The morning turned out fine, we ended up not doing our French presentation, but now she's giving us more time because it's supposed to be part of our final oral exam mark. In English, I did pretty good on the quiz, a lot better than I expected, since I barely had time to skim over the fourth chapter of the book we were supposed to read. I was up all night trying to finish my band recordings. And now I feel so free, since I've finally finished them, and just sent them in. I'm actually going to be scared to check my email tomorrow, since the mark for the band recordings is most likely the mark for the term. I hope I get a decent mark...And today, we did more dance practice, and Mr. Dykstra let Natasha and I stay after to practice with the Synergy 9s. And then right after school, I an eye appointment, and I guess my vision hasn't improved yet. But the good thing is, it didn't worsen either! So it kind of just stayed the same, which is good, because last time I went, it worsened. Oh yeah! And I got a new glasses case! There was a new style, but they ran out, so I got the flippy one again for free! And it's so new! And another good news? My sister's friend's friend's dog is having puppies, and so our family might adopt one of their puppies when they grow older. At least, we're begging our parents to. I'm pretty sure our mom already gave in. But we did search up the breed (Shih tzu/Maltese mix) up, and they look far cuter and different then I thought it would be. Here's an example:
Aww, it's hard to resist a face like that. I'm just not a big fan of small, yappy dogs, but I have a feeling that taking care of my first dog is going to be a ton of fun. Well, at least I HOPE my first dog is on it's way. But I don't want to get my hopes up...
Ok, I guess I'll take a break before I get back to my recordings. I plan to finish Flight of the Bumblebee, Sourwood Mountain, and Julie's Blues by the end of today. And then I still have to finish the rest of my homework, maybe some Chinese, and practice piano all by today. Oh gosh, and I still haven't had time to clean my hamster's cage yet...I guess I'll have time for that tomorrow. Okay, my goal is to finish all my recordings by Wednesday, so I have time to work on the Science and Renaissance Project after that. Oh no, there's a lot of work again, and I guess that means I'll have a no-procrastination week again, or maybe I'll make it last until after Finals. Hmm, I wonder how that'll turn out. But I'm determined to get a better mark than last term, and not drop again!!!
So today Science was a lot more easy and fun, we're beginning to learn about light optics. I actually managed to feel not sleepy today, since I got enough sleep last night. In Band, our group did our duet performance, and I think we did an awesome job! And then it was time for the flashmob. Mimi and I were just randomly talking about cantonese to try to not look like we were standing around waiting for the music to start. It was kind of weird, at the other end of the mob, it was so squished, and it was hard to try dancing without stepping on someone else. Eventually, it evened out a little, but still, it was pretty crowded. I thought we we looked really disorganized, but in the video, we looked pretty good. I guess we're still doing another flashmob on Friday.
I guess it's back to the band recordings,
Dapple Grey
I'm trying to train myself to sleep earlier, which isn't really working. I guess I'll try again tomorrow, but I'm determined to wake up tomorrow feeling like I actually got some sleep. So, this morning, I slept in, because the night before, I was helping my mom with some homework, which took until 1 in the morning. At least this time, she let me sleep in until 11, which is the latest I've ever gone. Oh no, what happened to those times when I would wake up at 7/8 on the weekends, feeling perfectly refreshed? I'm going to train myself to sleep earlier, and hopefully those times will return.
So today, I finally learned how to bus to the Sunset rink. And it was way easier than I thought. It's the same route as the one I used to take to my elem school. But it still took around 50 minutes...At least it was a sunny day, so I didn't have to walk in the rain. I'm so much more confident about taking transit, and my mom trusts me more on not getting lost. But she still urges me to go try taking different routes by myself, which is good, I guess, since I know some people's parents are so over-protective, they don't let their children ride transit by themselves. And tonight, I knitted some more, and then practiced the flute for 2 hours, recorded 1 piece, and I think I'll do some more tomorrow. But there's no way I'll be able to record them all tomorrow. OH yeah, tomorrow's the first day of Buskerfest! I wonder how the flashmob's going to turn out...
And the super blog I promised, here's a picture of the Sunset community centre? Isn't it beautiful? It's like a wonderful piece of art!
This morning, I didn't get to sleep in, since I had a piano lesson at 8. Well, my teacher decided that she wanted to give me a mock exam, since my test was in August, and I wasn't exactly ready for a mock exam. But I guess she wanted me to practice. I was ok in the beginning, then I just got worse and worse, and even I knew that I wouldn't get a good mark. My confidence just died. Turns out that I did in fact get a 79%, even when I thought I would score in the low 70s. Sigh, that means more and more practice, and speaking of music, I have to do my flute recordings soon, but it's so hard, and I have no idea how I'm going to do them...I guess that's even MORE practice. Great.
At least I had a relaxing lunch at this great restaurant, but most of the time, I just wanted to read my book. It's so good, with Greek/Roman mythology, I just can't put it down. It distracted me for an hour and a half yesterday, when I should have been reading my English novel. I guess I'll have to catch up tomorrow.
The rest of the day, I spent watching cartoons and knitting, it really is an awesome way to multi-task. The cartoons are a good way for me to relax, and knitting's just become something my hands just do by themselves. I'm just relaxing and working at the same time. Awesome!
Dapple Grey
Darn. Track meet was cancelled. So now it's never going to happen. That's disappointing...I was actually looking forward to my 200m sprint, and watching the other events. At least now I won't have to show the world my shameful shot put throw....
In French, we reviewed a little, and I guess my French teacher was expecting the track meet to be cancelled, since she was pretty prepared. English was more fun, we did journals and then since I didn't want to do my novel study work, I helped Mrs. Greskiw sort out book tests, which was more fun, but then I got a paper cut...
At lunch, we held our band rehearsal, and we didn't really practice much, but it was hard, since one of us forgot to bring their sheet music, and so it sounded really weird. At least we got time during Applied Skills to practice. Oh yeah, we did our practice flash mob today, which turned out to be really awkward. I found out that a couple of our classmates' older siblings were there watching, so it must have been a lot more awkward for them.
Afterwards, I had P.E., and the warm up run turned up to be more tiring, since I haven't had a P.E. class for a long time! We did softball today, something I've never done, since I've missed a lot of classes. At first, we practiced catching with the mitt. I guess I did OK, I dropped the ball the first couple of times, but then I got pretty good at catching. I didn't have a chance to practice hitting the ball with the bat, we just went straight to a softball game. It was really fun, I got the hang of it, and hitting didn't turn out as hard as I thought it would be. I hit a foul ball on my first try, but on my second time, I managed to hit the ball correctly, even though it didn't land so far. Softball is turning out to be better than I thought.
Stay tuned for a Super blog,
Dapple Grey
Surprisingly enough, I survived this day of tests. I wasn't a bit sleepy, even though I did stay up quite late yesterday. And the tests weren't what I expected either. The science test was kind of hard, since I didn't really study for it, and just focused on my studying on Socials. But Science was a Tuiz, so I guess I wasn't that hard either. Band was more relaxing, it was the only class I had today where there wasn't a test. We played a lot of our old pieces, like Bugs, which we haven't played since November, and handed them back. Sigh, now my band folder is slowly growing emptier and emptier...It turns out that the Math test was actually just a quiz, but still, I didn't finish fast enough, and had one question left, which I could have finished if I had more time. For Socials, it was so awesome! We had a group test sort of thing, which surprised a lot of us, but it was so fun! It was definitely synergizing, since everyone seemed to know different sorts of information. We also got to play around with play-doh and we built this gothic cathedral. Well, our group didn't really have that much play-doh, and so it was pretty challenging trying to make it stand properly. I really like taking tests like this, it was really fun, but he slipped in ways to test us about what we knew as well. That was a genius idea. Anyways, now I'm just replaying Celebration over and over again, and I'm pretty sure I know most of the lyrics now.
Okay, that nice comfy warm bed is waiting for me. I can't wait to sink into it...
So, for the first time in forever, I'm blogging early, instead of doing it at 10 something at night. Yup, it's all part of my no procrastination rule this week, starting today, I guess. This morning, I was sleepy through French, and then I got more woken up by all those yummy foods staring at me from the French textbook. Good thing we don't have French before lunch, right when I'm the hungriest, or maybe I'll start eating my textbook or something. I got my poetry book back from English, and I scored a perfect score! I'm so glad, it took me forever to work on that book, and I think I'm going to give it to my mom for her birthday in June. Whew! Good thing I didn't stick any dark, deep poems in there. Then we had our test, which was a LOT easier than I expected it to be. I did spend a lot more time checking it over, because I almost always have some careless mistakes. Oh yeah, in English we're starting a new novel study book, called the Wizard of Earthsea. She's rushing us through it, so we have until June 8th to finish it. I'm not sure why, but I'm pretty excited to do another novel study. Maybe it's because it sounds pretty fun, and also I'm starting to get a bit tired of all that poetry...
For Applied Skills, we did more Celebration dancing, and now I think I've got all the moves down. I also got to skip P.E. in the rain, to do dancing with the Synergy 9s. It was pretty fun, except the Synergy 9s are all tall and so loud and they just scare me. I guess that's what it feels like to all the shorter Synergy 8s. At least I'm a lot more comfortable with the dancing now. Now I'll just have to practice "wardrobe revealing" and actually memorize the lyrics to the song. I got the hat and T-shirt today, and they both look pretty cool. I think the band group's going to have a practice on Friday, too. I can't wait! Buskerfest is just around the corner!
Now I'm going to not procrastinate and start studying for those 3 tests tomorrow...
I will not procrastinate. I will not procrastinate. I will not procrastinate. I will not procrastinate.
Dapple Grey
Lesson learned, from now on, I shall have a copy of my room key hiding somewhere OUTSIDE my room, so if I happen to stupidly lock myself out, I would have another key to open it. Sigh, it's kinda what happened today. So I can home today, and I was in a pretty good mood, until this happened. I walked out of my room, not noticing that I accidentally locked the door on the way out, and then my door closed behind me. When I got back, finding it locked, I thought my brother went in and locked me out, until I heard his voice behind .. My thoughts? Oh no, oh no, oh no. I remember there used to be a copy of this key hidden in this cupboard, I tried every key I could find in the house, and none of them fit. I guess my parents threw it away, with the other useless keys, thinking that they didn't have nay purpose. And then I got more desperate, and so I decided to try to pick the lock with a bobby pin. Ahh, that didn't work out so well either. So then I really panicked and was desperate, so I went to my mom. She tried picking the lock, but then she had to go to her classes, so she wasn't home to help. My grandfather though, was pretty good at problem solving and fixing things, so I went to him instead. We ended up with the idea of crawling in through my open window from the outside. Thank goodness my room is on the main floor, and not the top floor, or else I wouldn't have been able to do this. First we tried our normal ladder that barely reached my window, but was tall enough to take out the window screen, which was only held in place by two little plastic thingies, that were pretty easy to take out. Then we opened the window all the way, got out our really, really tall ladder that reached all the way up to our window. I was about to climb it, but then my little brother offered instead. I guess it would be easier for him, since he's a lot lighter, and so he would have the best chance of having the ladder not fall while he was on. So my grandfather and I held the ladder tight, while he climbed all the way up. Lucky for him, I keep a chair under the window, so he stood on that, and then we heard the THUMP! when he jumped onto the floor, and unlocked my door. Then we put back the window screen, and my room was freed! I was so, so happy and grateful. I made sure to repay my brother in terms of candy. Scared I'll lock myself out again, I gave me room key to my grandfather to copy so I could have a second key outside my room. THANK GOODNESS! I will never be that careless, and never, ever try that again! Well, lesson learned, always have a key outside your room, especially if your only room key is attached to a USB in your room.
So I did my cleaning today, and I can't really call it Spring Cleaning, since the beginning of spring was a long time ago, and it can't be summer cleaning, since summer's not even here yet. So it'll just be almost summer cleaning. Or late spring cleaning. It took me quite a long time to clean it. First, I just took everything out and laid them on the ground so I could wipe down the shelves. They're almost all covered in dust. And then I have this huge garbage bag, that I kept dumping junk and papers that I didn't need anymore. And after that, I had to sort all of the things into piles, figure out where I wanted to put them, and then put them into place. All done with little breaks in between, and a lot of sighing. When I took everything out, it seriously looked like a tornado tore through my room. It was SO MESSY! But now I feel so much better. Everything's so space-y and organized, and sigh, it just feels so perfect.
Oh yeah, tonight my aunt and cousin came over for hot pot. I'm not a big fan of hot pot, but I was in a pretty good mood, so I guess it tasted okay.
This morning, I had tea with our family had tea with a couple of my mom's friends. They were discussing camping, which is this summer, so I'm really excited to hear all about it. The food was pretty good, so I came home feeling all nice and full. I was in a good mood, so I decided to start on my homework. It was easier than I thought, except for band, which I have need to work on a lot for my recording. I'm not even going to try recording now, I know I have a lot of work to do.
After doing some homework, I remembered a promised a friend that I would go skating today. So I met Judy at the Sunset rink for ice skating. On the way, we passed the Sunset community center, which is a new-ish place. But it looks amazing, really, really nice! It's design is so beautiful, it's all curvy and unique. Also, it must be really bright and cheerful inside, because the walls are all glassy. I'll love to look around in there someday. The outside already gives a very good impression. The ice rink was a little older, but still pretty nice. Most of the time, we just skated around and around in circles and talked about school and stuff. It was pretty fun, and the hour just zoomed past.
When I got back, I decided to start cleaning my closet. It took a lot longer than I thought. There were so many clothes stuck everywhere, and even some that I had forgotten about. I had to stop at dinner, and then continue after. I did eventually finish cleaning, and now it looks all neat and tidy. Sigh, it makes me so happy just staring at it. Ok, now tomorrow's goal is to finish the rest of the room...
Dapple Grey
Today was a bit more gloomy. Awww, where did all that sunshine go? This morning, I woke up later than I thought I would, I don't know, I was just so exhausted from doing so much walking and playing the days before. I started the looong process of cleaning my room: today I just tackled the closet. Now, it's all clean and nice-looking. Sigh, that makes me feel so much better. I love it when things are all neat. But then there's the other messes in my room that needs immediate attention. Sigh, I'm aiming to get everything done before the end of tomorrow. I can do it! It'll be my ultimate goal tomorrow: to clean my room, and NOT procrastinate!!
After dinner, I was a bit tired, so after playing piano, I just knitted, and knitted, and knitted some more. I'm actually almost halfway through this scarf. I'll have to knit at super speed to get all my scarves done by the end of this term. Sigh, I don't know how I'm going to do it, I'll have to do a lot more knitting every day. Seriously, I think I'm going to go through all 47 of those Mr. Bean cartoons by the time I'm finished my scarves. But then again, the cartoons are only 10 minutes long. Sigh, I wish they were longer. I'll have to find something to watch when I finish them all. Anyways, that's about it for today.
Good Night,
Dapple Grey
Yup, so today we had another munchkin reunion, and it was pretty awesome! Basically we played around, and ate a lot. There was ice cream cake though, and it was pretty yummy! We did go outside at some point, and I all I felt like doing was swinging on the swing set. That was so fun! I wish I had a swing set at home...But I'm glad I could see some of my friends again. In the morning, I woke up pretty early. Earlier than I would for most weekends. I had to rush off to buy a birthday present, and right after that, we had dim sum at this really nice and comfy restaurant. It was pretty good...My room's gotten pretty dirty, and so tomorrow I'm planning to do a HUGE cleanup. Yes, I actually want to clean my room. I'm in a very good mood since my horse magazine arrived today, and I can't wait to read it!
So today we had the Langara run, and I did way better than I had expected. Natasha, my running buddy, was gone, so I ran with Kathy instead. And she ran pretty fast. I didn't think I would make it past half way, since she started really fast. But I did manage to last the whole way, with encouragement from my Ipod. This time we started the other direction, which was uphill first, and according to my teacher, it's supposed to be better than starting the other way. I did get a way better score than last time, at least 2 minutes faster. The only bad part was that Kathy stopped running near the end, and I had to finish the rest on my own. I didn't really know if I was slowing down, since I was tired, and I didn't have Kathy there to steady my pace. And then, my Ipod started playing this really slow song, and I couldn't shake it enough to get it to shuffle. I gave up after a bit, and I just started running, and when I spotted the rest of the class, I tried to sprint, but it was a really, really slow sprint, because we legs were so tired.
After school, since my brother had art classes at Granville Island, we had to wait for him to finish. So we roamed around the public markets and went into those little stores selling stationary and paper and other cool stuff. It was really nice, and the stores were air-conditioned, so it felt really nice. The only problem was that my legs were still sore from the run, and my legs ached the whole way. In the end, I just collapsed into the car and refused to move until we got home. In fact, my legs are still aching right now...
Dapple Grey
Today was such a good day. One of the best we've seen this month. The weather was actually kind of hot. In no time, we'll be enjoying popsicles and having barbecues. I just can't wait! We're starting to count down our classes, and there's only 7 days of Day 2s left, including today. There was Collaborative Day today, so I just spent most of the morning knitting away, since I had to get to school earlier anyways, to drop of my siblings on the way. In Science we watched this cool video on waves, and Band after that was fun. We played Albemarle Fantasy for the first time in forever, but then he collected the music sheet. Aww, there goes my favourite song, byebye! Math was...normal, and we spent most of Socials sieging our own towers. It was so fun!
After dinner tonight, we took a stroll through the park, and it was so warm and still light outside. The bad part? I got a mosquito bite, already! And it's barely even summer! It's so tempting to scratch, but I know I can't...
Dapple Grey
Since tonight was a concert night, and Jessie and Co. didn't want to go home, only to come back again, we stayed after school all the way until 6:30. It was actually pretty fun. I got a LOT of knitting done, since I dropped off the rest of my stuff when I picked up my dinner. We had an awesome time, and dinner was very yummy. It got kind of weird afterwards though, since barely anyone was at school, and the janitor was there, probably wondering what the heck we were doing that took us so long. The concert itself was fun also, and I just realized that it's the last one this year. It was so thrilling, being on stage with all those lights above you, and the flutes were just shimmering in the light. It was also fun to watch the others play, especially my classmates, and the senior bands/orchestra/choir. They so good, they just shocked me. There's such a difference between intermediate and seniors. The seniors play so much more better, and the tone is so much more nicer, and they can actually play probably double our speed and volume. But I wonder what it's going to be like next year, since barely anyone's going to be in band. Most of the people I know in intermediate band is quitting, or maybe advancing to a better band. I'm going to be so lonely...
Now for a recap of the day. French was pretty fun, and good thing I had a big breakfast before school, since we we're learning about foods and recipes in French. Then our teacher started talking about French fries, how good they were, how much she loved them, and where you could find delicious French fries. You can almost hear the growling of the tummies, because so many people started getting hungry. For English, we were stuck with grammar. We just spent the whole class working on 2 grammar quizes...Applied Skills was working on our dancing for Buskerfest. I was kind of hungry then, since Mimi and I helped Ms. Greskiw out with the book tests, but we lost track of time, and just skipped lunch. I was kind of confused with all the dance steps, but after a while I got the hang of it. It really isn't all that difficult, I just have to practice it a bit more at home. During the break before P.E. I just started munching on my sandwich, and I actually managed to eat all of my lunch. Turns out that we didn't have to do the Langara run today, but we're still doing it next week. We had fitness testing today. And that's about it. I'm definitely looking forward to the Collab day tomorrow.
Good night,
Dapple Grey
Tonight, my brother randomly decided to watch a movie. Well, the rest of the family didn't really have anything to do either, so we should crowded around him to see what he was watching. Turns out that it was Karate Kid. I haven't watched the movie yet, but I knew Jackie Chan was in it, and so it should be pretty good. I did have a little work to do, but I got really distracted, and so I just watched and watched...It is really good, but then we ran out of time, which kind of explains why I'm up so late again. Tomorrow we continue the next part of the movie. I can't wait to see the ending! I hope it's not too disappointing...
And I really should get some sleep. I'm way too tired again. One of these days, I'm going to make a perfect schedule and actually FOLLOW it. And then over the weekend, I should train myself to wake up earlier and go to bed later. Seriously, I can't keep up my non-sleepness for very long...
Dapple Grey
This morning was pretty relaxing, I did some more knitting, and then I had to prepare for my piano recital. It was just a little one, a recital for all of my teacher's students. We do this every year, so I'm kind of used to it. Well, I played this song from the Children's Corner (by Debussy-he's awesome!) Anyways, I just worked on not being nervous, since I don't want it getting in the way of my playing. Well, it went smoothly, and it was nice, listening to the variety of levels of music. Oh yeah, there were some students who sang and accompanied themselves. It must be pretty hard multitasking, since you have to focus on singing and finding the right pitch and words, as well as concentrating on what you're playing on the piano. There was a younger student who sang Castle on a Cloud, one of my favourite songs from Les Miserables. Then there was this older girl who sang Colours of the Wind, I love both of the performances! They were awesome!
My brother had a birthday party after that, and it was so LOUD. I just shut myself in my room and did homework, well and a little playing...I came out once in a while for the opening of presents, and for food! My dad and I went to order pizza, and we just stuffed ourselves. Now, I feeling all happy because no homework is due tomorrow, and I finally have some time to relax!
Dapple Grey
So today, I spent the whole day shopping, and now my legs are really tired. Well, I had a relaxing morning because mostly I was just watching cartoons and knitting, because I really needed to catch up, since I didn't go on that knitting field trip. It was really fun though, so many little kid-dish cartoons that I remember watching when I was smaller. Sigh, it brings back so many happy memories! Well, I did manage to finish my scarf, so now I'm really starting to catch up. At least I'm getting a LOT better at it, and I can just close my eyes and keep eye contact for a really long time without looking down. My next goal is to close my eyes and be totally confident about my knitting. Today, I went shopping with my grandmother, and she wanted to go to Metrotown to look around. My sister and I tagged along, just because we were tired of staying home, and it was a nice day out, and it was a nice walk to the skytrain station anyways. We did 2 hours of shopping, and a ton of walking. I finally found a nice birthday present for my brother, whose birthday party is tomorrow. I really hope he likes it, because my wallet is now completely empty. Oh well, I'll just have to save up again. We also went to superstore, and bought some coffee, for those really sleepy mornings, where everyone is cranky. I'm just going to steer away from it all, since I'm already short enough. We got home around 2:30, and I had a big lunch, and then collapsed on the couch, exhausted. A little while after that, our family went out to Costco, and since I remembered I want to look around there, I went with them. But when I got there, I was so tired, and I had to force my legs to walk. I did find things that I wanted, including a huge pack of whiteout, which I'm in desperate need of. When I got home, I just collapsed on the couch, and didn't get up again until dinner time. And now I'm here, relaxing, sipping my hot apple cider, and resting my sore legs. To end my perfect day, I'm going to go watch some Mr. Bean cartoons while knitting, since those cartoons are the cutest things ever. Here's an example of one, it's Teddy's birthday, and I love how Mr. Bean loves his teddy bear so much, it's so cute! Enjoy!
Well, tomorrow I'm planning an spending the morning resting. I just bought Secretariat, an awesome racehorse movie I've been longing to watch, but was too busy when it was in theatres. I can't wait! I'll be sure to knit a lot while watching it! I have a recital at 1, and then my brother's party is at 3:30. I just know that tomorrow's going to be another happy day!
Hope you enjoyed the little cartoon,
Dapple Grey
So, the big day has finally arrived. I woke up at 7 and just studied and studied. Studied whatever I was unsure of, and whatever I could think of. I was still studying during breakfast. Well, it wasn't really last-minute studying, just a review. Oh gosh, in the car I was a lot more nervous, but I had my review sheets and I was pretty much prepared. I got to the exam room, with a few minutes to spare to look over my notes before the exam began. I saw my teacher there as well, she's the RCM representative, so she's organizing the exams. Looking at her and remembering all our funny theory moments, and all those practice sessions just gave me more confidence. So there I was, finally doing my exam. And whoa, it was a lot more easier than I had expected. But as I predicted, all the questions my teacher asked me were there. All of it, plus this little section that I was unsure of. Oh well, I remembered everything for my essay, and overall, I'm pretty confident that I did a good job.
After exam, I felt so free. Well, I still have that piano exam in August, but it's too far away for me to be worrying about right now. I was really, really hungry, so I went home and ate a huge lunch. That was probably because I could barely eat during breakfast. I was also really tired, so I took a nap, something I've never done for a loong time. Oh yeah, great news today! My cousins and aunt in China have finally received their visas, so now they're planning on coming to Canada in the Summer. We're going to tour around them a lot during the summer, so I guess I have a big Stay-cation being planned. I'm so excited! I can't wait to show them the beauty of Vancouver!
So today, when I got back from school, I just borrowed Mockingjay from the library, and so I was just reading, and reading, and then I remembered I had an exam tomorrow. But I'm really prepared, and I hope the exam questions are easy. It seems like a LOT of people have their theory exams this weekend. But then again, this weekend is like the only days for theory exams this season. Anyways, my mom scheduled an extra preparation lesson for theory, so at least I'll be more ready. I just spent the whole afternoon writing out my two essays over and over again, in hope of actually remembering it word for word on the exam tomorrow. I trust my teacher, since she always makes me memorize her notes, and it's always what ends up on the exam.
So I reviewed as much as I could, and then headed to my extra lesson. There, my teacher drilled me with a whole bunch of questions, and I'm pretty confident, since I got most of them. Leaving her house was a lot harder, it was like embracing the truth: my theory exam was only 12 hours away. She did wish me good luck, and I got a wet, good luck lick on the nose from my teacher's dog. Awww, he's the sweetest dog ever...Looking at him always makes me feel so much happier!
I'm as ready as I'll ever be.
Wish me luck!
Dapple Grey
I almost forgot today was the Gauss math contest. For some reason this time, the questions were easier, and I finished every question, but I'm just not sure if I got them right. I stayed in the cafeteria afterwards, since I just didn't feel like having 5 minutes of French. English was next, and we had a work period. I was really tired, and just didn't have energy to work, but it was okay, since I didn't really bring anything. I got to read some poem book samples, and just read other books.
This time, we got off at the right stop and didn't get lost. We did stop for some lunch and a snack, and then we headed straight for the Playhouse. This time it was a lot different then what I imagined. Our seats were all scattered over the theatre, so we didn't really have time to look around and find friends. Also, we had to sit downstairs not in the little balcony seats, which is where we go each time. It was a lot more crowded, but the play was good. I'm not a great fan of one-man shows, mostly because I like watching many characters, and it's just easier to follow along and distinguish them. With only one person, it does get quite confusing. But I got to admit, that guy was amazing. His imitations were really good. He did try his best to make the play easier to understand. I did read Macbeth before, so I got the whole plot. But I did dose off a couple of times, because the seats were so comfy, and the it was all dark....But I did wake up eventually to watch the good scenes. At the end, he imitated the voices of other famous people, and it was just awesome! He was really, really good.
I am so exhausted, and so sleepy. I don't even know why. Maybe it's the stress acting up before an exam. Anyways, today was awesome! I got picked up by April from the school, and on the way, got to meet her dog, Toto. He has got to be the most intelligent-looking dog I've ever seen, and at he same time, he is so adorable and fluffy...
We got to roam around at 10, and so we decided to go on scrambler first. Since it was a cold day, and the wind from the scrambler just made made it even more cold. Luckily, I brought my big sweater, and that made it warmer. My friends made me try going on Enterprise, and the whole time during the lineup, I got really nervous and started regretting it. You can hear the people on Enterprise above you, and some were screaming really loudly. When I got on, I was just thinking "Uh oh, there's no turning back now". Luckily, I went with a friend, and it was a lot more fun, and it turned out to be awesome! Hmm, I should try new things more often. Anyways, we went on a few more rides, and finished the worksheet just in time to hand it in. Some we had to guess, since there was no way we could get on the ride again. We had to wait 20 minutes just to go on Musical Express, and that was considered quick. Overall, today was just awesome! I was a lot more tired at home, but I took a nap, since it was only 2:30, and my siblings were still at school.
Now before I collapse from exhaustion, Goodnight, and I hope everyone had a blast at Playland!
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Everyone is excited about Playland tomorrow. Even though I've done the playland sheets for three years now, going to Playland gets awesomer ever time. I might even go try going on one of the big rides, but Mimi's going to have to do a lot of convincing in order to get me onto the scarier ones. Leslie and I are probably going to wait at the bottom, and record data, while Mimi rides and checks the G-meter. Phew, at least we have one group member who can go on scary rides.
Anyways, today, for some reason, I felt really tired and dead during French class. My energy level was just so low, and thankfully, we barely did anything except read. Then there was the part of the Finals for English, which got everyone nervous. I didn't really realize that it was part of the Finals until the end, but I was pretty confident. Thankfully, my energy peaked up again at lunch, just in time for Applied Skills and P.E. Avatar was as good as always, even if we did end at a semi-suspenseful moment. We had California Kickball during P.E., which went pretty good actually. Eventually, I did end up being out, but I always thought that I would do way worse.
I can't wait to go to bed, I'm only one sleep away from Playland!
Today was Mother's Day, and since my mom was very busy this morning, I had tons of time to prepare her gift. After deciding for a very long time, I came up with a bouquet of flowers, and a big pack of peanuts. Yes, a bag of peanuts, but not any kind of peanuts. These peanuts were my mom's all-time favourite peanuts. They were spicy since there was red pepper mixed with it, as well as regular pepper. I have no idea why she likes it so much, and how she can eat so many at a time, since whenever I eat a couple of peanuts, it numbs my tongue, and then I can taste the spicyness. Anyways, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MOM!
Every year, on Mother's Day, we go to the funeral home to visit our great grandmother and father. Even thought I've never knew them, I still feel kind of sad that I didn't get to meet them, since according to my grandma, they were the ones who first immigrated to Canada. So imagine, without them, I might still be living in China right now...At the funeral home, there was this big pond that we decided to explore. When we got down there, it looked so beautiful, even with the gloomy weather. The water was really clear, and there were trees shading it, some petals had already fallen into the lake. I liked to call it the "Pond of Lost Souls".
Anyways, we had a big dinner at my grandma's house, which was really fun since we haven't been there in a long time. I was basically busy the whole day, since in the early morning I had piano and my last theory lesson, and then after that we went to the funeral home, and then to the Celebration of Excellence Recital for Piano. My gosh, those people could play extremely well, it's just so overwhelming. Also, I recognized some songs that I used to play. But they play it so much better than I'd ever did. I only had time to take a short shower before heading to dinner again. When I came back, it was late, and I still had to finish some other homework, which kind of explains why I'm blogging at such a weird hour. I really should be sleeping now...
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Whoa, this morning, it was so gloomy, and I just decided to curl up and enjoy a book. I was really trying not to look ahead, because it was so exciting, but it was also so tempting to find out what's next. But I told myself that I didn't want to ruin the book, so I just kept on reading. First it was just raining, and then after awhile there were these weird noises outside. Turns out that it was hailing. Sigh, and it was just last week that we had a perfectly sunny weekend. I had to go to tutoring after that, and when I came back, I could see little hail balls scattered on the ground. They were so small, but piled up together, they looked like snow.
Well, I'm spending most of tonight studying for my history exam. 6 days left. I really hope I can remember enough, since there's a LOT to remember. My guess is that my teacher's going to give me a mock exam tomorrow, but it's probably still going to be pretty hard. I guess I gotta go study some more....
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All the Synerginians should be proud! We just finished one of the biggest tests, and we all managed to pull through! I just love seeing us all work together, whether if it's panicking on gmail, going crazy on google docs, or having late late studying sessions till 3 in the morning. We all spent the whole night, and most of the morning helping each other study, and I love how we're just this big family!
Anyways, no more about tests. I'll rather not hear that word for a while. Or at least, after next Friday, when I'll be doing my next big exam. My sister just came back from camp, and now the house is going back to being loud. Sigh, but I'll be spending tonight planning most of tomorrow, so that it'll be perfect. Of course, I'll have to take advantage of the whole morning, when I can actually get some quiet time to myself. Hmmm, maybe I should get started on those sketchings I've been wanting to make...And maybe finish that scarf that I've been meaning to end...Not to mention some practicing for Buskerfest...
Ok, there's too much things I want done for this weekend. And now I'm starting to sound like an organized freak.
The big test everyone's been frantically studying for. The textbook alone has 16 pages, plus more handout...How are we going to survive? Good thing is, we're using the power of Synergy, helping each other with our notes, and quizzing each other to prepare for the big day. Fortunately, Mr. Sale was nice to us, and let us write a little cheat sheet for our test, and now we're all trying to cram as much as we can into 10 sentences. But the thing for me is, I don't know what I can't remember until I actually see the test, but it IS useful when there are super weird and long names that you just can't get them to stick to your mind. If only we got a cheat sheet for when we did the ancient China test, I would have done way better on that.
And as you've probably heard, the track meet was cancelled. French was okay, but we didn't have to do much, since barely anyone brought their things. English was just much more relaxing. We got to read books for the most of it, and then we got to hear some book talks. At least now, I have a chance to practice my events. Especially shotput....
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Science quiz on Monday, a HUGE socials test on Friday, and a bigger theory exam on the Friday after that. To top it all off, the track meet is tomorrow, and I have a lot to practice for my band recording due at the end of May. And strangely enough, I feel scarily calm. Maybe this is the moment of peace before the ice shatters, and I start to freak out. Wow, at least I'll be getting many lessons on time management...
And as for the track meet, I'm both nervous and excited. I'm fine running in the rain, IF it rains. But if it does, I'll be used to it, whereas it might slow others down, since I've practiced my 200m in the rain, while it was freezing cold. What I'm scared of is shotput, and I really hope I remember the proper technique, and not do a illegal throw. And there's the chance that I might be doing a different event, since Mr. Dykstra said he made some "adjustments" to the schedule. I guess I'll just have to wait and see....
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So for P.E. today we had Relay practice. Just practicing how to pass the baton properly. But I can never do it right. I mean, I've never learned baton passing all through elementary school, and the word signals sometimes gets confusing and mixed up. At least I didn't do all that badly. Good thing I didn't sign up for the relays, or I really would have messed up. Also, I'll have to practice for shotput, which I can't really do properly, but I think I'll be fine. I'll just have to really try hard. Dykstra also said he made "adjustments" to our sign up board, which means that he might have played around with our events. I really hope he doesn't put we on the 1500m race. I have no idea how I'll handle that one.
Well, I kind of disappointed that I'll be missing out on the knitting trip, since my parents are both busy that day, and I have no idea how I'll find the class afterwards. They decided to let me have the rest of the day off, since the theory exam will probably end pretty late. I guess to make up for the trip, I'll be home knitting and perhaps watching a movie. Hmmm, maybe I'll experiment with tassels for my scarf...
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Science class this morning was interesting, and quite fun! We had these two activities that took up most of the class, but was really fun, AND educational at the same time. I have no idea how teachers do that. They plan really fun things, but in their minds, it's to trick us into learning and memorizing something. Yet, the whole time, we have no idea we're learning and memorizing something, until we slowly figure it out, or someone tells us. Anyways, I had to wake up to a gloomy day. And it took forever for me to get up. The darkness just encourages me to flop back onto my bed and sleep. Then I had to face the outside, the chilly day, and the rain, right after the sunniest day I've ever seen this spring. Great. We did have an earthquake drill today, and we just stood there in the field for 20 minutes. It wasn't as bad as I thought. It went so much faster than the elementary school drills, and those take like half an hour. I did find shelter under someone's umbrella, and we stood there talking and practicing for a skit in our next class. Luckily I came out dry-ish, and the skits afterwards were so funny and creative!
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Since we rescheduled piano/theory lessons to 8:30 in the morning (I don't mind not being able to sleep in), we had the whole afternoon free! We did have to drop by the pet store to pick up some supplies for our beloved hamsters, then we had lunch, and planned what we wanted to do this afternoon. Since it was really sunny outside, we decided that we should go talk a walk through the gardens at Queen E. It was really nice there, such a great view! There were flowers everywhere, and the air was just filled with its scent. I love the mix of white flowers and blueish purpleish flowers, they look so beautiful together. We walked downhill until we reached this little duck pond, and then we rested on another hill. While my dad took a nap, my siblings and I played tag, which was actually pretty tricky, since we had to run up and down this hill. Eventually we tired out, and just lay on the hill. Walking all the way up afterwards was even more tiring. We walked all the way up the two hills, and then had to take stairs to go even further up. By the time we reached the cars, we just collapsed inside. It was nice going outside and not having to do homework for a change!
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Today I woke up with the goal of untangling this giant knot in my yarn, and rolling my other 3 yarn clumps into yarn balls. After about 20 minutes or so, I finally got rid of the giant knot. Sigh, that took me forever. 2 classes and an hour, to be exact. But I'm proud that I untangled it, and didn't cut it, and waste it, like I thought I would. Also, while watching the hockey game, since it took forever, and then went into a loooong overtime, I finished rolling 3 yarn balls. Hurray! Mission accomplished! I feel so proud of myself now. I finally got something done, and I just love that feeling! Also, the my second scarf is finally long enough to end, and I think I'll end it tomorrow. Gosh, that took a long time to knit, since I accidentally made it too wide. Oh well, I'll make sure the next scarf is about half the width of this one. I'm so happy!
This morning I went shopping with my sister, and I promised her last week that I would go with her, except last week I was too busy with my activities and parties to go. So we left right after breakfast, and the whole trip was pretty fast actually, about 1 hour and a half, since I wanted to come back on the same transit ticket. My sister bought everything she wanted to get, and I just didn't get anything. I wanted to save my money, since I'm so horrible at it. So today, I just practiced self-control, and I did see things that I wanted to get, but no matter how strong the temptation, I didn't buy it. And I'm proud of myself! And to admit, it's actually pretty fun shopping for other people and helping them. It's a lot easier to find things, and they will often get everything they want. Even though I didn't get everything, I still came back with a happy feeling. I'm getting better at saving every day. Maybe I should go put those piggy banks to use....
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