Term 3 Blog #94

soooo im writing a blog about summer
...comes from my memory book. i actually think its a little stupid, but thats ok!

Summer is, without a doubt, my favourite time of the year. Schools are not in session, the best fruits become ripe, my birthday is just around the corner, the temperature keeps me feeling warm, and the clothes that can only be worn in the hot temperature can come out of the stuffy closet.
When I was in elementary school, summer always seemed boring and long. I had nothing to do, and school kept me busy. Last year, I had contradictory ideas about summer. Schoolwork in secondary school was so stressing, summer just didn’t seem to be enough of a break. I needed the break last year, and so did my classmates.
My favourite fruits, including lychee, mangos, watermelons, cherries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and pineapples all become ripe during the summer. It’s the perfect time to enjoy such delicious, sweet fruits, and when chilled, these fruits serve as a relief from the hot.
My birthday is July 27th, and every year, I have a birthday party. I feel sorry for those who have to go to school on their birthdays. Since my birthday is in the summer, I am allowed to arrange sleepovers for as many nights as I want, though none have gone farther than 2 nights.
I welcome the hot temperature in Vancouver. It rains most of the year, and therefore, I appreciate the two months of the year when it rarely rains. Along with the hot temperature comes the availability of the beach and outdoor swimming pool. Also, sundaes, slurpees, and cold drinks, although they can be eaten during the winter, are much appreciated in this weather.
Clothes, too, are a great plus side to summer. No more heavy winter jackets, no more stuffy turtlenecks, and no more scratchy long underwear! Now, I can say hello to T-shirts, skirts, and sandals! The clothes are weightless and non-cumbersome. They are the very best part of summer, if you ask me.
Summer is just one and a half weeks away. It’s going to be a busy one and a half weeks, but the end is near and I just can’t wait!

Term 3 Blog #93

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

...dedicating this to my immigration to canada.

Immigration to Canada

Coming to Canada wasn’t an easy transition for me. I struggled with English for three years, which meant three years of isolation from the “normal” kids.
I immigrated to Canada on April 8th, 2000. I was in grade one back then. On one of my assignments, I accidently wrote “My Father is a Dragon” instead of “My Father’s Dragon” as the title of an assignment. I suppose I didn’t understand that words ending with and apostrophe and an s meant possessives back then. My teacher sniggered at it when she saw it, and I remember wondering about what she was sniggering at.
I switched to Weir school at the beginning of grade two. The kids started passing around “Wendy Germs” when they realized I was different. That part of grade two was particularly frustrating and heart-breaking.
One particularly embarrassing incident that I remember was when I tried to make up a joke as a class assignment. I didn’t understand the meaning of the word “joke” at the time, so one of my classmates told me that it was basically a funny question with a funny answer. I decided on one question and decided to tell it to the class.
“So…what do you think is the smallest animal on earth?” I asked. Then without waiting for an answer, I shouted enthusiastically “AN ELEPHANT!!” and laughed.
There was dead silence.
One kid raised his hand up and decided to comment. “I don’t get it,” the kid said.
I didn’t think it was embarrassing at the time, but once I understood what a joke really meant (some months later), I turned beet red inside.
Grade three was a better time for me. I found a friend that was able to relate to me, and we were able to do things together. My English finally improved in grade four, and I stopped going to ESL.
Now, my English is as good as any ninth-grader born here, though I can’t say the same for my social skills. It has been a pleasurable time, here in Canada. I wouldn’t go back to China even if catching up in schoolwork in China is possible.

Term 3 Blog #92

Friday, June 6th, 2008
piano lesson didnt go very well.
after the finals, im gonna have to go to my piano teacher's house for 3 - 4 hours a day to practice on her piano.
ARRGHH
well, im gonna have to do two weeks of that, and take my exam. yup. exam for me. then after the 25th, HOPEFULLY, we will be able to go to that water park that michaela and shannon mentioned. it would be so fun =D

Term 3 Blog #91

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
oh i forgot to mention that yesterday, we did our play in front of our parents and teachers. i didnt exactly mess up, but im sure i was very uptight.
now thats over and done with, i must review. arrrghhh review!!!
or more likely, memorize. im sorry these blogs are so short. its just that, i always seem to be in the middle of doing homework or studying when i remember that i need to do my blog.

Term 3 Blog #90

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
heey!! STI is done!!! im gonna post our STI video here. its actually quite funny.
its loading quite slowly...
BUT ITS FUNNY!!!
the quality is bad tho, cuz i had to decrease the size so that it wont take so long to upload.

hmm how do u embed something on this?



is this right? does it show?

Term 3 Blog #89

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
im gonna dedicate this blog to grade 7 camp.

Camp Elphinstone

Grade seven camp was probably the best week I’ve had in my lifetime. Overlooking the pain in my arm that constantly bothered me, it only had one other flaw in it.
The first day I spent at Camp Elphinstone, I cracked my arm while playing Capture the Flag in the dark. The teachers thought that the pain would go away in a couple of days, but when I got back from camp, my doctor said that I should’ve gotten a cast for a week because here was a crack in my radius. The crack hurt every minute of camp. It took three times as long to get dressed, and I was unable to tie my hair myself. Taking showers were a pain, and canoeing was almost impossible.
Some great memories include yelling “How Ya Doin’?” from the window with Amy’s stuffed bunny to people going into the washroom (one of the windows of our cabin faced directly to the entrance of the washroom). The people would give us a variety of different queer looks that were extremely amusing.
Another great memory was of playing “Slap the Butt” with Amy, Karen, Judy, and Carmen. Basically, if one person lost a game of poker, they would get slapped on the butt 10 times. One of the perks of playing this game was that it was impossible to get me to budge from my sitting position, making it impossible to slap my butt when I lost.
The meals at Camp Elphinstone were great. There was lasagna, ice cream, hash browns, pizza, jelly, hot chocolate, grilled cheeseburgers…etc. You could eat as much as you want, without limitations. Karen and I used to have competitions on how much we were able to fit into our stomachs. I think I gained 10 pounds within that week alone.
Some activities we did include canoeing/kayaking, archery, and hiking. Once, we found a banana slug on a leaf during one of the hikes. The instructor licked it, and dared us to lick it. I was a wimp. I did not lick it. Amy and Carmen did though, and they enjoyed doing so. They had competitions of who can lick the most slugs during the time that we were there. I personally despise slugs, and even more so than dandy longlegs.
There was another downside of Camp Elphinstone though. In the showers, water was scarce. You could literally hear every drip of water as they hit the floor. Ok, so, maybe I was exaggerating it a bit. But water was still a problem in the showers.
Overall, that week in seventh grade had mostly perks and few downsides. I can’t wait for Camp Keats next year! Hopefully, it would be just as fun.

Term 3 Blog #88

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
homework catching up onto me..
oh and i have good news! i think prince william is back together with kate middleton!! whoot!! i thought queen elizabeth was a little mean, making them decide to either marry or separate. well, right now, they are doing neither.
im gonna post this blog with my memory book:

A Dozen and Two Things I Found Amusing / Curious

1. My grade seven teacher was 1.98 meters tall. When I sat at my desk and he stood above me to talk to me, the only thing I saw when I looked at him was his nostrils. They were the longest nostrils I’ve ever seen. I am willing to bet that, if I measured them, they would have been 2 cm wide at its widest point.
2. As I mentioned earlier, my grade seven teacher was quite tall. Guess who he married? An elementary school teacher who was 10 cm shorter than me.
3. Karen and I came up with this when we walked home together:
Her sister would eat only the sweetest part of the slice of watermelon. Karen would say “wasteful!” to her sister, then eat the whole thing until there was a thin layer of red before the white layer. Her mother would then say “wasteful!” and eat a slice of watermelon until she gets to the white part. Her grandmother would then say “wasteful!” and boil the watermelon peel to eat.
4. I had a math classmate who bragged about how smart she was in math. One time she said to me, “this stuff is so easy: I learned it 2 years ago!” After looking at the exercises we were supposed to do for two minutes, she turned around and asked me, “How do you do this question? I don’t get it.”
5. The day right before Ms. Hu gave us notes on pregnancy, my piano teacher gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. *note, I didn’t find him beautiful at all. He was red, wrinkly, and ugly. I just added beautiful because it sounded nice.
6. My grade four teacher had hands that looked like they were carved out of marble. They were unnaturally pale, and were always in a crescent shape.
7. My grade four teacher had used her eraser for a total of 8 years
8. My grade four teacher participated in the Olympics for gymnastics
9. The name of my grade four teacher’s husband could be seen on one of those information stands near Canada Place. I think he was a captain of some sort.
10. My teacher was engaged to get married, and I once saw her writing her soon-to-be-new-name onto a piece of paper over and over again. It was sweet.
11. My mother calls my father “Daddy”, and my father calls my mother “Mommy”. They started ever since I was born, so I didn’t think it was weird. However, when Anne and Karen noticed, I realized it was rather unusual.
12. I had lice when I was in grade two. Once, I combed out a rather large louse, and I popped it with my fingernails. It made a poppy sound then squirted a thing bit of white substance. It was gross.
13. One of my teachers was bald. Whenever he walked out into the sunshine, the sunlight created a patch of light on his head. I used to wonder if he used violin polish (the only kind of polish I had) to polish his head.
14. My mom once had a co-worker who used to bring watermelon slices with the top bitten off to eat at work. My mom asked her why it was like that, and she responded proudly, “my son only eats the best part.”

Term 3 Blog #87

Today, annd and karen came over to do the STI fair. we got quite a lot done actually. the poster was done, tho it looks completely awful, and we got 3 minutes of the video taping done. that's 2/3rds of our project. now, we need to do the other 2/3rds of the play and i need to edit the video. yup
oh and i need to memorize my narration for the english play. *twitches nose* i dont want to do anything.

Term 3 Blog #86

Saturday, May 31st, 2008
i had my chinese exam today, and i dont intend on going to chinese school next week. im just gonna stay at home and play the piano.
life is just not working out for me. i think i feel stress more than most other people. thats why i dont procrastinate. i panic more easily than other people. the people who can afford to procrastinate procrastinate, while the people who cant afford to procrastinate don't procrastinate. i cant afford the stress of doing everything last minute, except for chinese and french school homework. i guess that would make me a more panic-vunerable person.

Term 3 Blog #85

Friday, May 30th, 2008
there was a piano lesson today. oh DARN IT i practiced so much this week, and my teacher thought it was pretty bad. i need to get everything DOWNPACKED.
DOWNPACKED. ARRRRGGHHHHH IT MAKES ME GO NUTS! and the finals too. i need to study. i forgot absolutely everything i learned in science in the first term. and i want THAT A!! i want i want i want i want i want that A. mooommy!! give me that A!
i want that A and i need u to buy it for me RIGHT NOW.

Term 3 Blog #84

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
i watched so u think u can dance today. it was actually very good. quite entertaining.
there was a guy who did a dance while pretending he was a robot. he could move his body in a way ive never seen before. seriously. he looked like he was made of sheets of metal that didnt bend.
oh and there was this other guy who put his hands under his arm pits and slouched down to dance. it looked stupid. seriously, he looked like a chicken trying to spread its legs apart.
and this other guy, he wore a mask and hopped around and counted that as dancing. however, he was 200 pounds before he started this, and now, hes thinner than isaac. this type of "dancing" has to have some effect.

Term 3 Blog #83

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
oh i forgot to mention i had langara yesterday. totally awful. nothing to describe it. the pain in my side just took over me and i couldnt run.
*yawn*
sleep
gotta sleep more than this. im making it my goal to sleep as early as i can.

Term 3 Blog #82

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
im 14 years and 10 months old. -_-" i count down to my monthly birthday yes i do. i simply adore the number 27. u can divide it by 9 and u can divide it by 3 as well. not much else tho. well, u can divide it by 1 too lol.
i have that science test on friday, the english play due next wednesday, the english project due this friday, a chinese test on saturday, and hmm STI fair due on friday. oh math chapter test next monday. just great.
i have to memorize phrases for geometric proofs.

Term 3 BLog #81

Monday, May 26th, 2008
ahhhcchoooo!! sniff sniff. stupid cold.
this reminds me of michaela's little cute sneezes. she does a high, squeaky-sounding 'choo and people think its hilarious and cute. lol i find it cute too, but its sorta weird. is it normal? does she have a lung infection, a larynx infection, to make her sneezes sound like that?\
dehhhhh
daaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh
i just dont feel very good. im not a happy person. and i shall not be a happy person the rest of my life.

Term 3 Blog #80

Sunday, May 25th, 2008
i feel like im gonna explode. EXPLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!!!!
why wouldnt anyone like to explode? i would certainly like to explode..tho not feel any pain. i am positively FED UP with trying to do well in everything i do. it makes u feel good afterwards, sure, but within the next second, u have a second thing to strive for. lets just say i did well on my science test. within the next hour, my teachers assign me 2 projects to do.
oh and i forgot to review english grammar. i suck at that. direct object is the thing that is receiving the action and is the one that answers the question for whom right? actually, im not even sure. urrrgghh my head hurts. i have a stuffy nose and a cold. ahhhhchoooo

Term 3 Blog #79

Saturday, May 24th, 2008
poop poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop
i feel poopy.
dont u feel poopy? i feel shitty too, cuz that's a synonym for poopy. oh crappy. thats another synonym. why do people like poop so much? oh and why isnt there feces-y? feces is another synonym for poop, crap, and shit right?
well, i dont think they have as many synonyms for pee tho.... theres always urine, but can u think of another name? apple juice-coloured vile liquid? waste product? well, that could be poop too.

Term 3 Blog #78

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
hey! did u know that marie curie's daughter won 1/4th of a nobel prize? hooray for the curies!! and marie curie's granddaughter and grandson are great scientists too!! they seem a little old to me...they're around 80 now. however, there is nothing on wikipedia that says they are married. her granddaughter is 80-something years old now, and a physicist. her grandson is a biologist, also 80-something years old. marie curie's other daughter became a writer and wrote marie curie's biography. her husband also received the nobel prize in peace. whoooott!! go curie family!! they won...a total of 4 nobel prizes within the last century!

Term 3 Blog #77

Thursday, May 22nd 2008
i really need to get more sleep. i realized that the reason my langara time is so bad is because of lack of sleep. i just dont have the energy. from now on, my sleeping time would be 10:30. no time should be later than that. i can afford to sleep that early actually. unlike some people, i dont procrastinate a lot. actually, ive noticed that my memory is pretty bad. anne can remember stuff so much faster than i can. more sleep for me! or is it just genes?