2011 12 14

Today was a busy day. We had half day of school and the other half, we went to the science park to rehearse for tomorrow's Christmas performance. Everything was messy today. Because it is our first time to go over the script and everyone seemed a little confused about where they should go. Our five santas did a great job today, but they really need to speak louder and clear tomorrow, or else no one is gonna understand what they are talking about. All the dancers were awesome today. They were all very sexy. We, the reindeers, didn't do well today, because no one knows when do we need to be on the stage. So everyone kind of just stood there, while the audiences were waiting for us. Tomorrow is the performance, we have only one more time to rehearse, so I am a little nervous now. I hope that we can do a great job tomorrow. 

2011 12 13

I was very worried today, because my grandmother got sick. It is very dangerous for a old person to catch a cold, because the cold might causes even bigger illness.  I had called my grandmother and asked about how she feels. She told me that she feels better, but from her voice, I can tell that she was still  such and uncomfortable. I asked her to come live in Hsinchu with us, but she refused. I hope that my grandmother can get well soon and can be healthy everyday. 
Other than the concern about my grandmother's health, I had a great day today. It is the final week until winder break. Everyone is busy preparing. We have Christmas performance, winter dance this week, and also I am going to Japan to ski too. I am very excited for everything. 

2011 12 12

Today is my mother's birthday. I am very thankful for having her as my mother. Thanks her for raising me up, giving me a home that is full of love and providing me everything that I want. She is the best mother. Unlike many other mothers, who would control everything of their children, even decide what they are going to be when they grow up, my mother lets me decide things for my life. She respects my decisions. Everything when there is a problem happens, she is always the one that worried the most. She cares about me more than everything else. Even though I sometimes say that I don't like her, but that is just words that you said when you are angry. I didn't mean that way. All I want to say is Thank you Mom, for everything you had done. Happy Birthday!

2011 12 11

My family and I go to Taipei every weekend, because my grandmother lives in Taipei. After my sister went to Moscow, no one lives with my grandmother now. It is very dangerous for a old lady to live by herself, because if there is something happens, no one can call the police or ambulance. My grandmother is a typical grandmother. Because her difficult childhood, my grandmother thinks that food is the most important thing in the world. Every time I go to visit her, the firs thing that she will ask me is whether I had each lunch or not. If didn't eat lunch, she will  bring everything from her refrigerator to let me eat. If I did eat, she will still bring food for me. Also she will start telling to go eat dinner from 3p.m. Even though it is very annoying sometimes, but I will always appreciate having my her as my grandmother. 

2011 12 08

We learned a new lesson today. There was a teacher coming from a college in America showed us a lesson. During our third period, we was informed that all stage art people had to go to the auditorium. At first, I didn't know what was happening and why we needed to go to the auditorium during class. Soon everyone reported to the auditorium. In there was a men about about the same age as my father, standing there, looking at us. I can tell by feelings that he was a interesting person. He told us to make a circle and we started to do some exercises. From his British accent, I am sure that he was from England. The way he talked to us was really funny. He was a person that was full of energy. He then told us to make different facial expressions which was very fun. The lesson he taught us, was a very good experience and i really enjoyed it. 

2011 12 07

One more week, and it's winter break. It is gonna be a busy week next week.  Wednesday, we have our rehearsal for the Christmas Performance and thursday is the performance. This year, we are going to do a show about choosing santa clause. The play starts with five santa clauses on stage, where there used to be five santa giving out gifts before. They suddenly decide that only one can stay, and the rest have to retire. But all five santas want to be the one that is staying, so in order to solve the problem, they need to answer some questions. The one answers all the questions correctly will get to stay and the rest will retire. We have a lot of things to prepare comparing to last year. People have to memorize their lines and also the moves for dancing. Which I think that we are out of time. We haven't even start rehearsal and the show is next week. I really hope that we can do a great job this year. Our show is gonna be amazing!

2011 12 06

I was watching a drama these days. The drama was about a young woman. She was from a wealthy family, everything in her life was perfect, a handsome fiancé and two best friends. Just before her wedding, she was hit by a car and her soul popped out of her body. During daytime, her soul attached to an other person and at night, she lives as a soul. She later discovered that her fiancé was actually using her. He had cheated on her with her best friends and he was planing to snatch her father's company. She suddenly realized that all her friends that she trusted were actually backstabbing her. At the mean time, she had to used the borrowed body to stop her fiancé from taking over the company and collect three drops of tear in order to bring back to life. 

This drama has a depressing plot. Even though the story was fake and it was impossible. But the drama showed the real side of life, which was that don't ever trust people without any alertness. 

2011 12 05

Everyone was tired and sleepy today. I really think that we should have a day-off today, since everyone participated in yesterday's sports day and did a great job as an athlete. Everyone was falling asleep in class, including me. Students cannot really learn when they don't have their energy or attention. That was just a waste of time for everyone. School should if the students and teachers a day-off, so that we can fully rest our bodies rather than forced students to listen in class with their eyes barely open. If students get to have a day-off and rest at home. The next day when students come, everyone would be full of energy and ready for classes. Even though we didn't have a day-off, but everyone was still excited about yesterday. I kept hearing people discuss about the events and which team won and which team lost. Today was a tired and boring day after all.

2011 12 04

We had our annual Sports day today. It was awesome. I am in the red team, our mascot for the team is angry bird. I participated in four events, long-jump, tug of war, 100meter relay and five legged race. We won first place for both tug of war and 100meter relay. The tug of war was so fun, but my hands hurt a lot. The 100meter really was so exiting. At the beginning, we were first place, but we got chase after,so we became third. We didn't give up, we slowly over take the second place. Finally, the last group of people got ready and walked to the field. At the last 5 meters, our last runner, successfully beat the other team. We got first place! Every person in our team is an athlete. Everyone did a great job today, it's the best sports day ever! And yes, we won! Red team rocks!

2011 12 1

Today is the first day of the month, also the last month of the year. Two more weeks till Christmas and winter break. This winter break, I am going to Japan to ski. It is my first time skiing, which I am already exited about. I am going with people from the school, also my friends.
Today was a busy day, classes after classes. We had our sports day meeting wit our teammates today. It was very fun seeing everyone singing our chant. But one thing that disappointed me during the meeting was that someone stole my chair. I was sitting on a a chair with wheels, so that I can roll around in the room. The chair was also the teacher's chair, she had lent me he chair in the beginning of the meeting. But in the middle of the meeting, one of my classmates tricked me, so I got off the chair, and he took it. I was very depressed because I had to sit on chair that has no wheels. Even though I didn't get to sit on the chair for long, but it was still a fun meeting today.

2011 11 30

Today is the last day of this month. Time passes so fast, this year is about to end. And then, is the 2012, the end of the world. I personal don't believe the end of the world theory. I think the world won't ended only on one day, that is too fast for everything. 
Today is a normal peaceful day, I didn't do anything special than usual. I had my regular classes, and went swimming today. Today during both English and Expository Writing class, the class rooms were extremely warm and humid. Especially Expository Writing class room, because there were no widows, no AC, and no fans. Just imagine that twenty people in a small and seal room for about two hours. What would the room smells like? Of course the room smells like hell. It is the mixture of all kinds of different smell. At the end of the class, everyone seemed very impatient and impetuous. I really hope that the school can turn the AC on, so students can have a better learning environment. 

2011 11 29

Today I was very excited during Stage Art, because we had finally started doing our musical for this year. I joined Stage Art, because I love to art. I used to want to be artist when I grow up, but not anymore. When I was little, I had art classes, the kinds that children can have fun there and no matter what your work is, the teacher is going to say you did a great job. Because of that class, I started to get interested at art, so I told my mom I wanted to be an artist. My mom then went to find those classes that are specialized for art people. I went there and take sketching classes, but after three months I told my mom I want to quit, I don't want to be an artist anymore. Because all we did in the sketching class was sit there for four hours, looking at that one apple in front and draw it. I have no patience. Eventually, I stopped taking art classes, and forgot about the fact that I used to want to be an artist.

2011 11 28

Today was a very tiring day. We swam 2400meters today for swimming practice, which was crazing and insane. Because I didn't go to swimming practice for about two weeks, so my endurance had dropped and which I can't really swim a lot. But today, Frank was crazy, he kept giving us long distances assignments. At the end of the swimming practice, I felt like my dying. I couldn't really breath. I felt like the air doesn't go into my body, so I kept inhale air to get enough oxygen. After cooling down for a bit, I felt better and normal again. Also after about a month of fixing, the UNC had finally opened again. Which also means that we don't have to go to the dirty swimming poor ever again. They had fixed the old showering room, which is very clean and bright now. And they put on new faucets, so now the water won't be like dropping but falling. 

2011 11 27

Today afternoon, my father and mother went to a party, and they left me at home. At about six, my stomach was grumbling, so I called my mom and asked which is today's dinner and when can I eat it. My mom told me to eat instant noodles. So I went to "cook" my dinner. While eating my delicious food, I felt very lonely, spending my last day of the vocation eating instant noodles and watching TV, which people normally go out and have big meals. After eating my lunch, I went back to the desk doing work. I was writing a christmas card for my child, a sponsor one form the World Vision organization. The child I sponsored called Anti, she is a little girl who lives in India. She loves to draw. She had sent me a drawing of a flower, which was very pretty. The reason why I wanted to sponsor a child is because of my father. My father had once sponsored a girl from Africa. My father had supported her to go to hight school, after she graduated from high school, she was supposed to go work, because they don't normally go to college and the organization and soponsors only helped them till high school. But she sent my father a thank you letter and said that she really really wanted to go to college. So my father asked the organization whether he can each sponsoring the girl so she can go do college. And the organization agreed, she was the first person from her village who goes to college.

2011 11 23

I was very sleepy for the whole day today. Third period, we had Expository Writing, but I can't concentrate. In the middle of the class, we were brainstorming about our thesis for the next essay. I was done brainstorming before some of my classmates, so I started to read the book for English extra credit, but I got distracted. I read about two pages and my eyes started to get sour.  And I fall asleep. I got home about five thirty, and I was to tired. I fall asleep again, until my mom called me to go to eat dinner at six. After eating dinner, I concentrated on doing homework until somewhere between nine. I accidentally fall asleep again. About ten, Amber called, so I woke up and continued to do my homework. I couldn't believed how much I slept today. Why am I always so tiring and want to sleep everyday?

2011 11 22

Today after school,  Ivy and I went to seven-eleven to buy some drinks. On our way there, walking beside Ivy, she suddenly stopped walking and started  screaming. I turned around and looked at her, she was dancing and jumping around. I looked down, there was a flatten piece of poop on the floor. I knew what happened, Ivy just stepped on shit. I started to laugh, I couldn't stop laughing at her, while she was trying to get rid of the poop from her shoe. It was very funny, seeing someone jumping around with poop on there shoe. After we got back to school, we told Amber what had happened and this anecdote started to spread out. While we were having a small group meeting about the Christmas performance, we were all making fun of Ivy and her shoe. It was so fun to see her got embarrassed and mad. I told Ivy that she should go buy a lottery ticket. This was the funniest thing happened this week.

2011 11 21

Today in Expository Writing class, we had a quiz on phrases. The quiz was based on identifying adverb, noun, and adjective phrases, which was kind of hard. Because sometimes I can't find out what the phrase was modifying what. When I was writing the test, there was a question that was bugging me, because I think the phrase was modifying the subject, but at the same time I think it is also modifying the verb, which was telling what the subject was doing what. So I got confused and spent five minutes sorting that question. After we finished doing our quizzes, we marked each other's quizzes. The result of my quiz was Okay. The score had reached my expectations. 
I didn't go to swimming practice today. Because I don't want to go to Guang Fu swimming pool. It was too scary. I don't get why the swimming pool was that dirty. I thought every one likes cleaning environment, why can't they just clean the pool and make it comfortable for everyone.

2011 11 20

Today was a boring day. I didn't do anything special or exited. I used the whole afternoon to complete my homework. Chemistry was driving me crazy. But one thing I did today that I consider fun was watching NCIS. I kind of got addicted to NCIS:LA, because I've finished watching all the seasons of CSI:NY. So I started to watch NCIS. CSI used to be my favorite TV show, but not anymore when I started to watch NCIS. The episode I watched today was about one of the NCIS agents got shot because he didn't follow the rules that they can't have daily routine. Which means that they can't drive the same road to work everyday, they can't go to the same coffee store everyday, and they can't be at home the same time everyday. I used to think that being a agent in NCIS or a detective in CSI is cool, because they have privileges. Every time when they pull out their badges, people have to obey them. One of my dreams was to be a agent, even though I know I would come true anyways.  

2011 11 17

I don't know what to write about for today's journal, so I went google for topics. 
1.  I was most angry when people lie to me. I really hate the way that people think lying is the only way to solve a problem. I rather he/ she tell me the truth and we can solve the problem together.
2.  What is something you dislike about yourself?
 One of the qualities that makes me dislike myself is easy to give-up. I am a person that is easily to give up. I also need motivations to do something. In other words, I need someone to push me to do things. 
3. What is something you are pessimistic about?
I am very pessimistic about talents. I am really jealous about people that can always to things well and can understand things easily.  
4. What is something that really bugs you?
I hate people compare me to other people, especially to my sister. I don't like people saying that you can't you be like your sister. Everyone has his/her own specialties, some people are just at the stage of finding them, which is me. I really don't like people say my sister is better than me.

2011 11 16

Is whether being a child and not knowing the bad things good or bad? I have been thinking about this question everyday. I sometimes want to go back to kindergarten so I don't have to worry about anything, I can just play and be happy for the whole day. But sometimes, I want to grow up too. I want to be able to do what I want to do and can know all the things that happened on this world. Today,I heard something that made me very sad, and don't know what to do. My aunt lived in America, she normally came back to Taiwan about twice a year. Every time she came back, she would bring presents for me and my cousins. She suicided two years ago.  But know one told my cousin, because he was only three years old when my aunt died. Today, when I was playing with my cousin, he just popped out this sentence "So long time didn't see aunt, I miss her so much. She always bring me toys." I don't know what to say. I was thinking that is it good for him to not know the truth? 

2011 11 15

It is Kara's birthday today. We had a lot of fun. During lunch today, we sprayed the shaving cream on her. She got submerge by the white bubbles. It was so fun to watch her expressions, when we wiped all the cream onto her hair and face. After school, Kara, Amber, Hantine, Ivy and I went to eat hot pot to celebrate Kara's birthday. We had so much fun. We chatted so loud that the other customers turned and looked at us. We laughed so hard that my stomach hurts so badly. I kept eating tempura, it was so delicious. After eating, we started to take pictures and making cute faces. Even though I've only met Kara for four months, but I think she is a nice friend. I really glad that I can know her and have her as my chemistry buddy. 
Happy Birthday Kara! Not just a year older, but a year better! Hope you like my gift and enjoy today's dinner.  

2011 11 14

Today we went to Kuang Fu swimming pool for swimming practice. I had heard people said that the swimming poor and the showering room are dirty, but I had never actually see it myself before. So I don't really know how exactly the swimming poor was like. Finally, I got to see it myself today, and it was way to dirty than I've been imagine. The first step I walked in, I can smell the weird disgusting smell, and it does not smell like chlorine, which was what most swimming pool smells like. After we chained into our swimming suits, we went into the pool. The water was so dirty and salty. The water tastes like ocean and there are even dead bugs flouting of the surface of the water. The water was way to turbid that we couldn't see the people swimming in front of us. Even worst, because of the dirty water, my feet started to get itchy. I couldn't stop scratching my feet, and it started to get red. Today was a really bad day for me. I would never ever go to swim in the Kuang Fu swimming pool again in my life. 

2011 11 13

Last Thursday, the school led the entire school watch a movie called School Ties. This movie was basically about a senior who transferred from a public school to an exclusive prep school for football scholarship. Because of the joining of David, the football team beat the school’s rivals, which also made David a hero. David soon became a popular quarterback in school and won the heart of Sally. The jealous classmate Charlie exposed the secret of David, that he was Jewish, which he had been trying to conceal. David faced the religious intolerance from his friends, classmates and even Sally. Everyone started to treat him differently, just because of his religion. During a history exam, Charlie cheated, but he falsely accused David of cheating. Just because of the different religions they believe in,  their classmates decided to sacrifice David and send him to the principle. I think that it is very deplorable that they treated people differently just because of the religions. This is not what the God wanted us to do. After watching this movie, I got depressed. I really hope that people won't prejudice each other and the world can be a peaceful place for everyone.

2011 11 10

I am a fan of mystery novels. I love mystery and detective books and movies. If I have to choose a favorite author, I would definietly choose Agatha Christie. I love all her novels, once I start reading, I would get addicted and couldn't stop reading until I finished the book. Every cases all ended surprisingly. One example would be Murder on the Orient Express. This is the first book I read that was written by Agatha Christie. When I was reading it, I got confused. There were no hints about who the murderer was, unlike most of the mystery novels, which that the readers would  probably found out the murderer when half way through the book. Even though the ending of this book was surprisingly unexpected, but it's not my favorite one. My favorite book by  Agatha Christie is Death on the Nile. This book was so good, also the ending was unexpected too. Agatha Christies is my favorite author and a deity of detective novels. 

2011 11 09

First quarter is about to end, my final grades are starting to pop out on Veracross. There are three courses' grades that I am not satisfy with. I cannot believe that I got such low grades on those subjects. I got mad at one teacher, because she is such an irresponsible teacher. There was one assignment that I handed in one day before the due day, but she lost it. She came and told me that I didn't do the Homework, but I told her that I handed in and there were two of my classmates saw me turning in.  So she told me that I need to redo it and hand it in to her again. Even though that I was mad, but I still redid the work and handed it in to her. The next day, I went on Veracross,  it was completed but no credit. I was very nervous, because this assignment weighted very heavy. So I went to ask her the next day, she told me that it was late, but I told her that she lost my work, I did hand it in on time. She just said "It's late, no credit." I was very pissed off, how com you lost my work, but I have take the consequences. I really think that she shouldn't be a teacher. 

2011 11 08

"The more you learn, the less you know." I saw this paradox a month ago, it just stocked in my mind. I kept thinking about it for so long. When I first saw it, I could not understand this paradox. This made no sense at all, it should be the more you learn, the more you know. After thinking about an hour, I kind of got the meaning behind this paradox. If you think deeper and look inside the words, that actually makes sense. "The more you learn, the less you know." Because when you learn something, you will realized that there are more things to learn. I think that this paradox basically means that we are learning every single day, there are always more things for us to learn. There is a play that I read recently, it's called The Importance of Being Earnest, when I first saw the name, I thought it would be a boring book to read. But after reading it, I changed my perspective. This book is actually fun to read. There are many ironic things in the book, the author uses satire to show the upper class noble in the Victorian Era. There are also many paradox in this book, I really like the way the characters interact with each other. I enjoy reading this play.

2011 11 07

Today is the worst day ever in my life. In the first period we had English class. We were marking our midterm tests that we took last week. I was so disappointed at my score. Last week when we took the test, I didn't have enough time to finish it. So I just randomly chose answers for one whole page, and also I didn't finish two essay questions. Obviously the score was very low, way lower that I've expected. One thing that made me even sadder is that the test I marked, scored so high. I couldn't understand way I study so hard on the test but I didn't get the score I wanted. I didn't expect to get hundred percent, or anything, but at least I should get eighty percent, which I failed. This week is the final week for this quarter, than the report card. There is no way that I can improve my grades within a week. The only choice is to work hard, and get higher grades in my next report card. I will work harder and achieve my goal.

2011 11 06

It's Sunday, this awful week is about to end. I am very depressed this whole week, because I think I am not improving. This is my fifth year in this system, and I feel like I am not learning that much as before. I can still remember when I was grade five, my father  decided to send me to HIS, but the problem is I can't speak English. The only phrases I know in English is "How are you" and "I'm fine thank you, and you?"  The first day of school, the teacher asked me what's my name. This question is easy, I can answer it without thinking, but than she asked me how to spell my last name. I was shocked, I don't know how to spell my last name, because I never write my last name in English before. Starting from that moment, I know that I need to work twice as hard as everyone else to catch up the gape. I cried every single day in the first week. I couldn't understand what the teachers was talking about, the home work was too hard for me, I could't understand a single word in my text book. My father was shocked too, he didn't know that her daughter's English was that bad. He helped me to do my Social Studies homework and hired a twitter for me. I can still remember that the first time I feel proud of myself in HIS was when I got 2 out of 20 in a vocabulary test. I worked very hard a year and a half later, I transferred to PAS, I was so happy when my mom told me that someone from PAS called her and said that I pass the test and I am in mainstream, not ESL.  I have been feeling more comfotable with this new system everyday, but this year,  I don't think I am improving that much as before. I want to work harder so my parents won't regret sending me to American school.