Camp Day 3

Today is the last day of camp, and I'm just going to be lazy by trying to type on everything that I remember I wrote in the paper and probably add a little more. During this three-day- camp, I had a lot of fun with all my friends. The rafting wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, but I guess it's just because I've set my expectations too high. A lot of us got so sun burnt and all of us were moaning all day long. It felt like our legs were going to burn, especially when I showered at night, the water felt like knives. The train ride felt so much faster than when we went there. I guess it's because I sat with people that "knew" how to play? We even played hide and seek. It was quite funny how we all got caught so fast, since there wasn't really anywhere to hide in the trains. We also played some games that I played when I was in elementary school. They brought back many good memories. Well, I really had a lot of fun in this year's camp. It's the first camp in my first year of high school! And it has officially ended! It'll stay in my memory forever. When I went home, I slept all the way to 12 the next day. I didn't know that I could sleep that much, but I did. And throughout the day, I felt like I could sleep more.

Camp Day 2

Today, it's the second day. I slept at 4 last night and woke up at some time around 7, but I'm actually not really tired, which is quite amazing. I had a lot of fun with my friends. We chatted, shared secrets, walked around the camp, played cards and did a lot of other idiotic things that we've never done before. Today, the main event was the rafting. It wasn't as good as I've expected, since people kept telling me that the one we went during our graduation trip was a level 1 one, and the one we were going to today was a level 2 or 3. Today, I felt that most of the time, we just kept paddling, unlike in Bali, we could rest whenever we wanted to because the water pushes us really fast without us having to paddle to hard. The sun was way too strong too. When we were on the raft, we didn't think that it would be too bad, but when we went showering, I almost cursed. The parts that had clothes on were so white and the other parts were way too black and red to be possible. When we got back to the camp, Frank was so cruel and hit our legs so hard. It really was so painful that we screamed and hit him again and again. haha. Then after dinner, the show was pretty awesome and I really enjoyed it. We stayed there after the show and chatted, played cards and did crazy stuff again. We went back when some teachers said that some people's tents crashed. We then went to Hantine, Ivy, and Charlotte's tent and did the same old stuff. But since all of us were really tired, we fell asleep for a while and when I woke up, Annie and I went back to our tent and Annie slept. I took a walk around the camp and went back at 3:30. It was pretty amazing again how I could sleep so late for two days. This is about it for the second day of camp.

Camp Day 1

Today is the first day of camp, and to be honest, it wasn't too good. We spent 4 hours on the train first. It was pretty fun playing with friends, but it was a little hard to sleep with so much noise. Then, when we got there, we played the obstacle race. It was really fun in the beginning, but got boring towards the end. I guess the bucket was a little too big. There was a frog in the pool too! The part in which it touched Esther's leg was pretty funny how she screamed so loud. And after the game, we all kind of had fun by ourselves by pouring water on each other. After a while, I stopped since I felt a little cold and I was all soaked. Afterwards, we had to walk a pretty long time to get to a lake to paddle some kind of boat. Annie, Iris, Lynn and I were on a boat. That was pretty fun actually, but it really was very tiring. The bad part of it was that our boat broke in the middle of the lake and we had to wait there for around 10 minutes until someone finally came to save us. And on the way back to the camping area, it started raining so hard again that my dried clothes got all soaked again. Then we had BBQ. The little kids pissed us off so bad because we all were so hungry at that time, and we gave them the food first, but they kept saying that it didn't taste good and just didn't eat them. We all wanted to kick them since we all were really hungry.

9/22/2011

Today in history class, we watched a super depressing movie called "Amistad". It's about African slaves being caught and being brought to America, but then brought to court. It was really so depressing that I almost cried and felt like throwing up when we had lunch later on. Slaves were being whipped to death by no reason, sick people got not food to eat although all of them are super hungry, females were being raped, and some people got dragged to the bottom of the sea with stones and chains around them, pulling them down. It really was so depressing. After the class was over, I couldn't stop thinking about it and I suddenly felt that I am so lucky to be living in this family. Not being beaten up for no reason, having food to eat, being able to go to the doctor when I'm sick. I often don't appreciate what I have already and feel jealous when I realize that someone else has something that I don't have. Today, whenever I feel that I am not satisfied about something, I think about the movie and then I know that they would be begging for a live like mine, and I feel satisfied.

9/21/2011

Today, as usual, is a boring day. Everything passed like it normally does, and the only thing I can talk about would probably only be about study hall. During study hall, Annie and I worked really hard, which is actually quite amazing since we've never worked so hard in school before. And even more amazingly, I finished all homework that are due tomorrow in school and even finished some of the homework that's due on Friday. It's a really good thing since I've been sleeping really late these days. Like last night, I slept at 2:30 in the morning. At school, it sometimes is really hard to not to fall asleep in some certain classes. Today, I'll be able to sleep earlier hopefully. Although I finished all the homework that are due tomorrow, I still want to start on some other homework like Biology. The amount of homework this teacher gives is about the same as Mr. Lindamenn, but this teacher teaches worse than he did. In classes, almost no one was listening to him and sometimes would get chaotic. So, I think that I would want to write his homework first, since although the homework's due after the camp, there are 27 pages for us to read and summarize.

9/20/2011

Today was the first real class of Musical Production. There were about 23 of us, but since the teacher said that he's not sure about who will stay in the play because he doesn't know how many people we need yet. I don't think that they're doing the right thing since people won't be able to go to their original classes, but if in the end, they got kicked out of the class, they would be falling behind in their original class. It would be a bad thing for all the teachers and those students. Also, I would feel really sad and probably a little humiliated if they kick me out since we did the audition, and they'll keep the people will better skills, and so it means that I'm not good enough to be in the musical. To me, a person that really cares about what other people think of me, this isn't a good thing. But, since I'm actually quite shy to sing on stage, I am really still thinking about whether I should stay in the musical or not.

9/19/2011

I just realized that I've forgotten to write the blog post yesterday. I guess things were a bit messy and caused me to forget everything. Yesterday was the swimming competition for Hsinchu County. In the whole school, only Annie, Amanda and I went to the competition. Although the results were quite good, Annie and I weren't really satisfied with them. Both of us didn't improve at all, and most surprisingly, the seconds were exactly the same. .3 and .21. They didn't change at all. It was quite sad, but the good thing was that I got a silver and a bronze medal; Annie got two bronze medals and Amanda had a gold one and a 6th place award. I was really scared and nervous when I just got there because I really haven't been practicing for a week before the competition. So, during the practice time before the competition, I tried jumping, but then my butt hurt real bad. It didn't really affect the results I think, but it still affected my mood because it made me more nervous. When I finished the 200 m match, my legs were so sore that I almost couldn't walk. It was really depressing when I found out that I was the third place and the distance between me and the second place was only an arm's length. It made me feel sad how I could almost be the second place, but in the end, still only got the third. I would want to get a better score on the next competition, but before that competition, we have only one more swim team practice to go, because there is camp next week and the competition is right after the match.

9/15/2011

Today, there wasn't much that happened. Everything kind of went by smoothly. There were some changes in my schedule again though. As I've said in many previous blog posts, I don't want to take PE since I have swimming team right after it. Today, we went to talk to Ms. Sherry about it, and surprisingly, she went to talk to Pamela about this with us. And even more surprising, Ms. Pamela let Annie and I have a free block in during that period, but we have to do 4 lessons of Wordly Wise every week. We were thinking about whether we should take PE or do 4 Wordly Wise lessons per week. In the end, we felt that we'd rather be mentally tired than to be physically tired, so we chose to go to study hall. And the other change that happened today was that I left community service and went to the computer club. Although I changed my club, I didn't go today, since I have a competition on Sunday, and today might be the last day that I will be able to swim before the competition. I went to Kuan Fu with the elementary students. The good news was that I was able to swim, but the bad news was that I slowed down a lot.... I will go swim tomorrow too if I have time, and I hope that I really can do well on this competition.

9/14/2011

Today, we had PE again. And as usual, it was tiring. 9 rounds around the basketball court makes everyone exhausted. Then, we chose teams that was going to stay that way for the whole quarter. Unfortunately, our team's members weren't as athletic as the other team's but I still got to be with Annie! The sad thing was that there were so many new students in our team, and we didn't really know them, while the other team had mostly the old students and the new ones that are already close with us. Also, their team had the basketball team players, while our team only had a few people that were above average. Also, volleyball is a really hard game, and we weren't really happy about the way Mr. Lee teaches us. So, the losing team had to do pushups, but we felt that it's not that we didn't want to do well, it was just that we weren't good at it. It felt like he was thinking that we didn't play hard enough and had to get punished.

9/13/2011

Today was the first meeting for all freshmen about the Christmas show. Although it seems like it's still a bit too early to be preparing for it, I don't want our class to be embarrassed by the whole school again like we did last year. And last year, it was because we started to brainstorm in the last minute. The last minute was a REAL one. We didn't even know what we were going to do until the rehearsal day. Then, we decided to do Rudolph the red nose reindeer. It was a total failure and embarrassment for all of us. This year, we're starting really early and trying to come up with something good that would be entertaining and related to Christmas. It's really hard, and today's meeting was rather chaotic since some people were chatting and not coming up with ideas. It was really annoying, but we still did come up with some ideas. This year, the freshmen are going to dominate the show!!

9/12/2011

These days, I've been feeling very depressed although it's moon festival. Next Sunday is the swimming competition for Hsinchu County. Annie, Amanda and I are going to compete in that competition. Not against each other though! But, since I have some feminine issues, I am not able to swim in the week before the competition, which is the most important week for the people that are competing the longer distances. I am sort of doing a long distance one, but since I'm not able to be practicing in the last week, I'm already sure that I won't do well on this competition. I kind of said to myself that it's ok, since there will be another one on 10/1. But then, i realized again that there will be camp if the week before the competition. That made me really really depressed since there are only a few competitions in the whole year, and I wouldn't perform well in these two.

9/8/2011

There was nothing really special that could make me write a blog about, but the most exciting thing probably would be having to go to school with both of my legs in a disgustingly bad condition. When I woke up in the morning, I almost fell right onto the floor, since they were like soft and didn't have any force in them! It was a painful process to walk to buy my breakfast and waiting for the elevator with all those text books. Another thing that is very painful to us is the change of schedule in Tuesday and Friday afternoon. Normally, Annie and I chose Stage Art and Spanish III, which worked perfectly well for us. But now, since Stage Art has been moved to the last block in which conflicts with Spanish III. Both of us want both classes really much, but in the end, we chose Spanish III. But, because we chose Spanish III, we don't know what class to take in the third block. The only classes that we could choose are Economics, General Science, and Choir. To us, General Science is completely unnecessary since I have Biology and Annie has Chemistry already. And even though we like singing, we don't want to go the the choir, because the type of singing in choir isn't the kind that we like. But now it leaves us with Economics that we think would be too hard for us. We are really thinking about which class we should take, since none of those classes are classes that we like.

9/7/2011

Today could be counted as one of the bad days. First of all, in the last period, which was PE, we had to run 9 laps first. Then, we did the fitness tests. The first two were about the muscles on the arms, and the last one was running. In between the tests, Mr. Li let us have a five minute break, and people were scattered around the sixth floor. Then when the break finished, he blew the whistle three times, but not everyone was gathered yet, so, we had to run suicides. The last person to finish would have to rerun it again, and unfortunately, I was the second to last, but Mr. Li wasn't sure about whether it was me or it was Candy that was the last one. So he wanted us to rock paper scissors and see who loses. But then, it seemed like Candy was already dying of exhaustion, and I didn't really care about the grades of PE since I have swimming team already, so I decided that I would just run. So in total, I guess I've ran around a mile perhaps? Then when we went to swim practice, my left leg had the cramps first. IT WAS REALLY PAINFUL!!!! And I rested for about 10 minutes and decided to start swimming again, but then, my right leg had it too!!!!! I felt like crying because it really is very painful! I never really wanted to join PE class, but in that period, I have no other class to take but that. I really feel bad because PE is one Mondays and Wednesdays, and swim practice is so too!!

9/6/2011

Today, I feel really really sad. The first reason is that I forgot to bring my Biology and Geometry text book home!! I planned on finishing all the Biology homework today, since this teacher gave more homework than Mr. Lindamenn... Since I planned on finishing all of my Biology homework tonight, I didn't bring any other homework home. When I got home, I then realized that my backpack was way too light, and when I found out that I didn't bring it home, I got furious. But it was too late to go back to school, so I decided to see what homework I did bring home. When I checked my bag, I found my math notebook, but NOT THE TEXT BOOK!!! I wanted to cry, but I felt a little happier when I did most of my history homework, and started skyping my friends. We had so much fun fooling Isabel on skype by saying how cute and handsome the new students are. It was kind of mean in a way, but we did explain to her in the end. Although I had a day that I couldn't do any homework, but I had a real fun day with all my friends!!

9/5/2011

Last night, when I already fell asleep, I fell a sudden eagerness (?) to throw up. I jumped out of bed and covered my mouth and tried to get to the bathroom. It was really late at night and I didn't want people to get up and help me clean up the mess. Unfortunately, I didn't succeed, but I did get to the bathroom in time, just not the toilet. When I woke up the next morning, I still felt very sick, and for the first time, my mom allowed me not to go to school! I stayed home and rested the whole morning, and at lunch time, I felt a lot better, and I didn't have the fever anymore. So, since there was going to be a swimming team test, I figured that I didn't want to do it alone on the next practice day. I went to practice, and many people were surprised to see me there. haha. Although I got slower since I didn't get to practice as much in summer, I was still quite satisfied with how I swam today. And Patrick got so much faster after the summer! I will practice more and win him again!! :D There are five new students that want to come to swimming team, but unfortunately, we had to kick some of them out, since they didn't meet the requirements. I finally kind of understood how judges in many TV contests feel like!!

9/4/2011

The first week of school has officially ended. I couldn't believe how many new students there are. When we were in grade 8, there were just 13 of us, and now, the number of new students are actually more than the old students. It was kind of scary seeing so many new faces in our classes, but I'm slowly getting used to it already. The first week of school always is a mess, since we have to choose between many classes, and people could choose to stay in that class or not. In the first class, you may see some people, but not in the second class. Some people did all the homework, but then had to transfer to another class. It would really suck if I had to do all of my Biology homework, but then Sue would force me to go to another class or something. This did happen to some of the new students, and I'm secretly happy that I'm not one of them. :P Tomorrow will be the second week of the new semester, and I hope things will be more organized and everything will move on more smoothly.