 days during winter break!!! My parents had booked the plane tickets and train tickets, and had also planned out everything we were going to do in Canada!!!

Well, first of all, we will fly to Vancouver, and we will rent a car to go take a look at the rocky mountains, maybe we would ski there, then we will take a boat trip to Victoria island, which is a beautiful little island where a lot of little towns are at... After that, we will take a VIA rail called "The Canadian", spend a night on that train in our very own bed, and also take a look at the views of Canada through the huge windows in our room, or from a room with a 180 degree view window. At first I thought we would pass the Niagara Falls on the train, but I just remembered that Niagara Falls is located on the East of Canada, where Toronto is... I am pretty disappointed about that, but I also think that we will pass a lot of other beautiful places. Well, we will travel on the train from Vancouver to Edmonton, where one of the world's biggest mall is located at. In the mall, we will find a hotel to stay at, we will shop in the mall for three days, and perhaps we will also go swimming at the fake waves in the mall! AWESOME... I haven't gone to big trips out of Taiwan for a long time now, so I am really excited to go back to where I was born for the first time...

November 21, 2011 MONDAY

Today at school I was surprised to hear from my classmates that we won't have school on this Friday because of PD day, and thought they were just tricking me... But no, they were not lying... When I got home, I looked at our schedule, and that's how I found out that they weren't lying...

Anyways, today after I got home from school, I suddenly realized that I did not do my journal yesterday... I totally forgot until I came home today!!! OH MY GOD!!! Now I have 1 strike, which means if I get three more strikes this quarter, I'll strike out and all the journal posts I've done would be worth nothing... Anyways, I'm happy that I still have 3 chances to get strikes, unlike some people who already stroked out.

Well, here's something unrelated to the stuff above... I love the chicken curry that my mom cooked today!!! AWESOME!!!

November 17, 2011 THURSDAY

Guess What??? Today we had tacos, bouritos, and nachos & cheese!!! Thanks to our wonderful teacher, Ms. Padachie, we got to eat Mexican food that she ordered for lunch while we watched an episode of House! The food was awesome, it is way better than our school lunch, and the House episode was pretty funny too! Anyways, we wouldn't have time to finish eating our food and our show since our lunch time is pretty short, but Ms. Padachie gave our lovely Ms. Ruperez (the teacher of our class right after lunch) some Mexican food too, and bribed her to let us have some extra time to finish up our food and TV show... And so we did...


After my lovely day of school made lovely by Ms. Padachie's Mexican food, I came home and found my mom getting ready to cook, so I asked her what she was going to cook for us, then she told me that she was going to cook pork fried rice. Well, I got really excited since her fried rice are the best ones I've ever tasted, and I love them! So I went into my room excited about the fried rice, and started doing my Holt reader. And when I was about to finish my Holt reader, I head my mom shout, "Hey Eve and Will!!! Come look at this!!! They're twins!!! Wait a second... or are they triplets!?". That time I was really confused, I thought maybe my neighbors gave birth to triplets, so I ran out but found my mom looking into a bowl... And when I looked in, guess what I found!? Two unborn chicks in on egg (two blobs of egg yolk!!!), and they were attached together at an edge! But when I looked closer, I found 3 blobs of yellow egg yolk... Or was it... I third unborn chick...

At first I thought maybe the egg yolk thing broke and some egg yolk came out, but when I poked it around with my chopsticks, I found a tiny blob separated from the other two... IT WAS THE THIRD CHICK!!! OH MY GOD... this was the first time that I've ever seen a triplet inside ONE egg!!! It's incredible... And I'm not lying!!! The two bigger ones are attached like you can see in the picture above, and the little one is just floating around separated from the other two...

November 16, 2011 WEDNESDAY

Yesterday, I planned to go to school in the afternoon to take my history test since I felt really sick in the morning, but when the afternoon arrived, I felt even worse, so I stayed home and rested. And that night, I felt a little bit better, so I decided that I would be fine today in the morning to go to school. However, when I woke up, my voice was gone, I had a head ache, I was sneezing, and I had a fever about 39 degrees C, so I stayed home and planned to go take my Spanish test in the afternoon at school. And this time when the afternoon arrived, I felt good enough to go take my test, so I ate my medicine, climbed out of bed, put my cloths on, and went. (I studied pretty hard for that test last night... ) Anyways, when I arrived at my Spanish classroom, everyone was kind of surprised to see me. And while I was waiting for Mr. Carlos, our Spanish teacher to hand out our test, he announced that we weren't going to take the test today, instead, we will be taking it on next Wednesday. I was angry then because I studied pretty hard for that test last night, and it was a pain getting out of my bed and dressing up for school just to go to school and take my test. Anyways, now when I think about it, I think it was pretty worth it since Spanish class was pretty fun...

Today when I came home, I took out my stuff from my bag, but accidentally dropped my folder onto the ground, and when it dropped, I heard a zzipppppppp!!! But I looked at my folder lying on the ground and it looked fine. So I picked it up, but then... Papers started falling out of it even though I clipped it up!!! So I looked at it carefully, and found a huge hole/creak in it... I thought... Poor folder... I've only had you since the start of 7th grade!!! Anyways, Here are the pictures I took of my lovely folder that got injured today... *sniff *sniff...

November 15, 2011 TUESDAY

What a boring day it was today... I just went to my dad's company in the morning with them when they went to work, and slept and slept and slept at my mom's office... I went to the doctor... and a got some medicine that made me feel a tiny little bit better... Anyways... this morning I had a fever, I had a sore throat, I kept sneezing and sneezing, and I also have an extremely bad head ache... Even though I have rested for a whole day now... I still feel sick... Ahh!!! I don't know why my medicine aren't working... I hope I can go to school tomorrow since today was the most boring day I have ever spent in my life... I HATE TODAY... I did a little homework during my day, but I mostly just slept on the little sofa in my mom's office...

November 14, 2011 MONDAY

This morning when I went to school, I had a pretty bad headache, but I tried to forget about it and ignore it. Soon, it got worse when we had lunch, and I couldn't get my mouth to chew and swallow our disgusting lunch down my throat. But as My friends Phoebe and Kathy both left our lunch table, I felt lonely... So I stuffed everything I could into my mouth, swallowed it, and stuffed another huge mouthful of rice into my mouth while I walked down to where we placed our left over food and our used plates and chopsticks. Anyways, I did feel a bit better during music class, and I had quite a lot of fun even though it's for our stupid Christmas show. After that we had Spanish class, and that was when things got a lot worse... My head felt like it was going to explode anytime, and I also felt like my eyeballs are going to pop out of my eyes, my hair are going to fly out of my head, and my brain is going to squeeze out of my ears, nose, and mouth any second. And I didn't have the energy to talk with my friends, so I just put my head down and remained quiet. Anyways, my headache that bothered me during spanish class was still not the worse... When the bell finally rang for us to go home, I walked to my locker slowly since my head stung badly when I jump or move a little too much which walking. But while I was walking there, I thought there were actually bees inside my head buzzing and stinging me like crazy, so I went to Ms. Padachie's classroom where I could take a seat fast and put my head down to rest...

After a while, I felt a little better and that was when I thought I could go downstairs... And with the help from Ms. Padachie, I got downstairs and onto my dad's car... When I stood up and walked downstairs onto my dad's car, I felt like the amount of bees in my head doubled... Anyways, it was a really weird feeling that I've never got before and don't want again...

When I got home, I laid down on the sofa, measured my body temperature, found out that I had a fever, ate my medicine, slept, and woke up feeling a lot better... Now my head ache is slowly coming back probably because my medicine effects are slowly going away. I really want to take another pill right now. But due to the instructions of how long a child my age should wait before we take another pill, I couldn't take one just yet... NOOOO!!! I NEED MY PILL!!!


I don't know whether I can go to school tomorrow or not... If I don't, I'll miss English, Math, PE, and History... Well... And I will miss my history test... So I hope I feel fine tomorrow morning. GOOD NIGHT!!!

November 13, 2011 SUNDAY

This weekend we had loads of homework to do, our homework was mostly from Expository Writing and Spanish... Now even though I did the maximum amount of homework I could do in two~three days, I still have loads of homework waiting ahead of me. I feel like I need a break from school, it feels like my weekend had just started when it is actually about to end... Today while I was thinking about how to do a Spanish question, I imagined and wished that I could pause time for a while, and start it when I want... This way I could rest for an extra amount of time at night, and I could also go travel for an extra amount of time... It would be awesome!!! If only... If only... If only I had the power to do it...

November 10, 2011 THURSDAY

Today I was really excited at school when they announced that we were going to watch a movie during club time, but when I arrived there, I was disappointed since we had to watch the movie and write a one and a half page long literary response about "integrity" for it... And plus, if Ms. Pamela isn't happy with our essay after we turn it in next Monday, she'll tell us to redo it... Even though the movie was good, and I learned some things from it, I don't know why we have to do a literary response when we did nothing wrong (well, I think I did nothing wrong...).

Anyways, I am not looking forward to doing that essay during the weekends, but I am looking forwards to my extra long sleep tonight (YAY!!!). I finally have time today to sleep really early... And not all I've got to do is take a shower, brush my teeth, pack up my bag, and sleep... Good Night...

November 9, 2011 WEDNESDAY

Today I just chatted with Vivian on Skype about our Science poster. I feel tired today... I hate Thursdays, which is the day tomorrow. I hate Thursdays because we have stupid wordly wise class, lots of other classes that make my head blow up, and all these annoying things I have to do everyday... I wish we can have English, Expository Writing, art, or Speech & Debate tomorrow instead of wordly wise... I've been wishing that I can sleep at 10 these days, but I guess it's never going to happen... Anyways, these days I haven't practiced any violin at all because of my injured fingers... Last time my right hand middle finger got injured, and I couldn't write well, but I could still write... And that time I could also still play violin. But now my left hand's fingers are injured, which means I can't play violin... *yikes! Anyways... I think it's both bad and good because I get a rest with all these stuff about violin, but I kind of miss violin sometimes and I also can't use my fingers much. Anyways, time for bed...

November 8, 2011 TUESDAY

Today I forgot many homework assignments that are due tomorrow, but as I was doing one of my poster projects, my awesome friend Vivian reminded me on Skype that we have Spanish homework and also that I have to do my journal... Thanks to her, if I didn't do my homework, it would bring my grades down easily... Anyways, today my finger feels much better, and when we were about to have PE, we couldn't open the gate to our rooftop PE space... Anyways, that's why we just hanged around in the auditorium, read, did homework, played games using a coin, watched movies, and ate lollipops. It was the best class ever... :)

November 7, 2011 MONDAY

Today I came home feeling tired... So I slept for half an hour before I started my homework... (I love sleeping...) Then I woke up, ate some snacks and read a little bit, ate dinner, then finally started my homework... Now I'm starting to feel drowsy again, and my two poor fingers are getting hurt since I used it for typing by accident a couple of times. Anyways, I think I'll just go ahead and sleep and rest with my finger... But... Oh well, I'll tell you a little more about my fingers today... From what I remember, this morning when I woke up it was black, I wrapped it up, and before school ended, I opened it and found it a lot better, and not as black anymore... I suppose that's about it, and by the way, I hate having to type all the letters that my left hand types with just my pinky and my ring finger... (I HATE IT!!!) I'll write more tomorrow about PE... Bye!

November 6, 2011 SUNDAY

A whole new quarter is starting, and so is my journal... Last Friday when we had PE, I was pretty happy since now I could throw footballs straighter and further, and I could also catch a lot better... When I was in sixth grade, I use to catch about 5 balls out of 10 balls, but now I can catch about 9 balls out of 10 balls. (YAY!!!) Anyways, just when another ball was coming my way and I did not have my fingers stretched out apart enough, it slammed onto my left hand's middle finger and index finger, and there... AGAIN... I jammed my finger... REAL hard this time...

I don't know if I broke my bone or something since I didn't go to the doctor yet... Anyways, right now two of my fingers are really black at the joints of my fingers, and I don't want to show a picture since  it looks extremely disgusting mainly because it's all puffed up and black. Anyways, now when I put my arm down with my fingers pointing downwards, my skin starts feeling stretched and blown bigger like a balloon probably because the blood inside that's making my finger swell up is flowing downwards because of gravity, which is making my finger even more puffed up and painful... Well, if I point of fingers upwards, it feels much better but my arm gets sore eventually after raising it high up in the air for a long time... I guess I don't want to type more since it's very inconvenient typing without two of your fingers... And it also hurts a lot when u accidentally use it for typing...

November 3, 2011 THURSDAY

After another day of a regular school day , I came home feeling really really tired although I don't know why. Anyways, my parents had to do something important somewhere pretty far away from Hsinchu, so me and my brother went with them too, since I was tired, I just slept on the whole trip to "someplace"... And guess what??? When I woke up, it was about 6:00~7:00, and by that time, we were already heading home and had almost arrived...

That meant that I slept for a really long time on the car... But anyways, now I'm starting to feel tired again, so I'm really doubting that I've slept on the car for so long...

November 2, 2011 WEDNESDAY

Today I had a sore throat... and a little fever after I came home from school, and I felt horrible... I seemed to be forgetting everything... I even almost forgot to post my journal... Anyways, today we did a PAS advertisment at school, and I went around quietly taking pictures. Mr. Joubert told us that he told the teachers on email that we would be going around recording videos and taking pictures, so I went around, and saw that there were high school students in Mrs. Jone's room doing some kind of artwork, so I stood by the door where only my camera is visible from the inside, and was about to take a picture when a female high school student slammed the door on me... LOUD & HARD... So I sighed and continued walking searching for classes to take pictures of when I heard the high school people laughing at how good the door-slamming girl had been...

Ahh... I don't want to say too much now since I want to get some sleep and feel better tomorrow morning...

November 1, 2011 TUESDAY

What an awful day it was this particular day... I woke up feeling drowsy with a headache, but later after I had breakfast, I felt a little better... Anyways, my morning at school was okay, I just felt dizzy, drowsy, and cold too. But if afternoon when we had Physical test PE, my stomach and my head started hurting terribly, then I sat down for a while. But then (due to my classmates' expression and compliments) my face and lips turned white, and I looked like a dead person. Just then Mr. Li saw me, and with some help from my classmate Phoebe and Mr. Li, I got to the clinic and rested. But while I was lying on the chair when no body noticed me at the basketball court, I couldn't feel my arms, legs, hands, and feet, they felt absolutely numb, and when I opened my eyes to look at the time, all I saw was green... Everyone's face was green, the basketballs were green, the sky was green, and everything else were also green... That time I also found my body trembling crazily. And when Mr. Li and Phoebe kindly helped me into the clinic room, I couldn't feel my legs and the wouldn't walk properly, they felt like soft noodles.

Finally when I got into the Clinic room, Ms. Sherry got me some hot water which made me feel a lot better. As I laid down, my eyelids closed, and only opened when my classmates came into the clinic to see if I was okay and give me my watch after about 30 minutes ~ 1 hour. By then, I felt a little better, and I was quite happy that my classmates had came. Anyways, after my classmates had gone, I fell asleep almost immediately. Then not long after I fell asleep, my dad came and picked me up. At first I told him I had to take my history midterm first, but as soon as I stood up, I couldn't walk right so I fell back down onto the bed. So my dad went and told Ms. Sue that I would go home earlier, helped me on to his car, and headed home. When I arrived home today, I fell back on the sofa and slept for a really really long time although I don't know how long. Now I feel fine, but I still have a stomach ache that keeps bothering me.

October 31, 2011 MONDAY

These days I am pretty happy with my homework assignments, and school stuff... I am also pretty happy that I have a few more new paintings that I'm satisfied with. However, I hate it these days when people lie about you to someone else, or lie to you. I hate it. Just because of these little things, some people can make it into a huge event that everyone's suffering about... Like a few incidents from last year... When a new student came to our school and got bullied with no reason!!! Some people stood up for him, but he left!!! In 3 days!!! Just like that!!! I'm hoping that these things don't ever happen again, but some people just has the ability to lie about everything and spread it so that the whole school knows! That's what I hate the most... and these days I've had enough, I've had enough.... I'VE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!!!

October 30, 2011 SUNDAY

This weekend I basically stayed home and did homework, studied for tests, practiced violin, and watched movies... These days were pretty boring, but we watched 2 pretty good movies called cars 2, and Captain America. Everything had been okay and my sore arm was getting better, but this morning when I woke up, it was RED... and it itched super super super super much!!! I liked taking shots and also the funny feeling after shots, but not this time!!! it's itching!!! I hate shots now... and guess what??? We'll have to take it another 2 times!!! Ahhhhh!!! Right now my arm itches more then 10 mosquito bites, so I hope that it stops itching soon, or it'll drive me crazy...

October 27, 2011 THURSDAY

Today was our school Halloween party. It was quite a lot of fun watching people stick their hands into animal organs just to find a golden marble that's worth 500NT. But I was pretty upset that barely anyone "really" dressed up... I worked really hard for my costume, it turned out pretty well, and I thought I looked a little bit like Edward... So, overall, it was pretty worth all the hard work. And plus, we had a costume competition for the whole school, and I won 2nd place, which I thought was pretty good. Anyways, before we had our Halloween party, we had Ms. Ru Ru's expository writing class, but just as we were about to start... Frank announced that we had to take our shots then... So all the girls (4 people) walked to the clinic room and lined up. I like shots but I don't like to look at them... I once looked at a huge needle and threw up... So, anyways, I looked at the needle today, but this time I didn't throw up since it was tiny. So I took the shot, it was a little cold when it went into my muscle, but it didn't really hurt at all... Although it didn't hurt when we took the shot, it became extremely sore about 2 hours after the shot, and it felt horrible...

Every time I take a shot, it always swell up, sore, and become red and hot... Just like what happened this time, and from my experiences, it always hurts the most on the second day... Which means the bad part hasn't arrived... (only due to my experiences)

October 23, 2011 WEDNESDAY

Tomorrow is our school's Halloween party, I've finished making edward's scissorhands, and I've finished preparing all the other clothes and costumes, but just before I thought I was completely done, I found out that I didn't have make up yet. I don't know how I'm going to be edward now. But anyways, I hope a make up set can apear right before my eyes when I wake up tomorrow morning. I don't think a miriclal will happen, but perhaps I can just use my mom's red lipsticks instead of buying another black one, and maybe I can use all my mom's make up stuff on my face...

I hope I'll be all prepared my tomorrow morning. However, if there's nothing I can do about my make up, I might just go without make up. Overall, I think that I shouldn't even have spent all these times making my costume if we don't get rewarded and don't get any credits...

October 25, 2011 TUESDAY

Maybe sleeping isn't important to you, but it is to me... Usually I sleep at about 10, but last night I stayed up still about 11 to make my Edward scissor hand's scissors... and they turned out pretty good later on, so it was a little more worth it now... I usually wake up at around 6:45, but today I woke up at 6 to work on my scissors again... Which means that I only got about 7 hours of sleep, which might be a lot to you, but too less for me. If I have at least 8 hours of sleep, I'll be all fine at school having no trouble at all to stay awake. But today I struggled to stay awake during History class... and it was the worst feeling ever, I've never felt so drowsy at school that I didn't learn as much... So... Anyways, if I do my homework assignments with some speed, I'll be able to get 9 hours of sleep each day, which is extremely helpful to me...

October 24, 2011 MONDAY

Today at school, the good old Ms. Padachie seemed to be back, and I am extremely relieved to find that out... We are now once again her good old homeroom students (I hope)... And anyways, after my regular day of school, I went home and helped my dad's company stick stickers on little pink zip lock bags. My grandma brought home some stickers with the code of the product they were going to place in the bag, and also 700 pink zip lock bags for me, grandma, and my brother to help stick stickers since one of the really fast sticker person got into a car accident and is now lying weakly in the hospital. The other sticker dude was okay but he twisted his wrist while playing tennis during the weekend, so he placed the stickers a little slower than usual. Anyways, they would have been fine normally if that happens once in a while, but today, they got an order that want 2000 of these products, and wanted them the next day, which meant they'll need 2000 zip lock bags with the code stickers on them. So that's why my grandma came home today with 700 stickers and zip lock bags to let us work. At first we thought it was fun and we had competitions of who can stick them faster, which was fun. But later on, it became tiring especially because we had to stick it on the exact same place for every single bag and my wrist got sore... We have now done about 500~600 bags and are all tired except for my grandma, she works like a machine, and does all the work. Although her eyes aren't very good, she does it perfectly and she is also the fastest one out of the three of us...

Here are some pictures of the stickers, the no-sticker pink zip lock bags, and the sticker pink zip lock bags...

October 23, 2011 SUNDAY

My parents had left Taiwan and headed for China on a business trip during Thursday, and they'll be back on next Tuesday morning. Anyways, my grandma had been here these days, she drives us to school, and cooks for us (although I don't like her food much).

Well, the night before last night, I didn't wrap my fingers up when I slept since I thought it was almost completely healed, so when I woke up the next morning, I noticed that I had slept on my finger all night, and it was painful... So I put the stinky pain rub on my finger, placed some ice on it, and wrapped it up again.

Now I am half way through a homework assignment that I can't finish up before my mom comes home since I had to interview her about standing up for someone or someone standing up for her... Anyways, this weekend I spent time playing Ma-Jiang with my Grandma since she gets really wants to play. And Ma-Jiang is a little complicated if you want to play it well since you'll have to remember what each player has put down on the table. And here's a picture of people playing Ma-Jiang just in case you didn't know what it is...

October 20, 2011 THURSDAY

Today was another weird and awkward day spent without talking at all to Ms. Padachie... I feel really bad and guilty now since I always talk to her regularly... And now she's still angry so I'm always really scared when I see her... I don't really know if she's going to forgive us for doing such a dumb and stupid thing and I hope she won't hate us forever... Now that Ms. Padachie seems to ignore and stay away from all of us trouble makers, I feel even more bad... I don't know how to explain this weird feeling... But... I really hope she forgives us some day... :(

October 19, 2011 WEDNESDAY

Today was a total mess at school, and I feel guilty... This morning while we were in homeroom, Phoebe dared Sam and Sean to turn on the smart board, and they did... They planned to turn it on then turn it right back off, but when it got on, it wouldn't get off when they pressed off since you had to wait for it to load all the way before you can turn it off. So the other three people at my table who were Vivian, Kathy, and I started laughing since Sam and Sean were tossing each other the remote and trying to get away from it by going to the restroom. But before they could get out of the door, Ms. Padachie caught them... I feel guilty since I didn't stop them from turning the smart board on, and I should have told Ms. Padachie right away... I feel guilty now... Ms. Padachie pissed off that time, and I deserved the punishment... Now Ms. Padachie kicked us out of her homeroom so we will now have Mr. Carlos' room as our homeroom... I feel guilty... I feel bad... SORRY MS. PADACHIE...

October 18, 2011 TUESDAY

I have so many things to talk about today!!! First of all, thinking about Halloween, I'm starting to think that I shouldn't spend a lot of time just making my costume and being careful about everything since no one in our school even cares!!! Barely anyone works hard for Halloween in our school, they just go with a simple mask on, don't even come, or just put a white blanket on themselves! No one has any spirit! But thinking again now... I feel that I have to make my Halloween costume perfect, and I don't know why I can't stop myself from caring about it even though I know that other people will disagree about dressing up... Well, perhaps it's just my personality...

Thinking to the past about Halloween, I missed the times when I was in Ohio for almost an year. Our Halloween was the best event ever, we got to dress up, ask for candies, and go ding-dong ditching to some people. My friends dad had a truck with a big place on the back that we could sit, so all my friends (about 12 girls) went with my friend's dad. We went around the neighborhood having a lot of fun, and we collected all our candies and made a pile on the truck were we sit, and as time passed that time, our pile of candies over flowed and spilled out of the truck, so kids went after us collecting all the candies we dropped. Our candies mostly went to trash later on since we were getting cavities when the candies were still not finished!!! I really missed the Halloween that year...

Anyways, today was a pretty fun day at school. And PE was all really fun until I got a finger jam... It was my turn to serve that time, so Willis passed the ball with a strong toss but he missed and the ball flied to my right, I tried to run to my right for the ball so I wouldn't have to go all the way across the court to get the ball later, but it hit my finger and slipped away... I thought I was okay that time so I still stayed on the court, but a little later, I found my finger swelling up, so I went downstairs and got an icepack... As I was having History class (the class after PE), it began to hurt more and more and also swelling up more. Although it hurts, I tried bending it down since it was fun because I could feel my fat finger squeezing together, and it gives me a funny squishy feeling.

After school, my mom put some medicine on my finger that came from the doctor, it smelled awful. After that, she wrapped my finger up. Now my finger looks like a well-rounded individual (get my joke?)... Anyways, now it looks like I'm pointing a middle finger when I try to write with my pencil. And it also slows down my typing since I could only use 9 fingers to type.

Anyways, this is what I mean by a well rounded individual...

October 17, 2011 MONDAY

Today was another boring day of school, the only thing I'll talk about today is about my Spanish test. I studied only yesterday at night for a few minutes just flipping through some pages read things out, so today I felt really nervous when we were about to take the test, but it turned out pretty well except that I was really hungry during the test and kept thinking about Ms. Padachie's sneaker bars in the bottom drawer in front of her desk. Also, before we started our tests, me and Phoebe had to do a presentation on Chile partly in Spanish, and I thought that I did a pretty good job. There's really nothing else to say... so... I'll end it like this...

October 16, 2011 SUNDAY

Today I got a new cellphone!!! Well, technically, I got it yesterday at night. But I just got it to charge, and barely touched it. My new phone's brand is Sony Ericsson, and it is a quite new product from the XPERIA. My phone's name is Xperia Ray, it's a pretty small cellphone compared to the other XPERIA products. I really like it because it uses the Android system, it's touch screen, it has an 800 mega pixel camera, it's not too big to carry, pretty thin, well designed, and not too expensive compared to an iPhone (about half the price).

Here's a picture of my lovely new cellphone...

Now I have some games and interesting things from the market in my new phone, I'm enjoying the scrabble game on my phone, and also everything else, but there's one thing I don't like about this phone. I don't like how it uses up it's energy fast when I browse or use things like msn or skype since I'll have to turn on my 3G stuff, but it barely uses up any energy when I'm not using it, so it kind of balances out if I don't use facebook or skype to much. Overall, I love my new phone, and I recommend this product to everyone who likes music, likes taking pictures, and doesn't browse all day. I recommend the cellphones with keyboards like the some of the blackberry products if you send a lot of messages or emails, and if you type things very often since it doesn't use up the battery power fast because only a little area on the phone is touch screen and also because it has a keyboard so you can type faster.

Anyways, I'm worried about my Spanish test tomorrow, so I might as well stop telling my story and go study...

October 13, 2011 THURSDAY

After my normal day of school today, I went to the dentist to check on my teeth like I have been doing for a long time... I usually go to the dentist to check on my teeth about every 6 months, and I'm getting quite tired of it. I usually just go there, let the dentist rinse my teeth, then poke around my teeth, then done... As simple as that.

Although I like going to the dentist for checking on my teeth since it always feel nice and clean afterwards, I didn't like it this time since mom asked the dentist whether I should get braces and he said yes... Well, I personally think that my teeth aren't very very very off the track, so I don't want to get braces... So now mom is thinking of  time for me to get braces... NOOOO!!! Anyways, I shouldn't have gone to the dentist with mom so she wouldn't get a chance to ask the dentist... Anyways, I'm not really ready for braces, I don't want them...

October 12, 2011 WEDNESDAY

I suddenly noticed that we're going to have the PSAT class/test again soon... It seemed like my last PSAT class/test had just ended... I feel nervous now since my mom expects me to improve on the test in this short period of time. I hope I can improve a lot on my test this time since I don't want to get beaten up by my mom.

I've just looked in my bookshelf and found an extremely old book that said "50 math skills... SAT..." on the cover, or something like that, so I picked it up, read it a little bit, and decided to finish studying and doing the exercises by our next PSAT test... I hope I have time to finish on that exercise book since I've noticed that it contains a lot of answering skills which can make math questions easier... I had some trouble last time finishing up my math questions, but I believe that these skills will make my life easier so I can finish it in time... I actually don't know where that old book came from (probably from a weird library), but no matter where it came from, I don't want to give it back.

October 11, 2011 TUESDAY

Oh man! Today after school, I was really unlucky, and I don't know why god's punishing me, I don't think it's because I've done something wrong... But anyways, today I was eating noodles with fish and corn in it that my mom had cooked, It was really hot, but I wasn't careful, so I picked up a spoonful of noodles and popped it in my mouth. And guess what happened? Well, I burned my tongue badly, and later when I was trying to calm my tongue with an ice cube, I stirred my noodles as fast as I could with my hands to make the heat go out (and partly since I was angry). But suddenly there was a splasshhhh!!! And I found myself dancing on the ground since the whole bowl of hot noodles spilled over me. It was a total waste of food, and it also burned my legs... Now part of my legs hurts when I touch it, and it's a pain... I hope I don't ever spill anything on myself again... By the way, I got slapped in the head (not face) by my mom...

October 10, 2011 MONDAY

Ya... Happy Birthday Taiwan... I really don't think there's anything good about double ten except that we can have a day off... Today my classmate Phoebe came over to my dad's company for 2 homework assignments that we had to do together. We didn't really spend a lot of time doing our work, we mostly wasted our time playing computer games, chatting, playing pranks on people, and playing Foosball... We had quite a lot of fun, but barely had time to finish our homework assignments. It seemed like Phoebe really liked the Foosball table at my dad's company, and she really want to get one of those for Christmas (if she doesn't get it she'll come steal my dad's Foosball table...).

Later she had dinner with my family, but we took quite a while deciding what to eat since some people liked this and some people liked that, but once or twice after agreeing on one restaurant, we found the whole restaurant occupied... Other than having fun with Phoebe, it was a pretty boring day...

October 9, 2011 SUNDAY

Thinking about Halloween, I thought about dressing up as Edward Scissor-hands, I thought about making the sharp scissor-hands by wrapping some foil paper around a piece of thin cardboard that are cut into shapes of scissors... I thought about how cool it would be, I could use some of my mom's black old leather jackets, boots, or belts as the accessories on Edward scissor-hands, and I can also cut little pieces of foil paper and wrap it around thin cardboard for the decorations on my outfit which will make it stand out even more...

I wonder why I always dress up as a character Johnny Depp had acted as, I dressed up as Mad Hatter last year for Halloween, Willy Wonka and Jack Sparrow a while ago, and I plan to dress up as Edward Scissor-hands for the Halloween this year... I think I like to dress up as characters Johnny Depp has acted as since his character is usually very funny in movies, and the movies always catch my attention...

October 8, 2011 SATURDAY

Today was a pretty funny and frustrating day for me, my mom and my brother went to Koushong to visit my grandparents, me and my dad didn't go since my dad some work to do, and I had violin and oil painting class. So anyways, after they left, my dad dropped me off at the place I learn violin and went to a comic store nearby where he bought a comic book and shared with me later on when my class was over... The comics inside the magazine were really funny, but they were all really long so I guess I can't share it with you guys... And after all that fun, I went to oil painting class as usual, and it was really quiet that class since my brother wasn't there. I was with another girl in that class, she was a new student that nearly spoke at all, so at last my oil painting teacher told her some jokes to make her speak a little, but once when I was drawing a very thin stroke on my painting for the bird's feather, my teacher said something really funny that made my hand shake and let my last feather on the bird become a blob... It was extremely frustrating!!! It's good that you can change and fix things with oil paint, but it's not good since I'll have to redo the area around the item you want to fix. And guess what? I had to do the feathers all over again just because of my teacher's joke!!!

Although I was very frustrated that my bird was ruined like that, I was happy to hear that my dad had Pirates of The Caribbean #4, which means we will be able to watch it before bed... Right now I have just finished the movie, I thought it was really exciting at some parts and really funny in the others, overall I thought it was a nice movie and I recommend it...

October 6, 2011 THURSDAY

Have you ever thought about what you want to be when you grow up? Well, I have thought about it before... A lot of people had asked me about what I wanted to be when I grow up, so that's why I started to think about it. When I was still a really young kid, I remember that I wanted to be a teacher, that time I thought teachers can tell you to do whatever they wanted you to do, but when grew up a little older, I realized that in most regular schools, teachers don't get payed a lot. Later when I was about fourth grade, I wanted to be an artist since I liked drawing, but I thought most artists are poor and only become rich after they die. When I was about fifth grade I wanted to be an actress since I watched a lot of cool movies of some people acting funny and some people acting serious, so I started making faces with different expressions when we take pictures, and it was quite fun... Now days I have thought that I want to be an architect, I want to be an architect since I found out that I always get excited when my parents are driving around with me and my brother looking either for a building which is sutible for their office, or either looking for houses/apartments that are sutible for my family...

Make sure you comment about what you want to be!

October 5, 2011 WEDNESDAY

Like I thought yesterday, when I woke up this morning, my arms and waist were really sore that I couldn't even pick up one of my arms to slap my alarm so that it will shut up, it was really really loud so I was nearly deaf by the time I slowly and painfully climbed down my bed and swung my arm at it... I was really tired this morning so I actually found out that I didn't wear socks when I was wearing my sneakers, realized that I forgot my school bag when I was stepping out of the door, and I also found out that I didn't bring my water bottle when I was about to go into the elevator at my apartment... So I was pretty forgetful this morning probably since I was tired...

Well, anyways, I thought that it actually felt really nice these days to do all my homework on my fluffy little bed although it's kind of hard and not really fluffy...

October 4, 2011 TUESDAY

Today we had fitness test during PE today AGAIN... we've had it for about two or three times since the start of our seventh grade already, and I hate it... we have to run laps/shuttle test, do push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and something else that I think was called digging or digger... The day after our fitness test is always very painful, and it really hurts when you try to lift your arms... So right now I'm trying to get ready for the pain that is going to take place... Since yesterday I slipped in a puddle, my ankle felt weird and hurts when I walk, so I didn't run for our fitness test, but I did the rest since they don't hurt my ankle as much... But anyways, I feel sad about that since I'll have to run all alone the next time we have PE class...

I actually felt quite happy during PE class today since usually I can't even do one pull-up, but today I felt the power in me that made me do three and a half pull-ups (with a little mat under my feet to make me get a little closer to bar above... ha ha...) Even though three and a half pull-ups might seem very few to my classmate Phoebe, but it is a great improvement for me...

October 3, 2011 MONDAY

This morning I don't know why, but when my alarm clock rang, I slammed it onto the ground and continued sleeping... But gladly, my mom woke up early and heard my alarm clock drop to the floor and came into my room, when she saw me still asleep, she woke me up with a tickle... (I could have been late if it wasn't my mom) Anyways, when I got to school today, I found out that many people were late, and I was glad I wasn't one of them...  During lunch, they announced that half of the middle and high school students were late, and if they're late again tomorrow, they'll have to write an essay with a specified topic...

Today my mom, my brother, and I walked to a restaurant together for dinner, but as we were fast walking back to our apartment in the rain without an umbrella, I slipped, slammed my ankle and my butt on the ground, and got ran over my my brother... He was looking at his yummy popcorn and not looking at where he's going... So when I fell and stayed on the ground, my brother kept going and tripped right over me kicking my ankle again... Now I've got a boo boo on my butt, and my ankles feel weird...

October 2, 2011 SUNDAY

Guess what? Today was my dad's birthday, yesterday was my grandma's birthday, and the day before yesterday was my great-grandma's birthday! What a coincidence! Anyways, today my family, my grandma, my great-grandma, and a lot more aunts, uncles, and cousins all went to Taipei 101 for the birthday party of all three of them... I don't know why but last year's birthday party for all three of them were also at Taipei 101... Well, it's probably just because we like the restaurant there and that we can buy gifts for them from the shops there...

I had very interesting time listening to stories about my dad's childhood told by my grandma, and also my grandma's childhood told by my great-grandma... All of them were halarious!

My great-grandma is now 99 years old, but she can still play poker cards with us (and also winning us), walk by herself up and down stairs, tell us jokes and laugh with us, and she can also run!!! I always have a lot of fun with my great-grandma. I wish she can live for another 20 years!!!

September 29, 2011 THURSDAY

Have you ever thought about how lucky you are? Well, I did... Today I woke up from a nightmare and sat up, I looked around my room at my bed, my closet, my books, my clothes, my table, my laptop, and then at myself... I suddenly felt that I was really lucky to be born, especially lucky to be born in a happy family with a working brain and body... I imagined how hard my life would be if I had no money, no shelter, no food, no parents, no arms/legs, or if I was deaf, blind, and couldn't express my feelings with words coming out of my mouth. I looked around me and thought that I had everything, I had a bed, I had food, I had parents, and everything else that I need. Today I thought that I was really lucky that I didn't need to work everyday at places to survive, didn't need to worry everyday just for food and shelter, didn't need to worry about freezing in the cold, and that I had money to go to such a school. I saw all this as a note from god, and for me, it's telling us to be thankful of what you have, make good use of the luck that god gave us, and thank our parents for raising us from the moment we were born...

September 28, 2011 WEDNESDAY

I had just remembered that I have forgotten all about my journal last Sunday, which is the day before camp... I'm really surprised that I can forget such a thing, but I think it's because I was too excited that my grandma was coming to my house, and that camp was on the next day... So maybe those two thought took over my mind that night...

Anyways, today I just got back from my interesting (but wet) camp... I don't know why but today I am especially tired, right now my eyelids are about to close, and my vision is getting blurry... I feel like shutting down any second... Although I had a lot of ideas about camp to write in my journal when I was having dinner, I couldn't even remember one of the ideas right this second... Now I guess I don't have too much to say, and I really do apologize if I have some grammar and spelling mistakes here in my journal...

September 22, 2011 THURSDAY

Have any of you ever watched your school teachers play basketball with the students? Well I watched my school teachers play basketball with us students today... This morning I was excited to come to school since we will watch teachers play against students in a basketball game.

When it was club time, we didn't have club, instead, we went upstairs to the roof where there's a basketball court. I sat beside the court and watched the game, there were games for girls, and games for boys, it was quite funny watching them play... Although most of the games were pretty fair, one of them wasn't, and it was middle school boys playing against both male and female teachers, that was the game where the teachers got points back from loosing the high school students, and it was also the game where the teachers bullied the students... There were also some funny things that happened in that game, well, my homeroom teacher Ms. Padachie went around bumping the students, and one of my classmates called Sean got bumped and went flying backwards onto the ground... But just then, I saw Sean looking super tiny dribbling the ball under, over, to the left, or to the right of teachers with lightning speed and scoring with an awesome jump shot.

Everything was not "really" exciting until the head of school went onto the court and started running around, she looked like she had gone nuts when the teachers team had scored, it was quite interesting and funny to watch...

September 21, 2011 WEDNESDAY

I had almost forgot to write my journal today, but I suddenly remembered it when I was about to go take a shower... Well, anyways... today was a boring day except that my mom bought me a new bag, although I was happy that I won't need to be carrying a broken bag to school, I was also kind of sad when I saw that it was purple...

Anyways, I think I should be thankful for getting a nice and big bag like that, so I'll just pretend that I like purple.

There's a little something that I thought was special today... well, today I was strangely forgetful, I did parts of my homework today when I got home, and thought that I was completely done, but when it was about 8:00, I suddenly realized that I was far from finishing, I also forgot to bring my water bottle to school this morning, and "almost" forgot to write my journal...

I think this is all I can say about my day in my journal, since I'm very forgetful today, I also can't remember any more special things or events that happened today...

September 20, 2011 TUESDAY

After a normal day of school, I went home, put my bag at the entrance of my door and took the things I needed onto my desk. After I was done with some of my homework assignments, I decided to put the ones I'm done back into my bag, so I went to the entrance of my door, took my bag, and headed again for my desk, but as I was walking there, I heard a SLAPPPP!!!! I looked behind me, and found my bag laying headless on the ground... the handle had broken off...

Now it's just a lonely soul without a head...

I dragged it around and tried to see if the pole of my bag could still go in, and turned out that it could, but when I tried to pull it back out, it wouldn't even budge... So I opened the zipper inside of my bag and held on to a round button and shook it upside down until it finally came out...

After this tragedy, I told my mom about my bag's broken head, she laughed and said she'll buy me another one soon... Right now I suppose I will be going to school dragging a handleless bag behind me for a couple of days until my mom buys me another one... Right now I'm also trying hard not to let the pole get in again since I'm not sure if it would come out safely the second time...

September 19, 2011 MONDAY

Today I felt extremely tired at school, and fought hard not to fall asleep. I don't usually get the sleeping germs during school hours, so you might wonder why I fought hard not to fall asleep today... Well, yesterday I woke up before 6:00 and went to I-Lan with my family and my dad's company, we had activities that required an extreme amount of energy. I would have been fine today if I had a good amount of sleep last night, but I didn't, we headed home at about 9:00 ~ 10:00 and arrived at about 11:00. I could have slept on the bus, but with sounds of snoring and the and the driver's bad driving skills, I couldn't sleep at all... Last night I slept at about 11:30, many people consider that time early for sleeping, but for me, it's pretty late since I usually sleep at 10:00. Well, the sleeping late and waking up early isn't really the main problem, the main problem was that I woke up several times during the night due to a continues nightmare...

Now I'm almost falling asleep, so I plan to finish my homework early today and sleep at 9:00 ~ 9:30...

September 18, 2011 SUNDAY

I woke up at 6 today and headed for I-Lan with my family and my dad’s company, it was a pain waking up that early, but it was all worth it when we had arrived. We arrived at a weird museum with old structures and potteries, it wasn’t too bad when we poked around the museum listening to Mr. Bagu’s story about I-Lan’s history, but it was awesome when we got to make muddy potteries, make clay models, watch extremely funny performances, and get quizzed about I-Lan’s history, there were even prizes given out to the winners of the quiz (I was one of them)! Although the museum part of the trip was nice, it was not the best of all… The best part of my trip was when we went to a farm and baked sweet potatoes and chicken, the part were we went to the river and searched for crabs, shrimps, and clams hiding was also nice. I caught tons of them! They swam all around in the bucket looking extremely worried, so I quickly put them all back into where they belong…

When it got late, we took the bus and went to the crowded night market, the shopping at the night market was great! I’ve never seen anything like that! It looked four times as big as the ones we see in Hsinchu! My family and I bought dozens of things, and it was a really exciting trip, but no trip is perfect, and there’s always a time where you’ll have to go home…

Right now I’m sitting in the bus, with my laptop on my lap, telling my story… It’s now about 10:00… I feel tired, but I also feel sad to leave…

September 17, 2011 SATURDAY

Today was a weird day for me... well, I usually wake up at 6:30~7:00 in the morning including both weekdays and weekends, but this morning I woke up at 11:30... I do not know why I woke up that late, it's not that I slept late since I slept at about 10:30, and I also didn't feel extremely tired when I went to bed the night before, so that's one of the reasons that I consider this day "weird"... Another weird feeling about my day was that I had a really nightmare that I knew was scary, but when I thought about what the dream was about, I had completely no idea.

The weirdest thing that happened today was that I kept having feelings about people following and hiding behind me, but every time I turned back to check, I see nothing and no one...

September 15, 2011 THURSDAY

I've noticed that everyday at school, people only have great reactions to two of the bells in a day, one is the bell that tells us to go line up for lunch, and one that opens the door to the cage and lets us out (which is the bell that tells us school's over). Today we had science class before lunch, and we all knew well enough to get things ready before the bell rings. (we will have to wait a long time in the lunch line if we don't hurry...) As the bell rang, I walked out of the classroom and got bumped by a student running to lunch at the speed of lightning, I shook my head and continued walking with Kathy to our lockers, but as I was about to reach my locker, another person ran right pass me almost running over me, so I decided that it was... the lunch rush... I imagined the people that bumped me as big tough wrestlers, but the thought later changed to a fright, so I shook it out of my mind... I've now decided that during the lunch rush everyday, I will have to be extremely careful to not let anyone run over me, bump me while they're running, or step on my new shoes... (If I have any new ones...)

September 14, 2011 WEDNESDAY

After another normal day of school today, I felt extremely hungry when I was on my way back home, so as soon as I got home, I looked all over the refrigerator, the shelves, and the tables for some snacks that can keep me going before it's time for dinner. All I found was milk, string cheese, moon cakes, some big tomatoes, and one last pack of lovely Oats 'n Honey flavored granola bars, so I teared off the wrappers as fast as I would and took a big bite, but I tasted something that made my tongue tickle, I looked at my granola bar and saw a hair sticking out of it!!!

I tried to pull it out but it wouldn't even budge... I really didn't want to waste that big chunk of yummy granola bars by throwing it away, so I wrapped it back in the wrappers, slammed it on the table, opened the wrapper again, took the loosen hair out of it, tried to forget all about the hair, and dumped them back into my mouth... As far as I know, the hair probably wasn't unwashed for a month since I didn't get sick, well, at least I hope that the hair was clean... XDD

If you're wondering what granola bars are, here's a picture of granola bars with different flavors...

September 13, 2011 TUESDAY

Today we had PE class in the park in front of our school, we gathered all our equipments for softball and went to the park, it was all quite fun and well until it was my turn to bat, it wasn't that I didn't like batting, it was just that when I was about to put on a helmet, I touched the sponge inside the helmet... it felt like a bunch of tissue papers soaked with water, I tried my best to avoid touching the sticky and sweaty sponge inside the helmet, but as soon as I put the helmet on, the sponge in the helmet started letting the sweat out, and onto my face... It was an absolute pain to have someone else's sweat dripping down my face, it felt terrible, it made me unable to concentrate on batting a running... All I wish now is that I will never use a helmet like that again...