Missing A Lot

  Today the school is so not cheerful cause many people stay at homes and not showing up. There are only five or six people in my first and second classes, which is not cool cause it feels so weird with so less students. Despite this, today is actually a super relaxing day cause there are no difficult assignments that we have to do, and I think it’s because today is the last day of school day so teachers don’t want to be so cruel to us for the Lunar New Year break. Today I already make up my mind that I’m gonna go to bed really early cause I slept at three o’clock yesterday, and that was shommy. After today, I could then start enjoying my awesome break!

Dats Right Men!

   Today, I attend a party that is held by some doctors, and the main point of this party is to let every children know each other better. Almost every children provide some shows, but not me cause I don’t know what should I do. Anyway, I’m kinda forced to go up to the stage and sing a song, which is not cool cause I don’t have enough time to prepare and shock all the rest of the people. However, when everyone’s getting high, I’m getting hyper. I just couldn’t let the microphone leave my hand, and I just keep on singing and singing. At that time, I could feel my voice really come out cause I’m less nervous when everyone’s not putting their focus on me. I feel super awesome cause everyone, including Mama and Papa, are surprised how good I can sing, and they just enjoy listening to my songs. Whoa! I love the kind of feeling that I’m the star of the whole show. At first, I think I’m doomed for not preparing any talent show, but now, things change. I go to KTV very often, and now it’s the time to show off: I can sing every song, and sing them well. The party is gnarly not only I get to feel like an idol and amaze everyone, but also I get more familiar with many other children and I add them on Facebook!

Hoopla!

   Today the two basketball teams stay after school and do decorating work for the Hoopla Dance tomorrow. After everyone spends efforts in these long and tiring days, there’s finally something kick ass come out. Although there’s no light, which is kind of lame, I think the balloons and the lights still look pretty awesome. At least I can smell the atmosphere of dancing. I’m not worn out for doing the decorating because I’m the DJ, who plays cheerful music for people so they can work better. Also, I like this kind of feeling when working while enjoying other stuffs, it’s pretty wooka. I hear that there’s not many people going to the Hoopla Dance, and this is not cool. I hope the dance can still be great, and everyone can have fun.  

Awesome Game

   Today I finally attend the basketball practice after missing it for three times in a row. I think the practice today rocks cause we’re playing games; no physical and skill training. When I’m in the host team, we totally knock the other team off. Everyone can score every time they shoot. But, when I switch to the opposing team, the winning sign changes. We’re starting to lead the game, which is off the richter. However, my performance really sucks cause I didn’t grab the great chance to shoot in the hoops when there’s wide-open. I feel so lame that I’m so sorry for my teammates. Next time, I’m gonna nailed the other team down by shooting as many baskets as I can.

Burlesque

      Today I didn’t stay at school until late at night, so I got home before dinner time. At night, Mama brought me to watch “Burlesque.” I think it’s an awesome, bitchin movie. Dude, I’m telling ya, the songs, the dance in there are primo. Christina Augerila is really a fantastic singer, actress, dancer. Every song she sings in the movie, I’m addicted to them, all of them are rad. While hearing Christina sings, her voice is of greatly explosive force. I feel like I’m in her concert, and she’s standing in front of me, singing live. I become super fan of Christina now, and everyone should go watch this cool movie as soon as possible.

Hella Foobar

     Today I’m in a super duper ill condition cause I’m sick and I didn’t sleep much last night. My head hurts a lot and I feel like wanting to throw up, so I decide to go home. Right after the third period class ends, I call Mama and then I get back home to take a rest. I think this is my first time to drop early out of school, which means I’m really uncomfortable that I can’t take it anymore. After sleeping for several hours, my head doesn’t ache that much, and I feel good. The cold is really not cool, and I hope I can recover soon, at least before the break cause I don’t want to spend the whole break at home.

Gimme My Shoes

        Today is fer sure a tiring day cause I go shopping at three department stores in Taipei, and my feet are super sore. I so wanna buy a pair of gray shoes, but all the stores I go couldn’t find my size, which is bogus. The smallest size they have is 8, which is still one size bigger than my feet. After spending the whole afternoon trying to buy shoes, I still get nothing in the end. Dude! This is lame. Although the gray shoes don’t belong to me, I change my direction and look for other types. I need to find other time to search for my dream shoes, and I hope there is my size.

A Mess

        Today, the whole school is in a mess during club time because there is basketball game going on, guest speaker for musical production coming, and students don’t know whether they should go to their new clubs or old ones. I’m in the yearbook club, and only three people show up today because others are in the musical meeting. Others are those who are responsible for the layout part, but their all gone, and Ms. Mei-Ling is worried because she has no one to talk to for keeping track where we’re at. In addition, the cheerleading club doesn’t have practices today because most of the cheerleaders also participate in musical production. I think the school should manage a time when most of the people can attend as many activities as they want.

No missing

   Today is the last time for me to attend the SAT II Math after school class, and also the last time to review for the test, which is on this Saturday. I’ve been missing basketball practices on Wednesday because of the extra class, and I miss chances to train together with Frank Wu. Moreover, I won’t be able to attend the practice on Friday since Mom has to ride me to Taipei before dawn. After this week, I can go to every practice, and finally won’t fall behind with other teammates. Basketball is a group activity; it’s about collaboration and cooperation. Thus, it’s important that everyone practices together as much as possible in order to be more familiar with each other.

Eating and Sleeping

   Today I don’t know why I’m being hungry and sleepy for all day. During lunch time, I not only eat my own lunchbox, but also others’ food. In the last period, I do some homework and then fall asleep on sofa. After school ends, I go out to buy dinner with others. Again, I lie down on the sofa after I’m done with my food. When I get home, my stomach feels empty, so I ask Mom to give me some night snack. We have tempura as night snack, which I haven’t had for since last summer. Moreover, I go to McDonalds and order an apple pie and an ice cream. I feel like there is no end of my stomach today, which is pretty scary. I hope I can be normal again tomorrow.

Improvements

   After practicing basketball today, Mr. Li tells me that my drilling improves, which makes me feel happy. Being in the basketball team for one year, my basketball skill finally moves toward a good direction. Also, Mr. Li said that the only thing I need to improve on is my physical strength, and my practice time isn’t enough. This week after I’m done with the SAT II Math test, then I can go to practices regularly just as before. Going to practices three times a week can definitely has faster and larger improvements than going for twice or once. For the remaining months, I hope I can improve more and bring these skills into universities.

Reversing ZZZ

   Today is Antony’s birthday, and he held a party yesterday. The party started from Saturday, and ended in Sunday. In addition, we didn’t have much sleep for whole night because most people were having pretty much fun and didn’t feel a sense of tiredness. The time that we start sleeping is around 6:00 o’clock in the morning, which should be the wake up time rather than sleeping time. Again, we stay over at Antony’s house, just like last time when celebrating New Year’s Eve. Staying up all night makes my eyes feel extremely sore, which is uncomfortable. However, I feel a lot better when waking up at noon. This kind of life-play hard at night, sleep lot in the morning, is exciting when experiencing for first few times. But it can’t definitely be done too often, or else people would get sick and tired of it. Although the sleeping time is reversed today, I’m still glad to be able to celebrate the birthday party with friends.

Grill!!

    Today my dinner is special-grilling food. There is a new grilling shop at the China-Da night market, so I join with Allen, Mindy, Sylvia, Antony, and Claire to go try out the new restaurant. While choosing food to be grilled, my hands couldn’t stop because my eyes shine as I see food, and I become a greedy person. When other people see this, they’re all shocked because my basket is already full and I’m putting more food inside. In the end, I have 15 grilling, which is the most amount and the most expensive. There is no vegetable in my choice, only meat, which is pretty unhealthy. In addition, the meat quality is overall good and delicious. While waiting other people’s grilling to be done, I finish my pack when standing outside of the restaurant talking to others, which makes me feel so full.

Relaxing Time

   After the finals and college application are done, senior can finally have some time to relax. Some classes have become less stressful, and we even can study on our own while the teacher is lecturing since our grades have already been sent out. For two classes of the British Literature class, we are watching the movie “A Knight’s Tale.” It’s pretty rare that we can have such entertainment in such a stressful class, thus I feel especially glad that we don’t have to do anything in the class. This week I‘ve been pretty loose: I only tell myself to finish one homework assignment per day because I don’t want to go back to the life of senior hell again, never! Within two weeks is the Lunar New Year break, and I hope teachers won’t be cruel and life can still be so easy until then.

Hoopla Fundraiser Dance

   Today, both boys and girls basketball teams have a meeting with the student council to discuss about the Hoopla Fundraiser Dance, and money raised will be used for our jerseys and equipment. Each team member is expected to invite as many people as possible, including those from local schools. The ultimate purpose for this dance is to make as much money as we can. I hope there will be some games other than dancing because games could always attract people’s attention. For the food part that I’m looking forward to the most is BBQ. Tasting the food right at the moment it just come out is the most enjoyable thing to do on the world. There are still many things need to be discussed more, such as the decoration, the theme, the lights, the music. Anyway, I hope the dance could be fun, and everyone could really enjoy the food, the drink, and the games.

Pain, Sore, Tiresome

    Today the basketball practice is all about training our physical strength rather than basketball skills. Last Monday and Wednesday, I didn’t attend the practices because I was studying for the final exam, and I can completely feel that my physical strength is way behind others who came. The first thing we do is running stairs for five times, which we should have finished every run within 1 minute and 55 seconds. The stairs are pretty crowded today because not only our basketball teams are doing training there, but also that of Kuang-Fu’s. After five rounds are done, my thighs are so sore that I don’t even have the effort to life them up. The second thing is push-up, which I’m not able to reach the required amount. We should do 20 push-ups within 45 seconds, however I could only do 15. For the rest of the rounds, I’m getting worse, which the amount of push-ups I’m doing is decreasing due to extreme sore arms. Third thing is lifting up the Thomas ball while making great strides in order to train our back thigh muscle. The Thomas ball is so heavy that my hands can sometimes lose catching it. The last thing is the swimming, which is also to train our back muscle, of the waist. After today, I have a feeling that tonight my arms, my waist, and my thighs would be in super sore condition. What’s more painful is that the sore might spread all over my body tomorrow!

Frankenstein

   Today I watch the film “Frankenstein” from 1994. Originally, I thought it would be boring, but I think it’s the most enjoyable one of the five movies after watching it. For many years, I have been thinking that Frankenstein is the weird looking guy. Until today, I finally realize that Frankenstein is actually the scientist who has great ambition of trying to bring death people back to their lives. To me, I don’t think that Frankenstein is a horror movie; it’s pretty touching and melancholy rather. Although Frankenstein’s motivation is really good, it’s far beyond his capability. Also, I think it’s irresponsible of him to just leave his experimental product alone after he creates it. I like the film pretty much because there are lots of epics, which rouse my interest constantly. In addition, I learn from the film that people shouldn’t set goals that are too unreachable, or else it would have sad or unhappy results.

YA! Pressures Over

   Today is probably the happiest day I’ve ever had, because I’m finally done with all the finals. I don’t know why I have so much pressure for this time’s finals, which I study really hard for all subjects. When the bell rings at the fourth period, my mind is so hyper that it almost jumps out of my heart. At that time, I really want to shout: “Ya! No more finals! Time to enjoy our life.” The seniors can definitely relax now because then we only have to concentrate on light load of school work. No more college application, and we don’t need to handle such a great pressure that almost drive us crazy anymore.

One Last Time

   Today is the last day that I have to prepare for the final, and then the seniors can have parties! Again, about five students go to Mr. Dahl’s classroom and study for testing materials, especially “Macbeth” because there are 46 questions about it. The topic that I’m most afraid of and unconfident about is “From the Paradise Lost: Fall of Satan” because I don’t know what the whole story is going on even after reading it. Recently, I find out that group studying is really useful since everyone can exchange different ideas and opinions. For haven’t sleeping well for so many days, I can feel that I’m going to fall apart anytime. The only thing that makes me move on is the thought: this final is especially important, after I’m done, then I can truly relax and enjoy the rest of the senior life.

Stressed Out!!!

    Today, six seniors (including me) stay after school in Mr. Dahl classroom to prepare for the essay questions tomorrow. Before entering the classroom, I have already done research for each question, but only the first one has the most thorough information. Having all this things, the only problem is that I don’t know how to put them into an essay with a good thesis statement. The after school learning session really helps a lot because after I ask Mr. Dahl some questions, it feels like I’m enlightened. I finally understand how should I organize all my facts, what should I include in the essay to gain more points, and how to show the readers what I’m going to talk about directly in the thesis. Tonight, I have to finish three outlines, but I don’t know whether I can accomplish this task since I didn’t have much sleeping time yesterday due to Calculus cramming. I hope tomorrow the Gods of Pukapie could bless me and give us essay topic number 1-the one that I’m most ready, most prepared.

School Starts, Pain Begins

   The school starts today, and everyone looks tired which might be staying up all night to make up for homework. This week is the seniors final exam week, and I think it’s better that exams are all done before winter break because then students could really enjoy and have fun while on vacation. We couldn’t truly release our pressure during the two weeks winter break since we need to face such difficult tasks first day of school. Exams for British Literature and AP Calculus classes are ones that I’m worried and nervous about; I’m afraid that I couldn’t do well, which would affect the college application. Tonight, most seniors in the AP Calculus class open the classroom and do the review together. This time’s final exams are especially important, so we have to do as best as we could no matter what it takes. Tomorrow, the seniors would definitely get together and prepare for another big final exam for the British Literature class.